the history of this thing we do and the time and effort that the original 3 put into formin and shapin its program fer recovery gives me the willingness, courage, hope, and strength to persevere in my own program of recovery. with the knowledge and wisdom of my own history i am even more determined...

i can say this, i dont live the spiritual principles of recovery in my life all the time. there are times when my self-will takes control over my better senses. conformin to the way of recovery can be difficult sometimes. when these times come, they usually do not last very long. the ideas and concepts...

fer this alcoholic, not drinkin means conviviality, companionship, and colorful imagination. it offers the opportunity to be responsible, without boredom, and worry. it is the freedom of joyous intimacy with friends and a feelin that life is good. ive found, recovery is a gift that grows with time. 1 day @ a time…...

as with all relationships i must be willin to give, listen, offer compassion, and employ understandin. ive learned, in my relationship with my HP, as i receive, i have to be willin to do my part in our relationship, and even more than my fair share if, and when, possible. ive learned through practicin the...

i have heard and learned that my life here on earth is lived in preparation fer a life afterward. i dont know how true that may be, but i do know that today i want to live as best and rightly as i can. i was given an opportunity to change the way i live...

bein an alcoholic ive been blessed with, or cursed with, which ev one may desire to call it, an inner sense which is higher than most others. ive heard this ability called intuitive empathy. it is a sense where i feel emotions, not only my own, but from others, more intensely. unfortunately, with this sense,...

responsibility is an action and behavior i tried to avoid in my last days of drinkin. i had only one responsibility at that time, to drink, it was the only solution i had for the unrelentin emotions of troubled strife within. i did not want to grow up, i did not want accountability, and i...

i have learned through my recovery, the only one i truly have any control over is myself. people will be people, happenins will happen, and life will go on whether i want it to or not. what i get to do today is accept the world fer the way the world is. i get to...

havin worked very hard on my defects of character & shortcomins, all of which i continually release myself from and give to my HP, i have been granted a life free from all of the symptoms of my alcoholism. there are times i snatch em back and try to do it again the way i...

ive said it before, and still believe it today, my HP has provided me, since birth, an ample amount of emotion and motivation to feel and do as i wish. there was a time when i put forth too much of my time to extend those naturally human gifts beyond their intended purpose, there never...