Alcoholics Anonymous

debbi · debbi

hi folks.....finally making some progress in a certain relationship.....up to now i could recite forward, backward, and inside out the slogans....yet somehow internalizing them was a different tune...in my head i had em down pat.....in my heart....where i needed to apply them the most....that...

kkotz401 · kkotz401

Hey everyone. So I am 21-years-old and I have probably been an alcoholic for three years. Anyways, my family and friends convinced me that I have to go to rehab and I am leaving Wednesday. I am not reall sure what to expect. I know I have to go though. I just feel like I am kind of in limbo right now. I have been...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . Why dont you choose your own conception of God? That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day Before we decide to quit drinking, most of us have to come up against a blank wall. We see that we're licked, that we have to quit. But we don't know which way to turn for help. There seems to be no door in that blank wall. A.A. opens the door that leads to sobriety. By encouraging us to...

lani · lani

Monday, March 16, 2009 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Positive Energy It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other peopl...

Jane05 · Jane05

March 16, 2009 Quote of the Week "The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice." By the end of my drinking and using, I was all alone. Unlike some of the stories I hear about people drinking in bars, I preferred to drink alone in my home, and after months of listening to my own bes...

Jane05 · Jane05

"As We See It"March 16 Thanks to Susan for today's AWSI: When I got sober my sponsor told me that I had to be willing to change everything about my life...everything. I wore blue jeans and switched to slacks. I wore western shirts and switched to T-shirts. But, the one thing I just wouldn't g...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 15, 2009InsanityI had no idea how truly insane my drinking behavior was, and could not bear to face it when it was suggested that I was in fact mentally ill. However, I could not deny it when I realized that my destructive alco...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Good going Dodsworth, I know it wasn't easy moving and all. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 15:34, 2009-03-12

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 16, 2009Emotional SobrietyIf I examine every disturbance I have, great or small, I will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. With God's help, I will continually surrender these hobbling liabil...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It p. 75 Losing Financial Fears When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right independence upon God, we were the victims of unreasonable fears...

cramcj01 · cramcj01

I few days back I had worte asking if any of you had people close in your lives that 'just don't get it.' I've heard over and over that unless you have the disease you will never be able to understand. But if someone is going to be in your life, don't they need to at least agree with the facts? I've been datin...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Breach The Walls Of Ego, p. 74 People who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities. Newcomers of this sort scarcely need comforting. The problem is to help them discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason ca...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) March 14, 2009 Fear I had been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether I sat on the shore of life drinking myself into forgetfulnessor plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond my depth and ability. The result was the same -- I had ne...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52 Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I slowly groped my way to the Third Step. Havi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day We alcoholics were on a merry go-round, going round and round, and we couldn't get off. That merry go round is a kind of hell on earth. In A.A. I got off that merry go-round by learning to stay sober. I pray to my Higher Power every morning to help me to keep sober. And I get the strengt...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees ItPg. 73 Two-Way Tolerance "Your point of view was once mine. Fortunately, A.A. is constructed so that we need not debate the existence of God; but for best results, most of us must depend upon a Higher Power. You say the group is your Higher Power, and no right minded A.A. would chal...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket SponsorIt doesn't pay to argue with "slippers" about the proper way of getting sober. Why should people who are still drinking and drugging tell those who are sober why it can't be done! We learn not to get in a pissing contest with a skunk. (or should we say drunk!) The only thing I ne...

Jane05 · Jane05

"As We See It"March 13 I am not one of those people that wakes up with blue skies, white clouds, and chirpring birds and says, "Gee, I feel so good today, I think I'll work those 12 steps!" My experience has been that the s%$# hits the fan, all hell breaks loose, my back is against th...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Dependence--Unhealthy or Healthy, p. 72 "Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped-for protectors final...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 13, 2009HopeHope is the true gift of the program.I have hope that things will get better in my life as long as I stay sober.I have hope that I can get through any difficulty sober,with the hope that you people give to me. - Anonymous Thought to Ponder ....

