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Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)
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January 4, 2009
Change
Let us never fear needed change. . .
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness
to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.
1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 115
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to change, change to learn.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.
A MEMBER SHARES:
My name is Lori, and I'm an alcoholic. I could never have imagined my life as it is today. I wouldn't have thought that so many changes could occur in one's life if one was willing to develop the courage to make them. I was drunk often, I was sick, I was tired, I was insecure, hurting, miserable -- and that's just the inside stuff. In my personal life, I was married, had a nice home, had a great job, had friends and family. I was supposedly secure. When the internal combined with the external, I met disaster. But I was so very willing to change. I crawled in here begging for help, praying to God that He and you would help me up from the gutter I was lying in. And you did. And He did. I am moving into a new home, and I am raising my child on my own successfully. I have AA in my life. I work the Steps on a daily basis, and I have a ton of things left to change in my life. Change is what happens. Though the expectations may not match the outcome, it doesn't matter. I've learned to face whatever comes my way, because you all are always here for me, I believe in my Higher Power, and I don't feel alone any more.
(courtesy AAOnline.net)
~ Scroll down for share ~
January 4, 2009
Change
Let us never fear needed change. . .
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness
to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.
1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 115
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to change, change to learn.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.
A MEMBER SHARES:
My name is Lori, and I'm an alcoholic. I could never have imagined my life as it is today. I wouldn't have thought that so many changes could occur in one's life if one was willing to develop the courage to make them. I was drunk often, I was sick, I was tired, I was insecure, hurting, miserable -- and that's just the inside stuff. In my personal life, I was married, had a nice home, had a great job, had friends and family. I was supposedly secure. When the internal combined with the external, I met disaster. But I was so very willing to change. I crawled in here begging for help, praying to God that He and you would help me up from the gutter I was lying in. And you did. And He did. I am moving into a new home, and I am raising my child on my own successfully. I have AA in my life. I work the Steps on a daily basis, and I have a ton of things left to change in my life. Change is what happens. Though the expectations may not match the outcome, it doesn't matter. I've learned to face whatever comes my way, because you all are always here for me, I believe in my Higher Power, and I don't feel alone any more.
deleted_user
once I started changing the way I look at things around me, The things around me Change!!! A.A. is my Life!!!
lisa1235
ditto,2408rebos1!!
JoeTex
how did I miss this one
nickyj18022002
I was told that resisting change is much more painful than change itself and that has certainly been my experience, not that I always remember that when change happens or is required!
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