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  • Acceptance Was The Answer

    Once we overcome the drinking the next big challenge is living sober. For many of us, overcoming self-centeredness is as big of a challenge as overcoming the drinking. The AA twelve steps are the answer of course. Adm…

  • More About Alcoholism

    The authors really pour it on in this chapter. They create hopelessness in the alcoholic so that they are willing to listen to a solution. They challenge you to look at your drinking and honestly admit how far it has …

  • The new Box 459 is out and it has a couple of interesting articles. The article Origin of a Well Known Quote has a great thought. It talks about what it takes to make AA succeed and how we should not worry about our r…

  • Gratitude

    It didn’t take long for me to feel like I had been released, literally and figuratively, from a nightmare when I came to AA and found the power in the fellowship to quit drinking. I had been spiraling downward for som…

  • Identify, don't compare

    A Drunk, Like You offers a good tip, “They said I needed to identify, not compare. I didn’t know what they meant. What was the difference? Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. C…

  • The theme of the second half of There Is A Solution seems to be that we can overcome alcoholism, alcoholism being defined as beyond human aid, by developing a spiritual experience resulting from a relationship with a …

  • Step Eleven

    This week I have made a special effort to sit down in the morning, before the day starts, and take a few minutes to practice prayer and meditation. It has been somewhat a effort in will power to put this first in my d…

  • “In fact, I did not need to find God. I only needed an open mind, and the spirit found me.” The Perpetual Quest, page 397, second paragraph. Gee whiz! That sounds easy! I could do that!

  • There Is A Solution - Page 17-24

    The thoughts in this first half of There Is A Solution that caught my attention are around the solution the authors found to stop drinking and unify themselves into a evangelic society. They make it plain there is mor…

  • Twelve & Twelve - Step Seven

    "That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will...",Twelve & Twelve, Step Seven, page 72. Well, I guess I'm a long way from that vision of perfection. Enough humility to stay sober, …

  • Me An Alcoholic? I really like the paragraph on page 386 that describes what he found when he got to AA. "Here I found an ingredient that had been lacking in any other effort I had made to save myself. Here…

  • Bill's Story Perhaps it is the alcoholic that stands before us and says it can be done that makes it possible for so many of us to recover. Hope is a powerful force. And when we finally arrive into the fellowship hop…

  • Tradition 2 We never master the program. As we make progress, it seems the horizon of true humility remains distant. This has been the situation for me in the last few weeks. New challenges to humility continue to prese…

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