Good Morning all! Paragraph 2 - Page 35: "Jim the car salesman" is example number 2 of alcoholic insanity. Reading through paragraph 3 on this page - "We told...
Today we are at Chapter 4 - We Agnostics, Page 44. We should start by defining some terms. "Agnostic" is comprised of two parts - "Ag" which is the Greek for...
Good morning all! ***Here's a good exercise for Chapter 4. Read through and count how many times the word "prejudice" in it's various forms appears. Also count...
Good morning! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 569. "The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in...
Good morning! We can gain some insight into the writing of the book through an examination of the original text (pre-publication "Multilith") in conjunction...
Good Morning everyone! Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1, we'll continue to examine the text as originally written to see the changes made before the first ...
Good Morning, everyone! Paragraph 2 on page 60: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found in the Doctor's Opinion and Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism] the...
'Morning everyone :) We are on page 62, Paragraph 3. Here we find out the position that God will occupy in our lives: "This is the how and the why of it. First...
Good morning, everyone! We are at the bottom of page 63, last paragraph: "Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a...
I am sending this message to all who may be interested in the Big Book Comes Alive with Jim and Dave Big Book Seminar in Latrobe, PA October 10-12, 2003: The...
Good morning all! We're at Paragraph 3 on page 64 - "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else". Again we see it...
Good Morning! We are filling out the third column of the first of four parts of our 4th Step inventory. The four parts are: 1. Resentments 2. Fears 3. Sexual...
Good Morning, everyone! We are at page 72 - Chapter 6 "Into Action" - and we're about to embark on our discussion of the 5th Step! "Having made our personal...
Just a quick word about thinking of others here and how our study works: I will post the study each weekday at 8am Eastern. Starting at the beginning of the...
Good morning everyone! We are on Page 75- Paragraph 2 on this page includes the 5th Step promises: "Once we have taken this step, witholding nothing, we are...
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 - ...
Welcome everyone and good morning! Let's read through starting from the bottom of page 76 - at the top of page 77 we find out what our purpose is: "Our real...
Good Morning! [Post for Thursday morning] We are at the bottom of page 80. The next several paragraphs, through the end of paragraph 1 on page 82, deal with...
Good Morning everyone! Although it seems like we're running through the Steps keep in mind that in this chapter alone we cover steps 5 through 10 - a mere 16 ...
I have to apologize to our members. I said we'd have post 29 on Monday. Our next Big Book Study Post will be number 29 and it will be sent on Tuesday 5/27 when...
Good Mornin' all! Page 85, Paragraph 1 - While we have recovered from alcoholism - "We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent...
Welcome back everyone- We're at Page 86, paragraph 2 - "On awakening let's think about the twenty-four hours ahead". "...we ask God to direct our thinking, ...
Good Morning everyone- Chapter 7 starts on page 89- Chapter 7, in its entirety, is dedicated to Step 12. "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of...
Good morning everyone! Let's go to page 100, last paragraph- "Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are not supposed to do....
Good morning everyone! "Chapter 8 - To Wives" begins on page 104. My comments are somewhat limited on this chapter, both here and at the face to face weekend ...
Pretty cool stuff about the gift of change that the 12 steps of this blessed program give us free we just need to ask (and do some simple things)(for me the 12...
I wanted to welcome new members, especially my friend Trish to the group. It was a pleasant surprise to meet her in an unexpected setting last week. Our good...
Good Morning all! Today we will begin on page 122 - "The Family Afterward." The dynamics of a family that has endured alcoholism are skewed to the point where...
