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 5/19/25 💌 1) *GIVING WITHOUT STRINGS* And they know that their 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 2) Twenty-Four Hours A Day Fellowship is a big part of staying 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…
Topics – 5/15/2025 KNOW GOD; KNOW PEACE It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. . . . But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Read more…