Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

Mike was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, he said, "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest...

Phil · Phil

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. While we are postponing, life speed...

wantneeda · wantneeda

how are you doing?? i noticed another post that you mentioned 2 meetings a week aren't enough for you, are you ok? and i've really missed you on here...sniff, sniff big, huge, hugs, Wendy

Doll · Doll

The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar. As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar. They landed with...

Badger · Badger

 &nb...

Donnamaria · Donnamaria

Hello all, Been awhile since the last time I pop in. Alot as been going on in my life, dealing with the ex and other personal matters. So all I been doing is going to school and throwing myself into meetings. It's amazing. for atleast hour and a half a day, I can forget the bad things....

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Subject: Meditation: A Resting Place Daily Reflections, page 137 After writing down my character defects, I was unwilling to talk about them, and decided it was time to stop carrying this burden alone. I needed to confess those defects to someone else... Step Five provided me with a feeling of b...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Problems have only the size and the power that you give them. --S. H. We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it's our vision of circumstances that gives them their inte...

Phil · Phil

Never Lose Hope If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you can have hope If you can find beauty in the colors of a flower, then you still have hope If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly, then you still have hope If the smile of a child can still warm your heart, then you still have hope If...

sanddie · sanddie

It's Time.... I just wanted to share with everyone who has read my posts over the past couple of weeks in which I have been faced with much hardship in abusive situations with my employer, my daughter, my ex husband..... As some of you know, my doctor has even kept me off work until th...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is October 27, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! JUSTICE "Justice is truth in action." -- Benjamin Disraeli It is not enough for me to believe that a thing is true, it is important for me to live out my beliefs. For too long I had a thousand beliefs that only kept me silent. A fear of d...

Badger · Badger

Im looking from my bedroom window as I tap this out on the laptop, everything is so clear today, everyone says it’s the hottest October day since 18 something or other, The Solent is a dark blue strip under a great pale cloudless sky, summer has come back today, everything white is very white, the sail...

soberbrit · soberbrit

I had a sponsor but just stopped calling her. I have not had a drink for over 90 days now but don't seem to be able to stop other bad habits... i.e. being honest with myself and others. I am a horse theif and want to stop.l At the meetings everyone says that if I keep coming back things wil...

cooncatbob · cooncatbob

I sole this off another boardbut think you'll all will enjoy it, just substitute alkie for addict. Just wanted to share a story with you that I discovered a while back. The author is anonymous, but it came from an NA newsletter. It's called "Addict In A Hole." An addict fell in a hole and couldn'...

Phil · Phil

Dont know of any pills Andrew--tried antibuse to keep from drinking, but it didnt stop me. And I also didn't give a flying f.... about anything--or anyone. I didnt give a shit about anything.-- and lost everything there was to loose. I knew it was all a slow suicide--and thats where I wanted to end u...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

Is it available to read on line? I don't mind paying for it but I don't know when I'm going to be able to get to a meeting. I'm really feeling like I need to read the "chapter to the agnostic" right now.

Mikel · Mikel

Hi, gang. I may have mentioned this before, but I am currently involved in a very intimate relationship to a woman who means a great deal to me. Unfortunately, we live 1300 miles apart, and for those of you who have ever attempted a "long-distance" romance you know at once what difficulties an...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

tell me what I need to do to stop. I will listen, I will do it...just tell me. I know I've been arrogant on this board in the past. I know I've been argumentative, and difficult, but I'm tired of fighting and I just want to have some peace and order in my life. -- Edited by TipsyMcStagger at 12:43, 2005-1...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. --Anne Frank Anne Frank had good reason to be unhappy, full of fear, and deeply discouraged. Years of her life were spent in a small apartment hiding from the Nazis who wanted to destroy her and her family. Yet even in this little hiding place she had hap...

txmom · txmom

Hi all. I am not a regular poster to your side of the board but wanted to let you know of a sad event. My husband, dadrrb, was a member of this site. He didn't post often but read your posts faithfully and gained a lot of ES&H from all of you. His name was Robert. He passe...

Doll · Doll

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit!

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is October 25, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FLEXIBILITY "Better bend than break." -- Scottish Proverb Dis-ease: to be controlling, stiff, uncomfortable and unbending. Sobriety: being relaxed, comfortable and flexible in my personal life and my interaction with o...

