Alcoholics Anonymous

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

February 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "The bottom starting falling out faster thanI could lower my standards." The last few years of my drinking and using sure were ugly. It had stopped working long before I got sober, but I had failed to realize it. Instead, I obsessively pursued oblivio...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

This is a very short 3 minute video clip to give you inspiration ... It's very much worth the time to watch ... Enjoy!!! http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/first-thing-every-morning/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MO-_-02.04.13-_-FTEMmovie&j=48920&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=35...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Over and over, we begin again. --Banana YoshimotoNewcomer Yesterday was such a difficult day. But here it is, morning again somehow. I've gotten through another 24 hours, and without a drug. I wish I'd known yesterday that things wouldn't feel so bad this morning. Sponsor Yesterday, we did the bes...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: "It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." --James Thurber "I believe the purpose of my life is to learn, grow, and be the best possible person I can be," said a group member. "In order to do that, I must ask big...

Stepchild · Stepchild

I once heard the directions for the 12 steps broken down like this. Just curious if you've ever heard it. The directions for the 12 steps are contained in the 8 pages of The Doctor's Opinion and the first 103 pages of the Big Book. That's 111 pages. Step one is covered in The Doctor's Opinion and pages 1 thr...

Tomas · Tomas

It was around the time that John Travolta made Urban Cowboy.. Here was this guy working at an oil refinery in Texas who is a regular at Gillys bar in Houston.. where he fathoms himself a cowboy riding a mechanical bull. .Mickey Gills hit.. Looking for Love.. was quite the song circa 1981. I had about 7 yea...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I spent the greater part of this year swimming the waters of recovery. I did very little else. I put every footstep into it, and my thoughts never left it. If I wasn't thinking about it, I was reading about it, sitting in it, meeting people about it, absorbing every thing I possibly could about it unti...

joby · joby

I have been sober for 5 months today. I go to 3-4 meetings a week and feel great. Lately I feel as if my wife, who is active in al-anon, has been treating me as if I am still drinking, ponting out what I am doing wrong. I am trying to do the right things at work and at home. Being the responsible father and paren...

John · John

"Sobreity is not merely the absince of alcohol, but coupled with the presence of God".

bucknut12osu · bucknut12osu

I have been sober for 151 days and become a very active member in the AA community. My wife filed for divorce in April, 2012 after several druken blackouts and it will be finalized in April 2013. Although I realize it may be too late, I would like to ask her to go to an Al-Anon meeting with me. I feel it wou...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 4 "The Twelve Steps are not steps to take progressively in order to arrive at a conclusion, but a code for living -- the constitution of a way of life."

Jerry F · Jerry F

It is not necessary only acceptance. The day after he didn't die, he did die and my brother was leaving while in company of some of his family who would have before been much more comfortable being miles away. We all, the family were born within this disease and no one escaped being affected...some of...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the Mystic delivered grave news: "There's no easy way to tell you this, so I'll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year." Visibly shaken, Laura stared at the woman's lined...

Cam0612 · Cam0612

Hello. My husband is a new member of AA. He has had trouble obstaining from alcohol since he joined. He also continues to smoke pot several times a day, everyday. There are times when I will think he has been drinking but he denies it therefore I think it must be the pot. Usually when he has had somethi...

Frodo · Frodo

(On accepting responsibility) "All of my disasters had a common denominator - me. I was there for all of them."

dms · dms

Pride is evilToday I had an epiphany of sorts.....a friend of mine, and fellow alcoholic pointed out a line from a scripture...."Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18. The epiphany comes in because the word "pride" virtually too...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Reflection for the Day The experiences of thousands upon thousands of people have proven that acceptance and faith are capable of producing freedom from dependence on chemicals. When we apply the same principles of acceptance and faith to our emotional problems, however, we discover that only re...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Weekly QuoteGod is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope. - Catherine MarshallWeekly ThoughtThink about it. If you had everything you wanted, if there were no challenges in your life, if you didn't have any questions about why things are the way they are, and if you didn't feel th...

