Alcoholics Anonymous

d_willing · d_willing

I am just wondering how long it was for you all before you were able to have a good nights sleep. My head races so much at night that I just lay there thinking and watching the clock. Just wondering what your experiences were with a restful sleep once you started recovery? I don't want to take prescriptio...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"As your consciousness expands, your level of expectation will grow. Keep asking yourself, am I selling myself short? Most of us are."- John R. Spannuth

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life. --Ludwig van Beethoven We are making a response to life's every waking moment; our attitudes formulate the tenor of our responses. When the sun warms our bodies and the flowers tease our nostrils, it may be easy to love everyone and smile....

Random68 · Random68

I have 30 minutes to kill. Violently they will succumb. Thirty minutes of introspection, revelation, and relation. 29 minutes now... No more putting it off. (big breath) Hi I'm Craig and I am an alcoholic who has been thinking I can handle buying a bottle and just sipping; who has been fantasizing...

AdamMoz · AdamMoz

Hey Everyone, Happy Wednesday. I woke up this morning and started thinking a lot about the holidays and the association with drinking alcohol, all in the name of being "festive." I'm thinking also about the circumstance of being trapped in a space with a room full of relatives who are all t...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 13 "When I first started in AA, I began each day asking God to help keep me sober that day, and ended each night by thanking him for another day of sobriety. I still end each day that way, as I have done almost every night during the past forty-one years. It is a routine for me, but every once i...

Mike D · Mike D

Hi all, I have a little story from my personal life to share with all of you. Hope you'll bear with me. I'll try to keep it short. Back in the early months of 1987, when my daughter was about 3 yrs. old, I had been diagnosed as a chronic alcoholic and had just been kicked out of an alcohol treatment center f...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

RECALL NOTICEThis is totally amazing. Talk about clever and to the point!Never heard it put quite like this beforeRECALL NOTICE:The Maker of all human beings (GOD) is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the he...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Subject: A cup of Coffee on the Wall I sat with a friend in a high-class coffee shop in a small town near Venice, Italy.As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat at an empty table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his order saying, "Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall....

mich · mich

I was driving home after a long day of work. I felt strange. I couldn't explain it. I just could not put my finger on it... It was joy. I am getting better at recognizing moments of serenity. I didn't have that when I was drinking. I am so very grateful today to be a sober women. kathy

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I just wanted to send out special (((((hugs))))) to you! Thank you for sharing your stories on your sobriety, daily postings such as Stepchild's Daily Reflections, Mike B's Grapevine Quotations, Pappy's beautiful Sunrise Quotes and more. This board is like another AA meeting for me and has b...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Think before you speak. Words can get you into trouble much easier than they can get you out of it."- D. Ernest Green

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books, which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. --Harry Emerson Fosdick In our minds there are multitudes of stored memories, knowledge, and skills. Some of these are the results of living and learning, but most are informat...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 12 "Our Serenity Prayer ... brings a new light to us that can dissipate our old-time and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves."

Chikky · Chikky

I have been clean and sober for 560 days. Someone made a comment to me on Saturday, that we need to stop at a medical center to check my blood alcohol level. Then all day they kept dredging up what I have done in the past. I felt it was in a condescending way. This person (my sister) I owe my life to right no...

Stepchild · Stepchild

I'm always amazed at the people God has brought and continues to bring into my life...I found this and thought it summed it up nicely. Hope you do too. People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.Some people come into o...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "God cannot do for you what he cannotdo through you." Before recovery, I had the God thing all mixed up. My conception of God was that if I was good and behaved myself, and then good things would happen for me. When I prayed, I prayed for the things I wanted...

