the release of any of the handicaps which had held me steeped in my alcoholism started the day i didnt take that next 1st drink. though it was just a start toward sobriety, i didnt know then it would lead to a life of recovery. surrender was a great feelin i had to work hard...

with an understandin of what my HP means to me today, i believe, and can say, as i try to follow His will as i perceive it, the events in my life, as easy, or tough, as they may be, i get to use what recovery has taught me. by merely takin the few nanoseconds...

in my early recovery, at my sponsor and i’s 1st meetin, he asked me what my priorities in life were. of course, i said my well-bein, my family, and mentioned employment. he asked me, “where is God in all this?” i really didnt have much an answer for such a pointed question. he asked if...

when i honesty took a look, through inventory, with my sponsor as a guide, at the life i had lived while doin my dirt, i couldve easily said, “hey man, damn, was i ever lucky”! and to say there wasnt any luck involved in some of the outcomes wouldnt be story tellin, coz, maybe there...

back in the days of doin my dirt there was never a thought of freely givin, unless i was to receive somethin in return or workin some angle. and this was nothin that became known without doin what recovery teaches. to learn humility recovery required that i finally surrendered some of the self-willed desires i...

Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members from responsibility. On the contrary, we use the fact of fatal...

i reckon, the best lesson ive had to learn from has been my own story. even as there were people who warned me, i knew better than they. i remember how the price of pain affected me. i can never forget it. that pain, as i still perceive it today, brought me to the rooms...

i can recall NEVER bein happy within with how, what ev it was, bein as i wanted it. whether success or failure, i always wanted it a different way. it never seemed to matter whether i was on top or the bottom. it was NEVER good enough or the pain was too severe. with these...

before my recovery began i never thought much about emotional health. though i may have known of character like humility, it was never somethin i ever gave too much thought too. what i can recall is the feelin of it after gettin my ego handed back to me through any series of senseless, or even...

growin up throughout my latter teen age years and well into my early 30s, i felt there was nobody around to rely on other than myself. with this idea and seemin misguided understandin, i was held unhappy by my own self-reliance. sure, there were people around me to go to, but experience had shown me...