Aided by the “limitless hope and boundless grace” of AA, she took the Step that changed her life I often hear at meetings that Step One is the only Step that must be practiced perfectly. But is practicing perfectly oxymoronic? As a perfectionist and as an alcoholic, I had a problem with this. Fortunately, myContinue reading “Taking that First Step – Grapevine Article By C.C.”
Category Archives: Clarity
Something to Learn – Grapevine Article October 2018 by Anonymous
Laid off and feeling desperate, an AA asks for help and finds more than just a job Having become unemployed when the company I was working for was absorbed into its parent company, I sent out my resume to over 700 firms. I got only one response, which was for a part-time job across town.Continue reading “Something to Learn – Grapevine Article October 2018 by Anonymous”
Step 12 Highlights – Topics with Quotes from the 12 & 12
12th Step Theme – “THE joy of living is the theme of A.A . ‘ s Twelfth Step , and action is its key word . Here we turn outward toward our fellow alcoholics who are still in distress . Here we experience the kind of giving that asks no rewards . Here we beginContinue reading “Step 12 Highlights – Topics with Quotes from the 12 & 12”
The Spiritual Awakening – 12 & 12 summary of the first 11 steps pages 107-109
Step One showed us an amazing paradox : We found that we were totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it . In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity , some Higher Power must necessarily do soContinue reading “The Spiritual Awakening – 12 & 12 summary of the first 11 steps pages 107-109”
‘Acceptance Was The Answer’ pages 417,418,420 4th Edition
Page 417/418 – And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as beingContinue reading “‘Acceptance Was The Answer’ pages 417,418,420 4th Edition”
Our Basic Trouble (Step 3) – Big Book pages 60 – 63
Consider reading ‘Placing Yourself Into the Big Book Pages 60 thru 62’ in addition to this post to personalize Step 3 to you *********** Being convinced , we were at Step Three , which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him . Just whatContinue reading “Our Basic Trouble (Step 3) – Big Book pages 60 – 63”
Life Is Not A Dead End – As Bill Sees It #85
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state ofContinue reading “Life Is Not A Dead End – As Bill Sees It #85”
Toward Honesty – As Bill See It #17
The perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. **************** The deception of othersContinue reading “Toward Honesty – As Bill See It #17”
Living Sober – Chapter 25 Getting Out Of The If Trap
Emotional entanglements with people are not the only way we can get our sobriety dangerously hooked to something extraneous . Some of us have a tendency to put other conditions on our sobriety , without intending to . One A.A . member says , “ We drunks * are very ‘ iffy ’ people .Continue reading “Living Sober – Chapter 25 Getting Out Of The If Trap”
Making Peace With The Holidays – Grapevine Article December 2020 By Paul B.
This Christmas Eve, a lonely newcomer learned that choosing joy was the way to go It was 1984 and Christmas was approaching. I hadn’t had a visit nor heard from a single friend or relative since I had moved into this recovery house more than three months earlier. No one called to say they missedContinue reading “Making Peace With The Holidays – Grapevine Article December 2020 By Paul B.”