Saturday 30 June 2012

June 30 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous

June 30 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous Today's AA daily reflection: "sacrifice, unity and survival" the attraction of having a wonderful gift to share! How to live sober and never drink again… Nearly put me back in the driving seat in my early days with grandiose plans to help people with my own brand of AA. Alcoholics Anonymous works because everyone in fellowship works together to keep sober one day at a time…

 

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As you can see, I do feel part of something bigger than me, which is why I share my experience strength and hope, writing it down and opening the door hopefully in a helpful way. Attraction and not promotion and not about making anything out of sharing experience strength and hope. Simply one voice of the many voices in recovery, no better or worse than anyone else. In fellowship, it is always what you see which will help you learn how to get sober one day at a time…

 

AA remains autonomous on a daily basis because of the way fellowship works. The fellowship and who we encounter day-to-day is the real backbone of recovery. Face-to-face is the reality of recovery, no amount of words here will ever replace fellowship. The power of the fellowship always resides in the groups and not in the hands of a few. We may take up administrative and service positions, we are always trusted servants without power of position today and every day…

 

We all come to believe that there is a power far bigger than us, in the fellowship and in life. What you choose a higher power to be or what you understand that higher power to be will be your understanding. My higher power works through people, the collective wisdom and the collective conscience of humanity, which reads as a bit grandiose! My higher power can be, "the man or woman on the Clapham omnibus." Or the man or woman sitting next to me one day at a time…

 

AA Daily Reflections ~ "Sacrifice Unity Survival: June 30 ~ the unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A. A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice means unity and survival for the group and for A. A.'s entire Fellowship. [As Bill sees it]

 

I have learned that I must sacrifice some of my personality traits for the good of A. A. and, as a result, I have been rewarded with many gifts. False pride can be inflated through prestige but, by living Tradition Six, I receive the gift of humility instead. Cooperation without affiliation is often deceiving. If I remain unrelated to outside interest, I am free to keep A. A. autonomous. Then the Fellowship will be here, healthy and strong for generations to come.

 

DonInLondon 2005-2011

 

AA is all about inclusion to help those with a desire to stop drinking find a path to sober living. The more we can include everyone, the more we are enriched with experience, strength and hope. Humans are unique and authentic; in AA one similarity holds us together always respecting diversity…

 

I took a trip down memory lane to a meeting I attended about eight years ago. Some new faces and some old faces still sober today. Respect for newcomers and smiles with old timers, we are all sober one day at a time. It is good to be a “Day-Timer”, equal in the moment of now…

 

Keeping our side of the street clean... Part of the promises is we clean house every day with step ten. Step eight and nine is letting go old behaviour and the insanity of keeping secrets and telling lies, nurturing anger and resentments. Open, honest and willing we make progress today?

 

Life and coping strategies... In recovery our life plan can be what we choose. Step ten, daily inventory of what worked and blocks. Step 11 daily meditation as simple as the serenity prayer, Step 12, all the steps in practice daily and sharing the message. Less coping and more living, NOW!

 

We all need our outside interests or life would have no meaning. Our self-opinion and self-belief, faith, all unique to each of us need be honoured. Twelve steps to work, twelve traditions offer sanctuary and spiritual living. Fellowship prevails in unity and service, our primary purpose is sobriety.

 

June 30 2007

 

Back in the Day - DonInLondon ‘Day In The Life’

 

Back in what day you may well ask. I have been around in London from the beginning of the eighties. Seems just like yesterday. I suppose for me the truth is back in the day and being one of the lads, we all had pretty interesting times. As long as it involved fun, girls and parties. And nothing wrong in that. It was fun and they were carefree days alright! And of course we worked hard and played hard and lived live as fast as life would go.

 

Nowadays

 

I have accepted to a certain degree that life has necessarily slowed in pace. The get up and go we all have is worn as we weather more years and amble into new living and ways to make my life work. And it seems to me we do burn as bright as we may.

 

It’s been an odd day all around.

 

London

 

A bomb defused in the Haymarket this morning and the whole area sealed as forensic and all elements of law and order make sure life can return to safe, as safe we may be. I recollect worse times when bombs went off and caused catastrophe these past decades in many places in the UK. This is not new to us, ever since the seventies, we have faced some terror from somewhere.