Sao · Sao

Olá, Eu gostaria muito de encontrar uma madrinha portuguesa, há por aí alguém que queira contactar comigo. Sobriedade não se pode manter sem que se tenha uma madrinha, no meu caso tornasse muito urgente comunicar o que só se pode ser comunicado na minha língua materna. Recuperação envol...

wantneeda · wantneeda

A MISTAKEN BELIEF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE AND ACT AS IF IT WERE TRUE WHEN, IN FACT, IT IS FALSE. Mistaken belief #1: If you stop addictive use for a while and then begin using again, you have relapsed. Fact: Relapse cannot occur until the addict acknowledges the presence of addictive dis...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then b...

Doll · Doll

Reflections for Beginners 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - Shelly Marshall Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face. We may be out of money, facing jail, losing a loved one, or hating our circumstances. However, right this hour we have only one true reality: SOBRIETY. Without sobriety a...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Abstaining from Harmful Relationships Habit sometimes locks us into relationships, which are not in our best interest. It is easy to mistake dependency for love. When we stop overeating compulsively, we can evaluate our attachments to other people with greater clarity and perception than w...

Phil · Phil

Emotional Turmoil and Healing in Separation and Divorce separation and divorce = strong emotions. This can be a wide range of very powerful emotions, including, but certainly not limited to, hurt, rage, love, longing, confusion, betrayal, surprise, guilt, failure, desperation. Sometime...

Phil · Phil

Letting Go of the Past Some people believe that each of our days were planned, Divinely Ordered, before we were born. God knew, they say, and planned exactly what was to transpire. Others suggest we chose, we participated in planning our life - the events, the people, the circumsta...

Phil · Phil

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it. &...

Badger · Badger

Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car. Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it...

Doll · Doll

Hello e boa vinda. Perdoe-me, mim não falam o português, mim estão usando um tradutor em linha. Você diz que você têm 15 anos do sobriety e você para assistir a reuniões, você tem um patrocinador? Você destilador está indo às reuniões? Aqui nos EUA eu mantenho-me no contato próximo com outros membros d...

001jaycee · 001jaycee

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=2916411&q=lo

Phil · Phil

Emotional intimacy is one of the most wonderful experiences we ever have. Nothing else really comes close to the experience of sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings with another, of being deeply seen and known, of sharing love, passion, laughter, joy, and/or creativity. The experience of i...

Phil · Phil

Opening Ourselves to Love Open ourselves to the love that is available to us. We do not have to limit our sources of love. God and the Universe have an unlimited supply of what we need, including love. When we are open to receiving love, we will begin to receive it. It may come from the most surpri...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Acceptance "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it i...

Doll · Doll

I hope everyone had as great a weekend as I did! Glad to be home......... missed you all Gotta get to reading now. Love and hugs Doll -- Edited by Doll at 18:21, 2005-10-23

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Become nothing before God, learn to keep silent; in this silence is the beginning, which is first to seek God's kingdom. --Soren Kierkegaard So many devastating things can bring us to our knees. With experience we learn that pain and trouble are part of life. Most of us have fought against everyd...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Hope for Today - October 24 My years in Al-Anon made me aware that I need to be careful about how I hear and interpret certain words. Consider "defects of character" and "shortcomings," which are found in Steps Six and Seven respectively. I came into Al-Anon believing I was responsible for...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

...words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. --May Sarton How burdened we became, as little girls, with the labels applied by parents, teachers, even school chums. We believe about ourselves what others t...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

The 12 Steps in Plain English 1. Alcohol will kill me. 2. There's a power that wants me to live. 3. Do I want to live or die? (if you want to die, stop here) 4. Write about how I got to where I am. 5. Tell another person all about me (let God listen). 6. Want to change. 7. Ask a power greater than me to help me ch...

wagon · wagon

hey guys. everything here is good, just that winter is starting to show its ugly face as a few snowflakes this am. oh well, winter is going to be hard for me as i dont like it and did alot of drinking in those months, as work slows down,and more idle time on my hands. everyone be safe god bless wagon:weirdfac...

Doll · Doll

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persist...

Doll · Doll

I read this on another site, thought it was great and wanted to share. A man walking on the beach saw a little boy tossing starfish back into the ocean. Seeing that there were thousands of starfish beached, the man went to the little boy and asked him what he was doing. The little boy sai...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Express your inner values Do your outer choices reflect your inner values? If not, then your life will move from one conflict to another. Yet when the choices you make do indeed come from the person you are, then you will travel steadily in the direction of your highest visions. When your actions are...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle. --Abraham Maslow This is a simple program but it isn't easy. We cannot take the principles we learn and thereby possess them as if we were taking a class or reading a book. W...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence Sometimes when we feel sorry for ourselves we will sit alone in our bedroom. We may even feel so down in the dumps that we decide to stay there, indulging in self-pity, thinking about how the world is against us. However, if we use our imagina...

