Alcoholics Anonymous

justadrunk · justadrunk

-- Edited by justadrunk on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 04:35:32 PM

Butterfinger · Butterfinger

While my life has improved in unimaginable ways I can't help but notice that I'm still not very nice in my personal life at times. I can be condescending, argumentative, confrontational, flippant, impatient and difficult. I'd like to not be those things but it just seems like it's part of my persona...

John · John

I have read a lot of post this morning regarding Valentines Day... everything from well wishes, to feelings of loneliness. I remember the first Valentines day card I got in school. I was in the second grade. She put it on my desk. And I immediately fell in love with her! LOLThen I discovered she gave...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Ha! The joys of looking through my email messages in the morning

I've been getting all these ads for painless face lifts, weight loss, life insurance, funeral insurance, Publisher's Clearinghouse (which I entered, and regret doing so because everyday I get multiple emails telling me...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Coping with FamiliesThere are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay connected with family members and learn different behaviors. Some disconnect for a time, and then return slowly on a dif...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 14 "With respect to its own affairs, the collective conscience of the group will, given time, almost surely demonstrate its perfect dependability. The group conscience will, in the end, prove a far more infallible guide for group affairs than the decision of any individual membe...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh PratherDestiny has its own course in each of our lives. And our movements with others who are special will thankfully be parallel at times. However, our paths will shar...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I never understood alcoholics joking about this disease when I first started going to AA meetings. Finally can laugh at them myself and here are a couple which I hope don't offend anyone, but if so..sorry about that (I didn't write em).... How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just o...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Anybody else getting this funky white sticky stuff? It's really coming down in VA! People are already going crazy. Traffic is a mess, stores are packed with people stocking up on their bread, milk and beer (not me on that last one). It's a good night to find an old movie on t.v., make some hot tea :coffeec...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

A cheap brand of AA is Not a bargain. AA has a wrench to fit Every Nut that walks through the doors. AA is a "check up , from the neck up" AA is Not for people who need it , AA is Not for people who want it , AA is for people who Do it . AA is the highest priced club in the world , f you have paid your dues , Why N...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Hi Lord If you take 1 minute to read this prayer, imagine how many prayers are going up for our country. Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting ....bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, and food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, governm...

debird17 · debird17

Hi all I hope you are all doing well. I'm on my 115 day of sobriety and even though I come to this board at least once a week I don't always post but I find much wisdom on this board and you all give me so much help just reading your posts. I go to a meeting every morning and in the beginning I felt I had so much to sh...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon.

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...

Ricky61 · Ricky61

Got a sweet tooth ?

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."

bikerbill · bikerbill

Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...

d_willing · d_willing

Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...

Butterfinger · Butterfinger

Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...

bikerbill · bikerbill

My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks. it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m. I've tried getting up for a pee and going back. I've tried getting up and doing something boring. I've tried just laying there...

Jerry F · Jerry F

at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...

Mike B. · Mike B.

February 10 "A vast communications net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches ... Nothing can matter more to the future welfare of AA than the manner in which we use this colossus of communication. Used unselfishly and well, the results can surpass our present imagination. Should...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take integrity is taking it.M.H. McKee

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

February 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "I don't believe in miracles,I depend on them!" If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. "Look at my life!" I would have said. "There are certainly no miracles happening h...

Stepchild · Stepchild

This is one of my favorite passages from the Big Book. I love how Bill says the same thing over and over with different wording.Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we on...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.--Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Complete and Finished> > No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference> between these two words. In a recently held linguistic competition held in> London , England , and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar> Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bache...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

These are just some of the ways Alcoholics Anonymous has changed my life........ I am starting to love me again!!

I love that I don't want to cry all the time

I love that I don't worry as much.

I love that I am not as lonely anymore.

I love that I am not as fearful as I was. :fea...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Knowledge is like climbing a mountain. The higher you reach the more you can see and appreciate.Unknown

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

Insanity - an alcoholic going into a bar for a drink . Daniel , Did NOT Go back into the lion's den to get his hat . Think , Think , Think We GET sober for Our drinking . We STAY sober for our Thinking.

