Alcoholics Anonymous

gonee · gonee

My wife has got an Alanon book by that title. I have not even read that book but I was so impressed by that title, that as soon as I get sick, I remind myself about it. I get busy with my steps and the newcomers. It helps when all else fails.

very very tired · very very tired

I normally hang out on the Al-Anon side of this board and in Al-Anon F2F meeting rooms. It's where I started. It's where I began my road to recovery. Two days ago, I finally admitted that I am an alcoholic, too. It came after about 3 months of fearlessly looking at myself and my drinking patterns with the h...

gonee · gonee

What started of as a little spark 19 years ago with my friend, has spread so rapidly. My friend was 14 months dry and flirting with the idea of going back. He met with me and asked me to help him. We revived a small group which had died and started a family recovery workshop. Life was tough for all of us. But in...

barry · barry

For me growing up i felt like a freak in school so when i picked that first drink up that was the soloution for me just WOW it didnt take me long to cause chaos.I,d become a asshole in drink end up in hospital or in a police station for the night it didnt take me long to get in to other things id turn to crime anyt...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

You all have a nice day now and try not to be too judgemental.

Jerry F · Jerry F

where it seems to be darkest you find those spots of radiant light and are reminded that the light isn't at the end of the tunnel or even the tuna; it comes from above. Gratitudes tempering what could be resentments and then not. I was inventorying my life today...morning to present and started with &...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

A spiritual awakening is not about becoming more divine, it's about becoming more human. - Lama Suryas Das It's nice to be human again.

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

sorry. I need a coffee. I posted a question from Tradition One of the AA Approved Traditions Checklist: Do I spout platitudes of love while engaging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility? -- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 09:22:19 AM -- Edited by Wolfie...

Frodo · Frodo

We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167 The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritualalmost incomprehensible. But it is there. I feel it. Toda...

Polly · Polly

Hi all first time poster and very excited to have found you all online here. Here is our share that I never did send off to our share magazine ! But maybe one day. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Happy, Content, Sober and Serene,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Why, Because I decided to' keep coming back.' This is m...

deb365 · deb365

"You need Me. I need you. My broken world needs you. Many a troubled heart will be drawn nearer to Me by you. Oh! It is a glorious way, the upward way, the wonderful discoveries, the tender intimacies, the amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding. Life with Me - is a love story. All yo...

h2oeng · h2oeng

Yes, this is my first post but I could really use someone to talk to tonight. It's been a really bad couple of weeks and I'm posting here so I think it goes without saying that I've got no where else to turn. Any long timers got an ear to bend?

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

Hi. So how was your day? I started mine by attending a group session at the Forensic Hospital, part of the Correctional Facility out here, a volunteer thing I got involved with as part of my job. It's for inmates with co-occurring disorders, mental illness and addiction. Its interesting. Anyway, one...

gonee · gonee

Anyone tried the prayer on pg 552 of the AA book? I need some feedback for one of my sponsees.

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

-- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 07:40:51 AM

justadrunk · justadrunk

This go round at getting sober has been different than the first time around in so many ways. The main difference is that I'm doing what other people in AA, who are sober for years, do. Not doing what I think I should do, or someone else "on the outside" thinks I should do. I've let go of a lot of...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Yesterday at what I would now consider my home group, I asked about my sponsor not calling me back. Same question I had here, am I fired, is that how it commonly goes around here etc. I have been going to this meeting every day at noon for the last 3 weeks since getting sober after my relapse. The regular...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

Well its Monday. Start of another work week. Biggest decision I gotta make to day is what color tie to wear. And you know, I don't think I'm going to wear a tie at all. Everyone have a great day.

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

I see you have a step board. have you considered doing a discussion board on the Traditions? Or maybe you do and I missed it. Anyway, AA has a great piece of service material called the traditions Checklist. Just a thought.

gonee · gonee

In the AA book Doctors Opinion, the alcoholic is declared as a hopeless case by the medical fraternity in 1939. Not only are we defenseless over the first drink, but we are without any help from any human source. But the good doctor goes outside his scientific boundaries to declare that only a psychic c...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

So, my home group is in my home. Old school kitchen meeting, A big book study with lots of coffee and cheesecake. Its just a small group, half a dozen members with some fallout from some of the other groups. Meeting starts at 8, people usually start showing up around 730. So last night, at about 6:50, we ge...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

