You are changing all the time with or without sponsorship. It may be hard to sort out which changes are directly related to sponsorship, rather than...
Hi Honey, Nope your not the only one. It has made me much more concerned with my delivery of the message. It has made me more sensitive, tactful and creative...
Karen wrote: << Sponsoring others has changed me profoundly. Has it changed you? In what ways? >> For me, sponsoring has taught me to look closer at my...
Sponsoring others has really gotten me out of myself and into the lives of others. I still have the ability to reside in my head and become disconnected from...
being a sponsor has done wonderful things for me.first of it gets me out of myself and is always a constant reminder of carring the message.i have learned alot...
Good Morning Karen, I believe when I am asked to be a sponsor, it is for the sole purpose of helping ME. lololol. Now I know that isn't totally true, however I...
Good afternoon everyone, Everyone has said it really well for me too. Sponsoring helps me far more than it helps anyone else, I feel. Although it is a real ...
"I wish for you..." Comfort on difficult days, Smiles when sadness intrudes, Rainbows to follow the clouds, Laughter to kiss your lips, Sunsets to warm your...
well theres alot of good stuff there...i can remeber not giving a shit what happened to other people...my wish for them was stay outta my way.unless u have...
If I am doing what I am supposed to be doing as a sponsor, it seems that with every new man I take on, I just keep growing smaller and smaller. Sponsorship has...
<<We do need to start somewhere but our understanding must grow to become sufficient in it's true purpose - a reliance on It provides the foundation for a...
That ONE is GOD... may you find him now. Nice, Danny... thanks for posting that! T. ... our ... gotten ... was ... NOT ... found ... our ... often ... meant ...
"You MUST find him now"; they decided was too strong of language. :) But isn't if funny how as we go along in the book, we somehow go from Higher Power to GOD,...
I agree... And, Bill WAS a pretty good salesman if I'm not mistaken - gee, what did he sell? Securities??? hee hee I think mostly, he just TRULY understood...
One must remember that the articles in the Grapevine are the opinions of those who write the articles. Most of which are edited. Also, the "outside world" does...
The Grapevine is simply "Our meeting in print". Which means just about any form of crap can appear, just like in live meetings. LOL But I think we do get at...
The study up at The Wilson House was a great success! Dave and I had a great time presenting it and we had plenty of happy participants! Even though the...
I often sit in meetings and listen to people with relatively long term sobriety claim how "sick they are" or "crazy" or whatever. It puzzles me that we don't...
Hi Jim, I recently lost my old acoount, kingkrkii@..., so you may delete that one from your membership list. I also belong to several other groups which...
Jim said ----> "It puzzles me that we don't have higher expectations of the AA Program." I want to add ----> It puzzles me that we don't have higher ...
"I often sit in meetings and listen to people with relatively long term sobriety claim how "sick they are" or "crazy" or whatever. It puzzles me that we don't...
if i had a dollar for everytime i heard someone say in a aa meeting...i wlll never get well...i will allways be sick. well u would all be working for me...lol...
I believe that this type of talk stems from failure on OUR part. We no longer qualify the alcoholic, we no longer show him how to self diagnose his illness and...
you mean we in aa are failing to carry the true message to alcoholic...you mean we may b responsible for that...i always heard it was the treatment centers...
... I've heard that too, Sam (I see that tongue in your cheek) :) They may contribute to the problem, but treatment centers aren't AA, and have no duty to...
Happy Mother's Day H-is for the happiness you give to me. A- is for the Angel that I so clearly see. P- is for the patience you gave thru the years P- is for...
Let's get a little lively here. Hypothetical question: I have a problem with booze. I have lost my business, my family, mostly all of my friends. I have been...
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