Topics 12/23/24 ❤️🩹 1) Our Twelfth Step – carrying the message – is the basic service that AA’s Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence.-THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 160 2) The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one Read more…
Topics 12/22/24 ❤️🩹 1) The way our “worthy” alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the “less worthy” is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!-THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 37 2) Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.” Read more…
Topics 12/21/24 ❤️🩹 1 “When working with a man and his family, you should take care not to participate in their quarrels. You may spoil your chance of being helpful if you do.”—ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 100 ________________________________________ 2 “If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy” ~Grapevine Read more…
Topics 12/17/24 ❤️🩹 1) ” … work with other alcoholics … It works when other activities fail.”—ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 2) “The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”—Saad When we were drinking and drugging, we didn’t have to deal much with feelings. We turned them Read more…
Topics 12/16/24 ❤️🩹 1) ” … nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics … Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power, and you will presently live Read more…
Topics 12/15/24 ❤️🩹 1) Offer him [the alcoholic] friendship and fellowship. Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 95 2) “Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and to act upon clear-cut obligations–these are truly our Read more…
Topics 12/11/24 ❤️🩹 1) … we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This is to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 192 2) If we Read more…
Topics 12/10/24 ❤️🩹 1) “Now, what about the rest of the Twelfth Step? The wonderful energy it releases and the eager action by which it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic and which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the Read more…
Topics 12/9/24 ❤️🩹 1) “When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it.”-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106 2) The way of A.A. is the way of fellowship. We have read a Read more…
Topics 12/5/24 ❤️🩹 1) “He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being.”—TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p 107 2) “Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.”—Alcoholics Anonymous 3) Doing Read more…