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
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Week 10: Big Book Workshop
We are in There is A Solution. Last week we went into detail of examples of drinking against our will... Here's an exercise for you, which will synopsize what happened in Week 9 - come up with 3 examples of when you intended not to drink at all and ended up drunk, overshooting the mark … Continue reading Week 10: Big Book Workshop
Week 7: Big Book Workshop
We are on p. 21 of the First Edition which is in There Is A Solution. Today we had a homeless kid show up at our group. Someone probably told him that there would be food - I don't know how he found our workshop - but he acted like he had been "trying to … Continue reading Week 7: Big Book Workshop
An Addendum To Last Week’s Post
I made a document for the group. I decided that the group is not ready to really see how the Traditions are laid out because it will take away from the simple experience of going through the book itself, but I made a document for them to study on their own and I am going … Continue reading An Addendum To Last Week’s Post
Week 6: There Is A Solution Lays Out All The Traditions
THERE IS A SOLUTION It is a bold statement for me to make that There Is A Solution lays out all the Traditions, but there they are! This means that the Traditions, which were published about 15 years after the book Alcoholics Anonymous, have been a part of AA since it's inception - which a … Continue reading Week 6: There Is A Solution Lays Out All The Traditions
Week 5: The Significance of The Sobriety Date
When I came in, we used to introduce ourselves with our first and last name, and our sobriety date. Why? We are not anonymous within our own fellowship and we want people to be able to get in touch with us. We stated our sobriety date because Alcoholism lives in the gray area of whenever … Continue reading Week 5: The Significance of The Sobriety Date
Day 3: The Law of Investment
I have been trying to figure out what is going on in AA lately. Today, being the 4th week of the workshop, 6 of the 13 people who normally have been showing up decided not to show up this week. One of them "sent me a text". What if I decided not to show up? … Continue reading Day 3: The Law of Investment
Day 2 of Our Big Book Workshop
We started off on Roman Numeral 17 - xvii of the 2nd Edition Forward. The first thing that was remarked upon, since I was reading out of a 2nd Edition and the rest of the group were using the 4th Edition to read the 2nd Edition Forward, is that someone changed the 2nd Edition Forward, … Continue reading Day 2 of Our Big Book Workshop
Day 1 of our Big Book Workshop
First of all, the difference between a study and a workshop is that in a workshop the group actually goes through all the steps together as a group. The history is described here; https://bigbookrecovered.org/golden-slippers-history/ because where I learned to do this came from a recovered alcoholic who was in this workshop. Of that group of … Continue reading Day 1 of our Big Book Workshop
Incrementally Easing God Out
This is from the Daily Reflections today... This may seem nit picky to some of you newcomers to the honey fuggling mess that is GSO - but I assure you it is not! The footnote of this statement "Continued to take personal inventory" is from p. 59 of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, which is our … Continue reading Incrementally Easing God Out
Anonymous Alcoholics 