i can remember early on, the experience i had with my sponsor. he knew i didnt have a car so he would come pick me up, and off we would go to a meetin here in town. this guy really didnt know me from any other stranger he had ever met, but he still took...

my sponsor spoke to me in the exact manner this mornins readin speaks of when we 1st met. he was honest with me yet did not put himself on a pedestal. he relayed to me how the steps worked in his life, and how he worked em in his life, to change his behavioral patterns....

another one of the things in life i wasnt really too good at while wrapped in the insanity of doin my dirt, was thinkin of others. i was always too busy worryin bout my, wants, to worry bout others. if ya didnt have what i felt i wanted, or thought i needed, then i really...

i am so grateful fer this common solution, it truly works when i apply its principles to my life. i always felt like my alcoholism was a battle i was facin alone. sure, there were people who were there to help me while i was strugglin with my alcoholism, however my ego, pride, self-pity, or...

in learnin what genuine humility is i must first understand what the opposite of it may be. i have learned through this thing we do, the exact opposite of humility is false pride. authentic pride is not a bad attribute if i am to use it properly. it is good to have an accurate and...

sharin with others how i was able to use the 12 spiritual principles of this thing we do to help solve the riddle of my alcoholism is a joy fer me. lettin others know, when they ask, how i used the principles to make it through each day, helps to keep me where i am...

i love, love! especially this type of love! unconditional, forgivin, honest, pure, warm, healthy, sincere, humble, innocent, real, an action, and spiritual. this is what love is with no price tag. we all know the love i am talkin about; like the love a parent has fer their child, one which will drive that parent...

now that i have a lil time in this thing we do, i have been fortunate enough to get to watch how this thing we do works in other peoples lives. watchin how service work in this thing we do works, how it affects other peoples lives fer the better, how the seemingly hopeless have...

fer many years i had my ambitions misplaced. i may have had good intentions fer my ambitions, but they never really truly made anybody, or me, happy. i may have had success with my ambitions and intentions, but they were always self-guided, selfish, and short lived. as i have learned, "the victor only seemed to...

i dont always feel like i am winnin, the fact is, i dont always win. its really easy fer me to take my will back and start relyin on people to help me make it through tough times. i try to play God and it may seem as if i am makin head way, but...