A Dozen Steps

May 3rd, 2008

This… Isn’t… Easy

My challenge is that regardless of doing the right thing I cannot get my expectations up that the results will be what I want them to be.
Therein lies one of my realities. I can care about someone. The level at which I care can increase. I can recognize right from wrong. I can do the […]

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May 2nd, 2008

It Is Surely Life Or Death!

Alicia has posted a very serious and very helpful entry about “Suicide Warning Signs.”
This is one area where you darn well better do a Third Step after you’ve contacted authorities to let them know that your friend might be suicidal!
I’d much rather (and have been) feel grateful that my friend is still around to be […]

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April 26th, 2008

Allowing Myself To Feel Love

Finding a balance between dependence and actually feeling emotions of attraction, then possibly love…
Is a challenge in the life of this alcoholic.
Thanks Oliver - your comment was right on point and contained a few lessons I had learned some time ago. I appreciate you putting them out there as a reminder to me and for […]

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April 25th, 2008

My Basic Flaw Has Always Been Dependence

And I’ll waver in and out of it, dammit, because I have basic human instincts…
As I do so often - from “The Language of the Heart” page 237-238 (I ought to set up a cot on these pages)
“My basic flaw had always been dependence - almost absolute dependence - on people or circumstances to supply […]

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January 14th, 2008

It Isn’t Easy

This time I “strolled” through Scott W.’s blog and saw he had quoted Walk In Dry Places. I decided to check out a few of Mel B.’s writings and right away I found an appropriate topic - Anger.

There was a lot I could identify with…
“During recent years, I have usually worked rather hard to keep […]

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January 12th, 2008

Wants And Needs

Fear or Faith…
The topic at today’s noon meeting revolved around the loss of a credit card and the subsequent change of actions recovery has brought about as a result.

Most folks had a similar first thought - an alcoholic with a credit card? My … how our challenges in life have improved!
For me, the consideration […]

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January 8th, 2008

Half Measures

Avail us nothing…

Yesterday’s Reflection spoke of turning points. Sometimes they are beginnings and sometimes they are endings. I can understand that. I don’t like it but, then again, it doesn’t matter whether I like them or not, everything will unfold the way it was meant to.
Thy Will, Not Mine Be Done
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December 31st, 2007

Resolution My A**

Sooo… you’ve been drinking too long, too hard and suffered enough and you’re about to make a New Year’s Resolution to quit eh?
Resolution - “A statement of intent, a vow.”

Resolute - “Firm, unyielding, determined.”

Resolve - “To make a firm decision to do something.”

Oh - that’s right! I get it! Other than the fact that the […]

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December 14th, 2007

He Cares

From “Back To The Fundamentals,” a story in the book “Came To Believe,” page 64;
“At one time, the great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes was asked what his religion was. And he answered that his whole concept of God could be found in the first two words of the Lord’s Prayer.
So I got out a copy […]

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November 26th, 2007

Wisdom From Step Eleven

Out of the 12&12, page 104-105;
“We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.”
Naturally I think to myself “what demands do I place on God for guidance for my life?” How […]

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