Alcoholics Anonymous

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, . . . So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 I had been slipping away from the program...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Sometimes we do make a really huge deal out of getting a sponsor don't we! LOL I sure did at least. It feels like this really huge thing, and really it's not. We are not marrying this person... but we take it that seriously sometimes! As if it must be the one and only, and we can never move on. We're sca...

Dimanchestreet · Dimanchestreet

Its almost been a year since I entered a 28 day rehab, one week after leaving I started drinking again until I got in a lot of trouble at work for not showing up because I was afraid to be drunk on duty. I was then put on antabuse and was pretty much a dry drunk for two months and picked up again. I have continued...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

This requires NO reading and takes about 2 seconds... I just love this...some days this is just how some people feel..... d: When you feel ke you have just had enough..... When you feel like you have just had enough..... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=559728c3f5&view=...

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

Looks like its coming out on DVD on December 11th :) http://www.page124.com/

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 19, 2012 Quote of the Week "If you want to make God laugh,tell him your plans" Before recovery, I had a lot of plans. I was going to do this and accomplish that, and when things didn't work out I'd use alcohol to fuel my self-will and strengthen my determination. It was during t...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. --Eileen MayhewWe often want to sit down and cry, but the tears don't seem to come. For years we may have struggled to keep ourselves from crying because we've been made to feel that tears are a sign of weakness. And we certainly don't want to look foolish an...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A Retiree's Last Trip to Kroger Yesterday I was at my local Kroger buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.What did she think I had an elephant?So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse...

Col · Col

Today marks 6 months of sobriety for me.. I can hardly believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in this very same kitchen suicidal and completely spiritually bankrupt. Truly a miracle, I believe. These past months have been pretty rocky for me.. The true work is not physically putting do...

very very tired · very very tired

Hi All! I haven't been on this board in awhile--busy living life on life's terms. All is well. 10 months sober. Going to meetings. Calling my sponsor. Not drinking Living. It's good. Amazing doors have opened for me as I'm learning to ask for my HP's will for me and the power to carry it out: opportunit...

paton · paton

Hi, By the grace of my Higher Power and the fellowship of AA I have been sober 21 years. I have been very active in AA service but now I am older I am finding it difficult to get to as many meeting as I would like. I would like to share with a member on a one to one and general, at my age it doesn't matter if a male of f...

justadrunk · justadrunk

There was a little bit of confusion over how to get the door unlocked at the clubhouse today. The older gentleman who was having a bit of a problem was holding up the line of us freezing Wisconsinites wanting to get in... but that wasn't a big deal. We're used to being cold most of our lives. What I though...

justadrunk · justadrunk

My children are so amazingly sweet and precious... when they are asleep! It seems that most of the other hours in the day leave me wondering how I can dislike these little people I love so much! LOL Recovering with young children doesn't make me special or unique. It doesn't mean I have it worse, or ha...

Chaya · Chaya

Since I wasn't able to get to meetings this week I worked really hard on keeping up with my readings and talking to my sponsor. Tonight I chose to miss my meetings I've attended the last three weeks to help out my mom. I'm paying for it now. I am so irritable I can't even stand me. The girls are driving me craz...

justadrunk · justadrunk

My husband went to his second Alanon meeting. He did nothing but complain about how it wasn't all about him, how the topic wasn't useful for him, how people didn't make him feel welcome, how the topic of service was totally useless to anyone and people had stupid things to say, how he doesn't fit in, how...

EmptyNest · EmptyNest

I am so disgusted with myself. After 8 years of sobriety, I have relapsed and been heavily drinking for the past 2 months. My youngest son moving away triggered it. No excuse though. I need to stop. Just pulled out all my AA coins and some jewelry that I had engraved myself. Tonight is the last ni...

Col · Col

Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. So...

Arian · Arian

Hi, I just got out of jail 9 days ago for a DUI and I am in desperate for a sponsor. I asked someone to be my sponsor when I first came home, they said yes and I called and called and they Never called me back. I thought it might helpful if I had a sponsor that had also experienced jail because I am going through...

pinkchip · pinkchip

Just remembering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas sober. My sobriety date is October 1st so, by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I had just under 2 months sober. I recall being really immersed in AA and in the midsts of doing my 90 in 90. I had Thanksgiving with my sponsor at his house. There...

Mike B. · Mike B.

