Alcoholics Anonymous

Quetzal · Quetzal

Seeking strength from others prevents us from finding our own strength. -- Georgette Vickstrom The principles of this program, the friends we have made here, sponsors, and the contact we have with an ever-available Higher Power afford us valuable strength. However, it's important that we de...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Hi everyone, Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers over the last day or two. It has meant a lot to me. Mum was scanned and tested yesterday and needs to have more tests done. She was tired, but tried to sound upbeat. I have been reading and researching about her condition and I have r...

toni baloney · toni baloney

Good Morning, Was doing some reading, and SO SURPRISED to see you!!! YEAH! It sure has been a while, think of you almost everyday, and how the Board just was not the same without you. So write, when you have a chance, and that trip to see you husband, life on life's terms, is not al...

Doll · Doll

A CLASSIC PRAYER Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith...

Phil · Phil

Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each o...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we often thought that we were different from others. We secretly thought that no one could understand us. Maybe we tried to be one o...

cindy · cindy

i love my dad, though he's been addicted since before i was born. they say dont try to 12 step family, but i tried anyway. now finally his battered body has had enough and he's on his way out. i have mixed emotions because it has been a love hate thing. he's a tough old guy, and lived a hard life. a logger in his...

wantneeda · wantneeda

heard lots of stuff i liked, brought lots of it home with me... bought 2 books...one called coming to believe...its on step 2 a pocket size Big Book for my purse then today i met an old fellow that came all the way from Kenora, Ontario for the roundup, He wanted to buy me a book, the 12 by 12...1...

Doll · Doll

"THY WILL, NOT MINE" . . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . . if it be Thy will." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03 I ask simply that throughout the day God place in me the best understanding of His will that I can have for that day...

timverton · timverton

God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to know the difference. O.K. If you've seen it before, chalk it up to late-arriving spam...Tim -- Edited by timverton at 09:56, 2006-11-20

Phil · Phil

5 Corporate Lessons Corporate Lesson 1 A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour. ...

Phil · Phil

Accepting Our Feelings Why do we struggle so with our feelings? Why do we work so hard to deny our emotions, especially concerning other people? They are only feelings! In the course of a day, we may deny we feel frustrated in reaction to someone who is selling us a service. We may deny that we feel...

ZB · ZB

Hi All, I'm newly sober (today is day 9 after a week-long relapse from 6 weeks of sobriety) and am looking for some kind of online community to fill in the cracks between meetings. Hope to get to know some of you better while I'm here. ZB

Wren · Wren

How often do we get caught up in life's events, the days just roll on by, and we forget how rich and beautiful our lives are today? And I find it is in the small events, the little moments, that my memory is jolted. Today was like most days for me. Yknow, get up, get your coffee or tea, visit the loo, and check y...

Zster · Zster

Hi all! I am finally able to log in here, after a long time trying. Thought I would take a sec to introduce myself to y'all... I am Leszlie, alcoholic. I have managed to put together 15 months sobriety, with the grace of God and AA. Most recently, I am being challenged by the loss of my beloved&n...

Sick of being sick · Sick of being sick

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!......Turrrkeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!........

Quetzal · Quetzal

The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves. When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and frustrations, our dreams and despairs, our answers and our questions then we are loving our neighbors as ourselves as well as...

Wren · Wren

How do you work with anger? "Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." -- Helen Douglas How do you feel about anger, in yourse...

RyanS · RyanS

Toni, I want to apologize if my temper tantrum over a post being edited triggered whatever went on here. I think editing ought be for spam or pure filth, but I dont run this deal and could have discussed it with the moderator like an adult. My reaction was far more childish than the incident I allowed to tr...

wantneeda · wantneeda

is the name of the roundup I am fortunate and grateful to be able to attend this week end. Thanks to the group i'm considering joining, they gave me a ticket to go to. i love roundups! what does unity mean to you? for me.... WE cannot do alone what WE can do together. :) the fi...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Fending off loneliness (Extract from Living Sober) Alcoholism has been described as "the lonely disease," and very few recovered alcoholics argue the point. Looking back at the last years or months of our drinking, literally hundreds of thousands of us remember feeling isolated eve...

