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…
Topics 10/14/24 ❤️🩹 1. When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 2. Read more…
Topics 10/10/24 ❤️🩹 1. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 2. Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what their individual character defects are. Having Read more…
Topics 10/9/24 ❤️🩹 1. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.-12 & 12, p. 90 2. A person should never be ashamed to own they were in the wrong.—Jonathan Swift In the past, we felt Read more…
Topics 10/8/24 ❤️🩹 1. … and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 2. The majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days. For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses for drinking and for all kinds of crazy and Read more…