The Grapevie will push a quote each day to your e-mail address. I've enjoyed receiving these each day and thought I would pass it on to my brothers and sisters. You can sign up below. An open mind is a fertile environment for growth. November 15 ...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Here is a 2 ... 1/2 minute movie clip that is sure to touch your heart ... :http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/paid-in-full/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.16.12-_-PaidInFullmovie&j=27565&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1253778&mid=7001668&jb...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do. E...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and o...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Welcome to MIP Chad, glad you found us ... you wrote: hucksley wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Chad, I'm 21 years old and I'm an alcoholic. I haven't started attending meetings yet but will in the very near future (as in tomorrow). A little bit about my story/situation...It all started last year in m...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De RojasSometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. --Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...

justadrunk · justadrunk

My daughter did something so amazing this morning, that I literally jumped up and down clapping like a little kid with excitement for her. The house shook a little, things rattled, and I suddenly remember I am a big person ; ) Still... these days, I'm so much more involved in my life, and I can actually f...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

Hi. Hope you're all enjoying sobriety. I am. Haven't been here for a while. Still active in AA just not coming here as often as I was. Got an anniversary on the horizon. 15 years they tell me. God, I'm almost an oldtimer. How did that happen? So, what else have I been up to? Well, I'll just share this with ya....

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Okay, so I'm standing on the back deck a little while ago and there's this sudden 'thump' near me that caught my attention ... I look over and see this beautiful little bird, laying upside down on the walk beside the house ... I reach down and pick up the bird not expecting much, but the poor thing was still...

Neophyte · Neophyte

"I hate [person]! and you know why? [names inconvenient action]! they do this all the time. I mean, all I did was [insert understated action] and they went a head and [fill in this blank]!" and then I looked at myself after ranting and thought "this happens all the time to me. If you do...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --MontaigneOur program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help u...

zangkitty95 · zangkitty95

Please check out my friend's new book she wrote long term alcoholic/physician in recovery "You Can Trust Me I'm A Doctor' AC Gross very good book iuniverse

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. --Julian of Norwich Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all ma...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith, hadn't I been...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 12, 2012 Quote of the Week "Things aren't necessarily going wrong justbecause they're not going my way" This is still hard for me to accept. My ego tells me that my plans and ideas about how things should go, and how you should act, are 99% right, and that if everybody wou...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. --Charles B. Newcomb Even before it has learned to fly; a baby bird is pushed from its nest. It will totter upon the ground, stubby wings outstretched from its body, following th...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I looked at my husband after watching the movie flight last night - and I said "The powerlessness? If you would have told me I was losing my kids and my family while I was drinking, I would not have been able to stop even if I wanted to. With out help, I would have so badly not wanted to drink again, but...

mikef · mikef

Today I would like to salute all those I served with,the ones that didnt make it back and the ones that made it back and are still suffering. The Vietnam Era was a rude awakening for this young pup and alcoholic.I made it thru that conflict and came back to the other war ,my addiction.That battle continu...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I started taking banjo lessons last Friday. I asked if I could also learn the flute, something I was told no to many years ago - and it's always bugged me. I was a bad student. I got really frustrated, and threw my hands up "I'm too old for this" a few times - but the teacher kept gently nudging...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Home is my favorite hippie mint and rosemary soap washing off a day of trouble. It's two children pushing two lovers to opposite sides of sleepy oblivion at 3 a.m. only to rustle us awake in a few short hours. I watch as they bend heads together like flowers drooping in the autumn sun, finding it - their d...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

I won't mention years just my bestest wish for you enjoying a beautiful day full of love & sobriety! Godbless, Lady. I see how much we appreciate your message, experience, strength & hope. Thank you for being here :D Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x

bikerbill · bikerbill

HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...... _____________...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

True Story. A patient at a public Psych hospital in Sydney , in one of the 'drug & alcohol brain damage wards' , had to attend several 'outside' meetings , as well as All the hospital meetings . Old mate had been going allright for awhile , had even started the ward's own meeting . Which they named afte...

mikef · mikef

Brought back so many memories! Truly grateful to be alive and in God's grace......a powerful story of the devastation of our illness,I went into the movie blind and came out in the Light.......It literally reached my core and had me crying in relief and feeling the freedom from that horrible 25 ye...

pinkchip · pinkchip

The longer I'm sober, the more it becomes apparent to me that my entire 20s and half of my 30s were a hazy mess of dysfunction and alcholism. I do not regret the past, because it took what it took for me to get to where I am today, but I can't help but shake my head at how I spent such a long time half dead. Wow. ...

justadrunk · justadrunk

-- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 4th of November 2012 09:12:28 AM

pinkchip · pinkchip

This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Last night my sponsee's room mate called to ask me what to do about my sponsee being drunk and passed out. About the fact that she's now drinking at work. She asked me if they should do an intervention and then put her in treatment. She's been drinking every day for 4 yrs. Her father just died. "Her fr...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I...

