God told me to go late to a meeting the other day. I was annoyed. The addict-alcoholics were jibber jabbering about something unknown to me yadda yadda - why am I here God? I asked. How can I leave without making it too obvious since I just got here? There's no way out. The last … Continue reading Get On Your Knees & Ask God To Remove The Obsession
Category: alcoholics anonymous
Week 4 of the Big Book Workshop
We started out with each person sharing their name, sobriety date and the set -aside prayer. The set- aside prayer was coined by Joe H. of Santa Monica, CA as a result of work he did with Don P. of Aurora, CO. It's a good prayer to do when going through the Big Book again … Continue reading Week 4 of the Big Book Workshop
The Fellowship Outside of Meetings
Today my sponsee called me crying. She is just over a year sober. Someone - an oldtimer - had invited her to a potluck at his house with a bunch of other AAers and she just did not want to go. She had told him she would go, but then her best friend backed out … Continue reading The Fellowship Outside of Meetings
The Big Book For Dummies…and The 5th Edition
I am sure that that title alone just pissed off a bunch of "woke" people. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Yesterday our "woke" DCM came to our group to "answer questions" for us about the "plain english" big book and the 5th edition. Lie #1 - she told us … Continue reading The Big Book For Dummies…and The 5th Edition
How To Think About We Agnostics
How To ThinkWe Agnostics is written for the person educated with the Trivium. It presumes education in logical debate, and it sets out to prove that having faith is logical. WE AGNOSTICS Atheist: rejects all religious belief and denies the existence of God; Agnostic rejects the existence of God i the absence of material proof … Continue reading How To Think About We Agnostics
Some Sound Advice About Violating Spiritual Principles from A Spiritual Guy
https://youtu.be/ZICN5XtlB6o Here are more lectures.
Raising the Bar
My sponsee finished her entire inventory in 1 month: Resentment (160 people, institutions, principles), Fear (about 30), Conduct (about 50), and Sex Ideal. She's driving out here to read it this Saturday. She's coming 1800 miles because she is willing to go to any length for victory over alcohol. Oh and she has just under … Continue reading Raising the Bar
Never Ignore A Hunch…
About 3 weeks ago, an old friend of mine from my old, now deceased homegroup, popped into my head. I know where this guy works and I thought I should go visit him. I don't want to go visit him, he is of course, my ex from 2005, and he is now living with my … Continue reading Never Ignore A Hunch…
Bodily and Mentally Different…
Lately, I have been having a conversation with a woman who just started going to Alanon. I met this woman through an outside interest. She had something I wanted, so I thought, and we have been talking on social media, Signal - where we leave each other messages - she is in Italy, from Scotland, … Continue reading Bodily and Mentally Different…
Terrifying…
As I posted, the city said we had to wear masks as we come through the door and then we can take them off. "We" voted to do that. Nobody is doing it, including me - I am not doing it because I don't believe in it. We should have not said we would do … Continue reading Terrifying…
Anonymous Alcoholics 