Topics 7/17/24 ❤️🩹 1. My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. Thus I think it can work out with emotional sobriety. If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency Read more…
Topics 7/16/24 ❤️🩹 1. “A MEASURE OF HUMILITY” In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain.-TWELVE STEPS AND Read more…
Topics 7/12/24 ❤️🩹 1. GIVING UP CENTER STAGE, p.202 For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.-12 & 12, p.70 Read more…
Topics 7/11/24 ❤️🩹 1. A TURNING POINT, p.301 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have.-12 & 12, p.75 2. Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply Read more…
Topics 7/10/24 ❤️🩹 1. TOWARD PEACE AND SERENITY… when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning.-12 & 12, p.74 2. No one can Read more…
Topics 7/6/24 ❤️🩹 1. IDENTIFYING FEAR … The chief activator of our defects has been self – centered fear.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76 When I feel uncomfortable, irritated, or depressed, I look for fear. This “evil and corroding thread” is the root of my distress: Fear of failure; Read more…
Topics 7/5/24 ❤️🩹 1. A NEW DIRECTION Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all our activities.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.45,85 2. In Tradition Three, A.A. is really saying to Read more…
Topics 7/4/24 ❤️🩹 1. A NATURAL FAITH… deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than Read more…
7/3/24 ❤️🩹 1. EXPERIENCE: THE BEST TEACHER Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.-ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 87 2. We are only as sick as the secrets we keep.— Anonymous It is Read more…
Topics 7/2/24 ❤️🩹 1. THE HEART OF TRUE SOBRIETY We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 570 2. “In forgiving ourselves, we make the journey from guilt for Read more…