Alcoholism Support Group
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.
Many Alcoholics will saying today: "This is a good Christmas for me." They will be looking back over the past Christmas's which were not like this one. They will be thanking God for their sobriety and their new found life. They will be thinking about how their lives have changed , when they came into AA.They will be thinking that perhaps God let them live through all the hazards of their drinking careers, when they were perhaps close to death , in order that they might be used by him in the great work of AA. Is this a Happy Christmas for me?
24 hrs, A day 12/25
Hazelden
24 hrs, A day 12/25
Hazelden
Remember if you were stranded on an island for years and you had no calendar to follow - how would you know what day it was much less days that are holidays as marked on a calendar, you wouldn't - you would just live for that day -
For those of you who struggle with the first sober Christmas or making the decision on whether to use or not today, those whose lives are changed this Christmas due to the fact that you have stopped drinking and now your typical traditions are changed - i send you big strong hugs - Today is a new and glorious day and you can celebrate the real meaning of the season - the birth of our savior Jesus Christ - this can be done alone or with many - i like to take a moment on this day and truly send praise to God as without his son's birth this day - there could not be his son's death and his rising - without his rising, i could not be forgiven for my sins - without forgiveness of my sins i will burn in hell - so for God to give us the birth of his son today - is the greatest gift and blessing i could ever receive.
Peace be with you -
Tiny Tim A Christmas story
Tiny Tim (real name "Timothy Cratchit") (also known as "Trench Foot Tim") is a fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He is the son of Bob Cratchit. It is claimed that the character is based on the invalid son of a friend of Dickens who owned a cotton mill in Ardwick, Manchester.
When Scrooge is visited by The Ghost of Christmas Present he is shown just how ill Tim really is, and that Tim will die unless he receives treatment. When visited by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come all he sees of Tim is his crutch, as Tim has died. This, and several other visions, lead Scrooge to reform his ways. At the end of the story, Dickens makes it explicit that Tim did not die, and Scrooge became a "second father" to him. According to some other versions of A Christmas Carol, Tim Cratchit eventually gained health by Scrooge's money, and later became a successful businessman. When Ebenezer Scrooge died, he became the only member of the Cratchit family to attend his funeral.
Dickens did not reveal in the book what Tiny Tim's illness was, but renal tubular acidosis (a type of kidney failure causing the blood to become acidic) has been proposed as one possibility, as has rickets (caused by a lack of Vitamin D).[2][3] Or maybe it was polio. Or trench foot. Or foot-and-mouth syndrome, which was rampant in Victorian England.[citation needed]
Tiny Tim is known for the statement, "God bless us, every one!," which he offers as a blessing at Christmas dinner. Dickens repeats the phrase at the end of the story.
" No God bless you Tiny Tim"
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