 

A legacy of imperial imperious perils made possible by old ideas and worn out notions of how to make peace led to more and ever more frustrating times.

 

As things are we are very diverse here in London, and it takes a mind of singularity to make war on innocents who happen to pass by. And those who cause the conflict? It seems never intended but here we are and we have a day of chaos.

 

Who knows and notices?

 

As I had to be in Soho today to join a group of comrades in sobriety, I found myself late. Showers and rain deluged everyone mid-day. And then I was in two minds to go or not. I went shopping and bought nothing, and my walking has been pretty hard today. So in many ways I went for one reason only.

 

A friend of mine had asked me to pass on a message to someone and it made me go, rather than stay home and rest as good sense had kicked in. I make the effort and go and pass on a message which may help. As with all things fellowship the detail is not for here, just the intent, and I made sure the message was delivered.

 

So in the centre of town, traffic in chaos and people seem oblivious to the problems of earlier and the Haymarket still closed all day.

 

As it seems the disruption made no difference to most who had no clue or even worried that we are again facing a real attack and the bomb was real too.

 

Reality

 

The chances are most people are unaffected by these serious and perilous incidents. Yet I and many who have seen awful destruction know only too well, we need be in the wrong place and time and be caught in something we neither want or had much to do with starting.

 

When life is as precious can be, when we need to make the best of what we have, and share and share again where we can and make aid possible in this impossible world, the intent to harm is a tragic testimony to how unbalanced our world has become.

 

Sunshine

 

Bright sunshine and all manner of people out and about, living and being, just getting on as people do, and only those few knew of the chaos about.

 

I took a lot of photos of ordinary people doing ordinary things. Along the way miscreants found police on their tail and some skulduggery here and there. And still in comparison to other events it seemed little or of no significance, yet for those involved as serious can be.

And most people today as the weather turned bright saw the spectacle of humanity doing what humanity can do best. Simply living and doing and being.

 

How

 

The how we do and what we do, as we face perils in just waking and making our way. Well the day felt better than yesterday for sure.

 

Last night and today

 

As a way to cope with difficult news and keep ourselves going we get busy and keep to normal and do what we can, just to be safe in a bubble and then it can burst. But then this can happen anytime we might never know when.

 

Living each day as we may

 

Tonight I am pleased to have bumped into an old friend in recovery, we are both in our fourth year of sobriety. And I was happy to hear they are settled and getting married. Good news indeed and made me realise good things can happen to good people, well some of the time.

 

As we see the happy and sad of life, the big issues and the small issues. We make our way as we can and try make sense of all we encounter. In truth it’s hard to square everything ever in this world.

 

As new lives begin and as others have less time than maybe envisaged it’s all about living and making the best of where we are and keeping courage and faith, some confidence going.

 

I caught the end of an interview with Pete Doherty, a man in need of help if ever there was. I have great empathy for his plight and realise a fellow who is caught in the trap where addiction takes hold. There is nothing to slow him till he finds a key, to making the plan and just for one day…

 

I can see the problem and he needs a solution, it’s there if he heeds it and can find just enough courage and conviction to make those few steps. And one day maybe. Or he is lost to time.

 

And in good company tonight at a meeting long neglected by me, I was so pleased to see and hear good news at last.

 

And a step one chair, just right for me to realise always how powerless we all can be in the face of happenstance and timing. There is no rhyme or reason to patters so random. Maybe in truth I am finding acceptance is the key. Hard learned lessons and wisdom comes as it may, happiness as always a possibility as we make good journeymen when time enables.

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AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections

AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve

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Step 6 "Spiritual Willingness" Reading Video Link:

Step Six Reading

wrongs. Chapter 6, Into Action, Big Book From: Page 72 Thru: Page 75, the bottom of the page. 12 And 12 Step 5."

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June ~ Video Reading Chapter Six Into Action Link:

Chapter Six Into Action

I do not speak for Alcoholics Anonymous I speak for myself. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of unique and authentic people who speak for themselves where they will to share experience, strength and hope about recovery on a daily basis. Anonymity affords sanctuary to find how to live sober and be open, honest and willing to learn life day by day. For me "truth," "love" and "wisdom" offer the best spiritual experience by living reality today. Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Traditions: steps to be open, honest and willing to learn, traditions to live unity, service and recovery.