In January of 1998, I was sleeping in a cardboard condo with a newspaper for a blanket and a rock for a pillow. This morning I woke up in my own bed in my own home - correction in a home that the bank still owns but which will one day be ours - with my own wife beside me. The car was still in the driveway and the wind...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

Theres a group I go to on a regular basis. Its not my home group, but I go there a lot. Its a fairly large meeting sometimes and they break up into two meetings. A general discussion in the main room and a beginners meeting in another room. I like the beginners meeting. It always reminds me of where I came fr...

leahl · leahl

Hey Guys- I'll be traveling to Segovia, Spain for 6 weeks in about a month. Segovia is located ~1 hour from Madrid, to the north. I have done some research and found meetings in both Madrid and Segovia, but was wondering if anyone had any experience they could share with me. Maybe about what the cult...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

-- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 07:39:56 AM

gonee · gonee

Hi MIP friends, both old and new, have a nice day in recovery. We are the chosen ones handpicked by God, in suffering and tribulations, to do His work. I am enjoying a nice sunny day, here in South Africa, time 12:38pm with a nice temperature of 25 degree celcius. But most of all I am surrounded by friends w...

Idontwanttorunawayanymore · Idontwanttorunawayanymore

Hi! I'm going to go to my first AA meeting soon, but before I go, I wanted to make sure I knew what to do, and what not to do. What are the ground rules? Do I have to share? Do I have to use my real name? Any and all input is appreciated. : )

TKOElle · TKOElle

I have been sober almost 90 days now. I'm a women supporting myself, have my own business, so I have time to make it to at least 4 meetings a week, but I'm not making connections or friends in the meetings. The meetings here in Escondido are loaded with grumpy people and they make me sad. I just moved and am g...

Epitaph · Epitaph

Hello, my name is Epitaph now, lol, and I am alcoholic. I'm 27 and I have been sober for about 15 minutes. I can't go to a meeting because I live in a pretty small community where everyone knows everyone and I'm a captain at a small airline, so it would be.. bad for that to get out. But I thought it would be real...

justadrunk · justadrunk

If there is anything healing to an alcoholic soul... it is an animal. Horses are so wonderful. I hope my kids love their new pony : )

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

An old timer told me once that coincidence is how god protects his anonymity. I went to a meeting last night thinking I would be presenting someone with a one-year medallion. Due to circumstances beyond his control he was unable to make it. Obviously he had something more important to do than celebra...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day Having found my way into this new world by the grace of God and the help of A.A., am I going to take that first drink, when I know that just one drink will change my whole world? Am I deliberately going back to the suffering of that alcoholic world? Or am I going to hang onto the happine...

deb365 · deb365

"Never feel inadequate for any task. All work here is accomplished by My Spirit, and that can flow through the humblest and lowliest. Rid yourself of self and all is well. Pray about all, but concentrate on a few things until those are accomplished. Strength for your daily, hourly task is pro...

deb365 · deb365

"Listen. Listen. Trust Me in everything. Help is here all the time. The difficult way is nearly over, but you have learned in it lessons you could learn in no other way. Wrest from Me, by firm and simple trust and persistent prayer, the treasures of My kingdom. Such wonderful things are comin...

Closer · Closer

Today wouldve been my 90 day anniversary of no alcohol. At day 85 I became too down about my situation and Ive given in to a few drinks. I havent gone to the place I was before but all Ive found is that alcohol doesn nothing but give you a FALSE high. We numb our minds and bodies and we feel all funny, but we a...

deb365 · deb365

"Draw near to Me. Contact with Me is the panacea for all ills. Remember that truth is many-sided. Have much tender love and patience for all who do not see as you do. The elimination of self is the key to holiness and happiness and can only be accomplished with My help. Live in My presence. Worsh...

deb365 · deb365

"The joy of the spring shall be yours in full measure. Revel in the earth's joy. Do you not think that nature is weary, too, of her long months of travail? There will come back a wonderful joy, if you share in her joy now. You can truly live a life not of earth, a heaven-life here and now." 3...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Aloha Family...I've been pondering the Police Commission meeting which was called this last Friday. They were hearing my complaint of the assault and I went. They have open meetings just like Al-Anon...LOL however it isn't a Family Group meeting except for yours truely. My PTSD and lack of slee...

