"And I have to remember that even though I can pray HARD for others, I cannot change anyone except me." Well said. Praying for someone may be a wonderful...
resentments and making amends! hard especially when the party you have the resentment about totally changed your life and innocents thru lies and resentments...
Trish wrote: <<I just struggle through them and pray for the person. I had a resentment against my sister yesterday for being bossy. I don't want to make...
Steve, I think the concept of praying for the other person originates in the story "Freedom from Bondage," especially p 552. (3&4 ed) It's not in the basic...
Greetings, all Aye. It also serves to enhance compassion, an understanding that we are all ill in some ways. At meetings, I frequently hear the saying, "Some...
This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these...
Well, we always pray for ourselves. One of our major characteristics is that everything is all about ME! ME! ME! When I've chosen to pray about/for them I end...
When I started reading the Big Book, nothing about me needed any work except that I wanted to stop drinking. I was practically a saint! LOL!! It was only when...
yes i get tired of me.....i get more praying for others Judy Petersen <judypetersen@...> wrote: Well, we always pray for ourselves. One of our major...
"They will always materialize if we work for them." I have something that I need help with. I may have posted it before. I have a huge problem letting go when...
i can relate to this i posted a brief message about a 12 yr resentment every now and then the other party wants to it seems get neg again and tells my eldest...
Yes, I firmly believe that is true. No matter how much I want to help others find this program, the result is always that I end up wanting and appreciating AA...
I do understand how difficult it is. Being taken by surprise is definitely a huge part of it. BUT... I make progress when I think of them as people with...
HI Trish, I had to learn to take my inventory from a place of my huge fat ego. Meaning, resentment is always about "well, I am so much better than them, I...
Hi Trish and All I have a clue about your feelings. I have had the same problem. Sometimes the 2+ weeks praying daily for them has helped. But many times I...
I have found this prayer to be most helpful when I am angry with another. It does work. I highly suggest it to anyone. Bill Triebe <bill_triebe@...>...
There are some people I have a hard time with. For example there is this guy at our meeting, he showed up and started to bad mouth my bf sponsor and what the...
Good Morning everyone! [Thanks to Karen for her help once again!] Although it seems like we're running through the Steps, keep in mind that in this chapter...
"They will always materialize if we work for them." Thank you all for your help. I sooo appreciate it.I am going to print all the replies out and study them...
Greetings, all If a wound is continually re-opened, at what point does it become the old wound, and at what point does it become a new wound? What I mean is,...
My sponsor before I lost all faith in AA a year ago, and started heavily drinking and using tranquilizers, always told me to pray for them, pray they get what...
Greetings, all While this isn't a resentment, it is an opinion that to say that "I have to get to the place where I see that I don't deserve that is BS"... is...
I struggled with this issue for years. You see when I was 14 years old, my mother was shot to death and the man who killed her at the bar ordered a drink and...
As Jim has pointed out, we 'learned' the tools for first four parts of Step 10 when we did the "on the job training" of Steps 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9. This...
i have detached from people who hurt me be they in another stateor people i need to see (like my brother and sis in law) . . . tis far better for me to do this...
i understand you completely; i got in the way of someone's addiction when i visited him a second time - had a great time the first visit so what was not to...
[:)] Thank you all so much for getting back with me re:work. I am printing every message out and will work through them til I get an answer. I will get back...
This was just sent to me from one of my sober friends... I think it is fitting for this thread. Jocelyn ... RESENT SOMEBODY The moment you begin resenting a...
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