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Retired in Florida, God's waiting room. Jack of all trades master of none...when I stop learning you can feed me to the fishes. Becoming a curmudgeon and learning to love it.
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” The other Steps can
keep most of us sober
and somehow functioning.
But Step Eleven can
keep us growing,
if we try hard and
work at it continually.”
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As Bill Sees It p 264
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What I used for my sobriety yesterday
may not work today, therefore, I need to
say my prayers, do my readings, go to a meeting
and work with another alcoholic so that I may learn
what I need to maintain my sobriety today.
Meditate, learn the will of your Higher Power.
Never stop learning, never stop growing.
Recovery is to keep growing.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“We have dropped anonymity
at this level because we think
our friends and associates
ought to know about A. A.
and what it has done for us.
We also wish to lose the fear
of admitting that we are alcoholics.”
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As Bill Sees It p 278
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Step One, “We admitted that we were powerless . . .”,
and by admitting defeat we were given the strength
and courage to face our disease head on.
This is the first of many paradoxes that A. A. teaches us.
Today, lose the fear and know that admitting
your alcoholism is the easier, softer pathway to
happy, joyous and free.
Recovery is admitting that we are alcoholics.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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...”we need not look far
to see that
self-justification
is a universal destroyer
of harmony and of love.”
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As Bill Sees It p 285
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Self-justification is the same as using a lame excuse.
Egotism to the extreme, I couldn’t be wrong,
it had to be your fault.
You were the wrong color, the wrong religion,
the wrong sex, the wrong whatever
and I was superior to you.
I could also justify every drink, drug and donut
that I ever ingested.
Today, no excuses.
Recovery is to avoid self-justification.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“It would be a
product of false pride
to claim that A.A.
is a cure-all,
even for alcoholism.”
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As Bill Sees It p. 285
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Although I am very proud of what A. A. has done for me.
I know that whatever it takes to have an individual reach sobriety
is O. K. with God.
Religion, group sessions, therapy, Hogar Crea
or maybe even ‘will power’ will suffice if it helps
keep their disease in remission.
Will the twelve steps cure all of the ism’s ? ? ?,
maybe.
Today, bless anyone who can stay clean and sober,
regardless of how they achieve it.
Recovery is to avoid false pride.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“If we examine every
disturbance we have,
great or small,
we will find at the
root of it some
unhealthy dependency
and its consequent
unhealthy demand.”
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As Bill Sees It . p 288
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Recovery is the whole package,
physical, mental and emotional sobriety.
It was those unhealthy demands and
unhealthy dependency that gave us
many excuses to drink .
I drink because physically I am an alcoholic,
my unhealthy mental and emotional states only
contribute to the problem.
Today, ask your Higher Power to give you
the strength and courage to change those habits
and attitudes that are unhealthy, to eliminate
those excuses that once caused us to drink.
Recovery is working on the total package,
physical, mental and emotional sobriety.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“Of course,
my conflicts went
right on mounting,
because I was
simply loaded
with excuses, refusals,
and outright rebellion.”
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As Bill Sees It p 289
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My disease justified every drink I ever took
because it wanted me to think that it would be OK
to have just one more.
It was never my fault.
You just don’t understand.
There was always an excuse, a justification for every drink,
and for every wrong step I ever took.
Today, be honest.
Recovery is to stop justifying bad behaviors.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“I believe that when
we were active alcoholics
we drank mostly to kill pain
of one kind or another –
physical or emotional or psychic.”
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As Bill Sees It p 291
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Whatever the pain, real or imagined,
self inflicted or caused by someone else,
A. A. has many suggestions for relieving the pain,
none of which involve drinking alcohol.
Today, if you are in pain, talk to your sponsor,
talk to your spiritual adviser, take it to a meeting
and know that this too shall pass as soon as
you let go and let God.
Recovery is to learn to resolve , not dissolve, the pain.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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