|
|
Daily Reflections 11/2
(Preview)
KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOAT The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing. . . . THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 240 A sober alcoholic finds it much easier to be optimistic about life. Optimism is the natural result of my finding myself gradually able to...
|
Doll
|
1
|
288
|
|
|
|
|
|
Feel Your Emotions
(Preview)
"The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are."-- Takahisa KoraEmotions are energy in motion. They bring us information if we are willing to experience them. Unfortunately, many of u...
|
Wren
|
2
|
474
|
|
|
|
|
|
Applying for school!!
(Preview)
Well, this time next year I will hopefully FINALLY be back in college! And.... enjoying the wonderful COLD weather in IOWA!! lol Yep, putting in my application to Iowa State and Iowa Lakes. Been looking into Iowa State for awhile - best Ag program in the US..... Problem will be funding.... but.... ya k...
|
ChicknLittle
|
8
|
489
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cool article
(Preview)
urces for Mind, Body, and Soul Tuesday, August 01, 2006 The Power of Surrender by Raymond David Salas Did you know that no matter how happy (or not) you are in this moment you can be happier? Do you know the quickest way to access all of your true potential and actually experience it, instead of just h...
|
lani
|
4
|
430
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 31st Oct 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ I have more peace and contentment. Life has fallen into place. The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle have found their correct position. Life is whole, all of one piece. I am not cast hither and yon on every wind of circumstance or fancy. I am no longer a dry leaf cast up and away by the bre...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
3
|
419
|
|
|
|
|
|
Happy Halloween!!
(Preview)
Happy Halloween to you all!! Cant wait to see my neice and nephew (2 and 4) dressed up!! Its ususally a big ole deal here!! Chili and cornbread, tons of candy! My friend from AA reminded me of "first halloween w/out alcohol". We typically get out our fire pits and sit in the front and partake of...
|
lani
|
12
|
511
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 1st Nov 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ I have hope. That magic thing that I had lost or misplaced. The future looks dark no more. I do not even look at it, except when necessary to make plans. I try to let the future take care of itself. The future will be made up of todays and todays, stretching out as short as now and as lo...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
0
|
311
|
|
|
|
|
|
On the lighter side.....No offense girls :)
(Preview)
Q:How many women inMENOPAUSE does it take to change a light bulb ? Woman's Answer:One! ONLY ONE!!!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don' t even know that the bulb is BURNED OUT!! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it ou...
|
Phil
|
7
|
545
|
|
|
|
|
|
Friendship
(Preview)
Oh, this is the creature that doesn't exist . . . . In fact, it never was. But since they loved it, a pure beast came to be. -- Rainer Maria Rilke The unicorn, serene and white, is a strong and graceful animal with the body of a horse. A single white horn grows from its brow, making it unique among all animals....
|
Quetzal
|
1
|
389
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 11/1
(Preview)
I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 My first sponsor told me there were two things to say about prayer and meditation: first, I had to start and sec...
|
Doll
|
0
|
275
|
|
|
|
|
|
Change
(Preview)
The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change--and we all instinctively avoid it. -- E. B. White Nature reveals to us a world that is always changing. No two sunsets are alike. Winter brings invigorating days while spring brings new buds and blossoms every day. Summer brings lazy w...
|
Quetzal
|
2
|
298
|
|
|
|
|
|
New, yet not so new
(Preview)
Hello all, I'm Crystal and I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict. Never hit an AA message board before, so I thought I would give it a shot and see how it works (no pun intended, of course). Glad to be here!!
|
IndieAuthor
|
11
|
496
|
|
|
|
|
|
The God Memorandum
(Preview)
THE GOD MEMORANDUMTHE GOD MEMORANDUM I read this last night. It is long but you can Google it to find it. I was given it one night in an AA meeting along time ago. I don't remember reading it then but I still had it all these years later. God knew I needed to read it last night and so there I found it tucked away b...
|
Bella
|
11
|
2718
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meditation.
(Preview)
Over the years I have gleaned more and more useful information from the far East. Ever since I was a kid I loved exploring cultures that were foreign to me and have always appreciated things (from wherever- not just the far East for certain) beautiful and serene. It was no surprise to my parents that in...
|
TLH
|
12
|
1065
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Cost
(Preview)
A dispatch was sent out to law enforcement personel Sat. night to breakup a brawl in the eastern part of Sangamon County (IL). At this particular tavern over the course of the past year authorities have been called out 32 times over disturbances. A second call for backup had to be emitted...
|
learning
|
3
|
400
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Alanon Group
(Preview)
We had our concurrent Alanon mtg Mon nite. Had one newbie come. It was wonderful. The AAers did their thing and we had our own space. I learned alot trying to explain what Alanon was all about. It is humbling. Someone was there for me when I needed it the most. They say if you want to keep then you must pass it...
|
nmike
|
3
|
500
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 1031
(Preview)
AVOIDING CONTROVERSY All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of...
|
Doll
|
0
|
281
|
|
|
|
|
|
Good news....