Phil · Phil

"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. -- Barbara Kimball Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her...

Wren · Wren

“Balance is a dynamic process; it changes with the days, the seasons, the years.” -- Sherrill Sellman How rigid are your routines? Do you exercise for 30 minutes, three times each week no matter how you feel? Routines and structure can provide a valuable framework to bring disciplin...

RyanS · RyanS

"Not Allied With Any Sect . . ." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very muc...

Wren · Wren

Perception There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances the...

Doll · Doll

OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less...

LisaF · LisaF

Talked to my sponsor today... we agreed more or less the whole thing about the pills and how I'm doing was a communication problem... I should've asked her for clarification before asking anyone else about it. But she had flat out said I wasn't sober, how do you take that wrong? I assumed ok I need to pick...

Robert · Robert

PEEK A BOO! OH NO ITS A BIRD!! thats better -- Edited by Robert at 14:33, 2006-11-17

Quetzal · Quetzal

I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. -- Joanna Field Happiness is a gift that accompanies every instance of our li...

Scott · Scott

Just to give a little update on where I am, for those of you who I've spoken with before... Since October 29, I have stumbled twice. A week ago today, I went out and had 3 beers at the bar. Then on Monday of this week, I had a particularly bad day, and I ended up binging that night and missing wo...

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go. Trust in God and do something. --Mary Lyon It's important to let ourselves grieve as a passage between yesterday and tomorrow. But we do not have to be controlled unduly by our grief, or our pain. There are times when we have grieved, surrendered to the h...

SheIsSober · SheIsSober

I'm celebrating my 6 month sobriety anniversary today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, 6 whole months and it's really wild, because yesterday and the day before were the first days that I actually felt like my life was really shaping up. The eating disorder has a lot to do with w...

Robert · Robert

I am emotional eating, and I have put on a load of weight, and cant seem to cut it.. anyone else been there?

toni baloney · toni baloney

Hi There Amanda, Well it has been a while, and just wanted to say, it was so good to see you again, here on MIP. I have not been very active on this Board, have been so busy with a new puppy, and my meetings and some other personal stuff, but I do read about once a week to see how everyone is doing. A...

RyanS · RyanS

Foundation For Life We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. ************************************** In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in u...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The answer to personality problems is found in a quiet return to God-like thinking. -- Science of Mind magazine When we're edgy and critical or perhaps feeling inadequate or depressed, we've lost our attunement with God. And when acting the way God would have us act is no longer our priority, our...

Phil · Phil

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him" Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingnes...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. -- Susan Griffin Newcomer When I had a wisdom tooth pulled a few days ago, the dentist gave me a medication that contains codeine. I've heard people at meetings say they take their doctors' prescriptions, s...

RyanS · RyanS

I met a woman, and we hit it off very well. We talk for hours over the phone, say goodbye 15 times before we hang up, and have found mutual understanding on a deep level, almost scarry. To top it off, we're both single parents and share a lot of the same ideals about our futures and what we want. Uncanny. We bo...

CAM · CAM

Growing Up "How many of us would presume to declare, 'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deterior...

LisaF · LisaF

I talked to mine and my sponsor's friend before the meeting, because I was supposed to pick up my 3 month chip today... and my sponsor had told me I'm not sober because of the sleeping pills, so I told my friend about that and asked what she thought... she asked how I'm using the pills, and I said I take them e...

RyanS · RyanS

Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members from responsib...

Phil · Phil

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our m...

Doll · Doll

DAILY REPRIEVE What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 Maintaining my spiritual condition is like working out every day, planning for the marathon, swimming laps, jogging. It's staying in good shape spi...

Phil · Phil

Step Two "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that w...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

Just a post to say that I appreciate very much the efforts that Phil has been making, and to say 'hello'. God bless you all, love in recovery, amanda

Quetzal · Quetzal

Reflection for the Day What is the definition of humility? "Absolute humility," said AA co- founder Bill W., "would consist of a state of complete freedom from myself, freedom from all the claims that my defects of character now lay so heavily upon me. Perfect humility would be a full wil...

