Recovered Alcoholic

Cunning - having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by  deceit  or  evasion  or   attractive or quaint Baffling -impossible to understand; perplexing or restrain or regulate Powerful -having control and influence over people and events. or  having or producing great force or energy. Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! pg54 All aspects of this dis-ease is cunning and baffling. So I had a "thought"  (all action begins with a thought)  the other day   to do something that I didn't bring God into and it of course snowballed and blew up in my face. So even though I know not to do that, I allowed my mind to convince me that "this time will be different" (insanity) just like I did when I was drinking. With the biggies like this I should have conferred with God first and allowed a cou...

"To return to the subject matter of this book: It contains full suggestions by which the employee may solve his problem. To you, some of the ideas which it contains are novel. Perhaps you are not quite in sympathy with the approach we suggest. By no means do we offer it as the last word on this subject, but so far as we are concerned, it has worked with us. After all, are you not looking for results rather than methods?" pg 144 To the Employers Results, rather than methods. At the time of my bottom in April of 2014, if someone would have offered me a pill or a free stint in a rehab instead of having to walk the hour it took to get to my first AA meeting at a church and then ask a complete stranger to sponsor me, I would have honestly taken them up on the offer. The truth is that I had nowhere else to go-I had finally ran out of road and AA was indeed the last house on the block. In that state of surrender I really wasn't spending too much time or energy protesting the met...

  “Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.  Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women   who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves .”  (pg. 58) Big Book on page 87, “As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and  ask for the right thought or action .  We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show,  humbly saying to ourselves many times each day, “Thy will be done.”     What specific tools have you learned from the program?  How do you stay honest with yourself and stay “on the beam” of A.A.?  In what ways have you made A.A. your way of life? I am going through it right now as I feel somewhat destabilized by what is going on in my immediate surroundings. I am not sure how to proceed except to just get as still as possible and allow the truth to be...

At the 71st General Service Conference annual meeting, held online over April 17 to April 25, 2021, a revision to the AA Preamble was approved through advisory action. The change replaced the words “men and women” with the word “people” in the first sentence of the Preamble. This change was then adopted by many,  not all , AA groups.  Some groups held the line and constitutionally understood that this change in wording was conforming to opinions on outside issues which cancels out this Tradition entirely. Especially considering the next paragraph states: "A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics,  organization  or institution; does not wish to engage in any  controversy , neither endorses nor opposes any causes. ​"  It can't be both because it makes it untrue-or false ​ so  the entire statement longer holds water or rings true because it's a logic fallacy. It also cancels out the entire preamble, ...

Steps 10, 11 and 12 are not an option. As the reading states that those are the luxuries of the dubious that I just can't just forfeit if I plan on having any semblance of a serene, healthy and stable life. I may be stone cold sober for 20 years, while my insides eat me alive-thanks, but no thanks. That is not the kind of sobriety the Steps were designed to produce. We have an outlined program, a design for living that keeps me in constant contact with the One who keeps me covered while I grow in my knowledge of it and seek it everyday-not just when things are falling apart or going good. God is not a back burner friend or someone I use only when... That's rude! Step 10 is a daily opportunity, not optional , to sit with God, with my notebook, do my gratitude list, examine my motives, look at any resentments on paper that may have come up, look at any defects that I am holding on to- asking God and myself why am I scared to let them...