(Preview)
Hey all: Its been a great day!! Sun was shining, trees are gorgeous and Im still not working!! But have lots of prospects and a second interview tomorrow with a company I would LOVE to work for. Had a few interviews and a couple more in the works. In God's time and whatever his plan is for me is ok with me. Alt...
|
lani
|
4
|
417
|
|
|
|
|
|
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
(Preview)
Now that I am older God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the difference. Now that I'm older here's what what I have discovered. I started out with nothing and I still have most of it. My wild oats have turned i...
|
Tina
|
4
|
432
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 30th Oct 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ I have real friends, where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or p...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
0
|
331
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks for the replies
(Preview)
Thank you to all who replied to my very first posting yesterday. I am so very glad to be a member of this forum and of course, AA. Your words of love and encouragement are very inspirational and helpful. I certainly realize now that during my first 5 years of sobriety, I was nothing more than a 'Dry Drunk'....
|
Curtis
|
3
|
422
|
|
|
|
|
|
broken hearts and god
(Preview)
please help me i cried and god said "i am". and so i drag my ass to meetings and get involved with helping newcomers and do the stuff im supposed to do for my recovery. so i cry and laugh and watch miracles, a girl we all thought wasnt gonna make it comes to the halloween dance last night looking gr...
|
cindy
|
2
|
481
|
|
|
|
|
|
Self Value
(Preview)
We have a real life of our own. Yes, we do. That empty feeling, that senses that everyone except us has a life - an important life, a valuable life, a better life - is a remnant from the past. It is also a self-defeating belief that is inaccurate. We are real. So is our life. Jump into it, and we'll see. Today,...
|
Quetzal
|
0
|
328
|
|
|
|
|
|
New to the forum!
(Preview)
Greetings all, Well, sadly, on Oct 20 I threw away 5 years, 4 months & 1 day of sobriety by drinking a few beers. I had a bad fight with my wife and felt it might finally be over, so why not just give up on everything and start drinking again? I must say, the experiance was not what I thought it would be. Oh...
|
Curtis
|
7
|
504
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/30
(Preview)
LIVE AND LET LIVE Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "...
|
Doll
|
0
|
244
|
|
|
|
|
|
We Project Our Strengths
(Preview)
"Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness."-- El MoryaWe have discussed that OUR WORLD MIRRORS WHO WE ARE BACK TO US. When we get upset by something outside of us, our reaction shows us that we have an inner wound to be healed.Just as w...
|
Wren
|
0
|
301
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 29th Oct 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ My relationships with my children have greatly improved. Those children who saw me drunk and were ashamed, those children who turned away in fear and even loathing have seen me sober and like me, have turned to me in confidence and trust and forgotten the past as best they coul...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
0
|
357
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/29
(Preview)
OUR SURVIVAL Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 The honesty expressed by the members of A.A. in meetings has the power to open my mind. Nothing can block the flow of ene...
|
Doll
|
0
|
345
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acceptance
(Preview)
A magical potion is available to us today. That potion is called acceptance. We are asked to accept many things: ourselves, as we are; our feelings, needs, desires, choices, and current status of being. Other people, as they are. The status of our relationships with them. Problems. Blessings. Fina...
|
Quetzal
|
0
|
298
|
|
|
|
|
|
Emotional Walls
(Preview)
Have you ever tried to love someone, but you could feel their emotional walls? You can feel them not letting you in. You can feel the little person trapped inside. Or have you ever felt somebody trying to get to you, but you can feel yourself stopping it? This is how most of us experience relationships. T...
|
Phil
|
1
|
4524
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 27th & 28th Oct 07
(Preview)
27th A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Seventh, I can help other alcoholics. I am of some use to the world. I have a purpose in life. I am worth something at last. My life has a direction and a meaning. All that feeling of futility is gone. I can do something worthwhile. God has given me a new lease on life so that I can...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
0
|
369
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perspective
(Preview)
Today I really need to eat some humble pie! I have lost perspective on what life really means....When working with my patients I always believed that I was so lucky to have my health, etc. I always tried to be a happy, joyous person and bring a little something to their lives. God knows I got back more th...
|
lani
|
4
|
423
|
|
|
|
|
|
A True Story
(Preview)
The Sandpiper by Robert Peterson She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me She was building a sand castle or something and looked up, her eyes as blue as the sea. "Hello,&...
|
Phil
|
4
|
396
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hangin' with AAers
(Preview)
Hi AA, I go to AA mtgs in my small town when I can't go to Alanon about 30 miles away. Our Alanon is small or nil so when I drive down I am disappointed when we don't have a mtg. Usually I don't go if the weather is bad like snow and ice. The last time I went another Alanoner came and we had a good mtg. When we walked t...