Stepchild · Stepchild

MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific fait...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before. --Aristotle Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from four elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marve...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"On this Veteran's day, God bless the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives so that we remain free." - America

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Zilar

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I would love to hear from you and how you are doing? I have under a year, too. Also what are you doing to stay sober each day? I'll start with me... I have been an alcoholic for over 30 years. My life became a real mess because of it. DUI, in and out of hospitals due to alcohol related injuries, wreaked my marr...

robbie0330 · robbie0330

Fucked out the window again. Its bad. Shaking and all that. you been there. talk all the shit you want. Kneeling don on the dirt. Life found me out like the bitch is is. 666. laugh. have a good laugh. it keeps you sober after all.

lovinglife413 · lovinglife413

hey everyone, I am knew to this site and i kind of need help! i am 21 years old and am in the military. if someone could lend me a hand, i would appreciate it

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 11 "We can't grow without giving ourselves space for silence and the voice within."

Stepchild · Stepchild

SELF-ACCEPTANCE We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 I pray for the willingness to remember that I am a child of God, a divine soul in human form, and that my most basic and urgent...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Check this out! ... click on link below: https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151823097153841

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - Scott Fitzgerald

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I haven't won yet but I haven't lost, either. --Dennis C. A favorite saying in sports is, "It isn't losing to get knocked down. Losing is staying down." In life, as in sports, that idea makes great sense. Like "Let go and let God," or "Let it begin with me," it is a saying...

Stepchild · Stepchild

A SENSE OF BELONGING Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is - belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging becaus...

Philipld · Philipld

A man goes into a pub, takes a seat at the bar, and orders five shots. The bartender gives him an odd look since hes all by himself, but he serves up the five shots and lines them up on the bar. The man downs them all quickly. He finishes the last one and calls out, "Four shots, please!" The bart...

newquaylad · newquaylad

Hi, I live in Newquay, Cornwall which is in uk for those that aren't from here I find it a little hard to talk about my drinking but I do realise I need to stop, I got really drunk last night and don't remember getting home. I've got work in just over an hour, feel so bad.

Fyne Spirit · Fyne Spirit

While I pray all day long, asking guidance and inspiration with this or that, I feel, at certain times, the need to humble myself by kneeling in prayer. This might be during private prayer time at the ends of the day, but also when taking some important prayer related step like step 3,or step 7 when I am as...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Good Morning, I would love to hear how others began to share at meetings. I have been going for several months and although I want to share, I still get too nervous to. I am worried I will say something wrong in my nervousness and/or get tongue tied and get embarrassed. I would really love to be able to poss...

Stepchild · Stepchild

STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time f...

Glen1Fiji1 · Glen1Fiji1

At one of the meetings I used to attend the chairperson was obliged to make a personal comment on what anonymity meant to them. I have seen many meetings where it was customary to have someone at random make a comment on the subject. I know I am contrary by nature but it seems to me much better to go directly...

Stepchild · Stepchild

An Individual Adventure Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STE...

Stepchild · Stepchild

LET GO AND LET GOD . . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 When I "Let Go and Let God," I think more clearly and wisely. Without having to think about it, I quickly let go of things that cause me immediate pain and...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself."- Frank Tyger

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 8 "Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober."

mandm · mandm

Hello everyone, I just want to do this post, I am six months sober, its funny when I started this journey in soberity I thought it would be an impossible feat. However it was amazing, it brought me closer myself and others. I can't even imagine the old me anymore, its just a story from my past now, I no longe...

Stepchild · Stepchild

GOING WITH THE FLOW Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I arise, O God, to do Thy will," This is the shortest prayer I know a...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Opportunity may knock only once, But temptation leans on the doorbell. --AnonymousWe have an opportunity. We've made getting out of debt a priority in our lives. Just having this desire gives us the opportunity. For this, we are grateful. It's all too easy, however, to slip into our old ways of think...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson A truly powerful force in the universe is that of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health. Feelings of hope can stimulate the bodys immune system and inspire re...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 7 "Our Twelve Traditions ... represent the sum of our experience as individuals, as groups within AA, and similarly with our fellows and other organizations in the great fellowship of humanity under God throughout the world. They are all suggestions, yet the spirit in which they h...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 6 "The Twelve Steps ... are simple in language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no special interpretations, and certainly no reserva...

