Alcoholics Anonymous

Rick · Rick

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

AM444 · AM444

Hello: I am here because I need some place to go for support and inspiration. I was sober 2 years, but began to drink again. I now live in a small town where I truly can't go to meetings because of my profession... won't go into that here. I really need an online meeting and perhaps some time soon a sponsor...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi everyone, This has been something that has been bugging me for a couple of days and would love to get some feed-back. I personally don't care for the saying "Stick with the Winners" because I have never understood what, exactly, it means. Who represents the winners???? who are they, a...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

well, I'm still at it,,, and progress is being made,,, however slowly. I feel like this is kind of analagous to my recovery journey in general. I've done a little bit as often as I can in the bedroom. An hour one day, and then my shoulder hurts for a couple of days and goes numb, so I have...

benny33 · benny33

ok just wanted to say hi to everyone let you all know im doing ok. the funneral wasnt thatfun but it was certainly a tribute to her life and was beautifull.now im stuck in a hotell room another day with the wife and kidds (which is a great thing by the way)the wife and i have had a lott of time to alk about thing...

Rick · Rick

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how you take it. --Edmund Vance Cooke Once, a woman decided to throw a problem-exchange party. As guests arrived, they shed all their personal problems and t...

Rick · Rick

Reflection for the Day Since I came to The Program, I've begun to recognize my previous inability to form a true partnership with another person. It seems that my egomania created two disastrous pitfalls. Either I insisted upon dominating the people I knew, or I depended on them far too mu...

Doll · Doll

"THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and things will...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I don't know.. the stuff is only loading halfway, and not really working right. Is it me? or are other people having problems right now too? amanda

Rick · Rick

Dr. Bob defining humility: On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility: "Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,...

Rick · Rick

Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we only know a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning mediation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit so...

flumpy · flumpy

Hi again all, firstly thankyou all that replyed to my recent post.

I have just thought of something and was wondering if anyone here can answer my question??????? I have come to belive/understand that the main reason I drank was because I was so unhappy with my life (depressed) , parent...

Cabbageheadchris · Cabbageheadchris

Hi all, found this on a internet search (Lazy B@*&**d just copied and pasted!) There is a place I go to It's called Oblivion, An easy place to get to Go right ahead and carry on. The thing is, I have no recall Of what goes on in there, Im left with occasional flashbacks and a feeling of desp...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Page 112, Step Twelve, second Paragraph: "Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure of success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we ste...

Doll · Doll

Feeling the need to be perfect, comparing our progress with what we assume is the progress another woman has made, is one of the dangers we face. Women have been comparing themselves with others since childhood. The habit is not easily broken. Yet we must compare our progress today with where we were y...

Doll · Doll

We DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of l...

Rick · Rick

OLD TIME AA: 1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse. 5...

Rick · Rick

Life deals more rigorously with some than others. --Lewis F. Presnall How often we think about a friend, He sure is lucky! And probably just as often we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same l...

Michelle · Michelle

go to: http://www.recoverylane.com/jokes__humor.htm you know, you gotta laugh at your problems or you will go crazy. It's what gets me through every day! Humor is good medicine. Happy Friday everyone!

Doll · Doll

THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must depend o...

Michelle · Michelle

I had my 6th education class tonight, this one was about drink sizes and equivalents. I had no idea I'd been drinking so much. I didn't know that a regular 12 oz beer was actually 1.5 drinks, and how it affects you. There was quite a bit of math involved, but I got a lot of new informatio...

Doll · Doll

I DON'T RUN THE SHOW When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choic...

Doll · Doll

Break Free Of Anger Buried resentments are difficult to escape, but there is always grace. With God's help, spiritual healing is possible. Whenever the pain of life becomes too much for you, turn immediately to Him. He may seem to ask the impossible, but hHs words supply the he...

Pauly · Pauly

Hi Folks just checking in to give you a weekly update of sorts, hope thats OK with you guys? 2 weeks since not a drop, been to the pub tonight to meet a few friends, just still Orange juice. Quite comfortable with others drinking around me, no great "thirst". Reality is starting to hit as to what I`m...

