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.
For a long time I have been around the rooms of A.A. It always seems to amaze me when discussions come up about God. some people say they are atheist, and just can't accept God, and usually they stop coming, and a lot of times go back out. This isn't all of them. I'm talking about people that just seem plain stubborn. They seem to want to hang onto old prejudices that are based around religion. What A.A. is about is individual spirituality that we acquire as we work the steps, Religion uis a whole different ballgame.I was also dead set against anything to do with religion, or God at one time, but through A.A, I did manage to find the God of my understanding. When I realized that I was either doomed to a life of misery with drinking, which I knew I was going to die from, or the choice of trying the A.A. program, God and all. I thought alright. If it really meant that I could possibly find peace and happiness, I was willing to try it. I learned that all I had to do was be open minded. If I remained stuck to my old beliefs and ways of thinking, how could I possibly change. my mind needed to be reprogramed. All my old thinking had to be put aside. It didn't work, and it always got me drunk. A.A. doesn't say you need to believe in God. It just ask that you be open minded to new ways of thinking. This is how we change. I didn't believe in God, but I said, " Alright. Just mayby I don't know everything. Perhaps there may be a God." I didn't know, but I kept an open mind, and thought I would try. I worked the steps, and found I could believe in God because things started to happen, that I knew I could never acomplish. I found I started to love people, and allow them to love me. Now was that so bad. For the first time ever in my life, I really don't want to drink. How could that happen? All I know that if your faced with death, or the possibility that there may be a God. Doesn't it make sense to just try it. You only have to be willing, open minded, and honest. Pretty good trade off if you ask me. I have a lot of that peace now that I was always searching for. Thank you, God.
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
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I was recently separated from my wife of 33 years and it's complicated. Anyway I rented a room about 15 minutes away and I see my kids about once a week. I see the people who own the house I live in once in a while but other than that I stay in my room where I do my cooking, wash dishes in the shower, read, color, and sleep. I get out at least once a day. I grocery shop and I attend 2 meetings...
Peace and blessings!
Thanks for your post my recovery and beliefs run along a parallel line with what you have posted. And where you mentioned all my old thinking had to be put aside. It didn't work, and it always got me drunk. was the same for me.My Sponsor gave me this prayer to use which helped.
God Bless...
Lionel
The Set Aside Prayer
Dear God, please set aside anything I think I know
about myself, about my disease, about the Big Book, the
12 Steps, the Program, the Fellowship, the people in the
fellowship, and all spiritual terms, especially you God; so
that I may have an open mind and a new experience with
all these things. Please help me see the Truth. Amen.
But, when things are going good and I take control back, thats when things get scary.
When I first quit drinking, a counselor told me that good things happen to people who stop drinking and at the time, I didn't know what that meant but I do now.
God Bless and tc!
where it would lead spiritually. For me that was not to a belief in god, I don't label myself but guess I could be termed an atheist. If the steps had lead me to god that would have been fine but they didn't. I believe that my spiritual awakening was the right one for me. I believe that for everyone, it doesn't matter where one starts in terms of spirituality and belief, if one does the steps with an attitude of honesty, open mindedness and willingness then the right personal spiritual awakening will happen and the right spiritual path will open up to be travelled.
now i ask you...................did he find Curtis or did Curtis find him? i believe the latter. he laughs at me.
sometimes spirit seeks you.
Curtis wasn't excommunicated.......it was fear, the pressure of a king......................i think it had something to do with power over people.
never loose the throat grip of the people. ;)
I narrowly escaped the Inquisition myself, but that's another story.
ok alex....i'll take i great humor for 100................................BIG HUGS nemo
i'll be laughing for days......................
I'm laughing now too, but I sure as heck wasn't when it was all happening 46 years ago.