Topics 11/3/24 ❤️🩹 1) “There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit.”-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 98 2) “Words are the voice of the heart.”—Confucius What does my heart have to say today? We will find this Read more…
Topics 10/29/24 ❤️🩹 1) Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 2) We learned about our shortcomings — and of pride in particular — and began to replace self-satisfaction Read more…
Topics 10/28/24 ❤️🩹 1. We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRDITIONS, p. 177 2. Sometimes sobriety turns up problems that were never apparent during Read more…
Topics 10/27/24 ❤️🩹 1. The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like Read more…
Topics 10/23/24 ❤️🩹 1. “Shoemaker, stick to thy last!” … better do one thing supremely well than many badly. That is the central theme of this Tradition [Five]. Around it our Society gathers in unity. The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation of this principle.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE Read more…
Topics 10/22/24 ❤️🩹 1. Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 92 2. “Dwelling on Read more…
Topics 10/20/24 ❤️🩹 1. Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the Read more…
Topics 10/16/24 ❤️🩹 1. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 2. It’s okay to make mistakes. But we shouldn’t live a life of excuses. In recovery, we admit and accept our behavior. We do this by continuing to take an inventory Read more…
Topics 10/15/24 ❤️🩹 1. MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. Read more…