Rick · Rick

Some days my life feels so confusing and overwhelming that I think I'll scream. Sometimes life is like moving from one place to another. When I move into a new house, it is unorganized and chaotic until everything gets put in the right place. In life, my emotions and thoughts are often like t...

flumpy · flumpy

Hi all, I don't think any of you will remember me coz I spend all my time on the other site (Al-anon). Anyways I have and did find recovery through that and am greatful. But I now have a problem. Last year, the day after my 28th birthday infact, it all went pear shaped, cut a VERY long story short, I h...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

CHANGE: Willingness, Openness, and Consciousness “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” —Herbert Spencer

Phil · Phil

Something that I pulled outa the hat...along with the rabbit... You were asking a few days ago..Benny...and I dont know about you Buddy...but Impatience with this kid...is a work on thing...every day... Take what you need and leave the rest... Patience is the ability to: Sit back and w...

Doll · Doll

GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his w...

jersey · jersey

APPENDIX II THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms. Yet it is tr...

Michelle · Michelle

How does alcohol affect what you have to say? Here's a few ways ... THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. British Constitution 3. Passive-aggressive disorder THINGS...

Michelle · Michelle

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187-- Edited by Michel...

Michelle · Michelle

WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not. WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a TOTAL DORK!. WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SLAP Y...

benny33 · benny33

hello every one . just got back from a meeting and im still feeling a little down .thought i share a little with you all.today i got the call that a familey member passed.my first thought was where is the closest bar.i was angry and mad and all those things agian i was a week ago when i asked for helpp.iam so g...

Doll · Doll

WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had bette...

Doll · Doll

Hi all. Just wanted to ask if you all would include my ex, who's still out there, in your prayers. I've been praying for him to be given the gift of desperation for quite some time now and I think I need some reinforments! He really needs help, but he's got to want it, so I figure it will take desperation fo...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

i took the 12 Steps to the latrine last night i decided i was going to tile my master bathroom floor....' i dug up all the old linoleum tiles, and i had the floor nice and clean and ready to go!!! things were going GREAT till i got around having to "tile around the toidie" and thats when thi...

Doll · Doll

5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On 1. This, too, shall pass. Nothing stays the same. The only constant in life is change. With every decision we make, we initiate change. Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes on, and changes still occur. When we are in a state of discomfort, sadness, grief, or pa...

Doll · Doll

CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still stream--be brought int...

Michelle · Michelle

Somebody on my block is barbecuing tonight and it smells wonderful! but it's only February, and it's usually still very cold. Today, it's at 54 right now, but it feels like spring after all the cold and wind and rain we've had lately! I have the doors and windows open, neighbors are...

Doll · Doll

If we earnestly and conscientiously apply the tools of our program, we are certain to experience positive change. We are promised new freedom and happiness and assured that a Higher Power can and will remove our negative characteristics. The question is, are we ready to change? If we hang on tightly...

Doll · Doll

We SURRENDER TO WIN. On the face of it, surrendering does not seem like winning. But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobrie...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

A.A. Thought for the Day A nightclub crowded with men and women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a very gay place. But you should see the men's room of that nightclub the next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the place and does it smell! The glamour of the night...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

This Is Not A Test "We have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn." Basic Text p. 27 Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens a...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I was brought up by a very controlling father, with a very 'submissive' but manipulative mother. I was taught that I had to respond, and the response had to be one that pleased them, or else terrible punishments... my sister has a brain lesion from one beating. Since we tend to generalize and to t...

Michelle · Michelle

They would stop advertising alcohol on TV. It seems like there is at least one ad during every commercial break, even during the day. They should at least show it how it really is, people stumbling around in bars or wherever and then getting arrested on the way home. There should be...

Doll · Doll

A PATH TO FAITH True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My last drunk had landed me in the hospital, totally broken. It was then that I was ab...

jersey · jersey

Hope is for the weak: The challenge of a broken world Hope requires humility and humanity by Robert Jensen My title may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an enduring feature of our species, something people search for (often quite desperately) and hang onto (usually quit...

John · John

Hello everyone, This is Rose, From time to time I have been in the rooms and I have found that people are talking about food. Who is cooking what, oh let me have that recipe, Oh that sounds good. All it does is make everyone hungry!! So I have decided to put all this food talk to...

