I met a young lady recently who told me that she had been in and out of AA. She would go to some meetings and then get drunk. She would go back to some meetings and then get drunk. I asked her what they talked about at those meetings. She said that people talk about their problems, and sometimes she just spaces out. I asked if they ever talked about steps or sponsorship. "Oh, that," she said. "Sometimes." THAT! Duh, I thought to myself. So I suggested to her that AA is supposed to be a program of action, not attendance or merely listening occasionally. She left to ponder that. I find the same with some people who go to church for a stretch and then drift off, come back for a stretch and then drift off. Religion is more than listening. Even hermits do more than listen. I can easily fall into the soft way of listening. It is change that I don't like.
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Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it——— not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it——— they will be blessed in what they do. [James 1: 23-25]
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