Phil · Phil

My wife and I divorced over religious differences. She thought that she was God, and I didnt. I dont suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. Some people are alive, only because, its illegal to kill them. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. You're just jealous because the vo...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Learning to Trust Again Many of us have trust issues.Some of us tried long and hard to trust untrustworthy people. Over and again, we believed lies and promises never to be kept. Some of us tried to trust people for the impossible; for instance, trusting a practicing alcoholic not to drink again....

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Love Takes Time Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying... Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment. Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rej...

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	Canadian Smile For The Day (Preview) Mike was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, he said, "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest...	Phil	4	788	Oct 28, 2005 by Phil
	Caffine Thoughts (Preview) A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. While we are postponing, life speed...	Phil	2	764	Oct 28, 2005 by Phil
	(((Cheri))) (Preview) how are you doing?? i noticed another post that you mentioned 2 meetings a week aren't enough for you, are you ok? and i've really missed you on here...sniff, sniff big, huge, hugs, Wendy	wantneeda	2	663	Oct 27, 2005 by amanda2u2
	The Pickle Jar (Preview) The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar. As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar. They landed with...	Doll	3	1190	Oct 27, 2005 by CAM
	a Question about sharing (Preview)  &nb...	Badger	6	794	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	hello there (Preview) Hello all, Been awhile since the last time I pop in. Alot as been going on in my life, dealing with the ex and other personal matters. So all I been doing is going to school and throwing myself into meetings. It's amazing. for atleast hour and a half a day, I can forget the bad things....	Donnamaria	3	699	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	kinda sad..another grief cycle (Preview) Subject: Meditation: A Resting Place Daily Reflections, page 137 After writing down my character defects, I was unwilling to talk about them, and decided it was time to stop carrying this burden alone. I needed to confess those defects to someone else... Step Five provided me with a feeling of b...	rosie light shines	1	928	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	mountains or molehills?? (Preview) *Problems have only the size and the power that you give them. --S. H.* We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it's our vision of circumstances that gives them their inte...	rosie light shines	1	760	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	Never Lose Hope (Preview) Never Lose Hope If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you can have hope If you can find beauty in the colors of a flower, then you still have hope If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly, then you still have hope If the smile of a child can still warm your heart, then you still have hope If...	Phil	2	767	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	It's Time.... (Preview) It's Time.... I just wanted to share with everyone who has read my posts over the past couple of weeks in which I have been faced with much hardship in abusive situations with my employer, my daughter, my ex husband..... As some of you know, my doctor has even kept me off work until th...	sanddie	3	842	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	"justice is truth in action" (Preview) Today is October 27, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! JUSTICE "Justice is truth in action." -- Benjamin Disraeli It is not enough for me to believe that a thing is true, it is important for me to live out my beliefs. For too long I had a thousand beliefs that only kept me silent. A fear of d...	wantneeda	4	1083	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	who knows (Preview) Im looking from my bedroom window as I tap this out on the laptop, everything is so clear today, everyone says it’s the hottest October day since 18 something or other, The Solent is a dark blue strip under a great pale cloudless sky, summer has come back today, everything white is very white, the sail...	Badger	1	690	Oct 27, 2005 by Badger
	can't seem to stop the insanity etc. (Preview) I had a sponsor but just stopped calling her. I have not had a drink for over 90 days now but don't seem to be able to stop other bad habits... i.e. being honest with myself and others. I am a horse theif and want to stop.l At the meetings everyone says that if I keep coming back things wil...	soberbrit	6	888	Oct 27, 2005 by cheri
	Addict in a hole (Preview) I sole this off another boardbut think you'll all will enjoy it, just substitute alkie for addict. Just wanted to share a story with you that I discovered a while back. The author is anonymous, but it came from an NA newsletter. It's called "Addict In A Hole." An addict fell in a hole and couldn'...	cooncatbob	3	997	Oct 26, 2005 by Doll
	response to awilliam from above. (Preview) Dont know of any pills Andrew--tried antibuse to keep from drinking, but it didnt stop me. And I also didn't give a flying f.... about anything--or anyone. I didnt give a shit about anything.-- and lost everything there was to loose. I knew it was all a slow suicide--and thats where I wanted to end u...	Phil	1	753	Oct 26, 2005 by Doll