Rob · Rob

I drink too much.. im gona be 30 in about 6 months and iv been gettin pissed almost every night since i was about 17 or 18. somtimes i give it up for a couple of days.. and sometimes i manage a week, though not very often.. once a few years ago i quit for 3 months.... But i cant seem to stay of...

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	iT'S BETTER TO GIVE (Preview) *When a person is concerned only with giving, there is no anxiety. --Gerald Jampolsky* Whatever we give away returns to us, manifold. When we show love or understanding, when we are gentle or express genuine concern, usually the same will come right back to us. Perhaps not in kind, maybe n...	Rick	2	438	Feb 13, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Intro (Preview) Hello: I am here because I need some place to go for support and inspiration. I was sober 2 years, but began to drink again. I now live in a small town where I truly can't go to meetings because of my profession... won't go into that here. I really need an online meeting and perhaps some time soon a sponsor...	AM444	6	467	Feb 13, 2006 by AM444
	What does the word "Winner" mean to you (Preview) Hi everyone, This has been something that has been bugging me for a couple of days and would love to get some feed-back. I personally don't care for the saying "Stick with the Winners" because I have never understood what, exactly, it means. Who represents the winners???? who are they, a...	Toni Baloney	7	2207	Feb 13, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	progress report (Preview) well, I'm still at it,,, and progress is being made,,, however slowly. I feel like this is kind of analagous to my recovery journey in general. I've done a little bit as often as I can in the bedroom. An hour one day, and then my shoulder hurts for a couple of days and goes numb, so I have...	amanda2u2	4	467	Feb 13, 2006 by amanda2u2
	hi every one (Preview) ok just wanted to say hi to everyone let you all know im doing ok. the funneral wasnt thatfun but it was certainly a tribute to her life and was beautifull.now im stuck in a hotell room another day with the wife and kidds (which is a great thing by the way)the wife and i have had a lott of time to alk about thing...	benny33	3	464	Feb 12, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	our problems (Preview) *Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how you take it. --Edmund Vance Cooke* Once, a woman decided to throw a problem-exchange party. As guests arrived, they shed all their personal problems and t...	Rick	1	495	Feb 12, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Defect--? (Preview) Reflection for the Day Since I came to The Program, I've begun to recognize my previous inability to form a true partnership with another person. It seems that my egomania created two disastrous pitfalls. Either I insisted upon dominating the people I knew, or I depended on them far too mu...	Rick	1	516	Feb 12, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Feb 12 (Preview) "THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and things will...	Doll	0	388	Feb 12, 2006 by Doll
	is it my puter? or this site? (Preview) *I don't know.. the stuff is only loading halfway, and not really working right. Is it me? or are other people having problems right now too?* *amanda*	amanda2u2	4	442	Feb 12, 2006 by GammyRose
	Humility (Preview) Dr. Bob defining humility: On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility: "Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,...	Rick	2	490	Feb 12, 2006 by Rick
	BB Pg ** I really like (Preview) Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we only know a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning mediation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit so...	Rick	0	493	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	Hmmmmmm part 2 (Preview) Hi again all, firstly thankyou all that replyed to my recent post. I have just thought of something and was wondering if anyone here can answer my question??????? I have come to belive/understand that the main reason I drank was because I was so unhappy with my life (depressed) , parent...	flumpy	5	450	Feb 12, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	True! (Preview) Hi all, found this on a internet search (Lazy B@&*d just copied and pasted!) There is a place I go to It's called Oblivion, An easy place to get to Go right ahead and carry on. The thing is, I have no recall Of what goes on in there, Im left with occasional flashbacks and a feeling of desp...	Cabbageheadchris	6	419	Feb 11, 2006 by flumpy
	Love this part of Step 12 (Preview) Page 112, Step Twelve, second Paragraph: "Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure of success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we ste...	Toni Baloney	2	464	Feb 11, 2006 by amanda2u2
	The Little Red Book for Women (Preview) Feeling the need to be perfect, comparing our progress with what we assume is the progress another woman has made, is one of the dangers we face. Women have been comparing themselves with others since childhood. The habit is not easily broken. Yet we must compare our progress today with where we were y...	Doll	0	510	Feb 11, 2006 by Doll
