Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER. --Anonymous One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everything we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and...

Phil · Phil

Trapped Within ~~~~ I feel trapped... Within my fears Within my dreams Within my hope Within my insecurities Within my life Within my love Within my loneliness I can't escape these feelings They always come back I could be happy *as forever* And with a single, errant thought CRASH The warm feelin...

schleich · schleich

Hello everyone. I am beginning my challenge to face my addiction to alcohol today. It has gone on for too long. I am 45 and have been drinking since I was 17; real heavily the last few years. I am going to a meeting tonight and am trying to get in a rehab program tomorrow night.&n...

Phil · Phil

A blind man walks into a bar, grabs his dog by its hind legs, and swings him around in a circle. The bartender says, "Hey buddy, what are you doing?" And the blind man says, "Don't mind me, I'm just looking around

lady_ladonna_1 · lady_ladonna_1

I read these posts and feel so bad for what alcoholics have to deal with. As a family member I can relate to how other family members feel but never really understood the pain the alcoholic feels. I've written before regarding my dying (ex)husband and I wanted to share that in reading some of these pos...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Easy Does ItStrain & struggle abound when we try to do everything ourselves, our way. We want positive change to occur immediately & expect miracles to happen according to our personal timetable. We sometimes feel that if our Higher Power is guiding us, we should be able to accomplish great...

SamanthaK · SamanthaK

hello, my name is Samantha, i'm an alcoholic and a drug addict. i'm 21 yrs old and have been clean and sober a little over 4 months. i'm trying to get as big of a support group i can, so i thought i'd see what this forum is all about.

Donna_C · Donna_C

Humility The AA Twelve and Twelve tells us that "the whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility." We first looked at humility in the Third Step when we made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. "The attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A...

Serenity · Serenity

Good Afternoon My Friends, I am currently working on step six with a question about pride if anyone has any esh on step six or pride i would sure love to hear from yah. Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character (Question One) Make a list of good and bad ways th...

Phil · Phil

Humility looks like saying, “There is something here that I don’t know, the knowing of which would change everything.” Humility looks like saying, “You may be right,” or, “I can understand how you could feel that way.” Humility looks like an open acknowledgement that we don’t have it all figure...

Phil · Phil

Struggling with Ego By JJ Gormley Commonly thought to represent the self, the ego commands center stage in our lives for the simple reason that the ego marks us as individually distinctive from other selves or egos. Our ego is basically our personality. Psychologically cast, ego controls our t...

Busbe · Busbe

Since u live in Canada do u watch the red green show it comes on here Sat eve at 10:30pm It gives us a good laugh to go to sleep on. I know this isnt program but tryin to lighten up Busbe

elizabeth · elizabeth

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times. Fortunately for baseball fans, Babe Ruth didn’t let his many strikeouts defeat him. He continued going to bat & he kept hitting home runs. How many of us stay willing to try an activity when we’ve experienced defeat, particularly public d...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Today's Quote The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. -Unknown

wallsal55 · wallsal55

Hi, got any goodies on file about insecurity? Boy, I got very insecure after Christmas (and sick, physically and spiritually). THe old insecurities came out like a volcano... Needless... to say I made a huge mistake...but to make a LONG story short, maybe some things HAD to get w...

Phil · Phil

New Year's Resolutions for Internet Junkies... I will try to figure out why I *really* need 9 e-mail addresses. I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband). I resolve to work with neglected children -- my own. I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-m...

GammyRose · GammyRose

Well, Phil ...the zoo is pretty quiet. It's just me and the monkies in my mind. I gave my cat away a few weeks ago, he was not happy after my son went to college and life is a little calmer now. I am going to have to venture out in the cold in awhile to check on my Mom and go to the post office. How are your plans fo...

Phil · Phil

Q: What causes a person to experience anger? A: There are basically two ways of experiencing anger. You can feel angry with yourself over not having done as well as you had hoped on an examination, or you can have the other kind of anger which is directed at someone else or some object. In other words...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Child of Mine Oh, little child of mine I finally know you're here and I want you to know that I am learning to care I care that you were hurt deep wounds to soul and heart and I in ignorant blindness kept myself so set apart I didn't want to hear your rage from all the pain you've had I didn't know to reach for you...