Jane05 · Jane05

Don't let the therapeutically "correct" way to run a group hijack your meeting. Leaders are reluctant to cut a newcomer off for fear of shaming their inner child, rejecting them, or appearing to be mean. We are not therapy and we can't share with them if they can't listen. I do not let the n...

Jane05 · Jane05

Congratulation cramcj01 (Crystal)!!!!! -- Edited by Jane05 at 10:58, 2009-03-11

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Happy Birthday To me. I just got back from laying on the beach, now I'm going to lay down, watch a movie and take a nap. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 17:02, 2009-03-08

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

On awakening let us think of the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 Every day I ask God to kindle within me...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day The Prodigal Son "took his journey into a far country and wasted his substance with riotous living." That's what we alcoholics do. We waste our substance with riotous living. "When he came to himself, he said, 'I will arise and go to my father.'" That's w...

gary4u · gary4u

The most difficult part in life is fighting craving. We could have stopped drinking, all is well, we are going about our business etc trying to behave all is normal like an non-alcoholic person lives his life , but then there is something deep down lays a very dangerous feeling , which can change a pe...

Jane05 · Jane05

"As We See It"March 12Thanks to Doug G. for today's AWSI: I used to run around carefully filming everything 'you did to me' with my 'resentment recording machine.' Then I would go home and replay it . . . in living color . . . with the sound turned up . .. fully enhanced . . . while nursing a drink (...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It "How Can You Roll With A Punch?", p. 71 On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our country, a great friend of A.A. was walking along a St. Louis street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic, but he had been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in hi...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 12, 2009ToleranceWhen I am honest with myself and others I will get sober, but it is tolerance that keeps me that way. When I fully realize that I can't get well alone, I will somehow find a way to get well and stay wellin the company of others. I...

Quetzal · Quetzal

If we could untangle the mysteries of life and unravel the energies which run through the world; if we could evaluate correctly the significance of passing events; if we could measure the struggles, dilemmas, and aspirations of mankind, we could find that nothing is born out of time. Everything com...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 11, 2009FreedomThe Big Book promises that I am going to know a new freedomand a new happiness, that I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it, and that I will comprehend the word serenity and wi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

It is when we try to make our will conform with Gods that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with Gods intention for u...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day By having quiet times each morning, we come to depend on God's help during the day, especially if we should be tempted to take a drink. And we can honestly thank Him each night for the strength He has given us. So our faith is strengthened by these quiet times of prayer. By listenin...

Dodsworth · Dodsworth

I just wanted to post a positive thread, maybe try and balance out my thread history :) I haven't had a drink in 28 days, and I feel great. Well, great might be a little much, but I feel soo much better today than I have in a loooong time. Everything fell into place this morning. I got a new guitar student, I c...

Jane05 · Jane05

"As We See It"March 11 Thanks to Walt for this morning's AWSI: For me insanity was not just doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results . . . . My experience with insanity is that I did the same things over and over again, KNOWING I was going to get the same result! Toda...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Truth, the Liberator, p. 70 How truth makes us free is something that we A.A.'s can well understand. It cut the shackles that once bound us to alcohol. It continues to release us from conflicts and miseries beyond reckoning; it banishes fear and isolation. The unity of our Fellowship, t...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Sometimes, the way is not clear. Our minds get clouded, confused. We aren't certain what our next step should be, what it will look like, what direction we are headed. This is the time to stop, ask for guidance, and rest. That is the time to let go of fear. Wait. Feel the confusion and chaos, and then l...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

Have any of you heard of this place, or taken any of their classes? http://www.bkwsu.com If so, I'm curious as to how you find them. They have a location where I live. I've done the introductory (meditation) course and will continue on with the intermediate and advanced. scott

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.62 With the realization and acceptance that I had played a part in the way my life had turned out came a dramatic change in my outlook. It was at th...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day We also strengthen our faith by working with other alcoholics and finding that we can do nothing ourselves to help them, except to tell them our own story of how we found the way out. If the other person is helped, it's by the grace of God and not by what we do or say. Our own faith is st...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor QuoteOne way to tell how well you are practicing the principles in all your affairs is to notice how you treat people who can be of no service to you. I go out of my way to be kind to the very next person I encounter, regardless of what they can or cannot do for me.