Picaposie · Picaposie

December 14 "Life's formidable array of pains and problems will require many different degrees of acceptance ... Sometimes, we have to find the right kind of acceptance for each day. Sometimes, we need to develop accep...

gonee · gonee

The only thing that I had was a desire to stop drinking. AA did not ask me anything else. After I entered the doors and listened to the speakers and read the AA book, the realisation became apparent to me that I was an alcoholic. After my 1st relapse, I found that I was powerless over alcohol, and no matter h...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMORA woman received a call that her daughter was sick. She hurried to the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside. The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground. She looked at it and said "I don't know how to use t...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 10, 2012 Quote of the Week "Give all your problems to God - He'll be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lay in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actuall...

Stepchild · Stepchild

Welcome to the site...Look forward to hearing your story!

wagon · wagon

i am new to this and to aa just trying to get some help for this darn thing they call addiction............ (May 21st, 2005) That was my first post at this site, I was new with a few months of not drinking and no meetings. Last night I picked up my 8 year chip.. Miracles was a great safe place for me in those f...

justadrunk · justadrunk

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Step Two Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their liv...

Marge · Marge

well first day off the cigs and its so hard!!! Been a smoker since 14 and will be 40 this year,did give up for 1 1/2 years but stupidly started again. Its the snappiness thats hard,have to remember to take deep breaths and walk off for a few minutes to calm down.I have a steely resolve to quit,and it will no...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Humility is our acceptance of ourselves. --Anonymous It is strange how we can go to school and learn a lot of facts, but never learn much along the way about ourselves. We can take up nursing, teaching, counseling, and giving ourselves to the needs of others, while never having our own needs met. Why do...

Mom2Samalways · Mom2Samalways

have been sober now for 12 Days (will not pick up a drink, will not pick a drink, will not pick a drink) Praise God! I have been to a few AA Meetings received several numbers and the Big Book, which I am slowly working through reading. I don't know if I have the guts to ask for a Sponsor yet, I haven't even call...

ChristineG · ChristineG

The first week I went to meetings I was struck by the many people I met who looked and/or acted very similar to people I already knew. Not 1 or 2....more like 6 or 8. It was strange. I thought I was imagining things. A little unsettling. It came up in conversation after the meeting tonight and I continued to...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Yesterday, I had someone come at me with their pointer finger and swear at me "I am not fucking happy with you right now" RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CHILDRENS MUSIC CLASS! Seriously! I babysit for these two sweet little two year olds, and have told the parents many times that I am a music teach...

John · John

Don't really know why I'm moved to post this here this morning, but it hit me, and I just wanted to share it.

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 1 "These days I find that nothing is as precious as my sanity. I used to be addicted to drama and could only function on excitement and high levels of adrenaline. It's very different today ... It's all very ordinary...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Action carries us in the direction we choose. Recovery involves doing - going to meetings working our program, reaching out to others. We don't get a job by sitting at home thinking about it, and we don't get a degree by looking at college catalogs. It's true that we need to reflect; we need quiet times w...

Dodsworth · Dodsworth

I hate myself. I have this overwhelming sadness mixed with anger about who I am, what I look like, how I talk, that I'm not enough, that i can't keep up. I can't stand being in this body anymore. And, I know that when I bring these feelings to my sponsor or another AA friend, they think that meditating or goi...

Tomas · Tomas

One of my most favorite little books I read several times a year at leastIt only takes about 45 minutes to read it, is James Allens book As a Man ThinkithThinking well of yourself changes attitudes and circumstances.. giving you opportunities. Based upon that which you put your mind to.. One guy years...

lady eli · lady eli

Dearest Dear Miracles! Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughtful replies! Your page crossed my mind, while I was in the courtroom yesterday! Thanks to God, A.A., and you guys I was carried through a nightmarish day.....sober and clean!

John · John

Hi everyone, as most of you know, I started building the MIP website in the late 1990's. Back then it was because I could not get to face to face meetings due to 2 herniated disk in my back, and riding in a car was way too painful. I had surgery in 1999 and haven't experienced so much as discomfort in it sinc...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

DADDY'S EMPTY CHAIR A man's daughter had asked the local ministerTo come and pray with her father..When the minister arrived, He found the man lying in bed with his head Propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed.The minister assumed that the old fellowHad been informed of his v...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John KnoblauchOnce there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear fear of people, of economic insecurity, of commitment, of...