Stepchild · Stepchild

"THE QUALITY OF FAITH" This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELV...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. --D. Elton Trueblood Our lives are enriched by the contributions of those who lived before us. Many men and women gave more than they ever took from society,...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"All the water in the world cannot sink a ship - unless the water starts getting inside...All the troubles in the world can't sink a human being -unless those troubles invade his inner life."" - Vera Werblo

Standing_Tall · Standing_Tall

Wow, where do I start........ Wife invited me to the house for a birthday part for a couple of my children. In-laws, brother and sister-in-law, Grandma.......whole crowd was there. Yeah, it was brutal. Emotions were all over the place. Still sober though :)!!!! The wife followed me around......ev...

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	Sleeping... (Preview) I am just wondering how long it was for you all before you were able to have a good nights sleep. My head races so much at night that I just lay there thinking and watching the clock. Just wondering what your experiences were with a restful sleep once you started recovery? I don't want to take prescriptio...	d_willing	10	742	Nov 14, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "As your consciousness expands, your level of expectation will grow. Keep asking yourself, am I selling myself short? Most of us are."- John R. Spannuth	Pythonpappy	0	174	Nov 13, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life. --Ludwig van Beethoven We are making a response to life's every waking moment; our attitudes formulate the tenor of our responses. When the sun warms our bodies and the flowers tease our nostrils, it may be easy to love everyone and smile....	Pythonpappy	0	221	Nov 13, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	The Tickle (Preview) I have 30 minutes to kill. Violently they will succumb. Thirty minutes of introspection, revelation, and relation. 29 minutes now... No more putting it off. (big breath) Hi I'm Craig and I am an alcoholic who has been thinking I can handle buying a bottle and just sipping; who has been fantasizing...	Random68	3	503	Nov 13, 2013 by justadrunk
	The Holidays (Preview) Hey Everyone, Happy Wednesday. I woke up this morning and started thinking a lot about the holidays and the association with drinking alcohol, all in the name of being "festive." I'm thinking also about the circumstance of being trapped in a space with a room full of relatives who are all t...	AdamMoz	5	707	Nov 14, 2013 by davep12and12
	Grapevine (Preview) November 13 "When I first started in AA, I began each day asking God to help keep me sober that day, and ended each night by thanking him for another day of sobriety. I still end each day that way, as I have done almost every night during the past forty-one years. It is a routine for me, but every once i...	Mike B.	2	238	Nov 14, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	The Doll Cradle (Preview) Hi all, I have a little story from my personal life to share with all of you. Hope you'll bear with me. I'll try to keep it short. Back in the early months of 1987, when my daughter was about 3 yrs. old, I had been diagnosed as a chronic alcoholic and had just been kicked out of an alcohol treatment center f...	Mike D	8	493	Nov 14, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Recall Notice!!! (Preview) RECALL NOTICEThis is totally amazing. Talk about clever and to the point!Never heard it put quite like this beforeRECALL NOTICE:The Maker of all human beings (GOD) is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the he...	Pythonpappy	5	468	Nov 13, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	A Cup of Coffee (non-AA related, but good) (Preview) Subject: A cup of Coffee on the Wall I sat with a friend in a high-class coffee shop in a small town near Venice, Italy.As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat at an empty table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his order saying, "Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall....	Pythonpappy	5	393	Nov 13, 2013 by debird17
	Joy (Preview) I was driving home after a long day of work. I felt strange. I couldn't explain it. I just could not put my finger on it... It was joy. I am getting better at recognizing moments of serenity. I didn't have that when I was drinking. I am so very grateful today to be a sober women. kathy	mich	4	265	Nov 13, 2013 by Mike B.
	Hugs to Posters on this Board (Preview) I just wanted to send out special (((((hugs))))) to you! Thank you for sharing your stories on your sobriety, daily postings such as Stepchild's Daily Reflections, Mike B's Grapevine Quotations, Pappy's beautiful Sunrise Quotes and more. This board is like another AA meeting for me and has b...	betterthanyesterday52	11	441	Nov 13, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Think before you speak. Words can get you into trouble much easier than they can get you out of it."- D. Ernest Green	Pythonpappy	0	134	Nov 12, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books, which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. --Harry Emerson Fosdick In our minds there are multitudes of stored memories, knowledge, and skills. Some of these are the results of living and learning, but most are informat...	Pythonpappy	0	205	Nov 12, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) November 12 "Our Serenity Prayer ... brings a new light to us that can dissipate our old-time and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves."	Mike B.	2	217	Nov 12, 2013 by Mike D
