Alcoholics Anonymous

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...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 4Grapevine Quote One of the truly great gifts in this Fellowship of mutually concerned people is the gift of the art of listening ... But our need to listen goes beyond meetings and talks with friends ... We need Step Eleven and our greater conscious contact with the Divine Listener. Then wil...

d_willing · d_willing

Hi Everyone, This is my first post here, I have been reading a lot of your posts over the past few weeks. I am on day one "again". I have had so many struggles with Alcohol over the last 10+ years. The longest stretch of sobriety I managed was about 6 months, but I am sure that is due to the fact I...

Mike D · Mike D

Lord...please make me into the man my dog thinks I am....amen.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Realand more..." There are a lot of great acronyms in the program, and three of them describe the progress I've made with respect to fear. The first is: F*#k Everything And Run. This is how I dealt with fear before recov...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Cultivating AuthenticityAuthenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think were supposed to be and embracing who we are.The idea that we can choose authenticity makes most of us feel both hopeful and exhausted. We feel hopeful because being real is something we value. We feel exhauste...

debird17 · debird17

I went to a wedding Friday night I thought about making up an excuse not to go but they where very good friends and I felt I needed to go. I did not drink. I have not drank in 14 days but the guilt and the dishonesty of all of the lies I told while I was drinking is beginning to eat at me. My children are suppo...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Some see things as they are and say "why". I dream things that never were, and say "why not?"" - George Bernard Shaw

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 4 "Regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"

Chaya · Chaya

This has been a tough year. In this first year of sobriety I lost my mom, changed careers, moved, and took in my niece. And I stayed sober no matter what. It wasnt always easy but if I could stay sober through all that I can stay sober no matter what. Newcomer--you can get sober and stay sober through anythi...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Weekly Verse"Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31Weekly Quote"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. it's the life in your years." Abraham LincolnWeekly ThoughtAll good things we have are gifts from God. Even the faith wi...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky." - Helen Lowrie Marshall

Mike D · Mike D

Good morning everyone! It's a beautiful chilly November day here in Iowa, and things are good. Hope everything is good with you. This morning I was thinking about the ways that the A.A. acronym H.O.W. -- Honesty, Openness, and Willingness -- began to manifest itself in my life through the early mo...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Sometimes it seems I've spent my life trying to live up to others' expectations of me, and failing. I never thought much about pleasing myself. That would have been "selfish." --JoAnn Reed We can feel burdened, inadequate, and overwhelmed by expectations, even when they are our own. Mo...

debird17 · debird17

I have not had a drink in 8 days but I can't seem to get anything right and I'm really getting on my husbands nerves. I bounced a check and now have several overdraft charges. Then my car broke down. My husband said it's because of the way I drive and he is going to have to pay for my mess up again. T...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. --Confucius Step Ten tells us that when we are wrong, we must "promptly" admit it. We aren't used to admitting our mistakes. We defend ourselves or blame others. This is called denial. Denial is bad for...

debird17 · debird17

12 Days since my last drink. I just got to work after my meeting. They where talking about living in the moment. I didn't talk today because I'm still trying to figure out what that means. I thought I was living in the moment when I drank because I was only thinking of me. Didn't care who I hurt or what I...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Listening and Sharing"I've found that many of my painful experiences with others are the result of past memories," stated a friend. "Often I'm not reacting so much to what is going on between me and another person right at the time; I'm responding to some previous wound or hurt from m...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 1Grapevine Quote No prophet can presume to say whether the world outcome will be blazing destruction or the beginning, under Gods intention, of the brightest era yet known to mankind. I am sure we AAs well comprehend this scene. In microcosm, we have experienced this identical state of ter...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!Happy Halloween!! You've been Mooned!!One rule to this game.... You can NOT get someone who hasalready gotten you! Now... go out there and get as many people as you can, before they get you! I got you first! and you can't get me back! Nana - Nana - Nana! (ha ha) We do not stop p...

Stepchild · Stepchild

This is about Clarence Snyder...One of first 100 of AA...Sponsored by Doctor Bob...He went on to sponsor 1000's....I like him....A lot of people didn't...He...Like Doctor Bob was No-Nonsense AA. Bookmark it...And read it at your leisure...Interesting stuff. http://www.silkworth.net/chs/...

Jerry F · Jerry F

What does it mean to you, what does it look like, feel like, sound like; how do you personally define it. "It" is the last word of our second step. I'm listening...actually gotta listen.

davep12and12 · davep12and12

Hi all, I found this board several weeks ago when I was planning a three-week trip to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and I was looking for some AA resources to help me find meetings there. So I just got home (to California) from the trip. It was amazing, and I'm so grateful that staying sober has given me the...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. --Hannah Arendt How often have we found ourselves in a predicament and innocently saying, "How did I get into this?" When someone has been injured by our actions because we failed to think...

