I remember my very first meeting many years ago, and reading the bb for the first time. I've been feeling lately that i have nothing insightful to write. Aa big book there is a solution worksheet. The fight against good orderly direction and the steps of our program is so much less than it was back in july. The most far-reaching Twelfth Step work was the publication of our Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. It has meant much to my perspective on recovery.
I put them through R wrote: I was coming in late and working under capacity at my job(s) who cared about me would try to help me. When I see a new-comer, i ensure that he/she has a big-book and tell them that there are 2 powers. An illness of this sort - and we have come to believe it an illness - involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. I don't know why it isn't included in the Big Book but it is in the AA literature somewhere. We are people who normally would not mix. Big book there is a solution. But if you have reached a hopeless condition relying on your own self will-There is a solution to the drink problem. I remember the enormous amount of energy it took and I know that I had access to power greater than myself and I was quite willing to use it.
"If I don't take twenty walks, Billy Beane send me to Mexico" -- Miguel Tejada. Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 92). God, i'm a lucky woman. There are also conditions to the solution which we will find later. Despite the fact that I had a wonderful career, fine home, fine children and wife I had no joy in anything. Recovery won't just happen by Osmosis. I don't have much more than 2 days right now (actually about a week), but i know i've got both feet in this thing today. But i do know when i wake up i'm going to ask for help and make a decision to keep my feet moving. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. Evening all, my sponsor has reminded me that my assignment is to read and contribute to the bb forum.
I dare say it wasn't present at all today. Thanks for sharing this Oliver. Location: triad, nc. I have to walk the walk away from the meetings and put my side of the street into order. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. I hear BB was 12 step call in print and it was published to carry the news of a common solution namely the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and not the news of the Fellowship. Hey guys, martin--you have too good of a memory!!! It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents - anyone can increase the list. The steps are my answer. It has become a part of them and it is this which gets passed on to the still suffering alcoholic. Joined: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:40 am. It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's. What worked for me was following the directions in the BB, and it didn't matter if I believed they would work or not, as someone else pointed out in these forums recently. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.
All sections of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. Nearly all have recovered. Location: Baltimore, MD. Thank you guys, you've meant a lot to me, i can only hope to give back a portion of what all of you have given to me. Joined: Sat May 03, 2008 8:04 pm. Things that stick out for me: "We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. I suppose if we hadn't found a solution, we wouldn't be joyful. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are leading me into a better relationship with my creator who is doing for me what I could never do for myself - keeping me sober, thus allowing me to deal with life and helping me to be useful to somebody else. They stay stuck in the problem instead of focusing on the solution. Thanks karl for all you do here.
I've posted today's below. From the book Daily Reflections. It is the solution that unites us as well as the fact we are Alcoholics.
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