	Question? (Preview) I have been clean and sober for 560 days. Someone made a comment to me on Saturday, that we need to stop at a medical center to check my blood alcohol level. Then all day they kept dredging up what I have done in the past. I felt it was in a condescending way. This person (my sister) I owe my life to right no...	Chikky	12	423	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Reason, Season, And A Lifetime (Preview) I'm always amazed at the people God has brought and continues to bring into my life...I found this and thought it summed it up nicely. Hope you do too. People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.Some people come into o...	Stepchild	2	302	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "God cannot do for you what he cannotdo through you." Before recovery, I had the God thing all mixed up. My conception of God was that if I was good and behaved myself, and then good things would happen for me. When I prayed, I prayed for the things I wanted...	Pythonpappy	3	302	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Daily Reflections 11/12/13 (Preview) MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific fait...	Stepchild	1	233	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before. --Aristotle Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from four elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marve...	Pythonpappy	1	190	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Sunrise Quote --- for 11/11/2013 (Preview) "On this Veteran's day, God bless the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives so that we remain free." - America	Pythonpappy	3	308	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Zilar	Pythonpappy	2	203	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Anybody With Under a Year of Sobriety? (Preview) I would love to hear from you and how you are doing? I have under a year, too. Also what are you doing to stay sober each day? I'll start with me... I have been an alcoholic for over 30 years. My life became a real mess because of it. DUI, in and out of hospitals due to alcohol related injuries, wreaked my marr...	betterthanyesterday52	19	589	Nov 11, 2013 by Stepchild
	The clown is down. (Preview) Fucked out the window again. Its bad. Shaking and all that. you been there. talk all the shit you want. Kneeling don on the dirt. Life found me out like the bitch is is. 666. laugh. have a good laugh. it keeps you sober after all.	robbie0330	50	1082	Nov 11, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	new to this site! (Preview) hey everyone, I am knew to this site and i kind of need help! i am 21 years old and am in the military. if someone could lend me a hand, i would appreciate it	lovinglife413	10	432	Nov 11, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) November 11 "We can't grow without giving ourselves space for silence and the voice within."	Mike B.	1	164	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections 11/11/13 (Preview) SELF-ACCEPTANCE We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 I pray for the willingness to remember that I am a child of God, a divine soul in human form, and that my most basic and urgent...	Stepchild	1	171	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Take a Break --- Let Me Share a 'BIG' Laugh with You! (Preview) Check this out! ... click on link below: https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151823097153841	Pythonpappy	0	249	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - Scott Fitzgerald	Pythonpappy	0	149	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) I haven't won yet but I haven't lost, either. --Dennis C. A favorite saying in sports is, "It isn't losing to get knocked down. Losing is staying down." In life, as in sports, that idea makes great sense. Like "Let go and let God," or "Let it begin with me," it is a saying...	Pythonpappy	0	154	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections 11/10/13 (Preview) A SENSE OF BELONGING Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is - belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging becaus...	Stepchild	3	282	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Insanity Rules (Preview) A man goes into a pub, takes a seat at the bar, and orders five shots. The bartender gives him an odd look since hes all by himself, but he serves up the five shots and lines them up on the bar. The man downs them all quickly. He finishes the last one and calls out, "Four shots, please!" The bart...	Philipld	6	478	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	hello all (Preview) Hi, I live in Newquay, Cornwall which is in uk for those that aren't from here I find it a little hard to talk about my drinking but I do realise I need to stop, I got really drunk last night and don't remember getting home. I've got work in just over an hour, feel so bad.	newquaylad	16	467	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Step 3- to kneel or not to kneel, that is the question. (Preview) While I pray all day long, asking guidance and inspiration with this or that, I feel, at certain times, the need to humble myself by kneeling in prayer. This might be during private prayer time at the ends of the day, but also when taking some important prayer related step like step 3,or step 7 when I am as...	Fyne Spirit	13	2563	Nov 10, 2013 by justadrunk