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Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

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Friday 29 June 2012

June 29 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous

June 29 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous Today's AA daily reflection: "a rippling effect…" First I had to learn how to be sober just for a day. Then I applied myself as if I were taking a higher education certificate to understanding the twelve steps and twelve traditions. Then I had to understand that the learning was in action, putting these principles into action so I understood how they work just for a day…

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In my early days, because of my background in helping people and organisations be successful, I could see a grandiose plan to become expert as a counsellor and director within some form of organisation helping people to recovery. After a while, my first realisation was I had burned out as a counsellor in the old ways, and the best I can do in the fellowship is be equal and part of something far bigger than me. One voice, with all the other voices sharing about experience, strength and hope on a daily basis…

Unity, service and recovery are the three legacies encompassed in the twelve traditions. We are all equal, we all help each other in so many ways, just by being there in meetings, to being of service to a meeting and all the other service elements which are open to anyone and everyone. No single person in charge, agreement in our meetings are run through the group conscience and we are all trusted servants, no matter who we are and where we are today…

And as we learn through experience how the principles, the twelve steps and twelve traditions work within the fellowship, we learn how the principles work in our daily living, in family, in our community and in our society. It is never about what other people do, it is about what we do and how we develop humility, leadership when necessary, included as a participant as daily living requires. And it may only be just for a day… Or a week, or a year, and thankfully always one day at a time…

AA Daily Reflections ~ "A rippling effect: June 29 ~ Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everyone else how. . .Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists … So why shouldn't we share our way of life with everyone? [12&12]

The great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to spread the "good news" to the world around me. The grandiose thoughts of my drinking days returned. Later, I learned that concentrating on my own recovery was a full-time process. As I became a sober citizen in this world, I observed a rippling effect which, without any conscious effort on my part, reached any "related facility or outside enterprise," without diverting me from my primary purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety."

DonInLondon 2005-2011

Choices in Recovery: To be open honest and willing, or to be closed dishonest and unwilling? Progress as we let go our addictions to control, fear, our brave face and unhelpful ego. Shared truth illuminates our choices, the choices of those we love. Responsibly we live our consequences...

Removing our blocks, step 6... A daily meditation to have the courage to tell the truth to those we love and those who love us. When we choose silence, feel anger and resentment, denial blocks us, deprives those around us of choice. Have faith in truth setting everyone we love free today...

What will happen to me if I tell the truth, try to be open and honest. As I may fear my consequences, so too those who know me might fear my attempt to be truthful. If I ask them what they know and ask them for the truth as they see it, how will I cope with their knowledge of me and my past?

I feel we can love people who have been in our lives and hate the way they behaved at the time. Knowing that people do their best, even when it feels like the worst for us, we need forgive and share our outlook, or how else will we make progress toward truth, love and wisdom today. If I choose not to tell you the truth, I will never know the truth in you…

June 29 2007

Hard times - DonInLondon ‘Day In The Life’

How do we cope with news we would prefer never happens? The stuff of living and the stuff of hard times. I have had a few hard times myself and very rough experiences do tend to put the whole of life into some perspective. Some things we have to face, well there is nothing to prepare for some things.

Denial

The first part of the process of digesting horrible truths, those “I can’t believe it moments.” and yet again here I am feeling and knowing something I would rather not know and am powerless over. The trouble with our fellowship sometimes is we are constantly reminded of our dangerous past as fellows stay in the fellowship or wander out for more research. And when people do go out, the anger and frustration they have about their situation can end up as bad as can be. At the bottom of the journey through denials we cannot get to grips with is depression of course. And then a gradual return to reality.

Tonight and Last night

Sometimes being in a meeting can take our mind off things a while, but when sad news fills our heads it’s pretty hard.

I was doing a “chair” last night, meaning I do the first share at a meeting and it was what we call a step and tradition meeting. Steps of AA are recommendations to change and traditions are the principle which keeps the fellowship on track and in reasonable shape, given of course we are all alcoholics in sobriety.

Last night’s traditions meeting was all about 6, that AA does not involve itself in outside matters and sticks to the pattern of helping people achieve sobriety and stick with it. And if we cannot stick with it, we keep on coming back so we eventually get it into our minds we need never drink again.

