"Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human...
NAMI Partners with New Online Community - 11/1/2006 12:08:42 PM ... From: NAMI To: bjam16@... Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: NAMI...
Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn't be shy on this matter of prayer. Page 85 We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many...
"Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power. If we have carefully followed...
"I was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking...
"After awhile, turn the talk to some phase of drinking. Tell him enough about your drinking habits, symptoms, and experiences to encourage him to speak of...
Our Southern Friend...Page 500 Hello Everyone, That's one thing I could never do and that was to drink to over come the drink. I just could not take a "bite of...
Bill D - the man in the bed. Bill and Bob go after him. Once again in noticing the method used in the twelve step work Bill and Bob were performing: "The man...
MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition...
Welcome Back, Patricia. It's great to see you posting messages in the Digest tonight. You were greatly missed !!!! Hope your recovery from surgery continues to...
Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we...
Twelve Steps of a Relapse 1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life. 2. I firmly believe that...
"Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and...
A THANKFUL HEART I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat...
I guess I never get bent out of shape when a real alcoholic protégée drinks because I haven't been taken by surprise in such a long while. I do not know of...
Our Southern Friend...Page 501 Hello Everyone, I don't have any experience with this page but I am sure some of you have. By the grace of God I was sober when...
NO ORDINARY SUCCESS STORY A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual...
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at...
When We Share... AUTHOR: Unknown When we share laughter, there's twice the fun; When we share success, we've surpassed what we've done. When we share problems,...
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