Topics 9/16/24 ❤️🩹 1. … no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity. We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.-Alcoholics Anonymous, p.563 2. The old pleasures were gone. Read more…
Topics 9/15/24 ❤️🩹 1. Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. Life will mean something at last.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 152 2. “We all realize that we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to all of Read more…
Topics 9/14/24 ❤️🩹 1. Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God’s help and guidance–meanwhile resolving to do the right thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 86-87 2. It’s always risky when a recovering person Read more…
Topics 9/10/24 ❤️🩹 1. They [the Promises] will always materialize if we work for them.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 84 2. “The things we put in place of drinking are more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and Read more…
Topics 9/9/24 ❤️🩹 1. They [the Promises] are being fulfilled among us – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 2. Never look down on anybody, unless you’re helping them up. –Jesse Jackson 3. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the Read more…
Topics 9/8/24 ❤️🩹 1. WE ASKED HIS PROTECTION”We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 2. It is all but impossible for some people to make the simple admission, I was wrong. We might have a problem with such admissions because we tend to believe that Read more…
Topics 9/4/24 ❤️🩹 1. Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 2. When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. Read more…
Topics 9/3/24 ❤️🩹 1. We feel a man is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough.-Alcoholics Anonymous, p.82 2. Although we must be of service to our fellow drunk, although we want the hand of recovery to be there when they reach out, although we must give back what was Read more…
Topics 9/2/24 ❤️🩹 1. FINDING “A REASON TO BELIEVE” The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.-As Bill Sees It, p.171 2. … except when to do so would injure them or others.—Second half of Step Nine We have to be careful when we make amends. We Read more…
Topics 8/29/24 ❤️🩹 1. I CHOOSE ANONYMITY We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.-12 & 12, p.187 2. We cannot get along without prayer and meditation. On awakening, let us think about the 24 hours ahead. We consider our Read more…