But we know it’s not that easy and often without realising what is going on we can fall straight back into the mire of active alcoholism. It’s just a fact of life it may happen when we are least aware of risk and ruin.

Tomorrow I am heading for the Soho Alcohol Treatment Centre for an after care group. Its run by the National health Service, and I was lucky enough to hear of them after I self discharged from rehab some years back. I went there and stuck with everything they had to teach us over a twelve or twenty four month allotment depending on the problems we had.

Type 1 Diabetes

It was while attending the Soho Treatment Service I got ill with diabetes. What happened? Well it was quite simple, I had every test available to me to check my internal workings and all was well. Until I had a tooth out. It was a difficult extraction, the tooth seemed happy to stay put and me and the dentist were pretty relieved when the pesky bugger did come out. But that event I am led to believe brought on a shock or some other chain of events which led to non-production of insulin and me starving. Without insulin we don’t break down food I understand now. Anyway whatever the cause, it is in my opinion moot and I don’t mind if it were all my doing and the cause being drink, it could have been. So!

We Get Ill

And like most people along this path of self destruction and turnaround into sobriety. Well we get to see many founder and many get other ailments too. So I felt ok about what had happened, I had a long few months wondering before people thought it was not just in my head, and my thinner figure was quite alarming to me as I was eating more and more.

In the end though I was glad of the diagnosis, if less happy about the injections and stuff, but I learned quickly and realised I could continue my path.

Soho is part of my recovery story, as is type 1 diabetes and clinical depression. The truth of all this is on a daily basis with AA in my life I keep well as can be and behave as best I can to keep body and soul going.

Life is not easy, and many people I knew when I embarked on this journey are no longer alive. And there is still some sad parts and really angry parts of me which does not lend my outlook to serenity and peace.

I am as angry as anyone can be when I see good people find hard times.

Life on life’s terms, it’s a real old saying in our fellowship, and I guess I have always been half prepared for more news and my vulnerabilities to other things. Like Diabetic neuropathy which is very painful all the time without medication.

All These Things

And yes I am far from perfect and eat Twix bars sometimes. But then that’s really got to stop. And back to porridge for me or my cholesterol will never be at the right level.

A Catalogue of Woe?

Not really for all this and more, I can get about some of the time, and take photos and have some fun as well, even with a clinical depression it’s not always bad, indeed there have been a couple of times when things have been ok. Sadly a regime change may make life a bit more difficult for now and a change from one form of pain relief to another is my next step.

Life in London

Its Wimbledon fortnight, the rain is daily, the Tony Blair has gone and Gordon Brown is the new Prime Minister. I expect the rain will end, but Mr brown is set to be with us for a while and may lead to further depressions in the UK. We don’t know of course, and somehow I feel it could be good for us and Gordon, just depends what he has to do and what is possible.

My Life

Is as usual, up and down, with some support required inside the family and things to do. I await and hope there is anything I can do.

Meanwhile I have uploaded some music from a busker in Trafalgar Square I saw this afternoon and my usual You tube video.

I am not sure what I may do in the next few days, I feel the need of a break and have not made up my mind quite what yet. I will seek advice from my mentor on this, they often know so much more than me. Glad they do!

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AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections

AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve

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Step 6 "Spiritual Willingness" Reading Video Link:

Step Six Reading

wrongs. Chapter 6, Into Action, Big Book From: Page 72 Thru: Page 75, the bottom of the page. 12 And 12 Step 5."

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June ~ Video Reading Chapter Six Into Action Link:

Chapter Six Into Action

I do not speak for Alcoholics Anonymous I speak for myself. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of unique and authentic people who speak for themselves where they will to share experience, strength and hope about recovery on a daily basis. Anonymity affords sanctuary to find how to live sober and be open, honest and willing to learn life day by day. For me "truth," "love" and "wisdom" offer the best spiritual experience by living reality today. Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Traditions: steps to be open, honest and willing to learn, traditions to live unity, service and recovery.