Picaposie · Picaposie

When ever I don't get my way, or I get something that I don't want, or I don't get something I want.....I am grateful today that I can find comfort in the knowledge that maybe if I'm not getting my way, then maybe God is getting His way.

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Daily Reflections ~ "I Was Slipping Fast" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, . . . So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 I had been slipping away from the program...	Sobrietyspell	2	430	Nov 20, 2012 by justadrunk
	Thoughts on sponsorship - (for Chaya) (Preview) Sometimes we do make a really huge deal out of getting a sponsor don't we! LOL I sure did at least. It feels like this really huge thing, and really it's not. We are not marrying this person... but we take it that seriously sometimes! As if it must be the one and only, and we can never move on. We're sca...	justadrunk	13	460	Nov 20, 2012 by justadrunk
	Day One (again) (Preview) Its almost been a year since I entered a 28 day rehab, one week after leaving I started drinking again until I got in a lot of trouble at work for not showing up because I was afraid to be drunk on duty. I was then put on antabuse and was pretty much a dry drunk for two months and picked up again. I have continued...	Dimanchestreet	17	523	Nov 20, 2012 by Mike B.
	Some Days, This is how I Feel (Preview) This requires NO reading and takes about 2 seconds... I just love this...some days this is just how some people feel..... d: When you feel ke you have just had enough..... When you feel like you have just had enough..... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=559728c3f5&view=...	Pythonpappy	4	436	Nov 20, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Did anyone see the new movie "Bill W"? (Preview) Looks like its coming out on DVD on December 11th :) http://www.page124.com/	SoberSteve	1	330	Nov 20, 2012 by Mr_David
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 19, 2012 Quote of the Week "If you want to make God laugh,tell him your plans" Before recovery, I had a lot of plans. I was going to do this and accomplish that, and when things didn't work out I'd use alcohol to fuel my self-will and strengthen my determination. It was during t...	Pythonpappy	2	320	Nov 20, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-19 (Preview) Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. --Eileen MayhewWe often want to sit down and cry, but the tears don't seem to come. For years we may have struggled to keep ourselves from crying because we've been made to feel that tears are a sign of weakness. And we certainly don't want to look foolish an...	Pythonpappy	3	265	Nov 20, 2012 by Mr_David
	Old Joke for Old Folks (Preview) A Retiree's Last Trip to Kroger Yesterday I was at my local Kroger buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.What did she think I had an elephant?So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse...	Pythonpappy	3	425	Nov 19, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	6 months.. Holy crap:) (Preview) Today marks 6 months of sobriety for me.. I can hardly believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in this very same kitchen suicidal and completely spiritually bankrupt. Truly a miracle, I believe. These past months have been pretty rocky for me.. The true work is not physically putting do...	Col	15	481	Nov 19, 2012 by justadrunk
	Checking in (Preview) Hi All! I haven't been on this board in awhile--busy living life on life's terms. All is well. 10 months sober. Going to meetings. Calling my sponsor. Not drinking Living. It's good. Amazing doors have opened for me as I'm learning to ask for my HP's will for me and the power to carry it out: opportunit...	very very tired	4	436	Nov 19, 2012 by Mr_David
	On line share (Preview) Hi, By the grace of my Higher Power and the fellowship of AA I have been sober 21 years. I have been very active in AA service but now I am older I am finding it difficult to get to as many meeting as I would like. I would like to share with a member on a one to one and general, at my age it doesn't matter if a male of f...	paton	8	547	Nov 19, 2012 by Rob84
	Got sorta chewed out at a meeting today ; ) (Preview) There was a little bit of confusion over how to get the door unlocked at the clubhouse today. The older gentleman who was having a bit of a problem was holding up the line of us freezing Wisconsinites wanting to get in... but that wasn't a big deal. We're used to being cold most of our lives. What I though...	justadrunk	13	621	Nov 18, 2012 by bikerbill
	Alcoholism and kids (Preview) My children are so amazingly sweet and precious... when they are asleep! It seems that most of the other hours in the day leave me wondering how I can dislike these little people I love so much! LOL Recovering with young children doesn't make me special or unique. It doesn't mean I have it worse, or ha...	justadrunk	7	461	Nov 18, 2012 by Mr_David
	5 days without meetings is getting to me (Preview) Since I wasn't able to get to meetings this week I worked really hard on keeping up with my readings and talking to my sponsor. Tonight I chose to miss my meetings I've attended the last three weeks to help out my mom. I'm paying for it now. I am so irritable I can't even stand me. The girls are driving me craz...	Chaya	11	450	Nov 18, 2012 by Chaya
