May
24
HAPPY, JOYOUS AND FREE
May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture [...]
May
23
SPIRITUAL HEALTH
May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 64
It is very difficult for me to come to terms with my spiritual illness because of my great pride, disguised by my material successes and my intellectual power. Intelligence is not incompatible with humility, provided I place humility first. To [...]
May
22
STEP ONE
May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
WE . . . (The first word of the First Step) TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21
When I was drinking all I could ever think about was “I, I, I,” or “Me, Me, Me.” Such painful obsessions of self, such soul sickness, such spiritual selfishness bound me to the bottle for more than half [...]
May
21
A LIST OF BLESSINGS
May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound [...]
May
20
ONE DAY AT A TIME
May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11
Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding myself because one day at a [...]
May
19
GIVING WITHOUT STRINGS
May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
And he well knows that his own life has been made richer, as an extra dividend of giving to another without any demand for a return. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 69
The concept of giving without strings was hard to understand when I first came into the program. I was suspicious when others wanted to [...]
May
18
FREEDOM TO BE ME
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83
My first true freedom is the freedom not to have to take a drink today. If I truly want it, [...]