Unlike the world outside, a few the things I love most about Alcoholics Anonymous:

•We’re all equal

•We don’t get better by looking at other people’s faults we get better by looking at our own

•There are no leaders or rules

•A person cannot be thrown out of Alcoholics Anonymous – the only other place I know of on this planet that has that policy is prison

•It doesn’t matter how good looking you are, how much money you make, what kind of a job you have, what kind of a car you drive, who you know, what part of town you live in… We all gotta do the work in the rooms of alcohol it’s anonymous or die

•We must work towards having the best possible relationships with every human being! Every person matters -none of this clique BS

Easy money – Many an alcoholic could be characterized as a cheater of life. Where other people suffered the normal consequences of living on this planet… It’s like being in school and having a hole in your desk with the answers in your palm and peeking through that hole. Once in Alcoholics Anonymous, we have to stop cheating life and start carrying our own water. Once we get sober we get an opportunity to experience all the things in life every other non-alcoholic has been facing each day of their lives – Life doesn’t go away just because we get sober! It does get easier on 2 fronts however: We have problems but we’re no longer the problem”; When we stop cheating we actually learn something and grow stronger. I knew a woman who had a son who sold drugs. He tried going back out into the real world and living legitimately. 4 or $500 a week doing hard work, just didn’t seem to sit right with being able to make 4 or 5000 A-day doing nothing at all. For some people, the idea of getting your dignity back just isn’t sufficient.

Once here on planet Earth we are all responsible for making a choice. Think about it 🤔 -if life is not a test, then how is it that there’s no way out of it as long as we are alive on this planet -as far as making choices that is. And insofar as to not make a choice, is to make a choice! To do nothing…

“To do nothing” is probably the biggest choice will ever make. “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.’

The thing about my alcoholism that really made me perk up and to take notice was this: I love steak. I love lobster. I love sex. I love Bubble gum ice cream… But after a while I got sick of it. I never got sick of drinking and drugging (🤔 I REALLY AM DIFFERENT FROM MY FELLOWS)! It was a moment likened to John Nash in the movie “A Beautiful Mind” when he comes to the realization “They don’t grow old”.

Alcoholism is like 2 bullies. I saw a movie once where they said you take away one of the bullies and the other flees. And Alcoholics Anonymous we do the same thing. We cannot do anything about the craving once we induce alcohol but we can do something about the obsession obsession through the suggestions offered in the 12-step program. The problem of we Alcoholics centers in the mind -so, we address the issue from that vantage point.

If you want to non-alcoholic to understand what it is to be an alcoholic… Give them a pill whereby they can’t simply have one drink. To know what it’s like to be a normal drinker if you’ve never known it before… when you drink a glass of Orange juice in the morning with breakfast are you sitting at you sitting at work counting the minutes on the clock so you can go outside to your truck and sip a glass of Orange juice?

If you only have the obsession of the mind then you will keep on going back to a drink time after time. If you only have the craving of the body then once you start drinking you cannot stop.. But if you suffer badly enough, you may choose never to return to that 1st drink ever again.

I was told in a class one time that if an alcoholic suffered a hangover immediately after taking the 1st drink they would never do it again. I was also told entreatment that alcoholics performed better with a few drinks under their belt elt then without one at all. That is the difference between an alcoholic and a non-alcoholic.

True Heaven, one never tires of. If you ask most men what heaven is it’ll probably tell you to be in between a woman’s legs -if they’re honest. But once it’s over and done what do they stay there? Nooooo, they look for something else. So 🤔 THAT’S NOT REALLY HEAVEN IS IT? And a mother with her children? After a while, most women need a break right? So, 🤔 THAT’S NOT REALLY HEAVEN IS IT?

The closest example of God’s love for us is probably a mother and her children. See, God gave us an example that we can honestly relate to -right before our very eyes. Did you miss that one?

If God is infinite, then the oldest of our kind must still appear to be only seconds old -from God’s perspective. As a parent, your children will always seem like children to you in many ways. When you were 5 and your brother was 8 it seemed like a gap a mile wide. Now that you are 55 and hes 58…

To stay ahead of my alcoholism I have to stay busy in Alcoholics Anonymous. To fall behind on my alcoholism all I need do is nothing. Once I crossed that line in my addiction (a life of debauchery, total disregard for God and the instincts He endowed me with -among other things…) I relegated myself to… God’s punishment for all the above is simply that I do what I should have done all the long. The 12 steps are for people who have lost (thrown away) the innate/inherent ability to have a relationship with God. Explain to me why many atheists function very highly and many christians do not function very highly perit’s very highly. Explain to me why by some Atheists can have a drink, seemingly with impunity; while some Christians cannot? Anser: God in them!

You take a broken watch to a watchmaker; you take a broken human being to God!

When a child is fearful he runs to his parent. As an adult, what do you run to when you’re afraid? Women have other women to cry to on their shoulder to, and sometimes they have a man, or both. Where do men cry -on whose shoulder? Throughout my years in recovery I met many women who had no clue as to the role of comforter to a man. You could say many of them even felt that that role was reserved for the man in the woman’s life -strictly!

Believe it or not, some Fathers actually love their children more than the mother -make better parents!

But let’s face it, at the rate in my addiction, I had to do a lot of work. I never heard anybody get drunk sitting on the couch thinking about it. I never saw anybody get sober that way either

You go out into the world and try hanging out somewhere without having any money and see how long you’re welcome. $ $ $ $ $🤌