i remember when i first came to this program askin for help. i was full of pride, ego, guilt, remorse, and any other negative emotion of which one could think. if someone would have talked down to me then i probably would have just left. my sponsor spoke to me with humility, honesty, and love....
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i can remember pausin & askin God to get me out of all kinds of trouble in the past. makin promises for this, or that, if He would do this, or that, full well knowin i probably wouldnt do what i was promisin i would. i chuckle today to think of the stupid stuff i...
whereas i had faith that i could quickly push away anythin that caused me trouble in the past at any time with alcohol, today i have faith that the spiritual principles i practice daily can do much the same with an even greater efficiency & effectiveness. by the mere action of acceptance & surrender, my...
as i went through my own history while writin my initial 4th step inventory i could see how alcohol gradually became somethin i could not live without. i cant really tell the day i crossed over the line with my drinkin to become an alcoholic, because i dont know, but i do know that a...
recovery has taught me, and shown me, how darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. in the days of doin my dirt, as my alcoholism progressed, any kind of inner happiness id wished i had become harder and harder to obtain. in...
Okay so I'm new to all this, I literally have never even attempted to cooperate with any probationary officers EVER, however I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired… I've been an addict since I was 17, pain pills at first then at 27 turned to the devil himself methamphetamine….. Life has never been...
this was the case for me; i needed to lose everything i thought i ever cared about includin almost losin me before actually concedin within that i was an alcoholic. i had been introduced to this program of action, before actually committin to it, a few times. at those times when i was introduced, i...
today i feel that unexpected inner resource and i get to allow it to flow through me as i live it in my daily life. as i think back, before my recovery began, i can recall feelin this inner intuition i always thought was my, own, acuity. i had always thought this inner intelligence was...
when i was early in recovery all i wanted to do was shut the door on my past because i felt so much regret for the things i had done. it was a tough thing fer me to do, learn to forgive and love myself fer the things i had done to the ones i...
it was impressed upon me in my early recovery that i try to build a relationship with others in the fellowship and a HP. then, if i was to be honest with myself, i would need these relationships to help me grow past all the character defects and shortcomins that had held me captive. i...