My boss shut the door to my office and sat down across the desk from me. It wasn’t a meeting I was expecting; closing the door put my anxiety level on alert. Four weeks earlier, 2 days before Christmas, he had told me that the company was letting four people go and that I was [...]
Continue Reading...By Cliff B That question is being asked by a lot of alcoholics lately. What happened to our high success rate? 30 & 40 years ago, we were keeping 75% or more of the alcoholics who came to us for help. Today, we aren’t keeping even 5%. What happened? What happened to that wonderful A.A. [...]
Continue Reading...My journey in recovery has taught me that I had to learn the difference between love and lust. The spirituality I seek has lead me to the following concept of love that I seek: My Ideal Love Life: To have a relationship that exists in total enjoyment of each other and to want to do [...]
Continue Reading...We received many comments in the last few weeks and it is greatly appreciated. I love being engaged by all of you, even those that don’t agree. Unfortunately, this novice deleted all your comments by accident. I was trying to approve them and did it incorrectly. If you would send them again, they will be [...]
Continue Reading...From:100 Blessings Every Day …You shall have no other gods before me. -Exodus 20:2-3 There is a saying around A.A. fellowship meetings that if you make your #2′s your #l’s, you lose your #l’s. It is the program’s way of saying: Maintain your priorities. For us, the #1 priority is to avoid false gods. Notice [...]
Continue Reading...Humility ”To be humble is not to make comparisons.” In response to modem narcissism’s extolling of “Me First” and “Number One,” humility does not necessarily suggest an attitude of “Me Last’ (although that would provide a more appropriate starting-point for spirituality). What humility does counsel is that such comparisons are dangerous and foolish; the problem [...]
Continue Reading...Prayer brings us closer to Our Higher Power. Making prayer and meditation part of your life is up to you. Each day of our lives, we are presented with the freedom to choose between good and evil. While The Spirit of the Universe’s knowledge is certainly different than our own, a perspective on time beyond our comprehension (for [...]
Continue Reading...A righteous person may fall seven times, yet rise again. -Proverbs 24:16 Someone once said that you’re successful if you get up one more time than you’ve been knocked down. It is said that success is not about accumulating things, but about overcoming our inclination toward evil. Success comes in persisting past setbacks, in getting up again. [...]
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