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	:) (Preview) -- Edited by justadrunk on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 04:35:32 PM	justadrunk	8	786	Feb 15, 2014 by justadrunk
	Will I always be a jerk? (Preview) While my life has improved in unimaginable ways I can't help but notice that I'm still not very nice in my personal life at times. I can be condescending, argumentative, confrontational, flippant, impatient and difficult. I'd like to not be those things but it just seems like it's part of my persona...	Butterfinger	27	1197	Feb 15, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Valentines Day... memories pressed between the pages of my mind... (Preview) I have read a lot of post this morning regarding Valentines Day... everything from well wishes, to feelings of loneliness. I remember the first Valentines day card I got in school. I was in the second grade. She put it on my desk. And I immediately fell in love with her! LOLThen I discovered she gave...	John	4	2520	Feb 15, 2014 by Mike D
	In My Message Box This AM....."Don't Give Up Until You've Dated a Cougar" (Preview) Ha! The joys of looking through my email messages in the morning I've been getting all these ads for painless face lifts, weight loss, life insurance, funeral insurance, Publisher's Clearinghouse (which I entered, and regret doing so because everyday I get multiple emails telling me...	betterthanyesterday52	9	449	Feb 15, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) Coping with FamiliesThere are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay connected with family members and learn different behaviors. Some disconnect for a time, and then return slowly on a dif...	Pythonpappy	0	292	Feb 15, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones	Pythonpappy	0	409	Feb 14, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) February 14 "With respect to its own affairs, the collective conscience of the group will, given time, almost surely demonstrate its perfect dependability. The group conscience will, in the end, prove a far more infallible guide for group affairs than the decision of any individual membe...	Mike B.	1	322	Feb 14, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh PratherDestiny has its own course in each of our lives. And our movements with others who are special will thankfully be parallel at times. However, our paths will shar...	Pythonpappy	1	350	Feb 14, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Humor is Good for Us...... (Preview) I never understood alcoholics joking about this disease when I first started going to AA meetings. Finally can laugh at them myself and here are a couple which I hope don't offend anyone, but if so..sorry about that (I didn't write em).... How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just o...	betterthanyesterday52	19	593	Feb 14, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	It's Snowing!!!! (Preview) Anybody else getting this funky white sticky stuff? It's really coming down in VA! People are already going crazy. Traffic is a mess, stores are packed with people stocking up on their bread, milk and beer (not me on that last one). It's a good night to find an old movie on t.v., make some hot tea :coffeec...	betterthanyesterday52	6	493	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) A cheap brand of AA is Not a bargain. AA has a wrench to fit Every Nut that walks through the doors. AA is a "check up , from the neck up" AA is Not for people who need it , AA is Not for people who want it , AA is for people who Do it . AA is the highest priced club in the world , f you have paid your dues , Why N...	Zoomtopz	2	409	Feb 13, 2014 by Ricky61
	Good one for today ... (religious content) (Preview) Hi Lord If you take 1 minute to read this prayer, imagine how many prayers are going up for our country. Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting ....bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, and food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, governm...	Pythonpappy	3	373	Feb 13, 2014 by Mike D
	Checking In (Preview) Hi all I hope you are all doing well. I'm on my 115 day of sobriety and even though I come to this board at least once a week I don't always post but I find much wisdom on this board and you all give me so much help just reading your posts. I go to a meeting every morning and in the beginning I felt I had so much to sh...	debird17	8	553	Feb 13, 2014 by Stepchild
	Today's Gift (Preview) What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...	Pythonpappy	3	255	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry	Pythonpappy	1	370	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."	Mike B.	2	403	Feb 13, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Another one...... (Preview) Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon.	betterthanyesterday52	4	461	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	MY FAVORITE!!!!! (Preview) A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...	betterthanyesterday52	4	376	Feb 13, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	craving sugar (Preview) Got a sweet tooth ?	Ricky61	6	512	Feb 12, 2014 by Mike D
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela	Pythonpappy	2	277	Feb 12, 2014 by Mike B.
