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A Dozen Steps

April 27th, 2008

Heard The Pop Yet?

For those who might not understand - the pop is a sound heard when someone’s head makes a sudden, strained, and loud emergence from the nether regions of your ****ole! anal cavity!

Heard something else at a meeting today and I loved it. Why? Because it came from the mouth of someone who is a […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Fourth Step Promises

We’ve seen the First Step Promises, the Second Step Promises, , the Third Step Promises, now here are the Fourth Step Promises from the AA History Lovers Group at Yahoo!
1. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once […]

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April 18th, 2008

Anger, Jealousy, Revenge Likely To Be Aroused

Beginning on page 43 in AA’s 12&12;
“We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.”
For ex. - this comment.
Forward to pg. 44 - “Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace.”
In response to a post where I’m disagreeing […]

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April 10th, 2008

Fourth Step Prayers

From Silkworth.net;
4th STEP Prayers
WHEN IN DOUBT
“I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me. Never was I to pray for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others. Then only might I expect to receive. But that would […]

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April 8th, 2008

Never Give Up The Dream

Rick taught me to never give up the dream…
I haven’t paid attention all that often - usually only when I need to the most. Like now.
Today’s Daily Reflection;
“We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and […]

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April 6th, 2008

Fear Profits No Man

Yes, heard at a meeting…
“Pain shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is cut in half; Joy shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is doubled!”
Also heard in meetings and known, by personal experience, to be true…
More reality from the Daily Reflection;
“When I stopped drinking I began a lifetime process of recovery from unruly emotions, […]

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April 5th, 2008

Spiritual Gold-Bricking [Unrealistic Inventory]

Bill Wilson tells a pointed story about a group of fellows finding fully minted gold coins in “The Language of the Heart” (page 256) that you might want to read…
The story creates a symbolic picture graphically which tells Bill “that I may attain ‘humility for today’ only to the extent that I am able to […]

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April 4th, 2008

Burned Up! Angry - Resentful!

How did they know?
Page 64 - 66;
We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were “burned up.”
Our injuries? One example;
Self-esteem: (Mr. Brown is such an a**) “Brown may get […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Set It To Paper

It had been some time since I last heard someone do this…
A Fourth Step meeting. A newcomer. Not on the Fourth Step yet. “But, I’ve been thinking.”
And this is one of those times when everything after “but” is BS. You simply ought not even attempt to “do” a Fourth Step in your head!
“In dealing with […]

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April 2nd, 2008

No One’s Self-Awareness Is Permanent

Returning to yesterdays’ Daily Reflection… (sarcasm ahead)
Looking Within
Ambivalent feelings: “Simultaneously feeling opposing or contradictory feelings.”
“By discovering what my emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for me.”
Contentment? I’m not sure I know what the word means…
“the neuro-physiological […]

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