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It's Tricky

Alcoholism is tricky to say the least. Its not like you need to be an “under a bridge drinker.” Anytime you drink, if your alcoholic and the fuse is lit, you can continue onto brown out or black out. When…

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The Spiritual Component

Recently I spend an evening speaking with a woman who told me she suffered from Bipolar disorder. The more I spoke with her, the more I felt I understood even though she implied I could not. 

Although I don’t feel…

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Do meetings really work?

Listening to a new man a few days ago who had been making meetings, spoke of his sub-conscience. In a recent dream, he was offered a drink of alcohol and he refused it. He explained to us that that had…

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Controlling Addictions and Disfunction

I would say there is a one word answer to that statement…. 

NOT! 

Today everyone was speaking about how they desired outcomes for others they cared about caught up in some dark spiritual web of compulsion. They were discussing what…

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My “Now” Expectations

Since I have come out from under my bondage from alcohol and drugs I have come to believe. Reading the Saint Francis Prayer, I realize today that my “now” expectations of myself will never be achieved even though I try…

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Following Directions

Sounds simple enough, but with us, it's not easy. I always wanna do it my way. I know better right, yet, look where you are. It’s not hard, it just takes willingness and honesty two things which are in short…

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Church, AA then Church Again

I can only share my own experience but I think perhaps many have gone through what I am about to describe…

As  a child, I was given a Catholic upbringing. I attended Catholic grammar and jr. high. I attended mass…

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Getting Older Still..

My blessed mother in law just had her eighty-eight birthday the other day. You know what she told me…

She didn’t want to be eighty-eight! 

At this writing, I am in my early seventies and realize once again, that I…

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Searching the Black Hole

I was listening to a young man give a lead the other day and he used this term. Crazy that we have all done this, some for a lifetime, not realizing there’s nothing there. Nothing for anyone in the black…

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Living Rightly?

Three simple rules to follow for a better life…

  1. If it’s not yours, Don’t take it.
  2. If it’s not true, Don’t say it.
  3. If it’s not right, Don’t do it.