	Paradox - WE DIE TO LIVE (Preview) We DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of l...	Doll	4	637	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	old time AA (Preview) OLD TIME AA: 1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse. 5...	Rick	2	416	Feb 11, 2006 by amanda2u2
	today's thought (Preview) *Life deals more rigorously with some than others. --Lewis F. Presnall* How often we think about a friend, He sure is lucky! And probably just as often we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same l...	Rick	1	478	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	another funny website! (Preview) go to: http://www.recoverylane.com/jokes__humor.htm you know, you gotta laugh at your problems or you will go crazy. It's what gets me through every day! Humor is good medicine. Happy Friday everyone!	Michelle	1	461	Feb 11, 2006 by GammyRose
	Daily Reflections Feb 11 (Preview) THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must depend o...	Doll	1	695	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	I learned a lot tonight! (Preview) I had my 6th education class tonight, this one was about drink sizes and equivalents. I had no idea I'd been drinking so much. I didn't know that a regular 12 oz beer was actually 1.5 drinks, and how it affects you. There was quite a bit of math involved, but I got a lot of new informatio...	Michelle	2	495	Feb 10, 2006 by Doll
	Daily Reflection Feb 10 (Preview) I DON'T RUN THE SHOW When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choic...	Doll	0	400	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	Break Free Of Anger (Preview) Break Free Of Anger Buried resentments are difficult to escape, but there is always grace. With God's help, spiritual healing is possible. Whenever the pain of life becomes too much for you, turn immediately to Him. He may seem to ask the impossible, but hHs words supply the he...	Doll	5	580	Feb 11, 2006 by GammyRose
	Checking in (Preview) Hi Folks just checking in to give you a weekly update of sorts, hope thats OK with you guys? 2 weeks since not a drop, been to the pub tonight to meet a few friends, just still Orange juice. Quite comfortable with others drinking around me, no great "thirst". Reality is starting to hit as to what I`m...	Pauly	4	443	Feb 10, 2006 by GammyRose
	todays gift (Preview) Some days my life feels so confusing and overwhelming that I think I'll scream. Sometimes life is like moving from one place to another. When I move into a new house, it is unorganized and chaotic until everything gets put in the right place. In life, my emotions and thoughts are often like t...	Rick	0	389	Feb 9, 2006 by Rick
	Hmmmmmmmmmmmm (Preview) Hi all, I don't think any of you will remember me coz I spend all my time on the other site (Al-anon). Anyways I have and did find recovery through that and am greatful. But I now have a problem. Last year, the day after my 28th birthday infact, it all went pear shaped, cut a VERY long story short, I h...	flumpy	6	514	Feb 11, 2006 by Doll
	Am I Still willing to Keep Changing (Preview) CHANGE: Willingness, Openness, and Consciousness “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” —Herbert Spencer	Toni Baloney	4	484	Feb 9, 2006 by rosie light shines
	You were asking Benny..heres a biggy (Preview) Something that I pulled outa the hat...along with the rabbit... You were asking a few days ago..Benny...and I dont know about you Buddy...but Impatience with this kid...is a work on thing...every day... Take what you need and leave the rest... Patience is the ability to: Sit back and w...	Phil	3	657	Feb 9, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Daily Reflection Feb 9 (Preview) GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his w...	Doll	2	419	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	appendix II (Preview) APPENDIX II THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms. Yet it is tr...	jersey	2	2137	Feb 9, 2006 by Phil
	more funnies! (Preview) How does alcohol affect what you have to say? Here's a few ways ... THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. British Constitution 3. Passive-aggressive disorder THINGS...	Michelle	0	439	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	This is so funny, especially if you're a cat lover (Preview) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187-- Edited by Michel...	Michelle	0	491	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	Some really good reasons not to drink :) (Preview) WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not. WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a TOTAL DORK!. WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SLAP Y...	Michelle	0	481	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	the hits just keep coming (Preview) hello every one . just got back from a meeting and im still feeling a little down .thought i share a little with you all.today i got the call that a familey member passed.my first thought was where is the closest bar.i was angry and mad and all those things agian i was a week ago when i asked for helpp.iam so g...	benny33	7	465	Feb 9, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	Paradox - WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. (Preview) WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had bette...	