as i have experienced, whether i know or understand more or less than the one i am speakin with, i get to offer somethin to the situation. this is a practice in the surrender, humility, service, and brotherly love that recovery has taught me to behave like and practice. and as stated in this mornins...
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id be straight story tellin ya if i told ya my tolerance for a belligerent drunk is so great that i dont get upset. thankfully for me i dont have to deal with someone who is shit faced very often. but dealin with one who is sober and wants to get recovery is different. its...
with the changes ive experienced in my life, the openness to love another, the willingness to be wrong, the honesty to admit that i am not as powerful as i once thought i was, the courage to face the shit that used to baffle me, the integrity i feel within, the want to continue forward...
. . . work with other alcoholics. . . It works when other activities fail. – ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 "Life will take on new meaning," as the Big Book says (p. 89). This promise has helped me to avoid self-seeking and self-pity. To watch others grow in this wonderful program, to see them improve...
ive ran into personal problems i could not solve while ive been in recovery. after reachin out to my sponsor he has referred me to the big book. he has told me that when i get too wrapped up in my spiritual malady that i cannot be effective or useful to anybody, not even myself....
I believe that God found me, more than I found Him. It was similar to watching a child walk; he falls down again and again, but it is better not to try to help him until he comes to realize that he cannot do it alone-and extends his hand. I had gotten myself into a...
today i get to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. it is due to my willingness to walk with my partners in recovery. there was a time in the days of doin my dirt that the only time i felt like i wanted...
offerin another friendship and fellowship are what was done for me when i came into the rooms this last time. my sponsor would pick me up at the halfway house i was livin at and drag me all around town to meetins. he would introduce me to others and each one welcomed me warmly. he...
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the big book teaches me much about how to work with others. if i desire to be effective and useful, it is best i adhere to the directions/instructions, it asks me when i go to sharin my e.s.h. why spoil an opportunity to be useful later? why be labeled a religious zealot? i can recall...