1) Honesty 2) Hope 3) Faith 4) Courage 5) Integrity 6) Willingness 7) Humility 8) Brotherly Love 9) Justice 10) Perseverance 11) Spirituality 12) Service It is better to trust in God than to put confidence in man. Do not put you hand in man, and if you must, always check to see if any fingers come out missing PRINCIPLES BEFORE PERSONALITIES When I […]
Spirit against the ravages of spirits. His craving for alcohol was the equivalent, on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: the union with God.* Carl Jung I started off on the broad bright lit highway of ease and comfort looking for the God of my […]
THANKSGIVING is coming. And with it, Tradition Week and I never felt happier. William G. Wilson Our traditions are set down on paper. But they were written first in our hearts. For each of us knows, instinctively I think, that AA is not ours to do with as we please. We are but caretakers to […]
Lambda is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Lambda denotes the Lebesgue measure in mathematical (set) theory. Lambda denotes the long-term intrinsic growth rate of a population. King Louis XIII of France made popular the phrase “lucky thirteen”, for no matter the number so engaged the call went out ,”it doesn’t matter, […]
Last evening a newcomer named Kevin engaged Glenn and I in a self absorbed pity party in the half measures smoking section. Kevin went on and on how his life was fearful and fraught with hopelessness. I listened intently with young Kevin’s rationalizations, justifications and minimizations. Kevin stated that he had a Big Book Glenn […]
If the Twelve Steps are not a gift from God why have you adopted them? And if they are a gift from God why do you feel compelled to change them? Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi […]
Doctor, Doctor give me the cure, an opinion that would endure What Exactly Is the Doctor’s Opinion Aug 18, 2011 10:04 pm Nowadays it seems that those whose opinions matter the most are too gun shy to share them for fear of having their words twisted, their reputations destroyed, lawsuits brought upon them and so […]
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 […]
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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