May 22 Symptoms Of A Spiritual Awakening "The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives." Basic Text, p. 48 We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centered, self-seeking behavior....
when in the past i thought i, alone, had the power to make my own destiny, today i understand the folly of such thought. i thought i could do as i wished as long as it supplied me with the success i dreamed it would. and for a time i did ok. i did the...
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one of the things my sponsor asked me to do when i did my personal inventory was to write down the shit i thought was good about me. at the time i couldnt see much because i was still wrapped up in all of the grief of the days of doin my dirt. there were...
my recovery hasnt come to me in multitudes of weeks, months, or years. though i may have been livin it, as best as i can, for several years, it has come to me 1 day @ a time. one of the best tokens i ever received wasnt one for multiple years, months, or weeks, it...
part of forgiveness for me is the ability to give it, whether or not it is reciprocated. this is where growth within happens for me. it is lettin go of the petty, immature, resentment, anger, and fear, that used to guide my life before my recovery began. since i have been able to learn how...
Sure, Step 12 carry the message? Practice these 12 Step spiritual principles in all my affairs? As I learned a bit about principles, when and how to give or how to offer myself, pretty much anything that seemed to offer unconditional support to anyone was the proper use of my will and got the green...
today i get to live all the promises throughout the big book. it has taken me time and a lot of very hard work on self. i understand and know today that i could not have done it alone. i needed the help of this thing we do to get where i am today. through...
When I came around AA for the last or near last time years ago like 1981ish? I had no 12 Steps. Actually there were no Big Book 12 Step meetings according to AA's New York office. I know this to be factual. When Big Book 12 Step (BBS) formed the first meeting, we had difficulty...
as my sponsor pointed out areas in my inventory where selfishness had driven the decisions i had made, i couldnt help but feel the weight of the emotional pain of self-deprecation i had always used, drop down on me. the self-imposed weapon i had used all my life to give reason to shut out the...