One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and desired to lift its burden. So he left his horse loose to go the mountains and live out the rest of its life. Soon after, neighbors from the nearby […]
Julianna Patricia Allison wrote; I started my sobriety on Jan 19, 2011 due to circumstances beyond my control, my husband went into rehab for alcohol abuse so I quit mostly for that reason, I don’t have a sponsor, and I could use someone to talk to, thanks Pat Hi Pat My oldest daughter who had […]
The phrase “Before we are half way through” (page 83 of the Alcoholics Anonymous book) does not refer to Step Five. It refers to Step Nine that being the step where we make our amends. The full text reads: “If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we […]
an attitude of gratitude is a prayer unto God
I am not perfect, or any where’s near to being perfect, in anyway. Nor do I claim to be. I have made many mistakes in this thing we call life. One thing that I have truly learned is some truths about me and everyday I learn more and more about me. Some truths I consider […]
It has been said misery loves company, this I find not to be altogether true, as misery Demands Company as anger insists on the distraction of recognition
Take an ear, there was once a man who held a candle that all in the room might see, it was a good thing, and the man held the candle high over his head that the light to all was free, in time the candle was held close to his vest so he became the […]
Spring has sprung and love was in the air, and the zoo was alive with the ardor of the Bongo as well as the prolific March Hare. Claire a grandchild of seven Mays was bushy tailed and wide eyed at the wonders of the unnatural urban oasis. The frisky felines that are the Bengal cats […]
The housekeeping chore of introductions and the customary invocation (inviting the spirit) in the form of the serenity prayer created a harmony of expectation as the topic was laid out with thoughtful consideration and with the utmost care. The floor was now open to whoever would like to address the topic at hand, and of course […]
A long and seemingly endless drought for there was a famine of both rain and alcohol. The grit from life’s hard rub sprinkled like particles of rubber on the hot bone dry asphalt. The exhaust of know it all speakers dripped with insecurity from lips that were in constant motion. A slippery emulsion sprayed an […]
By Bob k “Jack Alexander, Saturday Evening Post, was also one of the friends to whom Bill sent material. Of the Twelve Tradition essays, Alexander has this to say: ‘The only serious (in my view) defect is that you have treated the old Washingtonian Society too briefly; most people never heard […]
A.A. has quietly acknowledged, primarily through one publication, that the early A.A. pioneers in Akron believed firmly that the answer to all their problems was in the Good Book, as they called the Bible. A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob said that all the basic ideas were taken from their study of the Good Book. And […]
Some people don’t know me and they don’t like me, some people get to know me and then they don’t like me, its none of my business what you think of me because you think so little of me anyway, if not in stature surely in time Now you are free to be your authentic […]
Happy Birthday Recovered Its all about the upholstery, the old stuffing has been replaced with the cushion of grace and a new skin that is scotch guarded with the humility of faith while the utility of the strong back to service is firmly put in place, this instead of ending up on the junk heap […]
THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE Happiness is way over rated as it is dependent on the immediate external circumstance. I.E. I am happy because I just won the lottery, I am happy because she said yes, I am happy because I just had purchased a new car, and just as quickly I am […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
Sitting at the edge of the lap pool I was appraising my physique once athletic and toned as it had boasted of strength and the glory of youth now reduced to a state of age and over indulgence, as it reminded me of the body of the laughing Buddha, this insight struck me […]
Alcohol and drugs are equal opportunity destroyers. The disease takes no heed to your particular flavor of addiction labeling it as such is the much greater affliction. The divisions started with Bill Wilson’s “singleness of porpoise” which I believe dose not hold any water, then or now creating the indignation of the drunken […]
Often times in the addiction recovery arena it is claimed that they have been saved by grace. Consider that according to Google (a thousand years hence the anthropologists will have concluded that as a society they all communed with an all knowing god named Google) that there are 140,000,000 drunks in the world. Accordingly to the […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
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