Since January 2021, this writer has been producing material for your reading pleasure. To kick off 2023 and wrap up 2022, let’s talk about both serious and comedic ‘history’ (even if we have to laugh to keep from crying) and celebrate the prospects of the daily reprieve contingent upon the maintenance of a spiritual condition. […]
The 12 Traditions serve as a guideline to ‘Why It Works’, while the 12 Steps describe “How It Works’. Our manuals to progress are the Big Book and the 12 Traditions, but we also have The Concepts. All of these labors of love put in books help define the internal operations of the 12-Step Programs, […]
The following is a take on “12 Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening”, author unknown. 1. A tendency to let things happen rather than force solutions or impose harmony. ASSIGNMENT: Say what you, mean, mean what you say, but don’t say it mean. Why? Because truth without compassion is cruelty. 2. Frequent spells of smiling. ASSIGNMENT: […]
Read More… from Signs of a Spiritual Awakening (It’s an Action Program)
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Page 58 Big Book The Program, as we call it as laid out in practice by the membership, was developed and used in the lives of early low-bottom drunk members before its exacting processes were written down in 1939 by Bill Wilson. […]
A Few ANTI-SLOGANS, and Beyond FEAR of the Fourth Step A few ANTI-SLOGANS (OTHER Talk & SELF Talk): Sit down and shut up. You don’t know anything. I don’t know anything, so I’m just going to listen. As many of us know very well, these are topics or Anti-Slogans that come up frequently enough in […]
AA recovery meeting are Stigma Free Zones. Al-Anon recovery meetings are Stigmata Free Zone. SCREW GUILT! My name is Timothy and I’m a grateful Double Winner (in AA & Al-Anon). Shakespeare wrote in Othello, “Thou hast not half the power to do me harm, as I have to be hurt.” In May of 91, the […]
OK, buckle up RBAers, because it’s time to throw ‘The G-Word’ around a bit, and even some ‘Non-Conference Approved’ quotations. My favorite chapter of the Big Book is the Chapter to the Agnostic. It’s the most spiritual chapter in the entire book, as I understand it. “You cannot give to people what they are incapable […]
In no particular order, let’s reflect on quotes and lessons learned from: People that have read the Big Book, and from the Big Book itself, a couple of thoughts on prayer, a little humor (Rule 62), and because there is One who has all power, God Stuff (sundry sources & Big Book), and a snippet […]
All can equally practice honesty and listening in recovery, whether we are new or old. Newcomers are the Lifeblood of The Program, Old Timers are the Skeleton, and HP is the Spirit. WE: God, You & Me. WE are a Fellowship of Equals. Alcohol doesn’t discriminate, and neither do WE. Be drawn to listen. WE. […]
Read More… from The Holiness of the Beginning, Middle, and End Game of Recovery
Sometimes we hear people say things that may make us squirm inside at meetings. Perhaps we’ve already heard them say it 50 times in a discussion and wonder why they’re repeating it. Maybe we think they’re prattling on about something and should shut up because we get it already. Maybe we relegate what they’re saying […]