Tee81 · Tee81

I posted to the other board by mistake. I'm having a really difficult time. I want to get through this but I really need a friend. I've lost most of my friends due to the addiction. I feel like it's taken my personality from me, like it's taken almost everything from me. I'm 28 and I can't hold down a job. I am...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Giving Without Demand, p. 69 Watch any A.A. of six months working with a Twelfth Step prospect. If the newcomer says, "To the devil with you," the twelfth-stepper only smiles and finds another alcoholic to help. He doesn't feel frustrated or rejected. If his next drunk resp...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 10, 2009Keys to SobrietyThe Twelve Steps as a way of life,daily prayer, and continuing work with new peopleare the keys to sobriety.I have observed over the yearsthat a lot of people can come in and stay sober for a year or two,and then they go away...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I was forty-six years old before I finally admitted to myself and someone else that my grandfather always managed to make me feel guilty, angry, and controlled. -- Anonymous We may love and care about our family very much. Family members may love and care about us. But interacting with some members...

yvonne · yvonne

i am 20 months sober and just finished my 4th step for the second time. i was sober 13 years ago for 6 years and went back out. i am looking for someone who has longer sobriety to help me through all this. i am in north cyprus right now and i am moving to the virgin islands at the end of the month. i really am looki...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We cannot simultaneously set a boundary and take care of another person's feelings. It's impossible; the two acts contradict. What a tremendous asset to have compassion for others! How difficult that same quality can make it to set boundaries! It's good to care about other people and their fee...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Renew Your Effort, p. 68 "Though I know how hurt and sorry you must be after this slip, please do not worry about a temporary loss of your inner peace. As calmly as you can, just renew your effort in the A.A. program, especially those parts of it which have to do with meditation and self...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Thousands of "Founders", p. 67 "While I thank God that I was privileged to be an early member of A.A., I honestly wish that the word 'founder' could be eliminated from the A.A. vocabulary. "When you get right down to it, everyone who has done any amount of successfu...