Mike B. · Mike B.

October 31Grapevine Quote At the end of each day ... I hope that I can say a short prayer of gratitude for another day of sobriety. Anything else good that happens is a bonus.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Here's a 3 1/2 minute inspirational clip that I love ... hope you do too !!!

Chaya · Chaya

Hi everyone! I am coming back to share that today is my first sober birthday. Thank you all for helping me get through those early days of sobriety. Love, Chaya

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Not trying to rush through the steps, as I just got a sponsor, but the people, places and things is a big issue with me now (and I am sure for everyone)...but I guess I want to know from others' experiences if there is a particular step that they worked when they didn't let others' comments/actions bother...

Standing_Tall · Standing_Tall

Thought i would check in. Spent the afternoon with my sponsor. Had an opportunity to go see my kids but there are things that i NEED to keep working on. i have SO much anger and resentment towards her right now that some days its almost unbearable. Lots of prayer and meditation gets me through the tough sp...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

When a person is concerned only with giving, there is no anxiety. --Gerald JampolskyWhatever we give away returns to us, many-fold. When we show love or understanding, when we are gentle or express genuine concern, usually the same will come right back to us. Perhaps not in kind, maybe not in ways we e...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."- Edwin Elliot

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	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	3007	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	427	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	606	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	381	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	591	Nov 9, 2013 by Stepchild
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself."- Frank Tyger	Pythonpappy	2	355	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	344	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	885	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	365	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	361	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	331	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	325	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	338	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	846	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	322	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	342	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	547	Nov 5, 2013 by Stepchild
	Grapevine (Preview) November 4Grapevine Quote One of the truly great gifts in this Fellowship of mutually concerned people is the gift of the art of listening ... But our need to listen goes beyond meetings and talks with friends ... We need Step Eleven and our greater conscious contact with the Divine Listener. Then wil...	Mike B.	1	297	Nov 5, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	New Here... Struggling (Preview) Hi Everyone, This is my first post here, I have been reading a lot of your posts over the past few weeks. I am on day one "again". I have had so many struggles with Alcohol over the last 10+ years. The longest stretch of sobriety I managed was about 6 months, but I am sure that is due to the fact I...	d_willing	13	572	Nov 5, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	My new prayer (Preview) Lord...please make me into the man my dog thinks I am....amen.	Mike D	3	397	Nov 5, 2013 by mikef
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Realand more..." There are a lot of great acronyms in the program, and three of them describe the progress I've made with respect to fear. The first is: F*#k Everything And Run. This is how I dealt with fear before recov...	Pythonpappy	2	381	Nov 5, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Cultivating AuthenticityAuthenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think were supposed to be and embracing who we are.The idea that we can choose authenticity makes most of us feel both hopeful and exhausted. We feel hopeful because being real is something we value. We feel exhauste...	Pythonpappy	2	340	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Tired but still not drinking (Preview) I went to a wedding Friday night I thought about making up an excuse not to go but they where very good friends and I felt I needed to go. I did not drink. I have not drank in 14 days but the guilt and the dishonesty of all of the lies I told while I was drinking is beginning to eat at me. My children are suppo...	debird17	11	553	Nov 4, 2013 by Closer
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Some see things as they are and say "why". I dream things that never were, and say "why not?"" - George Bernard Shaw	Pythonpappy	1	291	Nov 4, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) November 4 "Regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"	Mike B.	1	304	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Hey there, newcomers!!! You deserve sobriety! (Preview) This has been a tough year. In this first year of sobriety I lost my mom, changed careers, moved, and took in my niece. And I stayed sober no matter what. It wasnt always easy but if I could stay sober through all that I can stay sober no matter what. Newcomer--you can get sober and stay sober through anythi...	Chaya	10	778	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Weekly Thought --- (religious concept) (Preview) Weekly Verse"Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31Weekly Quote"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. it's the life in your years." Abraham LincolnWeekly ThoughtAll good things we have are gifts from God. Even the faith wi...	Pythonpappy	2	359	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Quote About Hope I'd Like to Share With You (Preview) *"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.* Dale Carnegie	betterthanyesterday52	4	432	Nov 4, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky." - Helen Lowrie Marshall	Pythonpappy	0	307	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Becoming Open (Preview) Good morning everyone! It's a beautiful chilly November day here in Iowa, and things are good. Hope everything is good with you. This morning I was thinking about the ways that the A.A. acronym H.O.W. -- Honesty, Openness, and Willingness -- began to manifest itself in my life through the early mo...	Mike D	5	675	Nov 4, 2013 by Mike D
