Recovered Alcoholic

List of the  principal virtues  that are named in the two basic texts of AA. In alphabetical order these are: acceptance- compassion-consideration- courage- courtesy-discretion- faith- forgiveness- fortitude-frankness-generosity-gentleness- gratitude- harmony- honesty- hope- humility integrity- joy- justice-kindness- love- mercy-moderation-modesty- open-mindedness- patience-peace-perseverance-prudence-restraint- s erenity- simplicity- sincerity-temperance- tolerance trust- understanding- willingness- wisdom . These virtues are variously embedded in different Steps. Those in boldface are the ones that will ring a bell with most of us. We may easily link many of them to specific Steps.  Humility  with Steps 1 and 7 Open-mindedness and hope  with Step 2 Willingness, acceptance, serenity, courage and wisdom  with Step 3.  Faith  we may connect with Steps 2, 3, 6, 7 and 11 Forgiveness  with Steps 8, 9 and 10. Honesty , one of ...

The Discipline of Self-Examination The discipline of self-examination begins with  Step 4 , where we make a  “searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”  While various terms are used to designate this discipline (including self-appraisal and self-survey), the Big Book’s  emphasis on  “inventory”  is meant to highlight a practical, no-nonsense, business-like approach to this traditional spiritual practice. Our inventory is a  “fact-finding and a fact-facing”  enterprise. It is not an exercise in religious breast-beating, gnostic enlightenment, or psychoanalytical probes of our unconscious. Juxtaposing “moral” with "inventory" further underscores the practical nature of our undertaking. For the facts that we set out to find and to face are the facts about the way we have lived and the kind of people we have become.  A moral inventory takes stock of our character and how the defects that have warped it have also warped o...

The topic of today’s meeting is the 4th Tradition, which states: “Each group should be  autonomous  except  in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as  a whole.” Definition of au·ton·o·mous (of a country or region)  having self-government , at least to a significant degree. "the federation included sixteen  autonomous  republics" acting  independently  or having the  freedom  to do so. "an a utonomous  committee of the school board" synonyms : self-governing, self-ruling, self-determining, independent, sovereign, free, unmonitored (in Kantian moral philosophy)  acting in accordance with one's moral duty rather than one's desires. Where else does any group/country/organization exi st where they act in accordance to moral duty, rather than one's own desires?? Everyone has an agenda in this world-we don't. What a unique and beautiful thing to be apart of.  I am...

Meeting Response  topic   of  Dry Drunk Syndrome So I am sharing a response to the topic of Untreated alcoholism from a while back....I am having furniture delivered so I am phoning this in. I haven't been consistent with my blog this week as I have my Step Son Ian here for Easter break. I want to wish each of you a wonderful holiday weekend! I love and appreciate you guys...more then you could possibly know :) Thank you _____ for your service and for this topic that really hits home for me as I once was one, and I live with one. He is kind, gentle, hard working, strong, loving..... yet, angry, selfish, self centered, self seeking fear based, shell of a man who suffers greatly because he chooses to. He is one of us without any program or armor from God. He dabbled in AA and was a meeting maker but it pretty much ended there. He lost weight, got a cool car and started dated tons of chicks-.So all that became his higher power....