Randy L · Randy L

After reaching my bottom I got on my knees and asked God for guidance. The anxiety was so overwhelming. He led me to a meditation sound site on my Ipad which has changed my life. Today I am grateful to be sober and finally able to relax without the demon of alcohol.

deb365 · deb365

"Man's need is God's chance to help. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression. That expression of faith is all that God needs to manifest His power. Faith is the key that unlocks the storehouse of God's resources. You long for perfection and see your...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

I heard that an expectation is a premeditated resentment. I am human so it doesn't matter how many books I read or how much advice I get, sometimes I still place expectations on the people in my life to do certain things, to act in certain ways, and to treat me in certain ways. And I don't tell these people t...

stnatina · stnatina

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. - Bill Blackman

Fyne Spirit · Fyne Spirit

Hi All, let me start this with a couple of quotes from the Big Book: p24 "We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense aginst the first drink." p45"...

Fyne Spirit · Fyne Spirit

Hi All, this is a call to prayer. Today I had the privilege of attending a 12 step call in the intensive care unit of our city hospital. I was there at the request of the patient's sister who lives in another country. Her brother had a road accident just before Xmas, I don't know if he was driving or got run do...

jj · jj

MONTE SERENO, Calif. A family member says painter Thomas Kinkade battled alcoholism over the past several years and had a relapse just before his death at his home in Santa Clara County. Kinkade's brother, Patrick, tells the San Jose Mercury News that decades of attacks on Kinkade's work and a spl...

gonee · gonee

"Lack of power, that was our dilemma." I had become powerless over alcohol. Willpower did not work. The strong resolve in the morning not to drink became a weak mumble by the evening. I had succumbed to that first drink. I had been through this hundreds of times. I had already started look...

vixen · vixen

I love working this one day at a time program and then seeing how those days have added up to something I couldn't have even imagined back when I was drowning myself in alcohol. Life is so FULL now! I have an awesome job in which I am trusted with a great deal of responsiblity, a healthy marriage that isn't p...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I went to my noon meeting, did my morning reading, popped on here a few times, tried to stay calm when my kids begged for this and that, again and again, pushing me to my limit, again and again. Yesterday I went to bed feeling horrible. I yelled at my kids like a monster. I could not - NOT be irritated no ma...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Today is my last day of having an in home daycare, and teaching piano lessons. It's hard letting go of the children that I've grown to love, but I realize it's for the best. Being home all day, and stuck here not able to leave if I wanted to, I thought was okay for me, but I realize now, as I'm becomming exci...

gonee · gonee

Our 12 step book says that all human beings have 3 basic instincts- social, security and sex. All these instincts are God given for our survival and well being. When any of these instincts become abnormal, it becomes defective and a defect in character. Right now this world is becoming obsessed with m...