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	progress (Preview) hi folks.....finally making some progress in a certain relationship.....up to now i could recite forward, backward, and inside out the slogans....yet somehow internalizing them was a different tune...in my head i had em down pat.....in my heart....where i needed to apply them the most....that...	debbi	4	379	Mar 16, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Hello (Preview) Hey everyone. So I am 21-years-old and I have probably been an alcoholic for three years. Anyways, my family and friends convinced me that I have to go to rehab and I am leaving Wednesday. I am not reall sure what to expect. I know I have to go though. I just feel like I am kind of in limbo right now. I have been...	kkotz401	11	1026	Mar 16, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Daily Reflections ~ As We Understand Him (Preview) My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . Why dont you choose your own conception of God? That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in...	Sobrietyspell	0	310	Mar 16, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 16th March 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Before we decide to quit drinking, most of us have to come up against a blank wall. We see that we're licked, that we have to quit. But we don't know which way to turn for help. There seems to be no door in that blank wall. A.A. opens the door that leads to sobriety. By encouraging us to...	Sobrietyspell	0	238	Mar 16, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Language of letting go: BE POSITIVE "young Grasshopper!!!" (Preview) Monday, March 16, 2009 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Positive Energy It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other peopl...	lani	1	391	Mar 16, 2009 by John
	The Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) March 16, 2009 Quote of the Week "The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice." By the end of my drinking and using, I was all alone. Unlike some of the stories I hear about people drinking in bars, I preferred to drink alone in my home, and after months of listening to my own bes...	Jane05	0	3037	Mar 16, 2009 by Jane05
	"As We See It" (Preview) *"As We See It"*March 16 Thanks to Susan for today's AWSI: When I got sober my sponsor told me that I had to be willing to change everything about my life...everything. I wore blue jeans and switched to slacks. I wore western shirts and switched to T-shirts. But, the one thing I just wouldn't g...	Jane05	0	212	Mar 16, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 15, 2009InsanityI had no idea how truly insane my drinking behavior was, and could not bear to face it when it was suggested that I was in fact mentally ill. However, I could not deny it when I realized that my destructive alco...	Jane05	2	200	Mar 16, 2009 by Jane05
	Congrats to Dodsworth on 1 month! (Preview) Good going Dodsworth, I know it wasn't easy moving and all. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 15:34, 2009-03-12	StPeteDean	8	354	Mar 16, 2009 by lani
	Emotional Sobriety (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 16, 2009Emotional SobrietyIf I examine every disturbance I have, great or small, I will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. With God's help, I will continually surrender these hobbling liabil...	Jane05	0	252	Mar 16, 2009 by Jane05
	Losing Financial Fears (Preview) As Bill Sees It p. 75 Losing Financial Fears When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right independence upon God, we were the victims of unreasonable fears...	Jane05	0	297	Mar 16, 2009 by Jane05
	Continued..... (Preview) I few days back I had worte asking if any of you had people close in your lives that 'just don't get it.' I've heard over and over that unless you have the disease you will never be able to understand. But if someone is going to be in your life, don't they need to at least agree with the facts? I've been datin...	cramcj01	10	405	Mar 15, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Breach The Walls Of Ego (Preview) As Bill Sees It Breach The Walls Of Ego, p. 74 People who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities. Newcomers of this sort scarcely need comforting. The problem is to help them discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason ca...	Jane05	1	280	Mar 15, 2009 by Dodsworth
	Fear (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) March 14, 2009 Fear I had been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether I sat on the shore of life drinking myself into forgetfulnessor plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond my depth and ability. The result was the same -- I had ne...	Jane05	1	245	Mar 15, 2009 by eastcoastscott
	Daily Reflections ~ The God Idea (Preview) When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52 Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I slowly groped my way to the Third Step. Havi...	Sobrietyspell	1	467	Mar 15, 2009 by Jane05
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 15th March 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day We alcoholics were on a merry go-round, going round and round, and we couldn't get off. That merry go round is a kind of hell on earth. In A.A. I got off that merry go-round by learning to stay sober. I pray to my Higher Power every morning to help me to keep sober. And I get the strengt...	Sobrietyspell	0	269	Mar 15, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Two-Way Tolerance (Preview) As Bill Sees ItPg. 73 Two-Way Tolerance "Your point of view was once mine. Fortunately, A.A. is constructed so that we need not debate the existence of God; but for best results, most of us must depend upon a Higher Power. You say the group is your Higher Power, and no right minded A.A. would chal...	Jane05	2	353	Mar 14, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket SponsorIt doesn't pay to argue with "slippers" about the proper way of getting sober. Why should people who are still drinking and drugging tell those who are sober why it can't be done! We learn not to get in a pissing contest with a skunk. (or should we say drunk!) The only thing I ne...	Jane05	0	242	Mar 14, 2009 by Jane05