RyanS · RyanS

Moral Rresponsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members of responsibility. On t...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Vulnerable Honesty There's a fine line between being vulnerably honest and just being honest. Has a friend ever called early in the morning, right when you were waking up? Can you remember how you talked then, before your defenses were up? When we're vulnerably honest, our defenses are dow...

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	Personal Strength (Preview) Seeking strength from others prevents us from finding our own strength. -- Georgette Vickstrom The principles of this program, the friends we have made here, sponsors, and the contact we have with an ever-available Higher Power afford us valuable strength. However, it's important that we de...	Quetzal	2	306	Nov 21, 2006 by Quetzal
	Update (Preview) Hi everyone, Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers over the last day or two. It has meant a lot to me. Mum was scanned and tested yesterday and needs to have more tests done. She was tired, but tried to sound upbeat. I have been reading and researching about her condition and I have r...	Quetzal	3	286	Nov 21, 2006 by Quetzal
	GAMMY - - HEELLLOOOOOO!!!!!! (Preview) Good Morning, Was doing some reading, and SO SURPRISED to see you!!! YEAH! It sure has been a while, think of you almost everyday, and how the Board just was not the same without you. So write, when you have a chance, and that trip to see you husband, life on life's terms, is not al...	toni baloney	0	262	Nov 21, 2006 by toni baloney
	Daily Reflections Nov 21 (Preview) A CLASSIC PRAYER Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith...	Doll	0	278	Nov 21, 2006 by Doll
	Humility (Preview) Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each o...	Phil	0	270	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	The Right To Be An Individual (Preview) Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we often thought that we were different from others. We secretly thought that no one could understand us. Maybe we tried to be one o...	Quetzal	2	318	Nov 20, 2006 by amanda2u2
	family disease (Preview) i love my dad, though he's been addicted since before i was born. they say dont try to 12 step family, but i tried anyway. now finally his battered body has had enough and he's on his way out. i have mixed emotions because it has been a love hate thing. he's a tough old guy, and lived a hard life. a logger in his...	cindy	2	333	Nov 20, 2006 by cindy
	round up was awesome!!! (Preview) heard lots of stuff i liked, brought lots of it home with me... bought 2 books...one called coming to believe...its on step 2 a pocket size Big Book for my purse then today i met an old fellow that came all the way from Kenora, Ontario for the roundup, He wanted to buy me a book, the 12 by 12...1...	wantneeda	4	355	Nov 20, 2006 by cindy
	Daily Reflections Nov 20 (Preview) "THY WILL, NOT MINE" . . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . . if it be Thy will." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03 I ask simply that throughout the day God place in me the best understanding of His will that I can have for that day...	Doll	1	294	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	The Senility Prayer (Preview) God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to know the difference. O.K. If you've seen it before, chalk it up to late-arriving spam...Tim -- Edited by timverton at 09:56, 2006-11-20	timverton	2	366	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	Corporate Lessons From Cana..Du eh... (Preview) 5 Corporate Lessons Corporate Lesson 1 A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour. ...	Phil	3	398	Nov 20, 2006 by Doll
	The Language of Letting Go. (Preview) Accepting Our Feelings Why do we struggle so with our feelings? Why do we work so hard to deny our emotions, especially concerning other people? They are only feelings! In the course of a day, we may deny we feel frustrated in reaction to someone who is selling us a service. We may deny that we feel...	Phil	1	370	Nov 19, 2006 by Jo
	Hiya (Preview) Hi All, I'm newly sober (today is day 9 after a week-long relapse from 6 weeks of sobriety) and am looking for some kind of online community to fill in the cracks between meetings. Hope to get to know some of you better while I'm here. ZB	ZB	8	398	Nov 19, 2006 by ZB
