Several times in the past month at different meetings someone has offered that a sponsor needs X number of years before he/she may sponsor someone. Yesterday...
My opinion is that in order to be an effective sponsor, one only has to have recovered from alcoholism through the taking and practice of the 12 steps as...
I encourage my sponsees to begin the 12th step as soon as they have completed steps 1 through 11. I had two sponsees take all 12-steps this past year and were...
Mike wrote: <<...a sponsor needs X number of years before he/she may sponsor someone. Yesterday it was five years minimum. I have heard other numbers as well,...
In the group I got sober in people were expected to complete the 12 steps within the first year. Sponsoring others was contingent on completing the 12 steps...
Hi Everyone! I was looking for something online that would help me at home as well as F2F meetings. Seems in this busy world of ours today, technology does...
Over at he AAHistoryLovers board/group there is a post regarding the success/failure rate of the AA Program. The very end is a comment that basically says the...
I am still believing the second forward: Of alcoholics who came to AA and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some...
My guess is less than 25% remain sober after a year in AA. The reasons for this are many. I still believe that the program properly applied and adhered to, as...
How often have we heard people speak of "working on their defects of character" and why should we wonder about that statement? Your responses are appreciated. ...
Hey Jim, How about because God removes our defects because lack of power is our delimma and we can't fix them ourselves. another jim ... From: "Jim K."...
Jims, Don't I have to be a willing participant in the removal process by taking better actions and practicing better thinking too ...I mean with the help of...
Jims, Sometimes when people say that they are"working on their character defects" it seems as if they are excusing their on-going behavior. It sometimes seems...
I would have to say that the antithesis of living in God's will is living in our defects - that is to say if we honestly strive to live a spiritual life then...
Jim, Powerfully said! Clarity is SWEET! Thank you. Tammy "Jim K." <jknyc@...> wrote: I would have to say that the antithesis of living in God's will is...
Hi Tammy, My take on this is that in order for us to do God's will we must be made fit for his service and our defects get removed to the extent necessary for...
Jim! Thank you!!!! For the past half hour I have been trying to make sense about a perplexing situation in my life. I opened up my email and here is the answer...
Jim, Perfect sense! Focusing on my defects and all of the things that I am encapable of doing on my own, is who I was in my alcoholism. That mindset made me...
One of the phrases often repeated in AA is that we somehow make a choice of whether or not we will drink that day. I am someone who does not have the power of...
I'd be concerned because by NOT working on my defects, I can let step aside as my life and will is cared for by God. Working on my defects is the evidence that...
No matter how badly I hurt, how badly I hurt others, there was no amount of remorse, sorrow or conviction which could keep me from once again taking that next...
<<And often we'll here how "powerless over my defects" a member is when it is really an abdication of responsibility for one's behavior.>> Jim K Similar to...
<<And often we'll here how "powerless over my defects" a member is when it is really an abdication of responsibility for one's behavior.>> Jim K Similar to...
Karen, This popped up from one Big Book search engine. Another BB search engine contained NO words "surrender"!!! I was like,"WHAT???" this is what I found:...
Karen, According to that search engine, the word "surrender" does not appear in the basic text? That can't be right! Can it? W/ Gratitude, Tammy Tammy Cook...
Karen, I did a search at the Big Book search engine and in the first 164 pages the word surrender doesn't appear AT ALL ! ! Who'd a thunk it? The word...
Linda, That's what I thought! It blew my mind to find that out! Linda <soberlady@...> wrote: Karen, I did a search at the Big Book search engine and...
I couldn't find it with my E-AA program. Amazing! I thought some of you might be interested in the website I downloaded E-AA (and paid $10 for) a very cool ...
OK, so... hmmmm... it's interesting that we hear a word so frequently around the rooms of AA that doesn't even appear in the first 164 pages of our basic text,...
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