TOPICS 5/27/2025 NO MAUDLIN GUILT Day by day, we try to move a little toward God’s perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt. . . .When I first discovered that there is not a single “don’t” in the Twelve Steps of A.A., I was disturbed because this Read more…
TOPICS – 5/26/2025 1.TURNING NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE Our spiritual and emotional growth in A.A. does not depend so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and setbacks. If you will bear this in mind, I think that your slip will have the effect of kicking you upstairs, Read more…
TOPICS 5/22/2025 1 WE . . . (The first word of the First Step) When I was drinking all I could ever think about was “I, I, I,” or “Me, Me, Me.” Such painful obsession of self, such soul sickness, such spiritual selfishness bound me to the bottle for Read more…
TOPICS – 5/21/2025 1 A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings… 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 Read more…
TOPICS – 5/21/2025 1 A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings… 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, Read more…
TOPICS – 5/20/2005 1.ONE DAY AT A TIME Above all, take it one day at a time. 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? Read more…
TOPICS – 5/20/2005 1.ONE DAY AT A TIME Above all, take it one day at a time. 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 Read more…
Topics 5/18/25 💌 1) FREEDOM TO BE ME 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.2) Pocket Sponsor Our recovery has less to do with our Read more…
Topics 5/17/25 ❤🩹 1) … AND FORGIVEUnder very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive others–also myself.-AS BILL SEE IT p. 268Steps provide a way by which my resentments may – by the grace of God as I understand Him – be lifted. It is as a Read more…
Topics 5/16/2025 1 WE FORGIVE . . . Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness Read more…