	Gratitude for Today (look out, I'm in a mood) (Preview) How often do we get caught up in life's events, the days just roll on by, and we forget how rich and beautiful our lives are today? And I find it is in the small events, the little moments, that my memory is jolted. Today was like most days for me. Yknow, get up, get your coffee or tea, visit the loo, and check y...	Wren	2	293	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Greetings - just got here (Preview) Hi all! I am finally able to log in here, after a long time trying. Thought I would take a sec to introduce myself to y'all... I am Leszlie, alcoholic. I have managed to put together 15 months sobriety, with the grace of God and AA. Most recently, I am being challenged by the loss of my beloved&n...	Zster	3	284	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Addiction confession (Preview) MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!......Turrrkeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!........	Sick of being sick	8	409	Nov 19, 2006 by Robert
	The Gift Of Ourselves (Preview) The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves. When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and frustrations, our dreams and despairs, our answers and our questions then we are loving our neighbors as ourselves as well as...	Quetzal	0	277	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Work with causes instead of effects (Preview) How do you work with anger? "Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." -- Helen Douglas How do you feel about anger, in yourse...	Wren	1	302	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Toni (Preview) Toni, I want to apologize if my temper tantrum over a post being edited triggered whatever went on here. I think editing ought be for spam or pure filth, but I dont run this deal and could have discussed it with the moderator like an adult. My reaction was far more childish than the incident I allowed to tr...	RyanS	1	278	Nov 18, 2006 by toni baloney
	unity (Preview) is the name of the roundup I am fortunate and grateful to be able to attend this week end. Thanks to the group i'm considering joining, they gave me a ticket to go to. i love roundups! what does unity mean to you? for me.... WE cannot do alone what WE can do together. :) the fi...	wantneeda	1	289	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Fending off loneliness (Preview) Fending off loneliness (Extract from Living Sober) Alcoholism has been described as "the lonely disease," and very few recovered alcoholics argue the point. Looking back at the last years or months of our drinking, literally hundreds of thousands of us remember feeling isolated eve...	Quetzal	1	359	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Numb Ba Five (Preview) "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary...	Phil	0	263	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Comparisons (Preview) Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. -- Barbara Kimball Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her...	Quetzal	1	294	Nov 18, 2006 by Wren
	Be Open to Change (Preview) “Balance is a dynamic process; it changes with the days, the seasons, the years.” -- Sherrill Sellman How rigid are your routines? Do you exercise for 30 minutes, three times each week no matter how you feel? Routines and structure can provide a valuable framework to bring disciplin...	Wren	1	315	Nov 18, 2006 by ZB
	As Bill Sees It (Preview) "Not Allied With Any Sect . . ." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very muc...	RyanS	0	301	Nov 18, 2006 by RyanS
	Making Life Yours~OM (Preview) Perception There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances the...	Wren	2	290	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Nov 17 (Preview) OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less...	Doll	1	297	Nov 17, 2006 by Wren
	communication... (Preview) Talked to my sponsor today... we agreed more or less the whole thing about the pills and how I'm doing was a communication problem... I should've asked her for clarification before asking anyone else about it. But she had flat out said I wasn't sober, how do you take that wrong? I assumed ok I need to pick...	LisaF	1	301	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	This'll make me laugh/hopefully you too (Preview) PEEK A BOO! OH NO ITS A BIRD!! thats better -- Edited by Robert at 14:33, 2006-11-17	Robert	2	319	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	Happiness (Preview) I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. -- Joanna Field Happiness is a gift that accompanies every instance of our li...	Quetzal	0	265	Nov 17, 2006 by Quetzal
	Update (Preview) Just to give a little update on where I am, for those of you who I've spoken with before... Since October 29, I have stumbled twice. A week ago today, I went out and had 3 beers at the bar. Then on Monday of this week, I had a particularly bad day, and I ended up binging that night and missing wo...	Scott	8	346	Nov 17, 2006 by Scott