Jerry F · Jerry F

I remember a surgeon being angry at me for refusing this drug just after ankle surgery citing that the ankle break was the most painful of injuries. My reply was I had no pain and that was true and then the anesthesiologist making his appearance wanting to appologize for the ingury to my throat and na...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto! The blockage will be almost instantly removed. 2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away. 3. Avoid argume...

lady eli · lady eli

Help please my dear Miracles! My A.A. p-gram today, so far, has included a meeting, 1-2-3, 11 & 12...and now I got the nudge, to share my grim details, with this room. To those who know my story "Angel in the Glass"....welll.....there was no room for details there. He...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Miracles are instantaneous. They cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments to those who least expect them. -- Katherine Anne PorterNobody can force us to be in recovery or twist our arm to make us work our program. There might have been times when we wanted someone to, es...

nezyb · nezyb

Found this and the previous post I posted on another recovery website. Love the other one, this one is funny and very fitting for me some days. (((hugs))) to all. The Alco...

Neophyte · Neophyte

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/science-addiction/drug-abuse-addiction

Sober McHappy · Sober McHappy

I don't know if I've ever asked anything like this before. Maybe I have in the depths of the despair of one of my hangovers but I can't remember. I'm having such a struggle right now. I feel very lost and confused. I'm willing to try anything. I have everything to live for but when I'm in the grip of my alcoho...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch. The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep trouble now!" Noticing some bones...

ChristineG · ChristineG

You all were right! I pretended to be upset I didn't have enough sobriety to be chairperson and those sneaky drunks voted me greeter before I new what was going on! Lmao! It's good though. A good way to get to know everyone.

Col · Col

Well, I haven't been hiding the fact that I'm struggling a bit with the program lately. I felt very let down after my 5th step, feeling lost, dumb, and like I'm just not getting it. My sponser likes to say that she has a tendency towards 'getting drunk on self pity'. I like that phrase, and I felt myself doi...