	As We See It (Preview) *"As We See It"*March 13 I am not one of those people that wakes up with blue skies, white clouds, and chirpring birds and says, "Gee, I feel so good today, I think I'll work those 12 steps!" My experience has been that the s%$# hits the fan, all hell breaks loose, my back is against th...	Jane05	0	535	Mar 13, 2009 by Jane05
	Dependence--Unhealthy or Healthy (Preview) As Bill Sees It Dependence--Unhealthy or Healthy, p. 72 "Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped-for protectors final...	Jane05	0	1044	Mar 13, 2009 by Jane05
	Hope (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 13, 2009HopeHope is the true gift of the program.I have hope that things will get better in my life as long as I stay sober.I have hope that I can get through any difficulty sober,with the hope that you people give to me. - Anonymous Thought to Ponder ....	Jane05	0	222	Mar 13, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Don't let the therapeutically "correct" way to run a group hijack your meeting. Leaders are reluctant to cut a newcomer off for fear of shaming their inner child, rejecting them, or appearing to be mean. We are not therapy and we can't share with them if they can't listen. *I do not let the n...*	Jane05	0	263	Mar 13, 2009 by Jane05
	"Six Months"!!! (Preview) Congratulation cramcj01 (Crystal)!!!!! -- Edited by Jane05 at 10:58, 2009-03-11	Jane05	13	396	Mar 13, 2009 by StPeteDean
	OK, I guess someone had to do it. (Preview) Happy Birthday To me. I just got back from laying on the beach, now I'm going to lay down, watch a movie and take a nap. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 17:02, 2009-03-08	StPeteDean	14	425	Mar 12, 2009 by Ms London
	Daily Reflections ~ A Day's Plan (Preview) On awakening let us think of the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 Every day I ask God to kindle within me...	Sobrietyspell	0	276	Mar 12, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 12th March 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day The Prodigal Son "took his journey into a far country and wasted his substance with riotous living." That's what we alcoholics do. We waste our substance with riotous living. "When he came to himself, he said, 'I will arise and go to my father.'" That's w...	Sobrietyspell	0	348	Mar 12, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Fighting the CRAVING (Preview) The most difficult part in life is fighting craving. We could have stopped drinking, all is well, we are going about our business etc trying to behave all is normal like an non-alcoholic person lives his life , but then there is something deep down lays a very dangerous feeling , which can change a pe...	gary4u	6	1117	Mar 12, 2009 by StPeteDean
	As We See It (Preview) "As We See It"March 12Thanks to Doug G. for today's AWSI: I used to run around carefully filming everything 'you did to me' with my 'resentment recording machine.' Then I would go home and replay it . . . in living color . . . with the sound turned up . .. fully enhanced . . . while nursing a drink (...	Jane05	0	290	Mar 12, 2009 by Jane05
	How Can You Roll With A Punch? (Preview) As Bill Sees It "How Can You Roll With A Punch?", p. 71 On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our country, a great friend of A.A. was walking along a St. Louis street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic, but he had been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in hi...	Jane05	0	290	Mar 12, 2009 by Jane05
	Tolerance (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 12, 2009ToleranceWhen I am honest with myself and others I will get sober, but it is tolerance that keeps me that way. When I fully realize that I can't get well alone, I will somehow find a way to get well and stay wellin the company of others. I...	Jane05	0	420	Mar 12, 2009 by Jane05
	Timing (Preview) If we could untangle the mysteries of life and unravel the energies which run through the world; if we could evaluate correctly the significance of passing events; if we could measure the struggles, dilemmas, and aspirations of mankind, we could find that nothing is born out of time. Everything com...	Quetzal	0	251	Mar 12, 2009 by Quetzal
	AA Thought for the Day & a Share (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 11, 2009FreedomThe Big Book promises that I am going to know a new freedomand a new happiness, that I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it, and that I will comprehend the word serenity and wi...	Jane05	2	1171	Mar 11, 2009 by Jane05
	Daily Reflections ~ Good Orderly Direction (Preview) It is when we try to make our will conform with Gods that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with Gods intention for u...	Sobrietyspell	0	350	Mar 11, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 11th March 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day By having quiet times each morning, we come to depend on God's help during the day, especially if we should be tempted to take a drink. And we can honestly thank Him each night for the strength He has given us. So our faith is strengthened by these quiet times of prayer. By listenin...	Sobrietyspell	0	408	Mar 11, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Things are really good, at least for today. (Preview) I just wanted to post a positive thread, maybe try and balance out my thread history :) I haven't had a drink in 28 days, and I feel great. Well, great might be a little much, but I feel soo much better today than I have in a loooong time. Everything fell into place this morning. I got a new guitar student, I c...	Dodsworth	10	364	Mar 11, 2009 by cramcj01
