Sep
30
THE CIRCLE AND THE TRIANGLE
September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle stands for A.A.’s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service. Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession. A.A. Comes Of Age Page 139
Early in my A.A. life, I became employed in its services and I found the [...]
Sep
29
EXACTLY ALIKE
September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 89
A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group’s secretary an unquotable name and [...]
Sep
28
LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS
September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 89
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Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude was more like love. they wanted me to be happy, to grow and remain sober. [...]
Sep
27
WITHOUT RESERVATION
September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p.37
While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on without reservation [...]
Sep
26
OUR CHILDREN
September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid. Marvelous results often follow such a [...]
Sep
25
FIRST THINGS FIRST
September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job — wife or no wife — we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98
Before coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking [...]
Sep
24
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we [...]