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	When I got busy, I got better. (Preview) My wife has got an Alanon book by that title. I have not even read that book but I was so impressed by that title, that as soon as I get sick, I remind myself about it. I get busy with my steps and the newcomers. It helps when all else fails.	gonee	5	768	Apr 20, 2012 by Polly
	Do I belong? (Preview) I normally hang out on the Al-Anon side of this board and in Al-Anon F2F meeting rooms. It's where I started. It's where I began my road to recovery. Two days ago, I finally admitted that I am an alcoholic, too. It came after about 3 months of fearlessly looking at myself and my drinking patterns with the h...	very very tired	23	1086	Apr 20, 2012 by Polly
	My sponsee 19yrs sober. (Preview) What started of as a little spark 19 years ago with my friend, has spread so rapidly. My friend was 14 months dry and flirting with the idea of going back. He met with me and asked me to help him. We revived a small group which had died and started a family recovery workshop. Life was tough for all of us. But in...	gonee	10	361	Apr 20, 2012 by StPeteDean
	my journey (Preview) For me growing up i felt like a freak in school so when i picked that first drink up that was the soloution for me just WOW it didnt take me long to cause chaos.I,d become a asshole in drink end up in hospital or in a police station for the night it didnt take me long to get in to other things id turn to crime anyt...	barry	16	403	Apr 20, 2012 by Polly
	You All Have A Nice Day Now (Preview) You all have a nice day now and try not to be too judgemental.	Wolfie55	7	339	Apr 20, 2012 by Polly
	Even in the jungle (Preview) where it seems to be darkest you find those spots of radiant light and are reminded that the light isn't at the end of the tunnel or even the tuna; it comes from above. Gratitudes tempering what could be resentments and then not. I was inventorying my life today...morning to present and started with &...	Jerry F	8	348	Apr 20, 2012 by SteveP
	More Human (Preview) A spiritual awakening is not about becoming more divine, it's about becoming more human. - Lama Suryas Das It's nice to be human again.	Wolfie55	4	327	Apr 20, 2012 by Gypsy56
	Another question (Preview) sorry. I need a coffee. I posted a question from Tradition One of the AA Approved Traditions Checklist: Do I spout platitudes of love while engaging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility? -- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 09:22:19 AM -- Edited by Wolfie...	Wolfie55	8	550	Apr 20, 2012 by Gypsy56
	Brothers in our defects (Preview) We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167 The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritualalmost incomprehensible. But it is there. I feel it. Toda...	Frodo	6	523	Apr 19, 2012 by SteveP
	Keep coming Back it gets better. (Preview) Hi all first time poster and very excited to have found you all online here. Here is our share that I never did send off to our share magazine ! But maybe one day. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Happy, Content, Sober and Serene,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Why, Because I decided to' keep coming back.' This is m...	Polly	13	491	Apr 19, 2012 by Polly
	God Calling - Life is a Love Story (Preview) "You need Me. I need you. My broken world needs you. Many a troubled heart will be drawn nearer to Me by you. Oh! It is a glorious way, the upward way, the wonderful discoveries, the tender intimacies, the amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding. Life with Me - is a love story. All yo...	deb365	1	226	Apr 19, 2012 by gonee
	Anyone One Tonight? (Preview) Yes, this is my first post but I could really use someone to talk to tonight. It's been a really bad couple of weeks and I'm posting here so I think it goes without saying that I've got no where else to turn. Any long timers got an ear to bend?	h2oeng	15	451	Apr 19, 2012 by Jerry F
	So how was YOUR day (Preview) Hi. So how was your day? I started mine by attending a group session at the Forensic Hospital, part of the Correctional Facility out here, a volunteer thing I got involved with as part of my job. It's for inmates with co-occurring disorders, mental illness and addiction. Its interesting. Anyway, one...	Wolfie55	8	336	Apr 19, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	Feedback required. (Preview) Anyone tried the prayer on pg 552 of the AA book? I need some feedback for one of my sponsees.	gonee	5	383	Apr 18, 2012 by carlasober
	Please Daddy Dont Cry (Preview) -- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 07:40:51 AM	Wolfie55	7	310	Apr 18, 2012 by Polly
	Things do change when you let go completely. (Preview) This go round at getting sober has been different than the first time around in so many ways. The main difference is that I'm doing what other people in AA, who are sober for years, do. Not doing what I think I should do, or someone else "on the outside" thinks I should do. I've let go of a lot of...	justadrunk	13	499	Apr 18, 2012 by Polly
	Singled out (Preview) Yesterday at what I would now consider my home group, I asked about my sponsor not calling me back. Same question I had here, am I fired, is that how it commonly goes around here etc. I have been going to this meeting every day at noon for the last 3 weeks since getting sober after my relapse. The regular...	justadrunk	9	592	Apr 18, 2012 by Frodo
	Pink Blue or Yellow (Preview) Well its Monday. Start of another work week. Biggest decision I gotta make to day is what color tie to wear. And you know, I don't think I'm going to wear a tie at all. Everyone have a great day.	Wolfie55	2	258	Apr 18, 2012 by justadrunk