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Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

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Thursday 28 June 2012

June 28 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous

June 28 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous Today's AA daily reflection: "determination of our founders…" It was life and death back then when the fellowship started with just a few souls. And it is still a matter of life and death today, only now when I look back do I see just how difficult it was and how easy it is to be caught up in the old ways of life…

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I often talk with friends in the fellowship and we all see just how close we came to dying from our addiction to alcohol. Addiction, it is the most awful and desolate situation a person can find themselves in. And it is easy to forget as the years start to go by that we all need be grateful daily by just turning up, being a part of something bigger than us, and knowing it is okay to keep on learning to have a fruitful life even when difficult one day at a time…

 

I was not the best student when it came to recovery. All those years of drinking had shaped me to suppress half or more of my emotions. Anything connected to a negative or so it seemed could not be shared with anyone. I drank away the pain and the pain always came back. It is not for me to judge the pain you may have as you start your path, all I know is no matter what has happened you are a human being and can become more human just for a day…

 

The cofounders of the fellowship were indeed triumphant and determined. And it took every ounce of courage, learning to have faith in doing the next right thing and confidence, and even fear to an extent to find the path to sobriety. The key? Humility… The humility to say, "I simply don't know how to keep sober," and then ask for help. And help is always there if we ask and then listen to experience, strength and hope just for today…

 

AA Daily Reflections ~ "The determination of our founders: June 28 ~ A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more. [big blue book]

If it had not been for the fierce determination of our founders, A.A. would have quickly faded like so many other so-called good causes. I look at the hundreds of meetings weekly in the city where I live and I know A.A. is available twenty-four hours a day. If I had had to hang on with nothing but hope and a desire not to drink, experiencing rejection wherever I went, I would have sought the easier, softer way and returned to my previous way of life.

 

DonInLondon 2005-2011

 

Ninety meetings in ninety days seemed like a tall order. It was never an order, it was a suggestion. And I wanted to belong somewhere instead of sitting in a bar, on a park bench, unable to reach out and wishing for my last breath. I went to as many meetings as I could and started to belong again…

 

Recovery has been a combination of listening to wisdom in the fellowship of AA, support from family, friends, community and professionals, and especially medical professionals who helped me understand the true nature of three clinical and chronic conditions…

This afternoons challenge, life is difficult, I need trust to good conscience, my own, keep learning and know I am powerless over anyone else and their conscience, accept clarity when it happens, let go and move on... knowing can be dark...

 

Meditation, spiritual and acceptance... to engage in mental exercise [as concentration on one's breathing or repetition of a feeling or thought] for the purpose of reaching spiritual awareness; spiritual the reality of now. Acceptance, what we can do and cannot do today...

 

We cannot keep anything we would take away from others... Freedom to develop our understanding of living: spiritual, emotional and physical, in fellowship we offer a path to life on life's terms. We do not control, we support and challenge, then, courage, faith and confidence may flourish…

 

June 28 2007

 

Traditions - DonInLondon ‘Day In the Life’

 

A good long day for me. Seems the days are longer and there is more to do and say. Not so much on my journal or indeed for the you tube videos, just more to and say each day and be involved in life. I have had a pretty ok sort of a day. The best part for me is almost always to do with meetings and being part of a world which feels less alien and hostile, and helps me find the good even in the most difficult situations.

 

It’s not about denial of harder moments or times, it’s because of the harder moments and times experienced, I can calibrate or make sense of the good parts of living. Even so this week has been quite difficult. Going to Wimbledon, and seeing a Doctor for an assessment, and then getting back. It’s not far, and I guess the result next depends on people I have not seen or understand their reasoning or decision making. I am in the dark, and still I feel I would like more information. I doubt in this life I will get it. Indeed another lesson in powerless over people places and things for me.

 

Government and Stuff in the UK

 

It is Farewell to Tony Blair in the UK, there seems to have been news about this for weeks, as if it matters much? I guess what matters is what is happening in the world because of his judgment and he and Mr bush have caused much calamity in my opinion. My opinion by the way, nothing to do my fellowship of AA.

 

The problem I cannot get to grips with, is how on earth did two governments think they could change a regime and then restore some form of democracy, when patently, the geographic, theocratic, political mechanisms were never there to make it all work easily or without great violence as a result. In this recovering persons opinion, the harm done now far outweighs what was possible had we handled the situation differently. Like aid and support, and other means to do the right thing for the Iraqi people, the people of Afghanistan and many more countries who need food education and basic living made easier and possible. Leaders talk to leaders and the like, and in the process forget the common man, who needs and wants a peaceful life, to live free and not in abject fear...

 

Not the AA way indeed

 

AA and Leadership- We have no Leaders!

