Emphasis Preaching Journal

I occasionally sit in on the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that are held weekly in our church hall. At every meeting I've attended Bill introduces himself this way:
"My name is Bill and I'm an alcoholic. In Alcoholics Anonymous we are taught that in order to come to terms with our illness we must learn to forgive ourselves. It took me ten years of coming to meetings, falling off the wagon, to learn that in order to forgive myself I first have to believe that I am forgivable.