But instead of seeing the truth when all of the “yets” (as in, that hasn’t happened to me— yet) started happening, I just kept lowering my standards. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Locations 3956-3957). Denial. Living in the insanity. Always, […]
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I Made This For You
A plan of eating? Surely not on Christmas! But it’s your birthday! I made it just for you, I know it’s your favorite! But it’s vacation! You’ve got to eat some, if you don’t I’ll feel guilty. Thanks for the […]
Continue reading »Our Warped Minds
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us…But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite […]
Continue reading »Escape from the Quicksand of Stinking Thinking
Be calm. Others have been there, worked their way out. You won’t sink far past your midsection. Breathe deep, you’ll float. All that stuff you want to hold on to, your comforts, your respectability, your independence, toss it. It got […]
Continue reading »Not Too Tough!
Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another’s conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the […]
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