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	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) February 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "The bottom starting falling out faster thanI could lower my standards." The last few years of my drinking and using sure were ugly. It had stopped working long before I got sober, but I had failed to realize it. Instead, I obsessively pursued oblivio...	Pythonpappy	0	444	Feb 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Start the Day Right! (Preview) This is a very short 3 minute video clip to give you inspiration ... It's very much worth the time to watch ... Enjoy!!! http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/first-thing-every-morning/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MO-_-02.04.13-_-FTEMmovie&j=48920&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=35...	Pythonpappy	0	416	Feb 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 02-04 (Preview) Over and over, we begin again. --Banana YoshimotoNewcomer Yesterday was such a difficult day. But here it is, morning again somehow. I've gotten through another 24 hours, and without a drug. I wish I'd known yesterday that things wouldn't feel so bad this morning. Sponsor Yesterday, we did the bes...	Pythonpappy	0	339	Feb 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	"It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." (Preview) Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: "It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." --James Thurber "I believe the purpose of my life is to learn, grow, and be the best possible person I can be," said a group member. "In order to do that, I must ask big...	Larry_H	3	4988	Feb 5, 2013 by rwpeltonpreceptquotes
	Directions for the steps. (Preview) I once heard the directions for the 12 steps broken down like this. Just curious if you've ever heard it. The directions for the 12 steps are contained in the 8 pages of The Doctor's Opinion and the first 103 pages of the Big Book. That's 111 pages. Step one is covered in The Doctor's Opinion and pages 1 thr...	Stepchild	12	641	Feb 4, 2013 by Stepchild
	JUST AN URBAN COWBOY (Preview) It was around the time that John Travolta made Urban Cowboy.. Here was this guy working at an oil refinery in Texas who is a regular at Gillys bar in Houston.. where he fathoms himself a cowboy riding a mechanical bull. .Mickey Gills hit.. Looking for Love.. was quite the song circa 1981. I had about 7 yea...	Tomas	9	666	Feb 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Too busy to pray (Preview) I spent the greater part of this year swimming the waters of recovery. I did very little else. I put every footstep into it, and my thoughts never left it. If I wasn't thinking about it, I was reading about it, sitting in it, meeting people about it, absorbing every thing I possibly could about it unti...	justadrunk	12	702	Feb 4, 2013 by lady eli
	So Confused (Preview) I have been sober for 5 months today. I go to 3-4 meetings a week and feel great. Lately I feel as if my wife, who is active in al-anon, has been treating me as if I am still drinking, ponting out what I am doing wrong. I am trying to do the right things at work and at home. Being the responsible father and paren...	joby	10	472	Feb 4, 2013 by tomsteve
	Heard in a meeting last night... (Preview) "Sobreity is not merely the absince of alcohol, but coupled with the presence of God".	John	7	482	Feb 4, 2013 by Picaposie
	How do I ask...? (Preview) I have been sober for 151 days and become a very active member in the AA community. My wife filed for divorce in April, 2012 after several druken blackouts and it will be finalized in April 2013. Although I realize it may be too late, I would like to ask her to go to an Al-Anon meeting with me. I feel it wou...	bucknut12osu	33	751	Feb 4, 2013 by lady eli
	Grapevine (Preview) February 4 "The Twelve Steps are not steps to take progressively in order to arrive at a conclusion, but a code for living -- the constitution of a way of life."	Mike B.	5	335	Feb 4, 2013 by Mike B.
	No more morphine... (Preview) It is not necessary only acceptance. The day after he didn't die, he did die and my brother was leaving while in company of some of his family who would have before been much more comfortable being miles away. We all, the family were born within this disease and no one escaped being affected...some of...	Jerry F	3	378	Feb 4, 2013 by lady eli
	Seeing a Mystic (Preview) In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the Mystic delivered grave news: "There's no easy way to tell you this, so I'll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year." Visibly shaken, Laura stared at the woman's lined...	Pythonpappy	5	538	Feb 4, 2013 by lady eli
	Alcoholic husband believes he can still continue to smoke pot everyday (Preview) Hello. My husband is a new member of AA. He has had trouble obstaining from alcohol since he joined. He also continues to smoke pot several times a day, everyday. There are times when I will think he has been drinking but he denies it therefore I think it must be the pot. Usually when he has had somethi...	Cam0612	25	841	Feb 4, 2013 by Zoomtopz
	Heard in the rooms (Preview) (On accepting responsibility) "All of my disasters had a common denominator - me. I was there for all of them."	Frodo	6	344	Feb 4, 2013 by Jerry F
	Pride Is Evil (Preview) Pride is evilToday I had an epiphany of sorts.....a friend of mine, and fellow alcoholic pointed out a line from a scripture...."Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18. The epiphany comes in because the word "pride" virtually too...	dms	3	755	Feb 4, 2013 by Jerry F
