Big Book Quote

“. . . we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all – every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.”

🙏🏻Thought for Today

“Spiritually is the relationship an individual has directly with God; and Religion created by man, is the dogma between God and the individual.”
~ Clardy S.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
— Albert Einstein

Keep It…[Read more]

🟥Thought for Today🔲

” The first 30 years of my childhood nearly killed me.”   anonymous

“King or Queen Baby attitudes and behaviour are a block to recover.

Many of us have carried into our adult lives childish egos and immature attitudes.

(We won’t give up our child-like needs of control or our desire that all our needs be met).

((An…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much. So let each family play together or separately as much as their circumstances warrant. We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.”

🤔✌️Courage To Change

“. . . time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain, therefore, awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the
highest matters.”
Plato

 A particular incident reminds me of the sense of surrender that I
feel when I truly take the Third Step and turn my will and my life over
to God’s care. Some y…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn’t we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others.”

Big Book Quote

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

Big Book Quote

“Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family back. This just isn’t so. In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his relationship with God. We have seen men get well whose families have not…[Read more]

🐪Daily Reflections🐫

DRIVEN

Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 62

My selfishness was the driving force behind my drinking.

I drank to celebrate success and I drank to drown my sorrows.

🙏🏻Humility is the answer🙏🏻.

🙏🏻I…[Read more]

🫂August 5🏎🏍

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– Book – Quote

Before our recovery we used people and loved things and given recovery we learn to love people and use things. (Things are not important, people are).
((I treat others the way I want to be treated)).

“Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book” – Book

You can work the Steps to get out of trouble or you can work…[Read more]

🙈Thought for Today🐵

It takes a BIG person to accept full responsibility for their own happiness.

It takes an even bigger person to accept full responsibility for their own unhappiness.

But it takes a spiritual giant who, upon realizing any degree of unhappiness, decides to be the change they seek, in spite of having to endure the “same old,…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends, this is an experience you must not miss.”

🙏🏻Big BookQuote🙏🏻

“Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.”

Thought for Today

You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it.  And if you g…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead.”

🙌As Bill Sees It

Reaching for Humility

“We saw we needn’t always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility.

It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.”

“We first reach for a little humility, knowing that we shall perish of alcoholism if we do not.

After a time, though we may still…[Read more]

~🙏🏻A.A. Thoughts For The Day🧎🏼~

Courage

“We never apologize to anyone for depending upon our Creator. We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength. The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God.…[Read more]

🔐Thought’s for Today

“Say nothing more often” 
Herb G. –
Men Who Trudge group

“Happiness consists not in having, but of
(being),

not of
possessing, but of enjoying.
It is the warm glow of a
heart at peace
with itself.”
–Norman Vincent Peale

(There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; True nobility is being superior to…[Read more]

📖📚📙Big Book

Chapter 10   To Employers (pg 143)

If your man accepts your offer, it should be pointed out that physical treatment is but a small part of the picture.

Though you are providing him with the best possible medical attention, (((he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart))).

To get over drinking will require a…[Read more]

🤷‍♂️🙏🏻As Bill Sees It

Praying for Others

“While praying sincerely, we still may fall into temptation. We form ideas as to what we think God’s will is for other people. We say to ourselves, ‘This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady’ or ‘That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain,’ and we pray for these specific things. Such…[Read more]

🙌🫶
“God alone knows the secret plan
Of the things he will do for the world
Using my hand.”

Toyohiko Kagawa
  for Today

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved.”
~Helen Keller

Courage To Change…[Read more]