	Traditions Anyone? (Preview) I see you have a step board. have you considered doing a discussion board on the Traditions? Or maybe you do and I missed it. Anyway, AA has a great piece of service material called the traditions Checklist. Just a thought.	Wolfie55	4	380	Apr 18, 2012 by SteveP
	AA's steps. (Preview) In the AA book Doctors Opinion, the alcoholic is declared as a hopeless case by the medical fraternity in 1939. Not only are we defenseless over the first drink, but we are without any help from any human source. But the good doctor goes outside his scientific boundaries to declare that only a psychic c...	gonee	4	308	Apr 17, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	so when two or three are gathered together in my name so shall I be also (Preview) So, my home group is in my home. Old school kitchen meeting, A big book study with lots of coffee and cheesecake. Its just a small group, half a dozen members with some fallout from some of the other groups. Meeting starts at 8, people usually start showing up around 730. So last night, at about 6:50, we ge...	Wolfie55	8	357	Apr 17, 2012 by Mike B.
	Am I Grateful (Preview) In January of 1998, I was sleeping in a cardboard condo with a newspaper for a blanket and a rock for a pillow. This morning I woke up in my own bed in my own home - correction in a home that the bank still owns but which will one day be ours - with my own wife beside me. The car was still in the driveway and the wind...	Wolfie55	7	338	Apr 17, 2012 by Polly
	Bedtime Story #15 (Preview) Theres a group I go to on a regular basis. Its not my home group, but I go there a lot. Its a fairly large meeting sometimes and they break up into two meetings. A general discussion in the main room and a beginners meeting in another room. I like the beginners meeting. It always reminds me of where I came fr...	Wolfie55	5	353	Apr 17, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Meetings in Spain (Preview) Hey Guys- I'll be traveling to Segovia, Spain for 6 weeks in about a month. Segovia is located ~1 hour from Madrid, to the north. I have done some research and found meetings in both Madrid and Segovia, but was wondering if anyone had any experience they could share with me. Maybe about what the cult...	leahl	3	2072	Apr 17, 2012 by Polly
	Thoughts On Sponsorship (Preview) -- Edited by Wolfie55 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 07:39:56 AM	Wolfie55	3	358	Apr 17, 2012 by Polly
	Lovely day- enjoy! (Preview) Hi MIP friends, both old and new, have a nice day in recovery. We are the chosen ones handpicked by God, in suffering and tribulations, to do His work. I am enjoying a nice sunny day, here in South Africa, time 12:38pm with a nice temperature of 25 degree celcius. But most of all I am surrounded by friends w...	gonee	6	290	Apr 17, 2012 by SoberSteve
	I have some very basic questions about AA meetings. (Preview) Hi! I'm going to go to my first AA meeting soon, but before I go, I wanted to make sure I knew what to do, and what not to do. What are the ground rules? Do I have to share? Do I have to use my real name? Any and all input is appreciated. : )	Idontwanttorunawayanymore	12	1131	Apr 17, 2012 by Polly
	Need Friendships and Connections in Alcoholics Anonymous (Escondido) (Preview) I have been sober almost 90 days now. I'm a women supporting myself, have my own business, so I have time to make it to at least 4 meetings a week, but I'm not making connections or friends in the meetings. The meetings here in Escondido are loaded with grumpy people and they make me sad. I just moved and am g...	TKOElle	9	464	Apr 16, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	Hello! (Preview) Hello, my name is Epitaph now, lol, and I am alcoholic. I'm 27 and I have been sober for about 15 minutes. I can't go to a meeting because I live in a pretty small community where everyone knows everyone and I'm a captain at a small airline, so it would be.. bad for that to get out. But I thought it would be real...	Epitaph	17	582	Apr 16, 2012 by Mike B.
	Getting a pony. (Preview) If there is anything healing to an alcoholic soul... it is an animal. Horses are so wonderful. I hope my kids love their new pony : )	justadrunk	12	609	Apr 16, 2012 by TwelveSteps
	Coincidence (Preview) An old timer told me once that coincidence is how god protects his anonymity. I went to a meeting last night thinking I would be presenting someone with a one-year medallion. Due to circumstances beyond his control he was unable to make it. Obviously he had something more important to do than celebra...	Wolfie55	7	365	Apr 16, 2012 by Wolfie55
	24 Hours a Day (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Having found my way into this new world by the grace of God and the help of A.A., am I going to take that first drink, when I know that just one drink will change my whole world? Am I deliberately going back to the suffering of that alcoholic world? Or am I going to hang onto the happine...	Sobrietyspell	6	15820	Apr 16, 2012 by Sobrietyspell
	God Calling - Never Feel Inadequate (Preview) "Never feel inadequate for any task. All work here is accomplished by My Spirit, and that can flow through the humblest and lowliest. Rid yourself of self and all is well. Pray about all, but concentrate on a few things until those are accomplished. Strength for your daily, hourly task is pro...	deb365	2	230	Apr 15, 2012 by gonee
