HEALING HEART AND MIND – May 1st Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.— TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep GodContinue reading “Healing Heart & Mind and Listening Deeply – Daily Reflections for May 1st & August 5th”
Category Archives: Humility
Humility – Grapevine Article September 1965
(Inscription on desk plaque of Dr. Bob’s) Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,Continue reading “Humility – Grapevine Article September 1965”
Resentments – Big Book Pages 64 – 67
Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory. This was Step Four. A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. It is an effort to discover the truth about the stock-in-trade. One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid ofContinue reading “Resentments – Big Book Pages 64 – 67”
Resentment: Number One Offender – Grapevine Article March 1978 By J.H.
She found out to her surprise that she could learn to cope with WHEN I FIRST started going to AA, I was convinced that I really didn’t have as much of a drinking problem as I had parent, children, job, and no-husband problems. If all those areas were to get straightened out, then I wasContinue reading “Resentment: Number One Offender – Grapevine Article March 1978 By J.H.”
Mashup Grapevine Article ‘A Time For Acceptance’ May 2021 By V.T and As Bill Sees It #44
The mother of an essential worker shares how AA helps her stay sane and grateful during a pandemic Having a controlled view of the world from my bedroom, I read another news article on my computer about the progress of the pandemic. It’s my daily check on the numbers in my state. I have beenContinue reading “Mashup Grapevine Article ‘A Time For Acceptance’ May 2021 By V.T and As Bill Sees It #44”
Foundation for Life – As Bill Sees It #33
We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.<< << << >> >> >>In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His willContinue reading “Foundation for Life – As Bill Sees It #33”
The Road To Open-mindedness – Grapevine Article January 1993 by Anonymous
Our local group had a great meeting the other day about open-mindedness. It got me thinking about the last few years of my drinking. My life experience had led me to the closed-minded conclusion that God existed all right, but that God was a sick and twisted universal mind. In reality, drinking had sickened andContinue reading “The Road To Open-mindedness – Grapevine Article January 1993 by Anonymous”
What Is An Open Mind? – Grapevine Article July 1959
The seventh of a series of “Beginners’ Meetings”–to run from time to time–for newcomers to AA sobriety. At our next beginners’ meeting a few members who have been sober in AA for awhile are going to tell us which suggestions in the AA program have helped them maintain sobriety. It should make an interesting meetingContinue reading “What Is An Open Mind? – Grapevine Article July 1959”
How GUGOGS Meditation Practice Works – April 2021
Includes excerpts and text from: AA Twelve and Twelve – 11th Step, excerpts from sessions from the Waking Up App by Sam Harris, excerpts from Tracy Cochran blogpost Giving is Receiving. Edited and written by Wayne S. Our GUGOGS meditation practice is rooted in the 11th Step in AA and incorporates mindfulness meditation drawn fromContinue reading “How GUGOGS Meditation Practice Works – April 2021”
Is Happiness the Goal? – As Bill Sees It #306
I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? In my view, we of this world are pupils in a great school of life. It isContinue reading “Is Happiness the Goal? – As Bill Sees It #306”