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August 3, 2023 - May 21, 2024
welter
service.
Not secure will fall
allergy,damaging immune reaction to substance
“last-gaspers”
practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded
to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.
My old sponsor would say,"I can't make you willing,even God can't make you willing if you refuse to be willing. If your a real alcoholic,it will probably be John Barleycorn that will do the job." I was eventually "beat into a state of reasonableness."
Spiritual experience can help stay stopped safely.
belligerent
savage.
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smarting
majestically
single
cell
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god
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A power greater than myself it takes time and isn't quick but move on to chapter 5 to sponsee.
circumstances,
Twelve Steps are but suggestions.
piecemeal
really need is a truly open mind.
prodigious
scientific.
infiltrate
Power greater than myself,
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innumerable
solution.
They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith.
theological abstractions and religious duties,
‘zero,’
Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brainpower alone.
We saw that we had to reconsider or die.
They helped us to get down to our right size.
compatible, provided we placed humili...
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that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works. This fa...
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the Beatitudes for the ‘begats.’
This all meant, of course, that we had substituted negative for positive thinking.
But finally, driven to A.A., we learned better.
Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A.
concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay, we would pay.”
the quality of faith rather than its quantity.
supposed we had humility when really we hadn’t.
We had always said, “Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.”