	Today's Gift (Preview) Sometimes it seems I've spent my life trying to live up to others' expectations of me, and failing. I never thought much about pleasing myself. That would have been "selfish." --JoAnn Reed We can feel burdened, inadequate, and overwhelmed by expectations, even when they are our own. Mo...	Pythonpappy	0	343	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	I just can't get anything right..... (Preview) I have not had a drink in 8 days but I can't seem to get anything right and I'm really getting on my husbands nerves. I bounced a check and now have several overdraft charges. Then my car broke down. My husband said it's because of the way I drive and he is going to have to pay for my mess up again. T...	debird17	18	671	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust	Pythonpappy	0	269	Nov 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. --Confucius Step Ten tells us that when we are wrong, we must "promptly" admit it. We aren't used to admitting our mistakes. We defend ourselves or blame others. This is called denial. Denial is bad for...	Pythonpappy	0	380	Nov 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Good Morning (Preview) 12 Days since my last drink. I just got to work after my meeting. They where talking about living in the moment. I didn't talk today because I'm still trying to figure out what that means. I thought I was living in the moment when I drank because I was only thinking of me. Didn't care who I hurt or what I...	debird17	4	410	Nov 2, 2013 by Jerry F
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace." - Franklin D. Roosevelt	Pythonpappy	0	314	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Listening and Sharing"I've found that many of my painful experiences with others are the result of past memories," stated a friend. "Often I'm not reacting so much to what is going on between me and another person right at the time; I'm responding to some previous wound or hurt from m...	Pythonpappy	0	286	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) November 1Grapevine Quote No prophet can presume to say whether the world outcome will be blazing destruction or the beginning, under Gods intention, of the brightest era yet known to mankind. I am sure we AAs well comprehend this scene. In microcosm, we have experienced this identical state of ter...	Mike B.	1	497	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Happy Halloween! (Preview) HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!Happy Halloween!! You've been Mooned!!One rule to this game.... You can NOT get someone who hasalready gotten you! Now... go out there and get as many people as you can, before they get you! I got you first! and you can't get me back! Nana - Nana - Nana! (ha ha) *We do not stop p...*	Pythonpappy	5	397	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	If you like AA history...Here is a good book. (Preview) This is about Clarence Snyder...One of first 100 of AA...Sponsored by Doctor Bob...He went on to sponsor 1000's....I like him....A lot of people didn't...He...Like Doctor Bob was No-Nonsense AA. Bookmark it...And read it at your leisure...Interesting stuff. http://www.silkworth.net/chs/...	Stepchild	4	458	Nov 1, 2013 by Stepchild
	Sanity... (Preview) What does it mean to you, what does it look like, feel like, sound like; how do you personally define it. "It" is the last word of our second step. I'm listening...actually gotta listen.	Jerry F	13	5487	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Back from Uzbekistan...... (Preview) Hi all, I found this board several weeks ago when I was planning a three-week trip to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and I was looking for some AA resources to help me find meetings there. So I just got home (to California) from the trip. It was amazing, and I'm so grateful that staying sober has given me the...	davep12and12	9	741	Nov 1, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. --Hannah Arendt How often have we found ourselves in a predicament and innocently saying, "How did I get into this?" When someone has been injured by our actions because we failed to think...	Pythonpappy	8	485	Oct 31, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) October 31Grapevine Quote At the end of each day ... I hope that I can say a short prayer of gratitude for another day of sobriety. Anything else good that happens is a bonus.	Mike B.	1	337	Oct 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	How's Your Attitude ??? (Preview) Here's a 3 1/2 minute inspirational clip that I love ... hope you do too !!!	Pythonpappy	3	443	Oct 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	1 year (Preview) Hi everyone! I am coming back to share that today is my first sober birthday. Thank you all for helping me get through those early days of sobriety. Love, Chaya	Chaya	18	512	Oct 31, 2013 by Stepchild
	What Step Do I Need to Do to Get Over This? (Preview) Not trying to rush through the steps, as I just got a sponsor, but the people, places and things is a big issue with me now (and I am sure for everyone)...but I guess I want to know from others' experiences if there is a particular step that they worked when they didn't let others' comments/actions bother...	betterthanyesterday52	12	784	Oct 30, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Resentment (Preview) Thought i would check in. Spent the afternoon with my sponsor. Had an opportunity to go see my kids but there are things that i NEED to keep working on. i have SO much anger and resentment towards her right now that some days its almost unbearable. Lots of prayer and meditation gets me through the tough sp...	Standing_Tall	18	804	Oct 30, 2013 by Stepchild
	Today's Gift (Preview) When a person is concerned only with giving, there is no anxiety. --Gerald JampolskyWhatever we give away returns to us, many-fold. When we show love or understanding, when we are gentle or express genuine concern, usually the same will come right back to us. Perhaps not in kind, maybe not in ways we e...	Pythonpappy	1	345	Oct 30, 2013 by Mike B.
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."- Edwin Elliot	Pythonpappy	1	289	Oct 30, 2013 by Mike B.
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