A Hurt, A Habit, A Hang-Up

Have you admitted to having a hurt, habit or hang up? Are you waiting for it to all change randomly on its own? ~ Celebrate Recovery Calvary Bellflower

A hurt, a habit, a hang-up...
a reason your life feels unmanageable,
an issue you have no power to change.
Funny thing. Not hilarious, but odd, unexpected...
that a bunch of drunks eighty years ago 
pulled together bits and pieces.
An observation by a famous psychiatrist
that hopeless alcoholics had been helped
from time immemorial by a psychic shift, 
vital spiritual experiences, a phenomena.
Then a doctor, ruined in the depression,
working at a hospital for rich drunks,
disagreed with his boss, believed he saw
a disease, not just a mental deficiency
but physical as well. And the Oxford Group.
A bunch who believed the root of problems 
were fear and selfishness, the answer, 
surrender lives over to God.
And the bunch of drunks recovered.
And overcame, and survived.
And thrived.
And spread the message of twelve simple steps
and the solution they bring 
to a hurt, a habit, a hang-up
no matter how diverse those may be.