there is no one to blame fer the reasons i had quit relyin upon the God of my youth. i grew angry because i had learned if i believe, He would never leave me behind. as i grew up, and experienced life, i grew a resentment toward the God of my youthful religious teachin, coz...

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. I am truly happy and grateful for another day. I may not have had a perfect life nor...

it is my effort today to not allow the roadblocks of indifference, fancied self-sufficiency, prejudice, or defiance, prove a more solid or formidable reason not to believe in somethin greater than i which can provide me a better train of thought or behavior. recovery has shown me through inventory how in the days of doin...

havin gone through the process of the 12 steps, there is NO DOUBT in the belief and faith i have in my HP. ive become very familiar with my character defects and shortcomins and understand they can become an uncontrollable livin part of me if i do not continue the daily maintenance of my spiritual...

the lengths and depths i would go to so i could protect my inner bein, today, i feel are incomprehensible. to allow anybody to get the drop on me or truly know who i really was, were guarded and kept locked tight. these were areas none dare see or ever peer into. the tangled web...

as the alcoholic fog i had lived in fer so long began to dissipate and a sort of clarity of mind came to me, i gradually listened to what i was hearin in the rooms. as i was experiencin what it felt like to begin facin the hell my life had become without alcohol, i...

im so very blessed to have been included in this thing we do. to be a part of a healthy society of people who are willin to stand with one another to help one another, is somethin i thought i had always had, but in reality, never did. with a common bond i get to...

freedom from anythin wasnt realized while in the depths of doin my dirt. i didnt know i was trapped in an alcoholic mire until i got sober and started workin toward remainin that way. its so fucked how ya dont know ya are in the middle of the shit until ya become free from it....

when people ask me to come share at a meetin or ask me to sponsor em, its a confirmation to me im either livin my recovery the way my HP has intended, or i am an example to others on what not to do. i like to think and feel its a confirmation im livin...

i remember the freedom i felt after doin my 4th, 5th, 8th, and 9th steps. i was able to tell another 1st, then others, next, so many of the secrets which had kept me locked in the crux of my disease of alcoholism. from the rooms i gained an acceptance from others who had shared...