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I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow-travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field— We must look around at the people in our lives today, and know that we have something special to offer each of them, and they to us. […]
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HITTING BOTTOM Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream […]
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The A.A. program is a way of life. It’s a way of living and we have to learn to live the program if we’re going to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like guide posts. They point the direction in which we have to go. But each member of the group has […]
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Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening. —Gertrude Stein— Life is full of dangers and risks and challenges. We can choose to meet them fearfully or in a spirit of welcome. To choose fear, to say, “I won’t take that risk because I might lose,” is to prevent ourselves from ever winning. […]
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AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70 From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I found hope in these words from our […]
Promise of a new Day <!--011526-->
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. —C. S. Lewis— Retrospect offers us what no one moment, in the present, is capable of doing. There is a pattern to the events of our lives, and even what appear as the […]
Keep it Simple <!--011526-->
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. —Albert Camus— “Later.” How often have we said this? This trick help us avoid the tasks of the day. Life is full of task–many fun, some boring, others hard. Can I accept the task […]
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If you play with a thing long enough, you will surely break it. —Anonymous— Some things shouldn’t be played with. Our recovery program is one these things. When we play with our program, we’re taking a risk. We play with the program by missing meetings. Or by not calling our sponsors. Or by skipping the […]
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When we first came into A.A., a sober life seemed strange. We wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we’re in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. And now we know that the life we’re living in […]
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Perhaps this very instant is your time… your own, your peculiar, your promised and presaged moment, out of all moments forever. —Louise Bogan— “This very instant” is all we have. We make plans for the future, we invoke memories of the past, but really, all we have to deal with and to act in is […]