To get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted. The men, who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track. Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, […]
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 […]
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about “justifiable” anger? If somebody cheats us, aren’t we […]
GOODNESS AND THE GENEROSITY OF THE HEART IS THE BEGINNING OF MEDITATION Meditation: Medicine for the mind As of late I have been breaking bread and communing with the evangelical Christian singles. Although I am not of that particular ilk of religious veneration of conviction, for I consider […]
When coming into the rooms of recovery we are often spiritually and morally bankrupt and spirituality is more than uncomfortable it is unrecognizable liken onto when shadows recoil from the light. Often times an out side power source is sought in order to begin the weaning off […]
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 […]
To sleep per chance to drink, to shuck reality for the fantasy that is alive in the subconsciousness of every drunk In the Grapevine an old timer talks about the phenomenon of “drunk dreams” in sobriety “After almost twenty-five years of continued sobriety, one of those dreams entered my sleeping mind.” I recently had a “drinking dream.” […]
In the early days of A.A. your recovery started with what was called “The surrender” The surrender was more than important; it was a must. Bob E., who came into A.A. in February 1937, recalled that after five or six days in the hospital.”When you indicated that you were serious, they told you to get […]
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life. Mitch Hedberg Sex is emotion in motion. Mae West Giggle, Giggle, shame and, kibble it’s a discussion on the sex inventory […]
Last night at the home group it was the regular Monday night football Twelve and Twelve pass, tackle and Step study meeting. We were on the ten yard line with Step Two, a newcomer to the area, the group and, to A.A., who went by the moniker of Marlowe took the opening salvo. He was […]
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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