It’s interesting that the 3rd Step Prayer does not have an ‘amen’ as it concludes. I have been told that perhaps the 7th step prayer includes that missing ‘amen’. So try putting these two prayers together. I’ve also taken Bill W’s lead from his slight restatement of the 3rd Step Prayer (in As Bill SeesContinue reading “Combining The 3rd Step and 7th Step Prayer”
Category Archives: Expectations
Happiness Comes Quietly – Daily Reflection January 17th
When we examine what we demand and what we desire to possess, we have a great starting point for revealing our self-centered fears that may be unconscious and in need of healing. This can be a tremendous aid in our 4th step inventory. Click on the links to demands in this meditation to understand thisContinue reading “Happiness Comes Quietly – Daily Reflection January 17th”
Letting Go Of Hope – Grapevine Article By Mira C.
When hope was replaced by faith, the program really began to work for her Today, I am a grateful recovering alcoholic. I am grateful for reaching what I could only describe as a state of hopelessness and desperation. Craving to fill the void in me, I used to hold onto anything and everything that helpedContinue reading “Letting Go Of Hope – Grapevine Article By Mira C.”
What Prevents Us From Learning From Our Mistakes – Keep It Simple October 9th
A man should never be ashamed to own he was in the wrong.—Jonathan Swift In the past, we felt a mistake was a crisis. We thought we had a to be perfect. Our old ways was to try to hide our mistakes. We were ashamed. We thought making mistakes meant we were bad. Mistakes areContinue reading “What Prevents Us From Learning From Our Mistakes – Keep It Simple October 9th”
Surrender – Grapevine Article June 1976 By Ed C.
THE FIRST and most crucial Step in the recovery of any alcoholic is surrender to the fact that he or she is powerless over alcohol and that life has become unmanageable. Sounds simple enough, like most of AA’s principles. But obviously, it isn’t always easy for the active alcoholic. Thousands of AA members who areContinue reading “Surrender – Grapevine Article June 1976 By Ed C.”
Savoring Our Sobriety – Grapevine Article August 1982 By C.C.
IT WAS NATURAL for us to begin our journey of happy sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous with an anticipation of trouble in trying to live in the now, one day at a time. After all, we had spent years deeply regretting painful pasts and weeping about dismal futures. We are fortunate that so much attention isContinue reading “Savoring Our Sobriety – Grapevine Article August 1982 By C.C.”
When And How To Give – As Bill Sees It #239
Men who cry for money and shelter as a condition of their sobriety are on the wrong track. Yet we sometimes do provide a new prospect with these very things–when it becomes clear that he is willing to place his recovery first. It is not whether we shall give that is the question, but whenContinue reading “When And How To Give – As Bill Sees It #239”
Eliminating Self-Pity – Living Sober Chapter 22
This emotion is so ugly that no one in his or her right mind wants to admit feeling it. Even when sober, many of us remain clever at hiding from ourselves the fact that we are astew in a mess of self-pity. We do not like at all being told that it shows, and weContinue reading “Eliminating Self-Pity – Living Sober Chapter 22”
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.”
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”