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The New A.A. Agnostic Atheist.  We Christian, We Jew. And We believer

The New A.A. Agnostic Atheist. We Christian, We Jew. And We believer

    I always feel good after a meeting, I often feel enlivened and even edified. I think it’s a bit like going to a church, as the room fills from the way back to the very front.   As it always starts with a prayer I think it is called an invocation (the act […]

JUST ASK!

JUST ASK!

Some seek after signs of confirmation that there is a God, as there is no punishment for a mans belief, God is the ultimate gentlemen as this puts all men on equal ground, to believe or not for this is the agency of free will. Choose you this day whom ye will serve; Now its […]

Is it True, is it Necessary, is it Kind?  Now You’re Talking

Is it True, is it Necessary, is it Kind? Now You’re Talking

    A group of weather worn pilgrims plying their way along the back and dusty roads of Jerusalem were passing by the home of particular Pharisee gentry (known for his religious piety) at a time when he was hosting a lavish bar mitzvah feast. The pilgrims were often forced to fast for the lack […]

Recovered

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 of waste. […]

A.A. threatens to fire God, demands more benefits and less participation

A.A. threatens to fire God, demands more benefits and less participation

  By Joseph on November 24, 2012 | Edit   1                   Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. They may not all be right, but try to see where anyone may be right, a statement of humility and another such statement.” We realize […]

The collection Hat comes back flat G.S.O. in dire straits,Grape vine feeling the Crush

The collection Hat comes back flat G.S.O. in dire straits,Grape vine feeling the Crush

                  The collection Hat comes back flat G.SO in dire straits,Grapevine feeling the Crush Hi there, I realized from going through my email addresses that you may not have heard from me in a while.  Thank you for being a part of my journey on the road […]

An A.A. meeting matinee, a “Popeye” cartoon and the feature “A Most Fatal Attraction

An A.A. meeting matinee, a “Popeye” cartoon and the feature “A Most Fatal Attraction

                The chair was an old black street savvy alcoholic named Sherman; Sherman in his day was a hard core and chronic relapse living on the Streets of San Francisco (Not the TV. Series) and the Bakersfield bay area. Sherman was rescued by a little white feller named […]

Twelve gripping tales of amends, God might be all forgiving but the state of Mississippi tends to be a little more hard nosed

Twelve gripping tales of amends, God might be all forgiving but the state of Mississippi tends to be a little more hard nosed

Twelve gripping tales of amends, God might be all forgiving but the Police tend to be a little more hard nosed about some things In purse or pocket we deposit our pride for our ego has been a wobbling curse in a wallard out sprocket just out of sight.  The number one fear is speaking […]

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  •         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 […]

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  •   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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  •   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 […]

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  •     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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  •     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 […]

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  •     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 […]

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  •   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 […]

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  •     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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Our mission is to inform, inspire, and empower alcoholics anonymous sponsorship locally and internationally to be their very best --- both personally and spiritually.

I would like to acknowledge Hamilton B and his tireless work in the recovery community and his work "Twelve Step Sponsorship How it works" a Hazelton publication and his permission to use what ever was needed to make possible my ongoing sponsorship workshop and Step study and this website.