Topics 7/24/24 ❤️🩹 1. “Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 20 2. The work of adult life is not easy.—Gail SheehyWe used to look for a easier, softer way. We tried to take Read more…
Topics 7/23/24 ,❤️🩹 1. “I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.”-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76 2. Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn’t strange that Read more…
Topics 7/22/24 ❤️🩹 1. “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.”-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76 2. “Let us always love the best in others–and never fear their worst.” We are all, to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong. When Read more…
7/18/24 ❤️🩹 1. During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God.-12 & 12, p. 75 2. Two things can spoil group unity–gossip and criticism. To avoid these divisive things, we must realize that we’re all in Read more…
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…