When I see a new-comer, i ensure that he/she has a big-book and tell them that there are 2 powers. Despite that, I would sneak out by jumping out my bedroom window on the top floor so I could drink and get high. Wah, wah, instead, i'd like to thank all of you for your experience, strength and hope. When I was a teen, I was constantly being grounded. The part about 'annihilation of all worthwhile things in life' was certainly true when I was drinking. I did it, thanks to the solution in the BB. This is one of the reasons I am glad to be able to post the daily readings on this board - it grounds me straight away, first thing in my day, in the realisation and the acceptance that I am an Alcoholics and I need to work the steps - it is, if you like my daily Step 1. I wanted what you had. Few can equal that book for carrying the message. It is the solution that unites us as well as the fact we are Alcoholics. We hope this volume will inform and comfort those who are, or who may be affected. I put them through R wrote: I was coming in late and working under capacity at my job(s) who cared about me would try to help me. Aa big book there is a solution which is simple fast and wrong. Hey guys, martin--you have too good of a memory!!! I don't want to come across critical - that approach is keeping them sober, but the identification of a common condition is not all Alcoholics Anonymous is about for me.
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There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. Nearly all have recovered. It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents - anyone can increase the list. At least that's what i feel today. Aa big book there is a solution chapter. Yesterday was a tantrum day, but i didn't drink. Thanks for sharing this Oliver. I've been feeling lately that i have nothing insightful to write.
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Things that stick out for me: "We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. Tomorrow--who knows? You guys are all light years ahead of me. Aa big book there is a solution summary. But it is possible through a higher power. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. Recovery won't just happen by Osmosis. I have to get into action today. Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:01 am.
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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we use them. Yes those who have worked the steps carry the solution. Our Preamble defines what we are and what we do. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. I od'd on pills once when I was younger.
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I don't know why it isn't included in the Big Book but it is in the AA literature somewhere. The word action is very important for me there - it reminds me that I have to live the programme and not just talk about it or compatamentalise it away. Location: triad, nc. If a person has cancer all are sorry for him and no one is angry or hurt. Very often I find the majority of their shares are description of what they were like. To be honest, when everything is going well in my life, it's easy not to take my steps and to forget to give thanks to God for a sober day... I am still able to do Twelfth Step work. Good Morning, We've finished with Bill W. and his spiritual awakening through the step program for the time being and are now moving on to the chapter 'There is a solution'. Thanks for the camaraderie, but don't ask me to do anything too difficult. Short excerpts used by permission of AAWS.
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I want to remember that those resources are available to me anytime and that I need them always. Thank you guys, you've meant a lot to me, i can only hope to give back a portion of what all of you have given to me. Joined: Fri May 30, 2008 12:22 pm. 12th Step work ain't just a job... The steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are leading me into a better relationship with my creator who is doing for me what I could never do for myself - keeping me sober, thus allowing me to deal with life and helping me to be useful to somebody else. The steps are my answer. Kinda like the jay-walker. I remember my very first meeting many years ago, and reading the bb for the first time. The common solution is beginning to change that rapidly in my life. An illness of this sort - and we have come to believe it an illness - involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. I've posted today's below. I dare say it wasn't present at all today. They also got me out of jail once after I crashed into 2 cars.
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Location: South Florida. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any other causes. However like the title says there is a soulution ( thank God) and i dont have to be misreable unless i chose to be. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. Blessed, if you will. But i do know when i wake up i'm going to ask for help and make a decision to keep my feet moving. It is so easy for me to forget how lucky I am. They have solved the drink problem. It's quite another thing to stick around, through thick and thin, and keep giving sobriety a chance. Here it is: Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. My drinking problem engulfed the lives of my parents, who I often depended on financially. I get involved in "brotherly and harmonious action. " Because of your being here, Judi, and sharing your experience with the hardest thing I ever had to do.
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I am so lucky to have a program where recovery is possible. Karl R. - Forums Old Timer. But my way out of that peril didn't include doing what you all have done. We are saved, we are working together on a common purpose, and we have a similar history of damage in our lives, despite our being from "All sections of this country [world]" representing "many [if not all] of its occupations.. well as many [all? ]
A study guide I like to use points out that these paragraphs talk about the kind of people I might meet in a meeting. THERE IS A SOLUTION. "We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. They stay stuck in the problem instead of focusing on the solution. The 12 Steps are the program - the common solution for those in the fellowship who share this common problem. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. Joined: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:06 pm. God, i'm a lucky woman. Despite the fact that I had a wonderful career, fine home, fine children and wife I had no joy in anything. But compared to where i was, it's heaven on earth. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 17.
The fact that we have shared the drink problem bonds those of us together who normally would not mix but it is the fact that we share a common solution to the drink problem that is the glue that sticks us together. I remember the enormous amount of energy it took and I know that I had access to power greater than myself and I was quite willing to use it. I also do what I can with service work. It's one thing to make a post or two on this forum, dump off a load of grief, and then wrote: martin--you have too good of a memory!!! The fight against good orderly direction and the steps of our program is so much less than it was back in july. Hope this answers the question. Thanks for letting me share. First of all we had to quit playing God, it didn't work.
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