	Today's Gift 02-03 (Preview) Reflection for the Day The experiences of thousands upon thousands of people have proven that acceptance and faith are capable of producing freedom from dependence on chemicals. When we apply the same principles of acceptance and faith to our emotional problems, however, we discover that only re...	Pythonpappy	0	315	Feb 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Weekly (Preview) Weekly QuoteGod is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope. - Catherine MarshallWeekly ThoughtThink about it. If you had everything you wanted, if there were no challenges in your life, if you didn't have any questions about why things are the way they are, and if you didn't feel th...	Pythonpappy	0	291	Feb 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Grapevine Quote (Preview) December 14 "Life's formidable array of pains and problems will require many different degrees of acceptance ... Sometimes, we have to find the right kind of acceptance for each day. Sometimes, we need to develop accep...	Picaposie	4	491	Feb 3, 2013 by RubyTues
	Simple program (Preview) The only thing that I had was a desire to stop drinking. AA did not ask me anything else. After I entered the doors and listened to the speakers and read the AA book, the realisation became apparent to me that I was an alcoholic. After my 1st relapse, I found that I was powerless over alcohol, and no matter h...	gonee	9	662	Feb 3, 2013 by justadrunk
	Sense of Humor ? (Preview) GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMORA woman received a call that her daughter was sick. She hurried to the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside. The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground. She looked at it and said "I don't know how to use t...	Pythonpappy	0	337	Feb 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) December 10, 2012 Quote of the Week "Give all your problems to God - He'll be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lay in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actuall...	Pythonpappy	4	360	Feb 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Welcome to MIP Joybear80! (Preview) Welcome to the site...Look forward to hearing your story!	Stepchild	5	361	Feb 2, 2013 by joybear80
	My first post at miracles (Preview) i am new to this and to aa just trying to get some help for this darn thing they call addiction............ (May 21st, 2005) That was my first post at this site, I was new with a few months of not drinking and no meetings. Last night I picked up my 8 year chip.. Miracles was a great safe place for me in those f...	wagon	11	458	Feb 2, 2013 by pinkchip
	Step 2 (Preview) You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Step Two Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their liv...	justadrunk	14	1799	Feb 2, 2013 by lady eli
	1st day and its hard!!!!!!!! (Preview) well first day off the cigs and its so hard!!! Been a smoker since 14 and will be 40 this year,did give up for 1 1/2 years but stupidly started again. Its the snappiness thats hard,have to remember to take deep breaths and walk off for a few minutes to calm down.I have a steely resolve to quit,and it will no...	Marge	15	610	Feb 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 02-02 (Preview) Humility is our acceptance of ourselves. --Anonymous It is strange how we can go to school and learn a lot of facts, but never learn much along the way about ourselves. We can take up nursing, teaching, counseling, and giving ourselves to the needs of others, while never having our own needs met. Why do...	Pythonpappy	1	292	Feb 2, 2013 by Stepchild
	Is a Sponsor in AA a must? (Preview) have been sober now for 12 Days (will not pick up a drink, will not pick a drink, will not pick a drink) Praise God! I have been to a few AA Meetings received several numbers and the Big Book, which I am slowly working through reading. I don't know if I have the guts to ask for a Sponsor yet, I haven't even call...	Mom2Samalways	14	833	Feb 2, 2013 by Stepchild
	Familiar faces (Preview) The first week I went to meetings I was struck by the many people I met who looked and/or acted very similar to people I already knew. Not 1 or 2....more like 6 or 8. It was strange. I thought I was imagining things. A little unsettling. It came up in conversation after the meeting tonight and I continued to...	ChristineG	6	380	Feb 2, 2013 by Rob84
	Note to Chris - the program WORKS! (Preview) Yesterday, I had someone come at me with their pointer finger and swear at me "I am not fucking happy with you right now" RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CHILDRENS MUSIC CLASS! Seriously! I babysit for these two sweet little two year olds, and have told the parents many times that I am a music teach...	justadrunk	13	429	Feb 2, 2013 by justadrunk
	Ever Since the World Began.... (Preview) Don't really know why I'm moved to post this here this morning, but it hit me, and I just wanted to share it.	John	9	1609	Feb 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) February 1 "These days I find that nothing is as precious as my sanity. I used to be addicted to drama and could only function on excitement and high levels of adrenaline. It's very different today ... It's all very ordinary...	Mike B.	3	384	Feb 1, 2013 by John
	Today's Gift 02-01 (Preview) Action carries us in the direction we choose. Recovery involves doing - going to meetings working our program, reaching out to others. We don't get a job by sitting at home thinking about it, and we don't get a degree by looking at college catalogs. It's true that we need to reflect; we need quiet times w...	Pythonpappy	5	362	Feb 1, 2013 by justadrunk
