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…
Topics 8/28/30 ❤️🩹 1. LIGHTENING THE BURDEN Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. The dark past is the key to life and happiness for others.-Alcoholics Anonymous, p.124 2. Today I do not need Read more…
Topics 8/ 23/24 ❤️🩹 1. BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , pp. 111 -112 2. What is not love is fear. Anger is one Read more…
Topics 8/22/24 ❤️🩹 1. SEEKING EMOTIONAL STABILITY, p.243 When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would. If we Read more…
Topics 8/21/24 ❤️🩹 1. WE JUST TRY, p.242 My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive.-The Best Of Bill, pp. 46-47 As long as I try, with all my heart and soul, to pass along to others what has been passed along to Read more…
Topics 8/17/24 ❤️🩹 1. RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 2. “To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic, a spiritual Read more…
Topics 8/16/24 ❤️🩹 1. ”I HAD DROPPED OUT” We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have “harmed” other people. What kinds of “harm” do people do one another, anyway? To define the word “harm” in a practical way, we might call it the result Read more…
Topics 8/15/24 ❤️🩹 1. DIDN’T WE HURT ANYBODY? Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 79 2. “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. Commencing to drink after Read more…
Topics 8/11/24 ❤️🩹 1. The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts Read more…