	Sharing at Meetings (Preview) Good Morning, I would love to hear how others began to share at meetings. I have been going for several months and although I want to share, I still get too nervous to. I am worried I will say something wrong in my nervousness and/or get tongue tied and get embarrassed. I would really love to be able to poss...	betterthanyesterday52	38	2574	Nov 10, 2013 by justadrunk
	Daily Reflections 11/09/13 (Preview) STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time f...	Stepchild	2	288	Nov 9, 2013 by tomsteve
	Anonymity (Preview) At one of the meetings I used to attend the chairperson was obliged to make a personal comment on what anonymity meant to them. I have seen many meetings where it was customary to have someone at random make a comment on the subject. I know I am contrary by nature but it seems to me much better to go directly...	Glen1Fiji1	5	462	Nov 8, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Daily Reflections for 11/8/13 (Preview) An Individual Adventure Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STE...	Stepchild	2	247	Nov 9, 2013 by Stepchild
	Daily Reflections for 11/7/13 (Preview) LET GO AND LET GOD . . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 When I "Let Go and Let God," I think more clearly and wisely. Without having to think about it, I quickly let go of things that cause me immediate pain and...	Stepchild	6	456	Nov 9, 2013 by Stepchild
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself."- Frank Tyger	Pythonpappy	2	228	Nov 9, 2013 by Closer
	Grapevine (Preview) November 8 "Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober."	Mike B.	1	212	Nov 8, 2013 by mikey50
	6 months sober and new exciting news! (Preview) Hello everyone, I just want to do this post, I am six months sober, its funny when I started this journey in soberity I thought it would be an impossible feat. However it was amazing, it brought me closer myself and others. I can't even imagine the old me anymore, its just a story from my past now, I no longe...	mandm	14	769	Nov 8, 2013 by chris
	Daily Reflections for 11/6/13 (Preview) GOING WITH THE FLOW Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I arise, O God, to do Thy will," This is the shortest prayer I know a...	Stepchild	3	246	Nov 8, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) Opportunity may knock only once, But temptation leans on the doorbell. --AnonymousWe have an opportunity. We've made getting out of debt a priority in our lives. Just having this desire gives us the opportunity. For this, we are grateful. It's all too easy, however, to slip into our old ways of think...	Pythonpappy	2	222	Nov 8, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson A truly powerful force in the universe is that of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health. Feelings of hope can stimulate the bodys immune system and inspire re...	Pythonpappy	2	213	Nov 7, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) November 7 "Our Twelve Traditions ... represent the sum of our experience as individuals, as groups within AA, and similarly with our fellows and other organizations in the great fellowship of humanity under God throughout the world. They are all suggestions, yet the spirit in which they h...	Mike B.	1	185	Nov 7, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) November 6 "The Twelve Steps ... are simple in language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no special interpretations, and certainly no reserva...	Mike B.	2	205	Nov 7, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections for 11/5/13 (Preview) "THE QUALITY OF FAITH" This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELV...	Stepchild	4	722	Nov 7, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. --D. Elton Trueblood Our lives are enriched by the contributions of those who lived before us. Many men and women gave more than they ever took from society,...	Pythonpappy	2	192	Nov 6, 2013 by Mike B.
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "All the water in the world cannot sink a ship - unless the water starts getting inside...All the troubles in the world can't sink a human being -unless those troubles invade his inner life."" - Vera Werblo	Pythonpappy	1	208	Nov 6, 2013 by Mike B.
	The Weekend.......... (Preview) Wow, where do I start........ Wife invited me to the house for a birthday part for a couple of my children. In-laws, brother and sister-in-law, Grandma.......whole crowd was there. Yeah, it was brutal. Emotions were all over the place. Still sober though :)!!!! The wife followed me around......ev...	Standing_Tall	5	409	Nov 5, 2013 by Stepchild
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