They found it so frustrating that each time I seemed to be getting it together I shoot myself in the 's frustrating and heartbreaking to watch someone you love and care for do this over and over again. Marc L. - Posts: 1549. Dear Judi, What you impress me with is you, your courage. When people in my home group share they follow the "What I was like; What happened and What I am like now" pattern. Aa big book there is a solution.de. I need to cut more slack to earth people who have no such program.
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"We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. Joined: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:01 am. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 17.
But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The book Alcoholics Anonymous, aka The Big Book, is the basic text for the AA program of sobriety. They also got me out of jail once after I crashed into 2 cars. Kinda like the jay-walker.
Political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds". Joined: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:34 pm. Location: Somewhere in Sweden. Tomorrow i may be throwing another temper tantrum about why i have to do all this crap!!!
Hope this answers the question. What we have is there for anyone who wants it, no exclusions. Even if I haven't been asked to sponsor and my phone rarely rings. There are also conditions to the solution which we will find later. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. When I was a teen, I was constantly being grounded.
Wah, wah, instead, i'd like to thank all of you for your experience, strength and hope. My assignment is not to impress anyone with my vast stores of knowledge. It's one thing to make a post or two on this forum, dump off a load of grief, and then wrote: martin--you have too good of a memory!!! We are saved, we are working together on a common purpose, and we have a similar history of damage in our lives, despite our being from "All sections of this country [world]" representing "many [if not all] of its occupations.. well as many [all? ] I've wanted my problem solved through human hands. What worked for me was following the directions in the BB, and it didn't matter if I believed they would work or not, as someone else pointed out in these forums recently. Aa there is a solution pdf. Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:01 am. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. I had no idea what the 4th dimension would be, so I had no idea what it would mean that they would "work" anyway Today I get it.
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A lot of people get the fellowship and the program mixed up. But if you have reached a hopeless condition relying on your own self will-There is a solution to the drink problem. We share both a common problem and also a common solution. I'll politely nod and agree with you, but that is as far as i went. Thanks for letting me share. Aa big book there is a solution worksheet. A study guide I like to use points out that these paragraphs talk about the kind of people I might meet in a meeting.
I don't want to come across critical - that approach is keeping them sober, but the identification of a common condition is not all Alcoholics Anonymous is about for me. An illness of this sort - and we have come to believe it an illness - involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. "If I don't take twenty walks, Billy Beane send me to Mexico" -- Miguel Tejada. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. However like the title says there is a soulution ( thank God) and i dont have to be misreable unless i chose to be. © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. I have to walk the walk away from the meetings and put my side of the street into order. I don't know about the 4th dimension. Thanks karl for all you do here.
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. Blessed, if you will. But my way out of that peril didn't include doing what you all have done. It has meant much to my perspective on recovery. At meetings I show up early to greet people and to help set up, and to share my experience, strength and hope. Yesterday was a tantrum day, but i didn't drink. And developing a relationship with a greater power will solve my alcohol problem. We need both to have a peaceful life. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The word action is very important for me there - it reminds me that I have to live the programme and not just talk about it or compatamentalise it away. Location: Baltimore, MD. Thanks for the camaraderie, but don't ask me to do anything too difficult.
The fight against good orderly direction and the steps of our program is so much less than it was back in july. They stay stuck in the problem instead of focusing on the solution. I don't have much more than 2 days right now (actually about a week), but i know i've got both feet in this thing today. As oliver noted, action is the key. "The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
It is the solution that unites us as well as the fact we are Alcoholics. But compared to where i was, it's heaven on earth. I knew i was one of you. I believe pretty end stage alcoholic as a matter of fact.
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It has become a part of them and it is this which gets passed on to the still suffering alcoholic. I've posted today's below. Joined: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:40 am. We suggest you do this as we have done it in the chapter on alcoholism.
THERE IS A SOLUTION. I remember my very first meeting many years ago, and reading the bb for the first time. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. Things that stick out for me: "We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table.
The steps are my answer. It is so easy for me to forget how lucky I am. The common solution is beginning to change that rapidly in my life. I wanted what you had. Hey guys, martin--you have too good of a memory!!! From the book Daily Reflections.
Do we carry the common solution the big book talks about? The solution is the AA program, which, when broken down into Steps = 12. The most far-reaching Twelfth Step work was the publication of our Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Today i know that is not possible. "Alcoholics Anonymous" Copyright 2012 AAWS, Inc. All Rights, Reserved. You gonna' have to work at it some. No need to tell you where that has gotten me over the last 19 years. Joined: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:06 pm. That's what I want to remember today, when all the effort is so far behind me. Joined: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:37 am.
It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's. What am I like now as a result of working the program of action that will help me arrive at the solution to this problem? We hope this volume will inform and comfort those who are, or who may be affected. If you are an alcoholic-there is a solution.
Somebody to fix me and take care of me. Location: Western Maine. "In exchange for bottle and hangover, I have been given the keys to the kingdom. To be honest, when everything is going well in my life, it's easy not to take my steps and to forget to give thanks to God for a sober day...