I stood there in line growing more and more impatient. After all, I had important things to do. I didn’t have the time to stand in line waiting for their social hour to end. My journey in recovery started in 1971. I returned from combat in Vietnam with an alcohol and drug problem. I’m gratefulContinue reading “Unacceptable – Grapevine Article October 2022 By Allen B.”
Category Archives: Peace Of Mind
Noticing Synchronicity – May 4th Reflection
Things happen in our lives for a reason, even if that reason is not clear to you right away. When events appear to fit together perfectly in our lives it may seem at first that they are random occurrences, things that are the result of coincidence. These synchronous happenings, though, are much more than that,Continue reading “Noticing Synchronicity – May 4th Reflection”
Where Do We Find Peace – Each Day A New Beginning April 5th
I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. –Joanna Field Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day.Continue reading “Where Do We Find Peace – Each Day A New Beginning April 5th”
A New Way Of Looking At Life – Grapevine Article April 1981 By D.J.
ONE AFTERNOON a few months ago, I found myself reviewing the story of AA co-founder Bill W.’s encounter with cosmic consciousness in Towns Hospital. I had come across a well-detailed account of the incident and had not proceeded far into it before I began to experience feelings of envy. After all, I reasoned, why shouldn’tContinue reading “A New Way Of Looking At Life – Grapevine Article April 1981 By D.J.”
Love Everybody? As Bill Sees It #230
Not many people can truthfully assert that they love everybody. Most of us must admit that we have loved but a few; that we have been quite indifferent to the many. As for the remainder — well, we have really disliked or hated them. We A.A.’s find we need something much better than this inContinue reading “Love Everybody? As Bill Sees It #230”
Keystone Of The Arc – As Bill Sees It #87
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we became open-minded on spiritual matters. In this respect alcohol was a great persuader. It finally beat us into a state of reasonableness. << << << >> >> >> We had to quit playing God. It didn’t work. We decided that hereafter, in this drama of life, God was going toContinue reading “Keystone Of The Arc – As Bill Sees It #87”
Dealing With Regrets – Touchstone March 18th
Oh, that one could learn to learn in time! –Enrique Solari A mark of genuine change, after the pleasure of newfound growth, may be the regret one feels that we didn’t learn sooner. When we learn something new, we see how it could have made our life better at an earlier time. We regret beingContinue reading “Dealing With Regrets – Touchstone March 18th”
‘Let It Go’ To ‘Let It Be’ – Language Of Letting Go March 10th Melodie Beattie
Life is a series of letting go’s– an “infinite” series of letting go’s. All things in life are given us on loan. Stand face-to-face with life, learn to let go, and whatever comes our way– success or failure, joy or sorrow, support or betrayal, light or darkness– it all blesses us. Once we have learnedContinue reading “‘Let It Go’ To ‘Let It Be’ – Language Of Letting Go March 10th Melodie Beattie”
Persistence In Prayer As Bill Sees It #127
We often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope toContinue reading “Persistence In Prayer As Bill Sees It #127”
Mysterious Paradoxes – A.A. Daily Reflection February 23rd
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accepted, they reaffirm something in the universe beyondContinue reading “Mysterious Paradoxes – A.A. Daily Reflection February 23rd”
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