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…
Topics 8/10/24 ❤️🩹 1. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he had hurt, and in what ways.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 77 2. The Read more…
Topics 8/9/24 ❤️🩹 1. “ … and became willing to make amends to them all.”TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77 One of the key words in the Eighth Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. Read more…
Topics 8/5/24 ❤️🩹 1. How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 37 If I accept and act upon the advice of those who have made the program work for themselves, Read more…