“The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking.”
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xiv, Freedom From Bondage.
The Alcoholic is a Very Sick Person
•January 27, 2024 • Leave a Comment“Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person.”
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xiii, Forward to First Edition
Precisely How We Have Recoverd
•January 27, 2024 • Leave a Comment“We, Of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more then one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.”
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xiii, Forward to First Edition
Happy, Joyous, and Free
•January 25, 2024 • Leave a CommentI woke up this morning and invited God to join me for the day. To give me strength to do HIS will throughput the day – not my will. Did I try and revert to my will several times today? Yes. But those moments quickly passed when I talked to God.
I enjoyed working the steps. What I dreaded was the the thought of working the steps.
I recently entered a new phase of grace and serenity. Focusing on steps 6 and 7 in recent years has allowed God to remove more of my shortcomings. I can describe how I feel today using an analogy. Imagine always feeling like you’re vibrating and hearing a constant dull noise. And one day it stops! That’s how I feel today.
Happy joyous and free does not mean without difficulties. I can now be happy in the face of circumstances that used to anger me, baffle me, and cause me fear.
My life will always be full of obstacles and loss. I must overcome several each day. Accepting them as a given of life was an inflection point for me.
The difference is not what is happening in the world around me. Parents pass away. Jobs are lost. The difference is how I perceive, think about, and behave in the face of life.
Living Versus Thinking
•February 17, 2013 • Leave a CommentYou cannot think your way into a better way of living.
You have to live your way into a better way of thinking.
~Unknown
Circumstances and Perspective
•February 17, 2013 • Leave a CommentCircumstances in our lives can create happiness.
Perspective can create joy.
~Unknown.
How to Deal with a Persistent Resentment
•October 28, 2012 • 1 CommentIf you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in the prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 552, Freedom From Bondage.
Perspective
•October 28, 2012 • Leave a Comment“We cannot change reality of our being, but we can change our experience within our reality.“
The Importance of Working With Others
•October 28, 2012 • Leave a CommentFor if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die.
The Big Books of Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 14-15, Bill’s Story
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