One night a sponsor got a call from one of his sponsees. The sponsee complained the same old complaints of being restless, irratable and discontent. The sponsor asked him if he was reading his Big Book and the sponsee said that he was reading it daily and that it wasn't helping! The sponsor then instructed his new friend to find a cookbook. He came back to the phone with the cookbook and was instructed to read the recipe for chocolate cake. So he read to him all the ingredients, how hot the oven was to be and when he was through his sponsor told him to read it again. By now the sponsee is a little upset and asks what this has to do with staying sober, with a laugh, his sponsor told him to humor him! So he read it again, all the ingredients, oven temperature, and after he had read it to him the second time, the sponsor asked him for a piece of cake. The sponsee told him he could not give him any cake and the sponsor asked him why? "Because, I haven't gone through the action of making the cake." With a laugh, the sponsor told his sponsee that that was why he wasn't getting any results from reading the Big Book!
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Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll learn.
Love It!!! ... ... ... The analogy I use involves a road trip 'cross country' ... if you don't take the 'action' to prepare the car and check that the maintenance is 'up-to-date' (spiritually fit), then you'll never complete the trip ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
Damn kicked in my craving for chocolate anything. Never get that craving when I am in the book. I get the point just wish I could get the chocolate. Keep coming back.
Oh crap, ... ... ... anything but carrot cake or spice cake ... ... ... thanks a lot Dean, now I need to go to the store ... I absolutely love carrot cake with 'cream cheese' icing ... (I may as well pick up some Krispy Kreme chocolate covered doughnuts too!!!) ... ... ... I only needed just the smallest push to celebrate my great cholesterol test results earlier this week ... LOL ... (my triglycerides are a different story though ... ) ... oh well ... ... ... (the little woman is out-of-town, staying with the kid, so I can, well, you know ... ... eat what I want ... LOL)(and I don't have to share ... yipPee)
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
I also like to say "Don't talk that s*^t if you don't have cleaning supplies." Just playing. Hope you all are well. And I hope you all are remembering that although all of us are alcoholics, alcoholism does not define all of what we are.
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"And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone-even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned."
Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 84
An addict is WHAT I am but it does not define all of WHO I am.