	Extra Special Chocolate Cake for Your Valentine or AA Meetings! Special Alert to PAPPY! (Preview) This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...	betterthanyesterday52	9	407	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...	Pythonpappy	1	301	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."	Mike B.	2	213	Feb 12, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	sittin' on my hands again. (Preview) Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...	bikerbill	8	560	Feb 12, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	90 in 90 (Preview) Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...	d_willing	11	561	Feb 12, 2014 by Stepchild
	Family Day (Preview) Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...	Butterfinger	11	526	Feb 12, 2014 by gonee
	Would This Be Considered Cross Talking? (Preview) Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...	betterthanyesterday52	12	695	Feb 11, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Can Willpower Alone Keep An Alcoholic From Drinking? (Preview) Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...	betterthanyesterday52	20	1694	Feb 11, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	How Much Info Is to Much Info to Tell Relatives About Our Sobriety (Preview) Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...	betterthanyesterday52	15	527	Feb 11, 2014 by Butterfinger
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...	Zoomtopz	2	470	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."	Mike B.	3	400	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand	Pythonpappy	0	364	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...	Pythonpappy	0	407	Feb 11, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	On Death by Kahlil Gibran warning religious content (Preview) Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...	betterthanyesterday52	4	482	Feb 11, 2014 by Butterfinger
	now, I'm not complaining. ... (Preview) My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks. it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m. I've tried getting up for a pee and going back. I've tried getting up and doing something boring. I've tried just laying there...	bikerbill	7	473	Feb 11, 2014 by bikerbill
	Birthday Sunday (Preview) at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...	Jerry F	5	382	Feb 10, 2014 by mikef
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...	Zoomtopz	4	328	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) February 10 "A vast communications net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches ... Nothing can matter more to the future welfare of AA than the manner in which we use this colossus of communication. Used unselfishly and well, the results can surpass our present imagination. Should...	Mike B.	2	391	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Wisdom is knowing the right path to take integrity is taking it.M.H. McKee	Pythonpappy	3	311	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) February 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "I don't believe in miracles,I depend on them!" If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. "Look at my life!" I would have said. "There are certainly no miracles happening h...	Pythonpappy	4	410	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Where and how do we find God?...As you understand God. (Preview) This is one of my favorite passages from the Big Book. I love how Bill says the same thing over and over with different wording.Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we on...	Stepchild	6	436	Feb 10, 2014 by billyjack
	Today's Gift (Preview) In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.--Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...	Pythonpappy	1	281	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	A Funny ... from an AA brother! (Preview) Complete and Finished> > No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference> between these two words. In a recently held linguistic competition held in> London , England , and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar> Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bache...	Pythonpappy	1	289	Feb 10, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	What Alcoholics Anonymous Has Done For Me (Preview) These are just some of the ways Alcoholics Anonymous has changed my life........ I am starting to love me again!! I love that I don't want to cry all the time I love that I don't worry as much. I love that I am not as lonely anymore. I love that I am not as fearful as I was. :fea...	betterthanyesterday52	4	594	Feb 9, 2014 by Mike D
	Weekly Thought --- (religious concept) (Preview) Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...	Pythonpappy	2	220	Feb 9, 2014 by Mike D
	"One Drink Killed Philip Seymour" (Preview) That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.	betterthanyesterday52	27	1026	Feb 9, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Been Watch'n Some Golf, ... ergo ... 50 Shades of Golf (Preview) I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...	Pythonpappy	1	278	Feb 9, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...	Pythonpappy	1	263	Feb 9, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) Knowledge is like climbing a mountain. The higher you reach the more you can see and appreciate.Unknown	Pythonpappy	1	284	Feb 9, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Heard @ Meetings (Preview) Insanity - an alcoholic going into a bar for a drink . Daniel , Did NOT Go back into the lion's den to get his hat . Think , Think , Think We GET sober for Our drinking . We STAY sober for our Thinking.	Zoomtopz	1	346	Feb 9, 2014 by Pythonpappy
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