Ask for enough help

I was at a church group recently, and a man told a little parable he'd heard:

People walking by a well heard a voice calling from help from the bottom of the well. They asked, "How much rope do you need to get pulled out?" "About ten feet" they were told. They put down ten feet of rope, only to find that the person in the well was down 20 feet.

When we're in our disease, it's easy to imagine that we can handle the situation, or that it's not really that bad. Unfortunately, that's why so many of us have to fall so far to ask for enough help. For your sake, don't act like I did for many years and act like it's not so bad, and that just a little fine tuning will get things right. Ask God and people with experience for help, and be committed to doing what they say helped them, even if it sounds like too much. Even if it is overkill, you can learn like I'm starting to, to obey someone besides yourself, and turn to God and others for support.

We all have a tendency to let pride stand in the way of getting enough help to get well. Don't take as long as I did.