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We never thought we could get old.—Bob Dylan— Here we are no longer children. Yet we’re not quite grown up either. At least, we don’t always feels grown up. Our program helps us accept the stages of our life. And the child in our heart is getting happier. In some ways, we feel younger everyday. […]
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. —Virginia Woolf— Working the Twelve Steps helps us learn the truth. As we struggle with Step Four, we learn the truth about ourselves. We learn even more about ourselves by doing Steps Eight and Ten. When we admit the […]
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Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighbor. —Louise Beal— In our program, we learn a lot about loving ourselves. Then we start to see how this helps us love our neighbors. We learn to love ourselves honestly, seeing our strengths and our weaknesses. We learn to see others honestly. We learn how much […]
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It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them—Adlai Stevenson— It easy to talk about our values. But when the clerk at the store gives extra change my mistake, those values get put to the test. It feels good to read about spirituality in a comfortable chair at home. […]
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That which is called firmness “I a king” is called stubbornness in a donkey. —Lord Erskine— “Rigid” is a fancy word for “stubborn.” We act this way because of our fear. When we’re afraid, we hang on to what we’re used to doing. Our illness had us so scared, we were afraid of the new […]
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. . .and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.—Second half of Step Ten— We are human. We make mistakes. This is half the fun of being human. Step Ten clearly tell us what to do when we are wrong: admit it. This keeps us honest. It keeps us from hiding secrets that could cause […]
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Continued to take personal inventory. . .First half of Step Ten. Step Ten tells us to keep looking at who we are. We ask ourselves, “Is what I’m doing okay?” If it is, then we take pride in the way we are acting. If not, we change our behavior. Step Ten keeps us in the […]
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If we follow the Twelve Steps, we’ll leave failure behind. We may have tried and tired to be sober, good people, but failed if we were doing it our way. Now is the time to stop listening to ourselves and start listening to pros, those who have gone before us. When we follow their lead, […]
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Al didn’t smile for forty years. You’ve got to admire a man like that. — From the TV show, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”— Remember how we used to live? We were always trying to cover up some lie or mistake. We were all like Al. Our energy was going into our illness, not into living. […]
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Keep coming back.. it works if you work it. Fortitude a popular self-help book noted that there is tremendous power in repetition…. like the tap-tap-tap of a hammer that finally drives the nail through a board. AA works in much the same way; attendance at meetings is the steady tap-tap-tap that helps bring about lasting […]