Phil · Phil

Accepting Help Some of us have felt so alienated that we've forgotten we're not alone. We've come to believe that we have to do it ourselves. Some of us have been abandoned. Some have gone without love. Some of us have gotten used to people never being there for us. Some of us have struggled, had hard...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

I read with great interest your posts on dry drunks. I witness, too, my spouse, get angry, disappointed in others ambitions and achievements, lose his clarity. Sometimes he tries to rain on my parade, spoil my mood. I usually have to pull out my boundary bag and use one for s...

Phil · Phil

A Year To Grow This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring, we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming resentment and selfish...

Phil · Phil

Step Ten "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It promises satisfying dreams but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the "ego" but starves the inner person. It fills a calendar but fractures a family...

Phil · Phil

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. --Faith Baldwin Change surrounds us. It lies within us, too. The trees in the yard have changed. They've grown taller. Their leaves die and scatter on the ground in the fall. We don't resemble our baby pictures much anymore, either. Like tree...

Phil · Phil

Living Today The beginning of the New Year will often bring back sad memories. This has been the big day for hangovers, coming down, remorse, guilt, and shame. But if we stay with our new purpose - staying clean and staying close to our Higher Power - we don't have to fear the New Year. God has forgi...

John · John

Happy New Year!! May 2005 be full of happiness, joy and freedom for both, YOU and those you love! Should you find yourself in a slump, just remember... YOU ARE A MIRACLE IN PROGRESS! Yours In Healing and Recovery, John F. Wilmington, NC -- Edited by John at 01:10, 2005-01-01

Phil · Phil

To thank each and every one of you for being here the last 365 days. Its been quite a ride. Looking forward to a smoother one in 2005--God Willing. My sobriety moment of 20 years --one day at a time-- is tomorrow at 115pm Im not bragging about that--Im just pretty damned grateful I r...

AngelEyes · AngelEyes

Hi there, I was browsing the internet and found your site after coming to terms with the fact that I am an alcoholic. I am young, only 22 years old and are what some people call a "functional addict." I have the nice job, I'm active in my community, I was always class President in High Sch...

Nic · Nic

Welcome Hoolia! This board moves quite quickly, with lots of people popping in, so thought I would post again to make sure you know you have been noticed, and we are glad you're here. You asked, "What is a dry drunk?" ... to me it is just living sober. I am dry, as long as I don't pick up a drink. Someti...

tanman · tanman

Greetings, This is my first post here, so I apologize if I'm not used to the norms and standards in use! I'm an alcoholic who is struggling to make my life better, to improve myself with the help of God and others like myself. I've been attending meetings for close on three years, though I ashame...

Nic · Nic

Hi all, I have just heard from an on-line friend, who's son had been about a month sober. I haven't had face to face contact with any of this family, and have developed a genuine friendship with his Mum over a few years online. I really like her and feel I can relate to her words. When he decided he wanted t...

Busbe · Busbe

Hi everyone, I hope I am still welcome on this board after my dry drunk through the holidays Im doing better with that now but now down with bronchtus that I just got over I wish I would learn that emotional upsets make me sick...After all these years one would think a person would catch on oh well...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Opening Ourselves To Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Love was g...

elizabeth · elizabeth

someone here tried to send this joke a couple of times but the ending was cut short every time. someone just sent it to me and i thought i would pass it along. Marty wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirin...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Received this from a friend.........is she right? Been around the block once or twice myself. Never thought of it this way before myself but now that she has pointed it out......well there is some truth in what she says in my experiences. I really don't think she can put all men in t...

elizabeth · elizabeth

Happy New Year everyone. All the best in 2005.

Phil · Phil

VERY TRUE Canadian liquor manufacturers have accepted the Health Canada's suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on all varieties of alcohol containers: WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra a...

