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. 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. I've wanted my problem solved through human hands. Marc L. - Posts: 1549. We need both to have a peaceful life.
It was not a place to come in and whine. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. 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. They found it so frustrating that each time I seemed to be getting it together I shoot myself in the 's frustrating and heartbreaking to watch someone you love and care for do this over and over again. Joined: Sat May 03, 2008 8:04 pm. I also do what I can with service work. 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. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. Few can equal that book for carrying the message. Yesterday was a tantrum day, but i didn't drink. I know i'm a drunk like you guys. The fight against good orderly direction and the steps of our program is so much less than it was back in july. I od'd on pills once when I was younger. 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.
What worked for me was following the directions in the BB, and it didn't matter if I believed they would work or not, as someone else pointed out in these forums recently. 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. I'll politely nod and agree with you, but that is as far as i went. There are also conditions to the solution which we will find later. A study guide I like to use points out that these paragraphs talk about the kind of people I might meet in a meeting. As oliver noted, action is the key. Recovery won't just happen by Osmosis. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we use them.
They stay stuck in the problem instead of focusing on the solution. Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:01 am. "We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. But it is possible through a higher power.
They have solved the drink problem. Karl R. - Forums Old Timer. 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. We, of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. The book Alcoholics Anonymous, aka The Big Book, is the basic text for the AA program of sobriety. We share both a common problem and also a common solution.
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