	Grief And Action (Preview) *The Language of Letting Go. Trust in God and do something. --Mary Lyon* It's important to let ourselves grieve as a passage between yesterday and tomorrow. But we do not have to be controlled unduly by our grief, or our pain. There are times when we have grieved, surrendered to the h...	Phil	0	293	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	6 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Preview) I'm celebrating my 6 month sobriety anniversary today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, 6 whole months and it's really wild, because yesterday and the day before were the first days that I actually felt like my life was really shaping up. The eating disorder has a lot to do with w...	SheIsSober	12	393	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	sugar/cola/cookies (Preview) I am emotional eating, and I have put on a load of weight, and cant seem to cut it.. anyone else been there?	Robert	5	328	Nov 17, 2006 by Robert
	Yahoo Amanda (Preview) Hi There Amanda, Well it has been a while, and just wanted to say, it was so good to see you again, here on MIP. I have not been very active on this Board, have been so busy with a new puppy, and my meetings and some other personal stuff, but I do read about once a week to see how everyone is doing. A...	toni baloney	0	360	Nov 17, 2006 by toni baloney
	As Bill Sees It (Preview) Foundation For Life We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. ************************************** In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in u...	RyanS	0	261	Nov 17, 2006 by RyanS
	Personality Problems (Preview) The answer to personality problems is found in a quiet return to God-like thinking. -- Science of Mind magazine When we're edgy and critical or perhaps feeling inadequate or depressed, we've lost our attunement with God. And when acting the way God would have us act is no longer our priority, our...	Quetzal	0	333	Nov 17, 2006 by Quetzal
	Numb Ba Three (Preview) "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him" Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingnes...	Phil	0	297	Nov 16, 2006 by Phil
	Secrets (Preview) Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. -- Susan Griffin Newcomer When I had a wisdom tooth pulled a few days ago, the dentist gave me a medication that contains codeine. I've heard people at meetings say they take their doctors' prescriptions, s...	Quetzal	5	429	Nov 16, 2006 by cindy
	blah. (Preview) I met a woman, and we hit it off very well. We talk for hours over the phone, say goodbye 15 times before we hang up, and have found mutual understanding on a deep level, almost scarry. To top it off, we're both single parents and share a lot of the same ideals about our futures and what we want. Uncanny. We bo...	RyanS	7	373	Nov 16, 2006 by cindy
	Growing Up (Preview) Growing Up "How many of us would presume to declare, 'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deterior...	CAM	1	292	Nov 16, 2006 by Phil
	confused but doing what I think is right... (Preview) I talked to mine and my sponsor's friend before the meeting, because I was supposed to pick up my 3 month chip today... and my sponsor had told me I'm not sober because of the sleeping pills, so I told my friend about that and asked what she thought... she asked how I'm using the pills, and I said I take them e...	LisaF	5	360	Nov 16, 2006 by CAM
	As Bill Sees It (Preview) Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members from responsib...	RyanS	0	297	Nov 16, 2006 by RyanS
	For a freind, that hasnt joined us yet... (Preview) "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our m...	Phil	4	365	Nov 16, 2006 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections Nov 16 (Preview) DAILY REPRIEVE What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 Maintaining my spiritual condition is like working out every day, planning for the marathon, swimming laps, jogging. It's staying in good shape spi...	Doll	0	269	Nov 16, 2006 by Doll
	Number Two (Preview) Step Two "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that w...	Phil	0	301	Nov 15, 2006 by Phil
	thank you, Phil (Preview) *Just a post to say that I appreciate very much the efforts that Phil has been making, and to say 'hello'.* *God bless you all,* *love in recovery,* *amanda*	amanda2u2	4	325	Nov 15, 2006 by soberdrunk
	Humility (Preview) Reflection for the Day What is the definition of humility? "Absolute humility," said AA co- founder Bill W., "would consist of a state of complete freedom from myself, freedom from all the claims that my defects of character now lay so heavily upon me. Perfect humility would be a full wil...	Quetzal	2	452	Nov 15, 2006 by cindy
	As Bill Sees It (Preview) Moral Rresponsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members of responsibility. On t...	RyanS	0	298	Nov 15, 2006 by RyanS
	Vulnerable Honesty (Preview) Vulnerable Honesty There's a fine line between being vulnerably honest and just being honest. Has a friend ever called early in the morning, right when you were waking up? Can you remember how you talked then, before your defenses were up? When we're vulnerably honest, our defenses are dow...	Quetzal	2	369	Nov 15, 2006 by CAM
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