Phil · Phil

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson Past New Year's Eves may have meant times of excessive chemical use. We may have embarrassed ourselves in many ways. W...

GammyRose · GammyRose

Praying that all have a very blessed New Years Eve and 2005. I will be sober this New Years Eve, it's a choice I have made this morning as I sat,drinking that first cup of tea. As I sat praying and ask God what I needed to do today, where I needed to go, who I needed to reach out to, what He would have me do? He sa...

Phil · Phil

"In learning how to achieve some emotional balance in our lives, it is necessary to be able to look at our self, our own inner process, and the life dynamic itself, from different perspectives. It is this looking at different levels that is the process of processing. Processing is a matter of looking a...

Phil · Phil

It was New Year's Eve ... by then, actually, it was very early on New Year's morning. The drunk staggered out of the men's room and wobbled his way to the bar. "I, uh, lll..., I'll ha-have anudder. Maske itta dubble." The bartender looks him over and notices the vomit staining the front of the drunk'...

Phil · Phil

----------------------------------------------------- Edited by Phil at 16:56, 2004-12-30

Phil · Phil

I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the...

DblWinnr · DblWinnr

"Become a Searcher, for those who seek are the Finders of Treasures" (author unknown) "Be a good Listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble" (by Frank Tyger) Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight" (by Benjamin Franklin)...

Phil · Phil

Laying the Foundation The groundwork has been laid. Do you not see that? Don't you understand that all you have gone through was for a purpose? There was a reason, a good reason, for the waiting, the struggle, the pain, and finally the release. You have been prepared. The same wa...

John · John

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Be A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ INTO ACTION A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live,...

Phil · Phil

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY, With its mistakes and cares, Its faults and blunders, Its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. ...

Phil · Phil

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction. --Rita Mae Brown There once was a woman who told her husband what she thought he wanted to hear. She told him she was happy when she wasn't. She told him she liked his friends when she didn't. She tried to figure out what he wanted so she could do it for hi...

Phil · Phil

*** Signs that you "just might" have a drinking problem. *** You lose arguments with inanimate objects. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth. Your job is interfering with your drinking. Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream. Sincerely beli...

