March 31, 2023
A Power Greater Than Myself Why the program of Alcoholics Anonymous works so well, on the disease of alcoholism, is hard to fathom when we first […]
January 4, 2023
Living by the Dictates of My Conscience, By Rick R. “Desperation” has been the great motivator for me with respect to the thoroughness that I have […]
March 3, 2022
I think of the first three Steps in AA as: I can’t. (Step One). God can! (Step Two). I have decided to ask Him to help […]
October 4, 2021
The Big Book amazingly promises that we will be reborn (p. 63). In Big Book context, Bill W. may have been referring to Dr. Carl Jung’s […]
June 2, 2021
We Failed Idealists Need Attention I came from a family riddled with alcoholic drinkers. Many of them had the problem as bad as I did. I […]
April 27, 2021
No Need to Overthink This Issue The Alcoholics Anonymous program is open to anyone who has a desire to stop drinking. It makes no difference if […]
March 4, 2021
Step Two is the Rallying Point When born, most of us come into the world untainted and perfectly innocent. From that time on, we are influenced […]
September 1, 2020
I had dropped by my partner’s workplace to bring her some items she had requested. Her co-worker, Shannon, was there. I’d met her co-worker socially a […]
May 4, 2020
The Big Book was written in the late 1930s when Germany’s land grabs foretold the upcoming World War. That’s the obvious reference for “We try not […]
January 28, 2020
“Recovery, above all else, is about living and putting goodness into us and into the world about us. We in recovery change the alcoholism delusion for […]
January 28, 2020
All You Need is an Open Mind When we are born, we come into the world untainted and perfectly innocent. From that time on, we are […]
January 28, 2020
Leads to Release From the Mental Obsession “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” The Big Book infers that […]