Good Morning Everyone! Page 76 - Let's look at the first paragraph. Believe it or not, there is a prayer for the 6th Step too: "Can He now take them all -...
Once again, Thank you Karen for filling in for Jim as you both do this study. It is deeply appreciated by this recovered alcoholic. It still amazes me how much...
The way we do 5,6, and 7 here is all in one continuous session. Not over an extended period of days, weeks, months or years. After Step five we are instructed...
<<The program and thus our relationship as feed in the 11th. step is truly one of my and your "willing" to be in contact with His will at all times. ....if it...
Welcome everyone and good morning! Let's start reading from the bottom of page 76 and on to the top of page 77. We find out what our purpose is: "Our real...
I've had to really get honest with myself over the past year with regard to amends. I had to ask the question "Why am I walking around AA, telling people that...
I am so pleased that you shared about those amends , Danny. I hope it went well for you. I look to you for leadfership...Yesterday i went to the Animal...
I must get one stray amend done for an AA who works at the detox with me. Her sponsor told her she has to be nice to me!!! I revelled in it!!! Shame on...
Danny S wrote: "It has been dealing with the inside of my mind, in the manner prescribed, which has been a true test of spiritual mettle." So very well put my...
Oops! I think I will take up proof reading. I meant to say, "Every thing else is but a symptom." (Face turning red with embarrassment) Larry C. "Larry C."...
How do you feel about members who are diagnosed bi polar? Some of them take anti depressants & anti-anxiety medication. For some it is a true chemical...
My name is Heidi and I am an alcohlic! It has been proven to be deadly for AA's to play Dr when they are not! Thank you Jade! You are correct we are NOT Dr's....
My amends to my MIL (BTW, I put it off for 10 years cos she had ben so mean to me) was the most beneficial. We are not best buddies but definitely are...
from "Around the Year with Emmet Fox": "As far as God is concerned, there is no check of any kind upon the amount of divine energy that we can appropriate, or,...
Mark!! I couldn't even hold a pencil in my first few days of sobriety LMAO!! - but I do agree - as soon as you can physically write - you should be doing it. ...
AA members that are diagnosed as "bi-polar" is an outside issue. If they have our common problem of alcoholism then they are welcome. ... From: Jade...
Good Morning! I hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday weekend. We are at the bottom of page 80. The next several paragraphs, through the end of paragraph 1...
This is true & why I said : "about members who are diagnosed bi polar?" The members who I know have claimed they are alcoholics & they are welcome. "Drouin,...
... Prolly the most important thing for me comes from page 64. It answers the question, "WHEN should we start the fourth step?" ... "We were now at Step...
<<We don't get them by osmosis. They just don't fall into our lap, we have to work for them.>>Karen's post #27 Thanks Karen. But if os-mosis doesn't work, then...
<<So, WHEN should we do the Fourth Step? ... "NEXT"!>>Billy True. The only scheduled time-out we get in the whole process is ONE HOUR, right between 5 & 6....
... of ... This question comes up frequently in one of the meetings I regularly attend. The number of answers to this question ("When should we do the Fourth...
This is on topic with Step Nine. Tonight I went to a 12 X 12 open discussion meeting. We go around the room reading the essay on the step and then continue...
Danny, I don't share very often but I have been reading intently over this past few months the discussions. I really appreciate your input probably because our...
In our groups cross-talk is NOT allowed. We define cross-talk as commenting directly to another person who has shared, interupting the person who is sharing,...
Thanks Linda, So if the person advises the other person what to do rather than sharing their own experience, strength and hope concerning the topic, step being...
A yahoo search will tell me that Crosstalk is a magazine for cross dressers, TVs, TSs and wives. :) However: (Extracted from Recovery Times 7/92) Webster says...