	The Big Book (Preview) Is it available to read on line? I don't mind paying for it but I don't know when I'm going to be able to get to a meeting. I'm really feeling like I need to read the "chapter to the agnostic" right now.	TipsyMcStagger	5	783	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	A Turning Point (Preview) Hi, gang. I may have mentioned this before, but I am currently involved in a very intimate relationship to a woman who means a great deal to me. Unfortunately, we live 1300 miles apart, and for those of you who have ever attempted a "long-distance" romance you know at once what difficulties an...	Mikel	6	857	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	Please...please someone... (Preview) tell me what I need to do to stop. I will listen, I will do it...just tell me. I know I've been arrogant on this board in the past. I know I've been argumentative, and difficult, but I'm tired of fighting and I just want to have some peace and order in my life. -- Edited by TipsyMcStagger at 12:43, 2005-1...	TipsyMcStagger	7	1025	Oct 26, 2005 by jim
	Anne Frank and my gratitude (Preview) *Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. --Anne Frank* Anne Frank had good reason to be unhappy, full of fear, and deeply discouraged. Years of her life were spent in a small apartment hiding from the Nazis who wanted to destroy her and her family. Yet even in this little hiding place she had hap...	rosie light shines	2	1007	Oct 26, 2005 by Trixie
	Dadrrb (Preview) Hi all. I am not a regular poster to your side of the board but wanted to let you know of a sad event. My husband, dadrrb, was a member of this site. He didn't post often but read your posts faithfully and gained a lot of ES&H from all of you. His name was Robert. He passe...	txmom	8	989	Oct 26, 2005 by wagon
	Thought for today (Preview) You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit!	Doll	5	780	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	"better bend than break" (Preview) Today is October 25, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FLEXIBILITY "Better bend than break." -- Scottish Proverb Dis-ease: to be controlling, stiff, uncomfortable and unbending. Sobriety: being relaxed, comfortable and flexible in my personal life and my interaction with o...	wantneeda	2	986	Oct 26, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	Cumprimentos de Londres (Preview) Olá, Eu gostaria muito de encontrar uma madrinha portuguesa, há por aí alguém que queira contactar comigo. Sobriedade não se pode manter sem que se tenha uma madrinha, no meu caso tornasse muito urgente comunicar o que só se pode ser comunicado na minha língua materna. Recuperação envol...	Sao	3	970	Oct 26, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	Mistaken beliefs about Relapse (Preview) A MISTAKEN BELIEF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE AND ACT AS IF IT WERE TRUE WHEN, IN FACT, IT IS FALSE. Mistaken belief #1: If you stop addictive use for a while and then begin using again, you have relapsed. Fact: Relapse cannot occur until the addict acknowledges the presence of addictive dis...	wantneeda	8	2544	Oct 26, 2005 by wantneeda
	emotional sobriety (Preview) Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then b...	rosie light shines	5	1266	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Reflections for Beginners (Preview) Reflections for Beginners 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - Shelly Marshall Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face. We may be out of money, facing jail, losing a loved one, or hating our circumstances. However, right this hour we have only one true reality: SOBRIETY. Without sobriety a...	Doll	0	870	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	refraining from bad relationships (Preview) Abstaining from Harmful Relationships Habit sometimes locks us into relationships, which are not in our best interest. It is easy to mistake dependency for love. When we stop overeating compulsively, we can evaluate our attachments to other people with greater clarity and perception than w...	rosie light shines	2	930	Oct 25, 2005 by Hanuman
	Another Turmoil and Healing thing (Preview) Emotional Turmoil and Healing in Separation and Divorce separation and divorce = strong emotions. This can be a wide range of very powerful emotions, including, but certainly not limited to, hurt, rage, love, longing, confusion, betrayal, surprise, guilt, failure, desperation. Sometime...	Phil	0	838	Oct 25, 2005 by Phil
	Another Day (Preview) Letting Go of the Past Some people believe that each of our days were planned, Divinely Ordered, before we were born. God knew, they say, and planned exactly what was to transpire. Others suggest we chose, we participated in planning our life - the events, the people, the circumsta...	Phil	1	804	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Confusion says...... (Preview) Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it. &...	Phil	1	755	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Heroes? (Preview) Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car. Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it...	Badger	6	941	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	Sao (Preview) Hello e boa vinda. Perdoe-me, mim não falam o português, mim estão usando um tradutor em linha. Você diz que você têm 15 anos do sobriety e você para assistir a reuniões, você tem um patrocinador? Você destilador está indo às reuniões? Aqui nos EUA eu mantenho-me no contato próximo com outros membros d...	Doll	0	647	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	music therapy (Preview) http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=2916411&q=lo	001jaycee	0	651	Oct 25, 2005 by 001jaycee
