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LUCKYONE View Drop Down

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Location: AURORA. CO 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 8:14am
Miranda i empathize with you sometimes you can do everything right and life still sucks. You can do what the BB says and still be unhappy at times, life happens to us regardless if we are sober or not. I've been working steps out of the BB over 22 years and sometimes i wake up and want to stay in bed and not face the day. What that means to me is that i'm not perfect and never will, the person that thinks by working steps life will be rosy all the time is fooling themselves because nobody i know with long term sobriety is happy all the time. Life is supposed to have ups and down. God has got me thru every low spot the last 22 years as long as i ask Him for help and strength. The only time i fail is when i rely on myself. AA is a God-help program not a self-help program. You will be in my prayers Miranda
"OUR REAL PURPOSE IS TO FIT OURSELVES TO BE OF MAXIMUM SERVICE TO GOD AND THOSE AROUND US" from page 77 the BB
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Location: Southern Oregon 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 4:02pm
Welcome Chris: I am Paul an alcoholic from southern Oregon, USA. Pull up a keyboard and jump in.
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Location: Woodland Hills 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 6:10pm
Doug A. Alcoholic....
((JODY O)) Brisbane and the river...life is good....

((MIRANDA))

Today I invited God as I understood him into my life today to direct my thinking.....the first thing I did this morning was have breakfast right after that then I go ready for work.......I am doing the next indicated thing in front of me....

((WELCOME NEWCOMERS)) if you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it then your in the right place......


Is that soft enough for you ((RICHARD))? Smile life is short brother!
Doug A.
"Faith without works is dead".
It is in the BIG BOOK.
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Location: Los Angeles 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 7:17pm
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Two years ago I felt like the things I had done were unforgiveable. I was wrong as usual. Not only have others I have harmed forgiven me, My Higher Power has forgeiven me, but most importantly I have forgiven myself.

On the bottom of page 83 of the Big Book of AA (BB), it's called the 'promises', Everyone of them have come true for me one way or another, and each promise has bloomed into another unexpected benefit.

"Trust God Clean House Help Others"

Edited by GordonM357 - 29 Jul 2010 at 7:46pm
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Location: Los Angeles 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 7:43pm
((Miranda))
Reading your post made me think about how I use to feel life wasn't fair and it should be. Today I thank my Higher Power, life was not fair when I was drinking, if it was I would be doing, life in prison, or paralyzed from the neck down or dead because of drunk driving.

Today I use the tools provided via the 12 step process to deal with what seems unfair to me. The biggest tool is gratitude. I may not be where I want to be but I'm sure as hell not where I was.

"A carpenter is a fool, who argues with his tools.", old Polish proverb

"Trust God Clean House Help Others."
Gordon M.
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Location: South Africa 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 12:39am

Hello Everyone. My name is Richard and I'm an alcoholic in early recovery.

((Hillbilly John T)) Great post thanks Ol' Timer.

Originally posted by Doug A.


((WELCOME NEWCOMERS)) if you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it then your in the right place......


Is that soft enough for you ((RICHARD))? Smile life is short brother!



((Doug)) Yes haha that will do fine thanks ! But seriously, that's what it say on page 58 of the Big Book:

If you have decided you want what we have, and are prepared to go to any length to get it - then you are ready to take certain steps.”

You may be interested to know that as of to-night we have changed our little meeting here in Caledon into a Big Book Study meeting – the only one in this huge area known as The Overberg in the Western Cape.

((Liz)) Actually I was addressing ((Marissa)) and as a former academic I'm sure her thesis supervisor will grade her 10 out of 10 for ingenuity.

To-night I read from the Foreword to the First edition about the First 100 mean and women who had recovered from a hopeless state of mind and body, and waved my arm around where it says that the main purpose of the BB is to show other alcoholics

 " . . . . precisely how we have recovered . . ."

My scientific training applauds the fact that the sample size was 100 of whom as I understand it, 50% stayed sober and of the 50% who relapsed 50% came back. So if I “thoroughly” follow the AA path I'll be OK.

(Jody)) I had a wonderfully productive sober day to-day.

I worked exactly according to the Steps (“ . . .and practiced these (AA) principles in all my affairs. I settled/won two Court actions in which ((AnnW)) I was the plaintiff and might be well on my way out of financial shit and on the way to some serenity and Spirituality.

Busy business day to-morrow. I'll email or call you over the week-end. You too ((Drew)) Many thanks for your email

((Chris)) Welcome ((Tim T)) ((Becky, SG, Lisa))

((Patty Gordon, Cally, Carole, Mikey))

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If I don't drink, I can't get drunk.
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LUCKYONE View Drop Down

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Location: AURORA. CO 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 9:20am
OH Richard, none of us does it perfect. I relapse 3x from 1984-1987, haven't had a drink since 1987. We do the best we can and if we get drunk then we find out what needs to be repaired and move on. Sobriety isn't about getting time to be "somebody" it's about spiritual growth, building ang maintaining a relationship with God. When you work on the spiritual thru working steps, then everything else follows, if you work on everything but the spiritual death and permantent insanity follow. Trusting God doesn't mean we're perfect, it just means we're less likely to react to life insanely. I'm glad you made it back Richard, was sorry to hear you went out however long ago. Alot of us don't make it back my friend, count you blessings learn from your mistakes and enjoy life. Mike aka Luckyone

Edited by LUCKYONE - 30 Jul 2010 at 9:22am
"OUR REAL PURPOSE IS TO FIT OURSELVES TO BE OF MAXIMUM SERVICE TO GOD AND THOSE AROUND US" from page 77 the BB
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Doug A. View Drop Down

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Location: Woodland Hills 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 3:13pm
Doug A. Alcoholic.

((RICHARD)) I am glad to see your getting your sense of humor back...LOL... I too like the foreward, it tells me that if I do what is describe in the BB to the best of my ability I will recover. I am not "recovering" I am not in "recovery". I am a recovered alcoholic who lives a sober life because I have done the spritual footwork for today. I live in the 4th dimension, in the BB they tell us that we will soon find ourselves living in the 4th dimension. What excatly is the 4th dimension? For me it is a human experience without alcohol and drugs for this traveling soul it is about the journey and not rhe destination, learning, laughing, loving, enjoying these moments, working through the speed bumps of life with out getting wasted over it, enjoying the company of others, being of service and ad infinitium. These moments that make up my life are sometimes driven on self will, I am not a saint and far from it.

((NEWCOMERS))do you have any reservations to drink like a normal person? Can you go to a face to face meeting? Do you notice peoples tag lines? ((LUCKYONE))((RICAHRD)) and many others are saying and quoting the BB, get a BB, read it, try this sober thing for a year, if you do not like what we have and do not want to join us, then by all means go out and get loaded. I will tell that a head full of AA and belly full of alcohol do not mix, you will come back with arrows in your ass or you will be dead. I hope and pray that we all stick around today and do not leave before the miracle happens......


have a good day!
Doug A.
"Faith without works is dead".
It is in the BIG BOOK.
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RichardB View Drop Down

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Location: South Africa 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 4:48pm
((Mikey)) Thank-you for the encouragement. Just off to a meeting, I'll post later again.

Yes ((Doug)) the better I try and put the 12 Steps into practice in my daily AA Way Of Life, the more my sense of humour is returning.

Talking about which, there aren't many posts here. Did everyone get cured or what ?
If I don't drink, I can't get drunk.
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GordonM357 View Drop Down

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Location: Los Angeles 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:11pm
"If life were a vail of tears; what's the need for laughter?"

"Trust God Clean House Help Others"
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