About michael_e
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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“If we cannot or will not
achieve sobriety,
then we become lost,
right in the here and now.
We are of no value to anyone,
including ourselves,
until we find salvation
from alcohol.”
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As Bill Sees It p 81
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“First Things First”, love the slogans,
they help keep it simple.
The first thing we place before our sobriety
is the first thing that we will lose.
Today, keep it simple,
don’t drink, don’t think, go to a meeting
and remember to pick up that first drink is to be doomed
to a life of jails, institutions or death.
Recovery is finding salvation from alcohol.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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“I can see why
you are disturbed
to hear some A.A.
speakers say,
‘A.A. is a
selfish program.'”
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As Bill Sees It p 81
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Selfish is not a nice word, however,
an A.A. member who cannot selfishly
provide for and protect his own sobriety
has nothing to share with anyone else.
“First Things First” means that the first thing
that we place before our sobriety will be the first thing
that we will lose should we pick up that first drink.,
Recovery is putting your own sobriety first.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power.
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The A.A. group, as such, cannot
take on all the personal problems
of it members . . . This is why
sobriety – freedom from alcohol –
through the teachings and
practice of A. A.’s Twelve Steps,
is the sole purpose of the group.”
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As Bill Sees IT p 79
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A, A, is ” not” an employment agency, a bank, a landlord,
a marriage counselor or any other social service.
The primary purpose of A.A is that the members will help
each other find recovery and give the member a new way of life
where they can learn to resolve their own problems,
usually best done with the aid of a Higher Power.
Recovery is to help the group maintain its primary purpose.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power
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“Usually,
we do not avoid
a place where
there is drinking –
if we have a
legitimate reason
for being there.”
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As Bill Sees It p 77
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Just because you stopped drinking alcohol
does not mean that you must stop living.
Make friends, go dancing with the wife,
attend the functions, just be prepared to
do what you must to avoid any temptation
or mistake that may lead to taking that first drink.
Many a good AA meeting has topics concerning
how to enjoy life without jeopardizing your sobriety.
Today, don’t drink. don’t think
and go to a good meeting.
Recovery is to go on living a better life.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power
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“Change is the
characteristic
of all growth.
From drinking
to sobriety, . . .
— all this and
infinitely more
represent change for the better.”
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As Bill Sees It p 76
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For starters, not drinking may be change enough.
People, places and things will be the next challenge.
Just keep going to those meetings, not drinking,
following a few suggestions and eventually
you will see the changes you have made in the
way friends and family interact with you.
Accept the better.
Recovery is changing for the better.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power
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“For myself,
of late years,
I am finding
it much easier
to believe that
God made man,
than that man made God.”
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As Bill Sees It p 73
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There is a God today, and it is not either
you or me.
Fortunately, for the recovering alcoholic,
all have been given the chance to be right
concerning the “God Thing.”
Whatever keeps you sober, just keep coming back,
because sharing your experience, strength and hope
may be what I need to help me stay sober today.
Recovery is easy to believe.
Sobriety is a blessing from our Higher Power.
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“Fortunately,
A.A. is constructed
so that we need not
debate the existence
of God, but for best
results, most of us
must depend upon a Higher Power.”
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As Bill Sees It p 73
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Change, what used to be the good old bar room
debate, God or no God, now becomes, for the
recovering alcoholics, a decision to accept or
not accept a Power greater than himself.
However, The Big Book does suggest that
relying on a Higher Power, not will power,
is the easier and softer way to achieving and maintaining
a happy, joyous and free recovery.
Recovery is not having to debate the existence of God.
Sobriety is a blessing from a Higher Power
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