 

My gratitude tonight. That some people driven to insanity by drink, seventy plus years ago came up with some basics to help me today, to find my path into living again. A leaderless fellowship who realised that any form of direct control what have the opposite effect on most humans most of the time. We would rebel and head back for drink and early endings.

 

AA Learning

 

That if we want to find true happiness and fear less anything we may encounter, we work best to choice and not to the instruction of those in powerful positions. Fear of life made us drink, fear of living a huge and horrid burden lifted in sobriety and with a few basic tools of how to live well.

 

Civilisations

 

In essence over the centuries it seems the learning of the generations is somehow lost, that even though the will of a few may make regimes so powerful they grow, only to falter as decadence and the power of the mighty dissipates and leads to even more conflict and downfalls.

 

Thriving Individuals

 

Those who can, they get on with life, make their way, have families or in my case family and fellowship. Fellowship has helped me make sense why I don’t have a wife and family to call my own. In the living of my life, this normal state of affairs has never quite happened, I realise I was not so good a student of living I might have imagined as I look back. And partners in my life were not best pleased as I had no real clue about how to become a family man. There is no resentment in me for how things have turned out, as I see a life with friends and who knows? I don’t know much beyond today. And need not aim or try orchestrate something. We never know quite what might happen next.

 

Or do We?

 

If we are open to all the life offers we don’t need to plan or control the outcomes. Certainly as the world works a certain way, and compliance is a big part of fitting in, I am aware and feel comfortable in good company who may also be open to all life offers, as we reach different stages of living.

 

Today

 

Overall I am always a bit circumspect when I share my Experience Strength and Hope. And still I often feel tired out and not quite so sure of what I may have said or not said. And especially with the step shares and traditions, I understand them in my head and am now learning to live a whole new way. This new way is not about knowledge of how, it’s doing the steps and changing as I do. Experience is my key.

 

Confidence

 

The conundrum of whether one shares a story well or quite honestly in my opinion, I learn more when I have big gaps in my sharing. And when I forget a part of what is important in step and tradition meetings, I am hugely grateful there are more people in the room who know and have experienced more than me. And they inform me as much as anything I may say..

 

Tonight in Good Company

 

A real spectrum of humanity, with every element of what life is like in recovery. Conflicts and more, just stuff we air, and the reality is we are all sober for these few hours a day. And the more we stay sober, the more experience for us to understand, and laugh at where we are now. Forever learners in this small big life we get back. All just for a day!

One good friend is back, another trying, and another not there tonight is hopefully somewhere in another meeting. And in the day I hear as people share their stories, it’s good to hear plain and happy as well as sad accounts of life happening.

 

Life happens

 

And in this fellowship we probably face things a little more directly without the aid of some filters we used to destruction and drove ourselves mad. Today we apply learning and wisdom, get to be right sized, and equal to living.

 

When we lose the plot we share it, when we make life work, we share it, and we learn most from each other in this daily round of life.

 

Years Ago to Now

 

The wisdom I learn daily is as easily forgotten as we share and try learn life again. I have let go much of what made me hurt more. The falseness of much we encounter daily is full of humbuggery and ego. As we find in our confidence, the world is far better for us as we find a path where we meet likeminded people, just aiming for a good day of sorts.

 

Old wisdoms and a path to acceptance of life on life’s terms does not stop our success in the world, it just makes it all worth it and lived and experienced, a day at a time. Good or bad life lived in the moment is the spiritual connection to now. My zeitgeist compliments of AA...

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AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections

AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve

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Step 6 "Spiritual Willingness" Reading Video Link:

Step Six Reading

wrongs. Chapter 6, Into Action, Big Book From: Page 72 Thru: Page 75, the bottom of the page. 12 And 12 Step 5."

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June ~ Video Reading Chapter Six Into Action Link:

Chapter Six Into Action

I do not speak for Alcoholics Anonymous I speak for myself. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of unique and authentic people who speak for themselves where they will to share experience, strength and hope about recovery on a daily basis. Anonymity affords sanctuary to find how to live sober and be open, honest and willing to learn life day by day. For me "truth," "love" and "wisdom" offer the best spiritual experience by living reality today. Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Traditions: steps to be open, honest and willing to learn, traditions to live unity, service and recovery.

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Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

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