ACIM Workbook Healing Perspectives Lesson 58 “Review of Lessons 36 - 40.” Accepting my holiness is accepting my wholeness. It is accepting that all is one...
Today's thought for Hazelden is: Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. --Terence Our Twelve Step program offers us the best education in the...
Daily Reflections A CHANGED OUTLOOK Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,p. 84 When I was drinking, my attitude was...
12 & 12 pg. 34-35 Step Three "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." PRACTICING Step Three is like the...
The Gabriel Heatter Interview From: NM Olson The first national exposure for Alcoholics Anonymous came with the April 25, 1939, "We The People" broadcast....
I found this in my daily reading the other day and thought I'd like to share it with you folks.NancyH./Texas A Poem by Margaret Sangster. The little sharp...
One Man's Story The patient is a man in his early fifties, very successful in business, and referred to by his associates as Napoleon because of his autocratic...
THE EGO FACTORS IN SURRENDER IN ALCOHOLISM Harry M. Tiebout, M.D. Ego: By Two Definitions Recognizing Immaturity Inability to Accept Frustration Learning to...
"Moral Responsibility" "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from...
JACS SPIRITUALITY PAGES When I came to AA and people suggested praying on my knees I said, "Jews don't do that." Eventually I learned to do it. Some years...
12Q - What will the General Service Conference do? 12A - It will hear the annual reports of the Alcoholic Foundation, the General Office, Grapevine, and Works...
On Religion and Spirituality Prior to AA I had had contact with religion, but no spirituality or understanding of it. (I was a drunk.) As a drunk I had...
That Almighty First Year June 01, 2009 Story of the Day March 1969 Vol. 25 No. 10 From time to time as I have sat in AA meetings this past year, I have watched...
6th Step Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. I HAVE attacked Step Six many times. It has attacked me in return. We have had...
Mistakes One of the smartest things you can do is to entertain the possibility that you may be mistaken. Because if you are mistaken, and you're able to see...
Today is June 1, 2009 A Great Day for Recovery! OLD "Old age is when you realize other people's faults are no worse than your own." --Edgar Shoaff Age is a...
"You see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full." You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you...
Start of AA in Ireland It can be taken as a truthful generalization that, with few exceptions, the sole treatment of Alcoholism up to the start of the Nineteen...
What Letting Go means to me. I have 3 daughters (one of which lives 30 miles from me), a whole family that lives back East, a boyfriend and his son that I live...
God is able to change those we might consider unreachable. When we pray, expect God to answer, although sometimes in ways we do not expect. TOO BUSY TO PRAY As...
Be thankful. WHAT DOES A SPONSOR DO A sponsor does everything possible, within the limits of personal experience and knowledge, to help the newcomer get sober...
"Flyabout" a short little video, recently posted on my daughter's Facebook page opens with this line "My only fear is that I will wake up one day at...
How to Work Step Six in AA By sharoni, eHow Member Rate: (2 Ratings) Step Six is another of AA's "action steps." In this step, you are trying to be entirely...
ACIM Workbook Healing Perspectives Hi Patricia, Lesson 59 “Review of Lessons 41 - 45.” ... The peace of God comes into my awareness as I am willing to let...
Today's thought from Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Some things I find I like since becoming a more coherent person. I like feeling good in the morning. I...
Daily Reflections THE UPWARD PATH Here are the steps we took. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,p. 59 These are the words that lead into the Twelve Steps. In...
12 & 12 pg. 36-37 But suppose that instinct still cries out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting alcohol, I guess I have to be dependent upon A.A., but in...