	EMOTIONAL INTIMACY (Preview) Emotional intimacy is one of the most wonderful experiences we ever have. Nothing else really comes close to the experience of sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings with another, of being deeply seen and known, of sharing love, passion, laughter, joy, and/or creativity. The experience of i...	Phil	7	2450	Oct 25, 2005 by Phil
	Monday eh? (Preview) Opening Ourselves to Love Open ourselves to the love that is available to us. We do not have to limit our sources of love. God and the Universe have an unlimited supply of what we need, including love. When we are open to receiving love, we will begin to receive it. It may come from the most surpri...	Phil	3	810	Oct 24, 2005 by Phil
	ACCEPTANCE...from the big book (Preview) Acceptance "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it i...	rosie light shines	1	835	Oct 24, 2005 by Phil
	Great Weekend (Preview) I hope everyone had as great a weekend as I did! Glad to be home......... missed you all Gotta get to reading now. Love and hugs Doll -- Edited by Doll at 18:21, 2005-10-23	Doll	4	700	Oct 24, 2005 by rosie light shines
	i had to become nothing first (Preview) *Become nothing before God, learn to keep silent; in this silence is the beginning, which is first to seek God's kingdom. --Soren Kierkegaard* So many devastating things can bring us to our knees. With experience we learn that pain and trouble are part of life. Most of us have fought against everyd...	rosie light shines	2	755	Oct 24, 2005 by rosie light shines
	inventory doesn't have to be a beheading (Preview) Hope for Today - October 24 My years in Al-Anon made me aware that I need to be careful about how I hear and interpret certain words. Consider "defects of character" and "shortcomings," which are found in Steps Six and Seven respectively. I came into Al-Anon believing I was responsible for...	rosie light shines	0	923	Oct 24, 2005 by rosie light shines
	"name calling" (Preview) *...words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. --May Sarton* How burdened we became, as little girls, with the labels applied by parents, teachers, even school chums. We believe about ourselves what others t...	rosie light shines	3	976	Oct 24, 2005 by Phil
	WOW!!! 12Steps in plain english (Preview) The 12 Steps in Plain English 1. Alcohol will kill me. 2. There's a power that wants me to live. 3. Do I want to live or die? (if you want to die, stop here) 4. Write about how I got to where I am. 5. Tell another person all about me (let God listen). 6. Want to change. 7. Ask a power greater than me to help me ch...	rosie light shines	0	1036	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	hi guys (Preview) hey guys. everything here is good, just that winter is starting to show its ugly face as a few snowflakes this am. oh well, winter is going to be hard for me as i dont like it and did alot of drinking in those months, as work slows down,and more idle time on my hands. everyone be safe god bless wagon:weirdfac...	wagon	2	697	Oct 23, 2005 by GammyRose
	IF YOU SO CHOOSE (Preview) If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persist...	Doll	2	715	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	It matters to me, too (Preview) I read this on another site, thought it was great and wanted to share. A man walking on the beach saw a little boy tossing starfish back into the ocean. Seeing that there were thousands of starfish beached, the man went to the little boy and asked him what he was doing. The little boy sai...	Doll	3	732	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	inner values (Preview) Express your inner values Do your outer choices reflect your inner values? If not, then your life will move from one conflict to another. Yet when the choices you make do indeed come from the person you are, then you will travel steadily in the direction of your highest visions. When your actions are...	wantneeda	3	726	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	reaping what i sew with the 12Steps (Preview) *Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle. --Abraham Maslow* This is a simple program but it isn't easy. We cannot take the principles we learn and thereby possess them as if we were taking a class or reading a book. W...	rosie light shines	1	758	Oct 23, 2005 by Phil
	focusing more on the SOLUTION (Preview) *I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence* Sometimes when we feel sorry for ourselves we will sit alone in our bedroom. We may even feel so down in the dumps that we decide to stay there, indulging in self-pity, thinking about how the world is against us. However, if we use our imagina...	rosie light shines	1	733	Oct 23, 2005 by Phil
	Thoughts For Friday Night (Preview) My wife and I divorced over religious differences. She thought that she was God, and I didnt. I dont suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. Some people are alive, only because, its illegal to kill them. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. You're just jealous because the vo...	Phil	3	700	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	learning to trust again!! (Preview) Learning to Trust Again Many of us have trust issues.Some of us tried long and hard to trust untrustworthy people. Over and again, we believed lies and promises never to be kept. Some of us tried to trust people for the impossible; for instance, trusting a practicing alcoholic not to drink again....	rosie light shines	2	990	Oct 23, 2005 by rosie light shines
	love takes time (Preview) Love Takes Time Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying... Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment. Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rej...	rosie light shines	1	741	Oct 23, 2005 by Phil
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