	God Calling - Claim Big Things (Preview) "Listen. Listen. Trust Me in everything. Help is here all the time. The difficult way is nearly over, but you have learned in it lessons you could learn in no other way. Wrest from Me, by firm and simple trust and persistent prayer, the treasures of My kingdom. Such wonderful things are comin...	deb365	5	315	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	90 days but its just not true. (Preview) Today wouldve been my 90 day anniversary of no alcohol. At day 85 I became too down about my situation and Ive given in to a few drinks. I havent gone to the place I was before but all Ive found is that alcohol doesn nothing but give you a FALSE high. We numb our minds and bodies and we feel all funny, but we a...	Closer	19	1399	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	God Calling - The Key (Preview) "Draw near to Me. Contact with Me is the panacea for all ills. Remember that truth is many-sided. Have much tender love and patience for all who do not see as you do. The elimination of self is the key to holiness and happiness and can only be accomplished with My help. Live in My presence. Worsh...	deb365	3	220	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	God Calling - Heaven-Life (Preview) "The joy of the spring shall be yours in full measure. Revel in the earth's joy. Do you not think that nature is weary, too, of her long months of travail? There will come back a wonderful joy, if you share in her joy now. You can truly live a life not of earth, a heaven-life here and now." 3...	deb365	4	251	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Say it and say it out loud... (Preview) Aloha Family...I've been pondering the Police Commission meeting which was called this last Friday. They were hearing my complaint of the assault and I went. They have open meetings just like Al-Anon...LOL however it isn't a Family Group meeting except for yours truely. My PTSD and lack of slee...	Jerry F	11	474	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	The Miracle of Sobriety (Preview) After reaching my bottom I got on my knees and asked God for guidance. The anxiety was so overwhelming. He led me to a meditation sound site on my Ipad which has changed my life. Today I am grateful to be sober and finally able to relax without the demon of alcohol.	Randy L	14	598	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	God Calling - Golden Opportunity (Preview) "Man's need is God's chance to help. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression. That expression of faith is all that God needs to manifest His power. Faith is the key that unlocks the storehouse of God's resources. You long for perfection and see your...	deb365	4	242	Apr 15, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Pemeditated Resentments (Preview) I heard that an expectation is a premeditated resentment. I am human so it doesn't matter how many books I read or how much advice I get, sometimes I still place expectations on the people in my life to do certain things, to act in certain ways, and to treat me in certain ways. And I don't tell these people t...	Wolfie55	8	1341	Apr 14, 2012 by StPeteDean
	Changes (Preview) Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. - Bill Blackman	stnatina	3	368	Apr 14, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Relapse Prevention-Prediction & Stuff (Preview) Hi All, let me start this with a couple of quotes from the Big Book: p24 "We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense aginst the first drink." p45"...	Fyne Spirit	7	505	Apr 14, 2012 by Wolfie55
	IS THERE ANYTHING WORSE THAN INSANITY OR DEATH? (Preview) Hi All, this is a call to prayer. Today I had the privilege of attending a 12 step call in the intensive care unit of our city hospital. I was there at the request of the patient's sister who lives in another country. Her brother had a road accident just before Xmas, I don't know if he was driving or got run do...	Fyne Spirit	10	496	Apr 14, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Alcohol, the killer, takes another one.... (Preview) MONTE SERENO, Calif. A family member says painter Thomas Kinkade battled alcoholism over the past several years and had a relapse just before his death at his home in Santa Clara County. Kinkade's brother, Patrick, tells the San Jose Mercury News that decades of attacks on Kinkade's work and a spl...	jj	3	405	Apr 14, 2012 by Wolfie55
	The steps again. (Preview) "Lack of power, that was our dilemma." I had become powerless over alcohol. Willpower did not work. The strong resolve in the morning not to drink became a weak mumble by the evening. I had succumbed to that first drink. I had been through this hundreds of times. I had already started look...	gonee	9	364	Apr 14, 2012 by Mr_David
	The Days Add Up To A Life (Preview) I love working this one day at a time program and then seeing how those days have added up to something I couldn't have even imagined back when I was drowning myself in alcohol. Life is so FULL now! I have an awesome job in which I am trusted with a great deal of responsiblity, a healthy marriage that isn't p...	vixen	9	359	Apr 13, 2012 by vixen
	Ring around the rosie (Preview) I went to my noon meeting, did my morning reading, popped on here a few times, tried to stay calm when my kids begged for this and that, again and again, pushing me to my limit, again and again. Yesterday I went to bed feeling horrible. I yelled at my kids like a monster. I could not - NOT be irritated no ma...	justadrunk	13	541	Apr 13, 2012 by justadrunk
	Last day. (Preview) Today is my last day of having an in home daycare, and teaching piano lessons. It's hard letting go of the children that I've grown to love, but I realize it's for the best. Being home all day, and stuck here not able to leave if I wanted to, I thought was okay for me, but I realize now, as I'm becomming exci...	justadrunk	7	328	Apr 13, 2012 by Idontwanttorunawayanymore
	Balanced life (Preview) Our 12 step book says that all human beings have 3 basic instincts- social, security and sex. All these instincts are God given for our survival and well being. When any of these instincts become abnormal, it becomes defective and a defect in character. Right now this world is becoming obsessed with m...	gonee	8	380	Apr 12, 2012 by mikef
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