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	Will Power--vroom!! (Preview) WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER. --Anonymous One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everything we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and...	Phil	1	1046	Jan 7, 2005 by wallsal55
	just sharing a few things (Preview) Trapped Within ~~~~ I feel trapped... Within my fears Within my dreams Within my hope Within my insecurities Within my life Within my love Within my loneliness I can't escape these feelings They always come back I could be happy as forever And with a single, errant thought CRASH The warm feelin...	Phil	1	1058	Jan 7, 2005 by wallsal55
	hello... (Preview) Hello everyone. I am beginning my challenge to face my addiction to alcohol today. It has gone on for too long. I am 45 and have been drinking since I was 17; real heavily the last few years. I am going to a meeting tonight and am trying to get in a rehab program tomorrow night.&n...	schleich	4	1328	Jan 7, 2005 by schleich
	I need help.:) (Preview) A blind man walks into a bar, grabs his dog by its hind legs, and swings him around in a circle. The bartender says, "Hey buddy, what are you doing?" And the blind man says, "Don't mind me, I'm just looking around	Phil	1	1016	Jan 7, 2005 by Donna_C
	Understanding (Preview) I read these posts and feel so bad for what alcoholics have to deal with. As a family member I can relate to how other family members feel but never really understood the pain the alcoholic feels. I've written before regarding my dying (ex)husband and I wanted to share that in reading some of these pos...	lady_ladonna_1	2	1022	Jan 7, 2005 by Donna_C
	food for thought (Preview) Easy Does ItStrain & struggle abound when we try to do everything ourselves, our way. We want positive change to occur immediately & expect miracles to happen according to our personal timetable. We sometimes feel that if our Higher Power is guiding us, we should be able to accomplish great...	elizabeth	1	1079	Jan 7, 2005 by Phil
	hello... (Preview) hello, my name is Samantha, i'm an alcoholic and a drug addict. i'm 21 yrs old and have been clean and sober a little over 4 months. i'm trying to get as big of a support group i can, so i thought i'd see what this forum is all about.	SamanthaK	4	993	Jan 7, 2005 by SamanthaK
	Humility continued....Step Seven is about Humility (Preview) Humility The AA Twelve and Twelve tells us that "the whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility." We first looked at humility in the Third Step when we made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. "The attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A...	Donna_C	0	1335	Jan 6, 2005 by Donna_C
	Working Step Six, On The Question About Pride (Preview) Good Afternoon My Friends, I am currently working on step six with a question about pride if anyone has any esh on step six or pride i would sure love to hear from yah. Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character (Question One) Make a list of good and bad ways th...	Serenity	2	1344	Jan 6, 2005 by Nic
	A few things re Humility (Preview) Humility looks like saying, “There is something here that I don’t know, the knowing of which would change everything.” Humility looks like saying, “You may be right,” or, “I can understand how you could feel that way.” Humility looks like an open acknowledgement that we don’t have it all figure...	Phil	0	1009	Jan 6, 2005 by Phil
	An article about ego (Preview) Struggling with Ego By JJ Gormley Commonly thought to represent the self, the ego commands center stage in our lives for the simple reason that the ego marks us as individually distinctive from other selves or egos. Our ego is basically our personality. Psychologically cast, ego controls our t...	Phil	0	1157	Jan 6, 2005 by Phil
	? Phil (Preview) Since u live in Canada do u watch the red green show it comes on here Sat eve at 10:30pm It gives us a good laugh to go to sleep on. I know this isnt program but tryin to lighten up Busbe	Busbe	5	1062	Jan 6, 2005 by Serenity
	it's a new day (Preview) Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times. Fortunately for baseball fans, Babe Ruth didn’t let his many strikeouts defeat him. He continued going to bat & he kept hitting home runs. How many of us stay willing to try an activity when we’ve experienced defeat, particularly public d...	elizabeth	1	1138	Jan 6, 2005 by Phil
	and how (Preview) Today's Quote The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. -Unknown	elizabeth	1	1020	Jan 6, 2005 by Phil
	Pssst...Phil....DW, all (Preview) Hi, got any goodies on file about insecurity? Boy, I got very insecure after Christmas (and sick, physically and spiritually). THe old insecurities came out like a volcano... Needless... to say I made a huge mistake...but to make a LONG story short, maybe some things HAD to get w...	wallsal55	1	999	Jan 6, 2005 by Phil
	New Years Resolutions (Preview) New Year's Resolutions for Internet Junkies... I will try to figure out why I really need 9 e-mail addresses. I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband). I resolve to work with neglected children -- my own. I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-m...	Phil	3	1084	Jan 6, 2005 by Busbe
