there is a challenge to failure for me. when in the past i would chalk it up to just bad luck and go to gettin the poor me’s, today, even as failure does strike my humility makin me feel it within, after healthy thought, i get the opportunity to let loose of ego and make...

i have learned in recovery what the difference between thankfulness and gratitude is. it is my understandin that thankfulness is an emotion and gratitude is an action. with the inventorys ive done since my recovery began ive learned much about myself. ive tried to place thankfulness and gratitude in their places throughout my story as...

the other evenin i was thinkin bout my move down here to florida. i was thinkin how durin the 1st couple of weeks we had worked hard doin what was necessary to find a place to call home. we took the right steps and eventually found a place. after a few days of movin in...

recovery had a way of breakin my alcoholic spirit. with its immediate references to ego and pride, honesty and humility, and that damned 4th step, i had to surrender and accept certain facts about me that i had fought against and tried to fake away all my life. i had always been offered guidance but...

as my recovery has progressed and evolved over the years, i have come to rely upon and build a relationship with a Power greater than myself. when at first a flimsy reed, as its called in the big book, it has become a force in my life that is strong and steadfast. even when i...

2*21*22 is the day I am staking a claim to in order to turn my life around. In the past few years it has gone from bad to worse to now getting divorced. I have brought most of this upon myself and the alcohol who I thought was my friend is the devil behind the...

this mornins readin always gives me hope! it shows me that this thing we do, this thing i do, takes time to get. it doesnt happen overnight. when in the days of doin my dirt i had always tried to separate myself from others. whether they were from a different social class, ethnicity, economic, sides...

it took me time to turn it all over when i first came into the rooms. its not that i didnt or couldnt believe in Him, its that when i had tried in the past, and im talkin years ago, in my youth, nothin ever seemed to come from my belief. maybe i pushed my...

i must be even more committed to my recovery today than i was when i first walked into the rooms this last time. even as i may have several years of recovery behind me, i am even more in danger of fuckin up than ever before. and just cause i got time under my belt,...

i love how the promises offer me the gift of hope! it is through action on my behalf that i get to experience em come to fruition in my life. and i cannot take em as achievements as much as i may want to. they are the gifts of stickin to my program of recovery...