	A spiritual malady? (Preview) I hate myself. I have this overwhelming sadness mixed with anger about who I am, what I look like, how I talk, that I'm not enough, that i can't keep up. I can't stand being in this body anymore. And, I know that when I bring these feelings to my sponsor or another AA friend, they think that meditating or goi...	Dodsworth	18	5159	Feb 1, 2013 by TommyB
	A Major Key To Self Esteem (Preview) One of my most favorite little books I read several times a year at leastIt only takes about 45 minutes to read it, is James Allens book As a Man ThinkithThinking well of yourself changes attitudes and circumstances.. giving you opportunities. Based upon that which you put your mind to.. One guy years...	Tomas	32	805	Feb 1, 2013 by justadrunk
	Thanks from Lady Eli! (Preview) Dearest Dear Miracles! Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughtful replies! Your page crossed my mind, while I was in the courtroom yesterday! Thanks to God, A.A., and you guys I was carried through a nightmarish day.....sober and clean!	lady eli	4	315	Feb 1, 2013 by Rob84
	Sitting in the background... I am a alcoholic. (Preview) Hi everyone, as most of you know, I started building the MIP website in the late 1990's. Back then it was because I could not get to face to face meetings due to 2 herniated disk in my back, and riding in a car was way too painful. I had surgery in 1999 and haven't experienced so much as discomfort in it sinc...	John	13	803	Feb 1, 2013 by Pablomoses
	Too busy to pray (cont. from Tasha's Post) --- Also known as 'Daddy's Empty Chair' (Preview) *DADDY'S EMPTY CHAIR* *A man's daughter had asked the local ministerTo come and pray with her father..When the minister arrived,* *He found the man lying in bed with his head* *Propped up on two pillows.* *An empty chair sat beside his bed.The minister assumed that the old fellowHad been informed of his v...*	Pythonpappy	4	529	Feb 1, 2013 by justadrunk
	Today's Gift 01-31 (Preview) You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John KnoblauchOnce there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...	Pythonpappy	0	330	Jan 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections ~ Freedom From.. Freedom To.. & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear fear of people, of economic insecurity, of commitment, of...	Sobrietyspell	2	319	Jan 31, 2013 by Stepchild
	Morphine.... (Preview) I remember a surgeon being angry at me for refusing this drug just after ankle surgery citing that the ankle break was the most painful of injuries. My reply was I had no pain and that was true and then the anesthesiologist making his appearance wanting to appologize for the ingury to my throat and na...	Jerry F	3	669	Jan 31, 2013 by lady eli
	Let's always remember these - Amazing Home Remedies! (Preview) 1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto! The blockage will be almost instantly removed. 2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away. 3. Avoid argume...	Pythonpappy	3	400	Jan 31, 2013 by John
	Help please! (Preview) Help please my dear Miracles! My A.A. p-gram today, so far, has included a meeting, 1-2-3, 11 & 12...and now I got the nudge, to share my grim details, with this room. To those who know my story "Angel in the Glass"....welll.....there was no room for details there. He...	lady eli	16	686	Jan 31, 2013 by Jerry F
	Today's Gift 01-30 (Preview) Miracles are instantaneous. They cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments to those who least expect them. -- Katherine Anne PorterNobody can force us to be in recovery or twist our arm to make us work our program. There might have been times when we wanted someone to, es...	Pythonpappy	2	331	Jan 31, 2013 by RubyTues
	The Alcoholic Prayer (Preview) Found this and the previous post I posted on another recovery website. Love the other one, this one is funny and very fitting for me some days. (((hugs))) to all. The Alco...	nezyb	7	4797	Jan 31, 2013 by Sports dude
	Yeah, its a disease (Preview) http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/science-addiction/drug-abuse-addiction	Neophyte	9	700	Jan 31, 2013 by justadrunk
	Will you please pray for me (Preview) I don't know if I've ever asked anything like this before. Maybe I have in the depths of the despair of one of my hangovers but I can't remember. I'm having such a struggle right now. I feel very lost and confused. I'm willing to try anything. I have everything to live for but when I'm in the grip of my alcoho...	Sober McHappy	21	681	Jan 31, 2013 by Michael Collins
	The Old Dog (Preview) An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch. The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep trouble now!" Noticing some bones...	Pythonpappy	23	717	Jan 30, 2013 by StPeteDean
	1st business meeting (Preview) You all were right! I pretended to be upset I didn't have enough sobriety to be chairperson and those sneaky drunks voted me greeter before I new what was going on! Lmao! It's good though. A good way to get to know everyone.	ChristineG	11	705	Jan 30, 2013 by Stepchild
	Cleansed (Preview) Well, I haven't been hiding the fact that I'm struggling a bit with the program lately. I felt very let down after my 5th step, feeling lost, dumb, and like I'm just not getting it. My sponser likes to say that she has a tendency towards 'getting drunk on self pity'. I like that phrase, and I felt myself doi...	Col	12	452	Jan 30, 2013 by Tomas
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