okiyoe1
Status: WHos 2 Say anyway!!
Mood:
Ok
Offline
- We are told in the program that no situation is hopeless. At, first, of course,we find this hard to believe. The opposites -hope and despair - are human emotional attitudes. It is we that are hopeless, not the condition of our lives. When we give up...
- Another of the mottoes of AaA is "Easy Does It." This means that we just go along in Aa doing the best we can and not getting steamed up over problems that arise in AA or outside of it. We Alcoholics are emotionial peopleand we have gone to excess...
- "During acute depression ," wrote AA co- founder Bill W., "avoid trying to set your whole life in order at once. If you take on assignments so heavy that you are sure to fail in them at the moment, then you are allowing yourself to be tricked by...
- In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited A.A. members to tell their stories. News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to...
- One of the mottoes of AA is " First things First" This means we should always keep in mind That Alcohol is our number one problem. We must never let any other problem, whether of family, business, friends or anything else take precedence in our...
- Though i have prayed at various times in my life, I realized after several months being in the program that I'd never really prayed properly. I'd always tried to make deals with God, much like a foxhole atheist: I'd always pleaded, "Grant me my...
- From www.thoughtis.comMeditation techniques are known to vary depending on the origin of the practice and the culture in that place.It also varies depending on the personality of the person and where he or she comfortable with.Meditation techniques...
- Based on their collective experience, AA's founders suggested a prayer to be said when taking the third step - making a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood him. "God I offer myself to to thee, to build with...
- The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the...
- From time to time, I begin to think I know what God's will is for other people.i say to myself "This person ought to be cured of his terminal illness", or " That one ought to be freed from the torment she's going through,"and I begin to pray for...
- I begin today with prayer-prayer in my heart, prayer in my mind, and words of prayer on my lips. Through prayer I'll stay tuned to God today, reaching forward to become that which I aspire. Prayer will redirect my mind, helping me rise in the...
- "When I got sober, I was a junior in high school. I didn't know how to stay sober among my old partying friends. I went to meetings and heard people say, 'Get rid of old playmates and play places.' I didn't know how I was going to do that. I...
- When I got sober, I was a junior in high school. I didn't know how to stay sober among my old partying friends. I went to meetings and heard people say, 'Get rid of old playmates and play places.' I didn't know how I was going to do that. I couldn't...
- "We must continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We should grow in understanding and effectiveness.This is not a overnight matter:;we should continue for our life time.Continue to watch for...
- If we are still clinging to something we will not let go, We must sincerely ask God for to help us to be willing to let even that go too, We cannot divide our lives into compartments and keep some for ourselves. We must give all of the...