Alcoholics Anonymous --- "Has AA lost it's Edge?" --- Bill C. and Jay S.
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Alcoholics Anonymous -- "Has AA lost it's Edge?" -- Bill C. and Jay S.
Bill C. from Torrance, CA and Jay S. from Redondo Beach, CA speaking on the topic of "Has AA lost it's Edge?" at SouthBay Family Roundup, CA - July 4th 2008
It's UP to me to carry the message NOT the meeting
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STEP 1
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become
unmanageable.
STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity
STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood
Him.
STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects
of character.
STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to
them all.
STEP 9
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible,
except when to do so would
injure them or others.
STEP 10
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
STEP 11
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as
we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of
His will for us and the power
to carry that out.
STEP 12
Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to
carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all
our affairs.
SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE
HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE
TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS
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Really need this today. Day one yet again. Pray for me.
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Hi Riley,
good links below !
it's the first drink to get drunk !
YOUR 12 STEPS AWAY FROM THE FIRST DRINK !!
love and service,
Mike
Prayers for Riley
Pray for sobriety --- ASK your "HIGHER POWER" for guidance and HELP
Higher Power, please guide me for SOBRIETY so I can do your will.
Use the SERENITY PRAYER
HIGHER POWER, grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change.
Courage to change the things I can,
And Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time.
{ Alcoholics Anonymous } --- 4 AA WORKSHOPS --- TAKE ALL 12 STEPS !!
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LISTEN TO Paul F playlist FIRST !
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Download and play on your MP3 PLAYER or PHONE
STEPS ONE and TWO
1. PAUL F - www.spiritualsteps.com/PAUL%20CD%2001.mp3
2. BRIAN & KATHERINE
www.spiritualsteps.com/BK%20CD%2001.mp3
3. KEN B
www.spiritualsteps.com/KEN%20CD%2001.mp3
4. WALLY P AND MIKE M
www.spiritualsteps.com/W_M_CD_01.mp3
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How are you today man?
How's it going tom? Hope you're good. If you're not but are still alive. Keep on trying. Wish nothing but the best for those dealing with this sickness
Same here lost everything but life
How is everyone holding up?
Myself couldn't tell you the %of people who stay sober in my own home group some do some don't but rarely have we seen a person fail
Love the aa book
addicts and alcoholics are cousins. that's why we have znarcotics anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous. They are not the same. If an heroin addict quits heroin and has an alcoholic problem he or she is welcome in AA to help another heroin addict/alcoholic not to mark out an alcoholic on their drug relapse.
Alcoholics Anonymous the book has not lost its Edge because it hasn't changed. Why hasn't it changed? Because it works! It is the key for long-term happy sobriety.
However the fellowship has lost its Edge because in it's early days, members insisted that the new member work the steps immediately.
These days, in meetings there's a lot of sitting around and talking about the problem and not so much the solution.
In the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous the newcomer would come through the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous a beaten down person at death's doorstep... willing to do ANYTHING to get sober .
These days, they go to a treatment center where they are filled with vitamins , horse therapy, and three delicious meals a day for 30, 60, or 90 days.
When they come out of the treatment center they physically FEEL better but they are told "you got to go to meetings."
Why would anybody want to go to meetings or work the 12 steps after they feel better?
Meanwhile, nothing was done about the mental obsession and this is a recipe for dry drunkenness ( also known as untreated alcoholism) This only leads to a return to drinking.
This is why the success rate was 75% in the old days.
thanks!
well said
it's 100% for me
Mike
Very few people can afford to live permanently in treatment. There is nowhere else to really
Yes. Totally agree. But not just the mental obsession is not being treated. It's primarily the spiritual disease of resentment that is left untreated if the steps are not done with a sponsor through the Big Book. The spiritual malady remains.
Aa works .
Your watering it down. Have you recovered if so say so.
No… AA saved my life!
Add fearful humans, money, treatment garble hiss 🙏🙏🏽📘
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