Marty Mann and The early women of A.A. A tremendous change has taken place over the past few generations in the way alcoholics are viewed in our society. Although it is undeniable that some level of unawareness and misunderstanding remains, substantial improvements have been effected since the 1930s. We have cause to be grateful. The […]
Two weeks ago I was sitting in a group at the Joel Osteen pavilion and introduce myself to a stranger, sitting right next to me, His name was Richard, he started out with that he had a problem with speed (methamphetamine) I asked if he was addicted? He said no, I ask […]
Peter’s footing was made sure upon the billows serene as his sight was fixed upon the gleam in Jesus’ eye. The storm surged as the world would turn and he lost his gaze of faith. The fear of concerns ever loomed, he would be consumed and doomed to the depths, as the master’s […]
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. For this is the day the lord has made to honor our banner of freedom and our kindred fallen dead. […]
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. For this is the day the lord has made to honor our banner of freedom and our kindred fallen dead. rights […]
Valentine is hard afoot for cupids bow is poised to sling the potion that makes poets rhyme, young girls cry, and old men sigh for the love that had gone awry. Love is the encouragement of the beloved to seek their highest and best spiritual life and by so doing increasing your own. […]
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Buddha (his friends called him Sid) in his moment of enlightenment: Was sitting under a banyan tree on the river’s edge (rivers often times signify a spiritual flow) observed a boat with a musician tightening the strings on his sitar, Sid realized that if the sting was tighten in excess it would snap, and if […]
Losing contact with God Losing interest in Goals The Goblin of self-pity And Gravity, with the inactivity of a stone. Depression is anger with no enthusiasm
On the First Step to a life worth living my Higher Power gave to me the gift of desperation and a life of unmanageability On the Second Step to a life worth living my Higher Power gave to me a belief that there was something much bigger than me and the hope of being […]
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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