In turning my will and my life over to the care of God (as I understood Him) isn’t always an easy thing to do. I keep taking back control - or did I never fully give it up to begin with?
The key is that I have to stop what it is I’m thinking of, engulfed in, and consumed by in order to begin to see, not to see, but to begin to see, then there is much work to be done to continue to see, and more to continue to see more.
Simple Guides to Help you Complete the 1st Action Step of the 12 Step Process. These forms outline an organized way for you to complete your personal inventory without difficulty or question. Everything is laid out in easy to understand format with explenation.<
To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. This is particularly true of women. Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years. Certain drinkers, who would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to stop. We, who are familiar with the symptoms, see large numbers of potential alcoholics among young people everywhere. But try and get them to see it!
Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God. These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.
The Study Format of the chapters that are reviewed during the cycle of the Big Book Study Group meetings in thier specified orders. This example is given as a guideline for the reading of the chapters that specifically outline a program of recovery according to the steps and the specific instructions given to complete those steps. A group choosing not to consider themselves a Big Book Step Study meeting can choose to alter or adopt other chapters.
Big Book Step Study meetings work. They work by being very structured and specific, providing clear-cut directions on how to recover from the disease of alcoholism. They work by putting the principles of AA ahead of our own (and other people’s) personalities, and by keeping one aim above all else: carrying the AA message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
Who are we, really? It seems like we are one person on the inside, and yet we often act like someone else. Can a good person do bad things? Can a bad person do good things? It’s pretty confusing, isn’t it?
Our recovery program teaches us that we can change who we are by changing the [...]
Merely Quoting from books and speakers at an AA Meeting where we need to be sharing from experience and not opinion, is not the “depth and weight” that the new comer needs to know in his heart that we have a solution to his pain and suffering. Am I offering My Experience or Opinions at Meetings?