	Zoo, Phil.... (Preview) Well, Phil ...the zoo is pretty quiet. It's just me and the monkies in my mind. I gave my cat away a few weeks ago, he was not happy after my son went to college and life is a little calmer now. I am going to have to venture out in the cold in awhile to check on my Mom and go to the post office. How are your plans fo...	GammyRose	1	1222	Jan 5, 2005 by Phil
	Anger (Preview) Q: What causes a person to experience anger? A: There are basically two ways of experiencing anger. You can feel angry with yourself over not having done as well as you had hoped on an examination, or you can have the other kind of anger which is directed at someone else or some object. In other words...	Phil	1	1651	Jan 5, 2005 by Serenity
	child of mine (Preview) Child of Mine Oh, little child of mine I finally know you're here and I want you to know that I am learning to care I care that you were hurt deep wounds to soul and heart and I in ignorant blindness kept myself so set apart I didn't want to hear your rage from all the pain you've had I didn't know to reach for you...	elizabeth	3	1041	Jan 5, 2005 by Serenity
	Accepting (Preview) Accepting Help Some of us have felt so alienated that we've forgotten we're not alone. We've come to believe that we have to do it ourselves. Some of us have been abandoned. Some have gone without love. Some of us have gotten used to people never being there for us. Some of us have struggled, had hard...	Phil	1	1092	Jan 5, 2005 by Phil
	Nic, catherine, anyone...dry or active? (Preview) I read with great interest your posts on dry drunks. I witness, too, my spouse, get angry, disappointed in others ambitions and achievements, lose his clarity. Sometimes he tries to rain on my parade, spoil my mood. I usually have to pull out my boundary bag and use one for s...	wallsal55	5	1744	Jan 4, 2005 by catherine
	A Year To Grow (Preview) A Year To Grow This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring, we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming resentment and selfish...	Phil	1	1015	Jan 4, 2005 by wallsal55
	Have a good day!! (Preview) Step Ten "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather...	Phil	1	1398	Jan 4, 2005 by wallsal55
	my thought for today (Preview) Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It promises satisfying dreams but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the "ego" but starves the inner person. It fills a calendar but fractures a family...	elizabeth	1	954	Jan 4, 2005 by wallsal55
	Change (Preview) Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. --Faith Baldwin Change surrounds us. It lies within us, too. The trees in the yard have changed. They've grown taller. Their leaves die and scatter on the ground in the fall. We don't resemble our baby pictures much anymore, either. Like tree...	Phil	1	1166	Jan 3, 2005 by Phil
	Living Today (Preview) Living Today The beginning of the New Year will often bring back sad memories. This has been the big day for hangovers, coming down, remorse, guilt, and shame. But if we stay with our new purpose - staying clean and staying close to our Higher Power - we don't have to fear the New Year. God has forgi...	Phil	2	994	Jan 3, 2005 by Phil
	HapPy nEW yeAr! (Preview) Happy New Year!! May 2005 be full of happiness, joy and freedom for both, YOU and those you love! Should you find yourself in a slump, just remember... YOU ARE A MIRACLE IN PROGRESS! Yours In Healing and Recovery, John F. Wilmington, NC -- Edited by John at 01:10, 2005-01-01	John	2	985	Jan 3, 2005 by DblWinnr
	Taking the opportunity (Preview) To thank each and every one of you for being here the last 365 days. Its been quite a ride. Looking forward to a smoother one in 2005--God Willing. My sobriety moment of 20 years --one day at a time-- is tomorrow at 115pm Im not bragging about that--Im just pretty damned grateful I r...	Phil	3	1183	Jan 3, 2005 by DblWinnr
	Today is a New Year (Preview) Hi there, I was browsing the internet and found your site after coming to terms with the fact that I am an alcoholic. I am young, only 22 years old and are what some people call a "functional addict." I have the nice job, I'm active in my community, I was always class President in High Sch...	AngelEyes	3	1380	Jan 2, 2005 by DblWinnr
	Hello Hoolia - RE: Dry Drunk (Preview) Welcome Hoolia! This board moves quite quickly, with lots of people popping in, so thought I would post again to make sure you know you have been noticed, and we are glad you're here. You asked, "What is a dry drunk?" ... to me it is just living sober. I am dry, as long as I don't pick up a drink. Someti...	Nic	4	1940	Jan 2, 2005 by amanda2u2
	request for advice with AA personality. . . (Preview) Greetings, This is my first post here, so I apologize if I'm not used to the norms and standards in use! I'm an alcoholic who is struggling to make my life better, to improve myself with the help of God and others like myself. I've been attending meetings for close on three years, though I ashame...	tanman	9	1484	Jan 2, 2005 by DblWinnr
	On-line friendship (Preview) Hi all, I have just heard from an on-line friend, who's son had been about a month sober. I haven't had face to face contact with any of this family, and have developed a genuine friendship with his Mum over a few years online. I really like her and feel I can relate to her words. When he decided he wanted t...	Nic	4	1399	Jan 2, 2005 by Nic