	Meeting # 2 (Preview) My husband went to his second Alanon meeting. He did nothing but complain about how it wasn't all about him, how the topic wasn't useful for him, how people didn't make him feel welcome, how the topic of service was totally useless to anyone and people had stupid things to say, how he doesn't fit in, how...	justadrunk	10	381	Nov 18, 2012 by Cindyloo
	Relapse after 8 years (Preview) I am so disgusted with myself. After 8 years of sobriety, I have relapsed and been heavily drinking for the past 2 months. My youngest son moving away triggered it. No excuse though. I need to stop. Just pulled out all my AA coins and some jewelry that I had engraved myself. Tonight is the last ni...	EmptyNest	13	602	Nov 18, 2012 by Cindyloo
	Progress ( nowhere near perfection:) (Preview) Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. So...	Col	4	493	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	I NEED A SPONSOR!!!!!!!!!!! VIRGINIA BEACH AREA (Preview) Hi, I just got out of jail 9 days ago for a DUI and I am in desperate for a sponsor. I asked someone to be my sponsor when I first came home, they said yes and I called and called and they Never called me back. I thought it might helpful if I had a sponsor that had also experienced jail because I am going through...	Arian	6	3051	Nov 17, 2012 by Rob84
	Sober Holidays (Preview) Just remembering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas sober. My sobriety date is October 1st so, by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I had just under 2 months sober. I recall being really immersed in AA and in the midsts of doing my 90 in 90. I had Thanksgiving with my sponsor at his house. There...	pinkchip	9	1118	Nov 17, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	Thought I Would Share This (Preview) The Grapevie will push a quote each day to your e-mail address. I've enjoyed receiving these each day and thought I would pass it on to my brothers and sisters. You can sign up below. An open mind is a fertile environment for growth. November 15 ...	Mike B.	9	308	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	"Thanks'Giving'" (Preview) Here is a 2 ... 1/2 minute movie clip that is sure to touch your heart ... :http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/paid-in-full/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.16.12-_-PaidInFullmovie&j=27565&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1253778&mid=7001668&jb...	Pythonpappy	4	337	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-16 (Preview) Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do. E...	Pythonpappy	1	222	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ Vital Sustenance & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and o...	Sobrietyspell	1	414	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Welcome Chad (Preview) Welcome to MIP Chad, glad you found us ... you wrote: hucksley wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Chad, I'm 21 years old and I'm an alcoholic. I haven't started attending meetings yet but will in the very near future (as in tomorrow). A little bit about my story/situation...It all started last year in m...	Pythonpappy	7	422	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-15 (Preview) When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De RojasSometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...	Pythonpappy	2	422	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift (Preview) The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. --Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...	Pythonpappy	1	215	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Jumping up and down. (Preview) My daughter did something so amazing this morning, that I literally jumped up and down clapping like a little kid with excitement for her. The house shook a little, things rattled, and I suddenly remember I am a big person ; ) Still... these days, I'm so much more involved in my life, and I can actually f...	justadrunk	8	379	Nov 16, 2012 by justadrunk
	Checking In (Preview) Hi. Hope you're all enjoying sobriety. I am. Haven't been here for a while. Still active in AA just not coming here as often as I was. Got an anniversary on the horizon. 15 years they tell me. God, I'm almost an oldtimer. How did that happen? So, what else have I been up to? Well, I'll just share this with ya....	Wolfie55	8	364	Nov 16, 2012 by SteveP
	The Visit (Preview) Okay, so I'm standing on the back deck a little while ago and there's this sudden 'thump' near me that caught my attention ... I look over and see this beautiful little bird, laying upside down on the walk beside the house ... I reach down and pick up the bird not expecting much, but the poor thing was still...	Pythonpappy	8	338	Nov 15, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	It's never them. It's always me. (Preview) "I hate [person]! and you know why? [names inconvenient action]! they do this all the time. I mean, all I did was [insert understated action] and they went a head and [fill in this blank]!" and then I looked at myself after ranting and thought "this happens all the time to me. If you do...	Neophyte	14	493	Nov 14, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 11-13 (Preview) Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --MontaigneOur program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help u...	Pythonpappy	3	251	Nov 14, 2012 by Mr_David
	my friend AC wrote a book (Preview) Please check out my friend's new book she wrote long term alcoholic/physician in recovery "You Can Trust Me I'm A Doctor' AC Gross very good book iuniverse	zangkitty95	3	253	Nov 14, 2012 by zangkitty95