|
nmike
|
2
|
389
|
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Found You
(Preview)
I am so grateful I found this site. I have read some of your stories and they touch my heart. I have needed the soothing balm of kind words, of recovery words. I have been away for awhile. Not drinking, but of just not living in the solution. My mind has traveled many miles of negativity, the landscape has b...
|
Bella
|
4
|
399
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/28
(Preview)
AN UNBROKEN TRADITION We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 How much it means to me that an unbroken tradition of more than h...
|
Doll
|
0
|
285
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meditation and Prayer
(Preview)
The Eleventh Step asks us to meditate as a route to improving our conscious contact with God. Meditation is different than obsessing or worrying. Obsession and worrying are fear connections. Meditation means opening our mind and our spiritual energy to the God connection. To connect with God, we n...
|
Quetzal
|
0
|
270
|
|
|
|
|
|
New addition to the family :)
(Preview)
Hey everyone! Hope everyone here is doing well... I'm all settled in now, going to some really good meetings, meeting some great people.... got 6 months yesterday... I have a temporary sponsor now.... finally "finished" my 4th step but am wanting to either get to know my temp sponsor b...
|
ChicknLittle
|
6
|
482
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/27
(Preview)
GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s...
|
Doll
|
1
|
391
|
|
|
|
|
|
Expecting To Feel Secure
(Preview)
Our problem is that we expect to feel secure. Many of us have had past crises and problems, yet our worries and anxieties continue in the present. We believe that our situation causes our fears and we say, "If only things were different, I could relax." Yet even when everything is going well...
|
Quetzal
|
0
|
400
|
|
|
|
|
|
Living Life with Trust
(Preview)
Living Life With Trust As we create the life of our dreams, we often reach a crossroads where the choices seem to involve the risk of facing the unknown versus the safety and comfort of all that we have come to trust. We may feel like a tightrope walker, carefully teetering along the narrow path to our goa...
|
Wren
|
1
|
420
|
|
|
|
|
|
my kittens :)
(Preview)
Life is good... I got a little kitten curled up next to me with her head resting on my arm I got 2 kitties today.... everyone is surprised I didn't take all 4 lol The one I posted the pic of earlier is named Lily.... and the one curled up by me right now is Bella, she's already spoiled rotten lol Lily i...
|
ChicknLittle
|
5
|
353
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clarity
(Preview)
I know better than to not trust God., But sometimes, I forget that.
When we are in the midst of an experience, it is easy to forget that there is a Plan. Sometimes, all we can see is today.
If we were to watch only two minutes of the middle of a television program, it would make little sense. It would be a d...
|
Quetzal
|
2
|
343
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 26th Oct 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Sixth, I have A.A. meetings to go to, thank God. Where would I go without them? Where would I be without them? Where would I find the sympathy, understanding, the fellowship, the companionship? No where else in the world. I have come home. I have found the place where I belong. I...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
1
|
401
|
|
|
|
|
|
Still searching
(Preview)
Hi all. Hope this finds you well! The sun is shining here finally and Im going off to a meeting then take my fat dog (and my dog!!!haha) for a walk. Planning on baking a little today and just enjoying the day. I had yet another interview yesterday with a awesome new hospital in town here! It is gorgeous and t...
|
lani
|
3
|
367
|
|
|
|
|
|
Practice Detachment
(Preview)
As our consciousness rises, our perspective becomes more and more impersonal. What does this mean?It means we are increasingly able to view our lives and the rest of the world with detachment. This does not mean we are cold and uncaring. Rather, we are self-contained. We have well-defined boundar...
|
Wren
|
1
|
351
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/26
(Preview)
ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authoritya loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132 When I am chosen to carry some small responsibility for my fellows, I ask that God grant me the patience, open-min...
|
Doll
|
0
|
413
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hey All
(Preview)
Just thought drop in, and say hi. Little insight on how things are going, still dealing with a few things in a legal matter from the past. Also had to deal with an "EX HUSBAND" whom still drinks, and well one day at a time. Kids are doing well, my son is adjusting to startin work this past Tuesd...
|
Tina
|
5
|
422
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Hrs a Day ~ 25th Oct 07
(Preview)
A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Fifth, I have learned to live one day at a time. I have finally realized the great fact that all I have is now. This sweeps away all vain regret and it makes my thoughts of the future free from fear. Now is mine. I can do what I want with it. I own it, for better or worse. What I do now, in t...
|
Sobrietyspell
|
0
|
327
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daily Reflections 10/25
(Preview)
A.A.'s HEARTBEAT Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125 Without unity I would be unable to recover in A.A. on a daily basis. By practicing unity within my group, with other A.A. members and at all levels of this great Fellowship, I receive a pronounced feeling o...
|
Doll
|
0
|
274
|
|
|