	am I still welcome (Preview) Hi everyone, I hope I am still welcome on this board after my dry drunk through the holidays Im doing better with that now but now down with bronchtus that I just got over I wish I would learn that emotional upsets make me sick...After all these years one would think a person would catch on oh well...	Busbe	8	1177	Jan 1, 2005 by Hoolia
	opening ourselves to love (Preview) Opening Ourselves To Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Love was g...	elizabeth	0	1088	Jan 1, 2005 by elizabeth
	remember when (Preview) someone here tried to send this joke a couple of times but the ending was cut short every time. someone just sent it to me and i thought i would pass it along. Marty wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirin...	elizabeth	0	1056	Jan 1, 2005 by elizabeth
	can you relate? (Preview) Received this from a friend.........is she right? Been around the block once or twice myself. Never thought of it this way before myself but now that she has pointed it out......well there is some truth in what she says in my experiences. I really don't think she can put all men in t...	elizabeth	3	1215	Jan 1, 2005 by Nic
	Happy New Year (Preview) Happy New Year everyone. All the best in 2005.	elizabeth	2	970	Dec 31, 2004 by Phil
	Consumption of Alcohol (Preview) VERY TRUE Canadian liquor manufacturers have accepted the Health Canada's suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on all varieties of alcohol containers: WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra a...	Phil	0	948	Dec 31, 2004 by Phil
	New Years Eve (Preview) Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson Past New Year's Eves may have meant times of excessive chemical use. We may have embarrassed ourselves in many ways. W...	Phil	0	1131	Dec 31, 2004 by Phil
	New Years Eve (Preview) Praying that all have a very blessed New Years Eve and 2005. I will be sober this New Years Eve, it's a choice I have made this morning as I sat,drinking that first cup of tea. As I sat praying and ask God what I needed to do today, where I needed to go, who I needed to reach out to, what He would have me do? He sa...	GammyRose	2	1033	Dec 31, 2004 by Cabbageheadchris
	Just a small share-Have a great day guys (Preview) "In learning how to achieve some emotional balance in our lives, it is necessary to be able to look at our self, our own inner process, and the life dynamic itself, from different perspectives. It is this looking at different levels that is the process of processing. Processing is a matter of looking a...	Phil	0	977	Dec 31, 2004 by Phil
	Only a practicing Alky could think this one up (Preview) It was New Year's Eve ... by then, actually, it was very early on New Year's morning. The drunk staggered out of the men's room and wobbled his way to the bar. "I, uh, lll..., I'll ha-have anudder. Maske itta dubble." The bartender looks him over and notices the vomit staining the front of the drunk'...	Phil	1	956	Dec 31, 2004 by Nic
	Sign In A Bar (Preview) ----------------------------------------------------- Edited by Phil at 16:56, 2004-12-30	Phil	1	1024	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Waiting (Preview) I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the...	Phil	0	1035	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Thoughtful Things to Remember... (Preview) "Become a Searcher, for those who seek are the Finders of Treasures" (author unknown) "Be a good Listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble" (by Frank Tyger) Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight" (by Benjamin Franklin)...	DblWinnr	1	984	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	The Foundation (Preview) Laying the Foundation The groundwork has been laid. Do you not see that? Don't you understand that all you have gone through was for a purpose? There was a reason, a good reason, for the waiting, the struggle, the pain, and finally the release. You have been prepared. The same wa...	Phil	0	990	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Into Action - Thought for the day (Preview) ~~~~~~~~~Be A Sponsor~~~~~~~~~ INTO ACTION A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live,...	John	1	1106	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Have a great day guys (Preview) There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY, With its mistakes and cares, Its faults and blunders, Its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. ...	Phil	3	1297	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Self Destruction (Preview) The price of dishonesty is self-destruction. --Rita Mae Brown There once was a woman who told her husband what she thought he wanted to hear. She told him she was happy when she wasn't. She told him she liked his friends when she didn't. She tried to figure out what he wanted so she could do it for hi...	Phil	3	1189	Dec 30, 2004 by Phil
	Remember When (Preview) * Signs that you "just might" have a drinking problem. * You lose arguments with inanimate objects. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth. Your job is interfering with your drinking. Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream. Sincerely beli...	Phil	1	1033	Dec 29, 2004 by Cabbageheadchris
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