If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As Bill Sees It, p.8
Sobriety fills the painful “hole in the soul” that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my work is done. However, joy is not just the absence of pain; it is the gift of continued spiritual awakening. Joy comes from ongoing and active study, as well as application of the principles of recovery in my everyday life, and from sharing that experience with others. My Higher Power presents many opportunities for deeper spiritual awakening. I need only to bring into my recovery the willingness to grow. Today I am ready to grow.
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this reading is very timely for me… it’s been 2 days now that i feel being complacent. And me being reminded that everything that happens in my life has its deeper spiritual awakening. Through my Higher Power i find strength, it’s just me who is chose to derail myself from His grace… it’s good to be reminded that i have to incorporate and apply the principles of recovery… Thanks to my Higher Power that He has guided me through this reading …
AA is often said to stand for attitude adjustment.
To change one’s mindset which is what an attitude adjustment is, to one of growth and development is a major shift for most people and is filled with unfathomable blessings.
We will know a new freedom and a new Happiness.
It states in How It Works that we claim spiritual progress, not perfection.
What else is that except a sign of growth.
We are asked to be honest, open-minded and willing.
I have been in this process for nearly 24 years now and I consider myself green and growing.
I’m Harry, a grateful alcoholic.
my Christian faith and A.A. work so well together!
The farther I am away from my last drink, the closer I am to my next drink. After 26 years of sobriety, how do I stay closer to my last drink? The answer today is the same answer it’s always been — go to meetings and work with newcomers.
For selfish reasons, in the past several years I had drifted away from my commitment to my home group. Several of the old timers had moved out of town and there was a shortage of newcomers so we seemed to be whining about the same crap 4 times a week. I was going to other meetings in the area but didn’t make the commitment and connection that I had in my home town. Our AA group was struggling!!! First the noon meeting closed; then it dropped to only two nights per week. I resisted regular attendance because they are both smoking meetings and seemed more BB to me than AA. There were a couple of old-timers struggling to keep the meeting open, but I gave financial support and lip service instead of my butt in a chair!
A series of coincidences lately led me to the Saturday night meeting and then the Monday night meeting. I had to laugh out loud at my own thought processes — who are these people in my meeting? how dare they change this to candlelight? When the chairperson (who I didn’t know) asked hubby and I if we were visitors to town, I nearly fell out of my chair! We live in a town of 3,000 — everybody in AA knows us, right? Rule #62 comes to pass lol.
It felt so incredibly good to come home!!!!!! After the Saturday night meeting, my 15yo sobriety baby told me she was “proud of me” for going to the meeting. God love Alateens. After the Monday night meeting, she told me “You smell like an alcoholic — cigarettes and coffee”. Raise ‘em up around the tables and they’ll bite you in the butt lol.
I want to keep receiving the gifts of recovery — therefore, I have to keep doing the footwork!!! Sounds like another awakening to me
Lyby, what is BB?