	Today's Gift 11-11 (Preview) ... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. --Julian of Norwich Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all ma...	Pythonpappy	4	251	Nov 13, 2012 by Travel an
	Daily Reflections ~ Morning Thoughts & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith, hadn't I been...	Sobrietyspell	1	483	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 12, 2012 Quote of the Week "Things aren't necessarily going wrong justbecause they're not going my way" This is still hard for me to accept. My ego tells me that my plans and ideas about how things should go, and how you should act, are 99% right, and that if everybody wou...	Pythonpappy	3	289	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-12 (Preview) We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. --Charles B. Newcomb Even before it has learned to fly; a baby bird is pushed from its nest. It will totter upon the ground, stubby wings outstretched from its body, following th...	Pythonpappy	1	226	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Was that really me? (Preview) I looked at my husband after watching the movie flight last night - and I said "The powerlessness? If you would have told me I was losing my kids and my family while I was drinking, I would not have been able to stop even if I wanted to. With out help, I would have so badly not wanted to drink again, but...	justadrunk	11	751	Nov 13, 2012 by justadrunk
	The other War (Preview) Today I would like to salute all those I served with,the ones that didnt make it back and the ones that made it back and are still suffering. The Vietnam Era was a rude awakening for this young pup and alcoholic.I made it thru that conflict and came back to the other war ,my addiction.That battle continu...	mikef	10	404	Nov 12, 2012 by Picaposie
	Walking out of a meeting (Preview) I started taking banjo lessons last Friday. I asked if I could also learn the flute, something I was told no to many years ago - and it's always bugged me. I was a bad student. I got really frustrated, and threw my hands up "I'm too old for this" a few times - but the teacher kept gently nudging...	justadrunk	23	1090	Nov 12, 2012 by Mr_David
	Pride (Preview) Home is my favorite hippie mint and rosemary soap washing off a day of trouble. It's two children pushing two lovers to opposite sides of sleepy oblivion at 3 a.m. only to rustle us awake in a few short hours. I watch as they bend heads together like flowers drooping in the autumn sun, finding it - their d...	justadrunk	5	387	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	Happy Bellybutton Birthday, nezyb!!! (Kelley!!) (Preview) I won't mention years just my bestest wish for you enjoying a beautiful day full of love & sobriety! Godbless, Lady. I see how much we appreciate your message, experience, strength & hope. Thank you for being here :D Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x	Sobrietyspell	6	289	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	And that's how the fight started - british humour (Preview) HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...... _____________...	bikerbill	7	326	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	Some of the 'best' 'advice' stories you have heard. (Preview) True Story. A patient at a public Psych hospital in Sydney , in one of the 'drug & alcohol brain damage wards' , had to attend several 'outside' meetings , as well as All the hospital meetings . Old mate had been going allright for awhile , had even started the ward's own meeting . Which they named afte...	Zoomtopz	14	403	Nov 11, 2012 by Zoomtopz
	FLIGHT (Preview) Brought back so many memories! Truly grateful to be alive and in God's grace......a powerful story of the devastation of our illness,I went into the movie blind and came out in the Light.......It literally reached my core and had me crying in relief and feeling the freedom from that horrible 25 ye...	mikef	11	1067	Nov 11, 2012 by SteveP
	Lost time (Preview) The longer I'm sober, the more it becomes apparent to me that my entire 20s and half of my 30s were a hazy mess of dysfunction and alcholism. I do not regret the past, because it took what it took for me to get to where I am today, but I can't help but shake my head at how I spent such a long time half dead. Wow. ...	pinkchip	20	656	Nov 11, 2012 by Cindyloo
	Grateful to be sober today (Preview) -- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 4th of November 2012 09:12:28 AM	justadrunk	11	522	Nov 11, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	The taste of alcohol (Preview) This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste...	pinkchip	10	475	Nov 11, 2012 by bikerbill
	A new thread (Preview) Last night my sponsee's room mate called to ask me what to do about my sponsee being drunk and passed out. About the fact that she's now drinking at work. She asked me if they should do an intervention and then put her in treatment. She's been drinking every day for 4 yrs. Her father just died. "Her fr...	justadrunk	11	472	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A Sense of Belonging & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I...	Sobrietyspell	1	1290	Nov 11, 2012 by Mr_David
	Comfort in not getting my way (Preview) When ever I don't get my way, or I get something that I don't want, or I don't get something I want.....I am grateful today that I can find comfort in the knowledge that maybe if I'm not getting my way, then maybe God is getting His way.	Picaposie	3	272	Nov 11, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
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