with steps 3, 6, 7, & 11, i am equipped with tools that i did not have before my recovery began. surely each of these concepts may have been within me, but i did not know or understand how to use them as i do now, so many years after my recovery began. and even...
livin with the feelin of bein at peace with life was somethin i couldnt experience before my recovery began unless i had drank or drugged so much that oblivion came my way. today, i get to experience life with peace of mind because recovery taught me how to find it and live with it. before...
To Watch Loneliness Vanish Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong. Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were noisy good fellows constantly craving...
each mornin i get to start my day, before the hustle and bustle of the material world has a chance to infiltrate my thoughts, with a couple inspirational spiritual readins, prayer, and meditation with my HP. i get to come in tune with what i perceive my HP would have me be for that day....
it is my understandin that each of the three legacies of this program hold equal strength in holdin the whole world of this thing we do together. the third legacy, service, is how i got what i have today. it was those who came before me, my sponsor, and others, who told me their stories...
for me to judge another for admittin to their inner most self that they are alcoholic and then admittin it in the rooms, is a sure show of lack of personal humility on my behalf. where would i be today if others had judged my admittance of my own alcoholism when i came into the...
it is often one of the most difficult things for me to do, sit humbly and just listen. it seems i always feel the incessant need to put the two cents i have in, thinkin its actually worth 2 ba-zillion. recovery has given me the tools to realize when my spiritual malady is fixin to...
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...
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...