Doll	3	474	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	Prayer Request (Preview) Hi all. Just wanted to ask if you all would include my ex, who's still out there, in your prayers. I've been praying for him to be given the gift of desperation for quite some time now and I think I need some reinforments! He really needs help, but he's got to want it, so I figure it will take desperation fo...	Doll	2	428	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	i took the 12steps to the latrine (Preview) i took the 12 Steps to the latrine last night i decided i was going to tile my master bathroom floor....' i dug up all the old linoleum tiles, and i had the floor nice and clean and ready to go!!! things were going GREAT till i got around having to "tile around the toidie" and thats when thi...	rosie light shines	3	462	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On (Preview) 5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On 1. This, too, shall pass. Nothing stays the same. The only constant in life is change. With every decision we make, we initiate change. Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes on, and changes still occur. When we are in a state of discomfort, sadness, grief, or pa...	Doll	2	637	Feb 8, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Daily Reflections Feb 8 (Preview) CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still stream--be brought int...	Doll	0	426	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
	Here's a happy thought! (Preview) Somebody on my block is barbecuing tonight and it smells wonderful! but it's only February, and it's usually still very cold. Today, it's at 54 right now, but it feels like spring after all the cold and wind and rain we've had lately! I have the doors and windows open, neighbors are...	Michelle	2	560	Feb 7, 2006 by jeannie
	Readiness is a precondition for change. (Preview) If we earnestly and conscientiously apply the tools of our program, we are certain to experience positive change. We are promised new freedom and happiness and assured that a Higher Power can and will remove our negative characteristics. The question is, are we ready to change? If we hang on tightly...	Doll	0	440	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
	Paradox (Preview) We SURRENDER TO WIN. On the face of it, surrendering does not seem like winning. But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobrie...	Doll	1	525	Feb 8, 2006 by benny33
	AA_thought for today (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day A nightclub crowded with men and women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a very gay place. But you should see the men's room of that nightclub the next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the place and does it smell! The glamour of the night...	rosie light shines	1	517	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	awsome!!!! HP does NOT test us (Preview) This Is Not A Test "We have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn." Basic Text p. 27 Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens a...	rosie light shines	6	493	Feb 8, 2006 by Doll
	detachment, disengagement, letting go (Preview) I was brought up by a very controlling father, with a very 'submissive' but manipulative mother. I was taught that I had to respond, and the response had to be one that pleased them, or else terrible punishments... my sister has a brain lesion from one beating. Since we tend to generalize and to t...	amanda2u2	4	545	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	I wish... (Preview) They would stop advertising alcohol on TV. It seems like there is at least one ad during every commercial break, even during the day. They should at least show it how it really is, people stumbling around in bars or wherever and then getting arrested on the way home. There should be...	Michelle	6	482	Feb 7, 2006 by Michelle
	Daily Reflections Feb 7 (Preview) A PATH TO FAITH True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My last drunk had landed me in the hospital, totally broken. It was then that I was ab...	Doll	0	519	Feb 6, 2006 by Doll
	Hope requires humility and humanity (Preview) Hope is for the weak: The challenge of a broken world Hope requires humility and humanity by Robert Jensen My title may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an enduring feature of our species, something people search for (often quite desperately) and hang onto (usually quit...	jersey	0	457	Feb 6, 2006 by jersey
	Miracles In Progress Cookbook (Preview) Hello everyone, This is Rose, From time to time I have been in the rooms and I have found that people are talking about food. Who is cooking what, oh let me have that recipe, Oh that sounds good. All it does is make everyone hungry!! So I have decided to put all this food talk to...	John	0	597	Feb 6, 2006 by John
	I need to stop drinking.. (Preview) I drink too much.. im gona be 30 in about 6 months and iv been gettin pissed almost every night since i was about 17 or 18. somtimes i give it up for a couple of days.. and sometimes i manage a week, though not very often.. once a few years ago i quit for 3 months.... But i cant seem to stay of...	Rob	8	650	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
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