There are sounds to seasons. There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one’s life. –Alison Wyrley Birch Live is rich and full. Your life. My life. Even when the day feels flat or hollow, there’s a richness to it that escapes our attention. We see only what we chooseContinue reading “Listening To The Music Of Today – Each Day A New Beginning August 28th”
Category Archives: Awareness
8th Step Willingness To Have Our Hearts Change – The Language Of Letting Go – Melody Beattie
The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change. This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with others and ourselves. It means we become willing to let go of our hard heartedness – one of the greatest blocks to our ability to give andContinue reading “8th Step Willingness To Have Our Hearts Change – The Language Of Letting Go – Melody Beattie”
Detach With Love – Grapevine Article June 1981 By D.J.
These AAs joined Al-Anon and learned to detach with love My wife –I’ll call her Elayne–and I are both alcoholics recovering in the lifesaving program of AA. We’ve been off the sauce and off all pills, too, for over six years now. Each of us has been serious about the Steps and at times hasContinue reading “Detach With Love – Grapevine Article June 1981 By D.J.”
‘The Keys Of The Kingdom’ Concluding Paragraphs Big Book pages 275-276
AA is not a plan for recovery that can be finished and done with. It is a way of life, and the challenge contained in its principles is great enough to keep any human being striving for as long as he lives. We do not, cannot, outgrow this plan. As arrested alcoholics, we must haveContinue reading “‘The Keys Of The Kingdom’ Concluding Paragraphs Big Book pages 275-276”
Is Sobriety Enough ? As Bill Sees It #227
The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who cameContinue reading “Is Sobriety Enough ? As Bill Sees It #227”
Happy – When We’re Free – As Bill Sees It #218
For most normal folks, drinking means release from care, boredom, and worry. It means joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did andContinue reading “Happy – When We’re Free – As Bill Sees It #218”
The Good Within Our Enemy – Grapevine Article August 1973 by A.G. Decatur, GA
Where there is hatred let me sow love. . .” – Forgiveness comes when we love and bless the Power that flows through each of us I ALWAYS thought “Forgive and forget” was a beautiful maxim. But I expected others to live up to it, while I gave it only lip service. So, for nearly six yearsContinue reading “The Good Within Our Enemy – Grapevine Article August 1973 by A.G. Decatur, GA”
Only Try – As Bill Sees It #214
In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I had to be a musician because I could not carry a tune. I had to be the president of my class in boarding school. I had to first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself theContinue reading “Only Try – As Bill Sees It #214”
Gracefully Broken – Daily Ponderable Thought August 1st by Heather S.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~~ Carl Jung “Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” ~Steve Maraboli “I was at a store last night and there was a mother and her two children behindContinue reading “Gracefully Broken – Daily Ponderable Thought August 1st by Heather S.”
Defects And Repairs – As Bill Sees It #140
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he likes his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn’t deserve it. << << << >>Continue reading “Defects And Repairs – As Bill Sees It #140”