Topics 10/8/24 ❤️🩹 1. … and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 2. The majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days. For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses for drinking and for all kinds of crazy and Read more…
Topics 10/4/24 ❤️🩹 1. We know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94 2. Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience. – Unknown No doctor can fix us. To get well, we need to Read more…
Topics 10/3/24 ❤️🩹 1. Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree with him.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94 2. Today I can wait until all negative and hostile feelings lose Read more…
Topics 10/2/24 ❤️🩹 1. As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul. Then comes the Read more…
Topics 9/28/24 ❤️🩹 1. Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 2. “This above all; to thine own self be true.”–William Shakespeare 3. Now that we’re free from our addictions, living life one day at a Read more…
Topics 9/27/24 ❤️🩹 1. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love.-AS BILL SEES IT, p.37 2. Honesty is the backbone of our recovery program. Honesty opens us up. It breaks down the walls we had built around our secret world. Those walls made a prison Read more…
Topics 9/26/24 ❤️🩹 1. 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 Read more…
Topics 9/22/24 ❤️🩹 1. Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug Read more…
Topics 9/21/24 ❤️🩹 1. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 2. The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from Read more…
Topics 9/20/24 ❤️🩹 1. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 2. When you are having a bad day, lower your expectations and start over! Read more…