	As We See It (Preview) *"As We See It"*March 11 Thanks to Walt for this morning's AWSI: For me insanity was not just doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results . . . . My experience with insanity is that I did the same things over and over again, KNOWING I was going to get the same result! Toda...	Jane05	0	258	Mar 11, 2009 by Jane05
	Truth, the Liberator (Preview) As Bill Sees It Truth, the Liberator, p. 70 How truth makes us free is something that we A.A.'s can well understand. It cut the shackles that once bound us to alcohol. It continues to release us from conflicts and miseries beyond reckoning; it banishes fear and isolation. The unity of our Fellowship, t...	Jane05	0	442	Mar 11, 2009 by Jane05
	Letting Go of Confusion (Preview) Sometimes, the way is not clear. Our minds get clouded, confused. We aren't certain what our next step should be, what it will look like, what direction we are headed. This is the time to stop, ask for guidance, and rest. That is the time to let go of fear. Wait. Feel the confusion and chaos, and then l...	Quetzal	0	491	Mar 11, 2009 by Quetzal
	Meditation courses? (Preview) Have any of you heard of this place, or taken any of their classes? http://www.bkwsu.com If so, I'm curious as to how you find them. They have a location where I live. I've done the introductory (meditation) course and will continue on with the intermediate and advanced. scott	eastcoastscott	0	266	Mar 10, 2009 by eastcoastscott
	Daily Reflections ~ Today, It's My Choice (Preview) . . . we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.62 With the realization and acceptance that I had played a part in the way my life had turned out came a dramatic change in my outlook. It was at th...	Sobrietyspell	0	634	Mar 10, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 10th March 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day We also strengthen our faith by working with other alcoholics and finding that we can do nothing ourselves to help them, except to tell them our own story of how we found the way out. If the other person is helped, it's by the grace of God and not by what we do or say. Our own faith is st...	Sobrietyspell	0	456	Mar 10, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor QuoteOne way to tell how well you are practicing the principles in all your affairs is to notice how you treat people who can be of no service to you. I go out of my way to be kind to the very next person I encounter, regardless of what they can or cannot do for me.	Jane05	1	207	Mar 10, 2009 by Tee81
	I'm really confused. (Preview) I posted to the other board by mistake. I'm having a really difficult time. I want to get through this but I really need a friend. I've lost most of my friends due to the addiction. I feel like it's taken my personality from me, like it's taken almost everything from me. I'm 28 and I can't hold down a job. I am...	Tee81	12	416	Mar 10, 2009 by Tee81
	Giving Without Demand (Preview) As Bill Sees It Giving Without Demand, p. 69 Watch any A.A. of six months working with a Twelfth Step prospect. If the newcomer says, "To the devil with you," the twelfth-stepper only smiles and finds another alcoholic to help. He doesn't feel frustrated or rejected. If his next drunk resp...	Jane05	1	251	Mar 10, 2009 by Jane05
	Keys to Sobriety (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 10, 2009Keys to SobrietyThe Twelve Steps as a way of life,daily prayer, and continuing work with new peopleare the keys to sobriety.I have observed over the yearsthat a lot of people can come in and stay sober for a year or two,and then they go away...	Jane05	0	264	Mar 10, 2009 by Jane05
	Living with Families (Preview) I was forty-six years old before I finally admitted to myself and someone else that my grandfather always managed to make me feel guilty, angry, and controlled. -- Anonymous We may love and care about our family very much. Family members may love and care about us. But interacting with some members...	Quetzal	1	213	Mar 10, 2009 by Jane05
	looking for a member to email and share with me (Preview) i am 20 months sober and just finished my 4th step for the second time. i was sober 13 years ago for 6 years and went back out. i am looking for someone who has longer sobriety to help me through all this. i am in north cyprus right now and i am moving to the virgin islands at the end of the month. i really am looki...	yvonne	3	295	Mar 10, 2009 by gary4u
	Taking Care of Ourselves (Preview) We cannot simultaneously set a boundary and take care of another person's feelings. It's impossible; the two acts contradict. What a tremendous asset to have compassion for others! How difficult that same quality can make it to set boundaries! It's good to care about other people and their fee...	Quetzal	2	223	Mar 9, 2009 by lucaskywalker
	Renew Your Effort (Preview) As Bill Sees It Renew Your Effort, p. 68 "Though I know how hurt and sorry you must be after this slip, please do not worry about a temporary loss of your inner peace. As calmly as you can, just renew your effort in the A.A. program, especially those parts of it which have to do with meditation and self...	Jane05	1	222	Mar 9, 2009 by lucaskywalker
	Thousands of "Founders" (Preview) As Bill Sees It Thousands of "Founders", p. 67 "While I thank God that I was privileged to be an early member of A.A., I honestly wish that the word 'founder' could be eliminated from the A.A. vocabulary. "When you get right down to it, everyone who has done any amount of successfu...	Jane05	1	266	Mar 9, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
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