1 We want our lives back in 6 months (we take on too much)
2 We don’t take full advantage of the resources and suggestion in AA.
One of my Character-defects has never been indifference. It has caused me alot of pain and quite a bit of conflict with others! Some people don’t practice acceptance, they practice indifference -and they so very well!
it was about two years before I started to figure out “THIS THING MIGHT JUST WORK” And right about that time I also started figuring I was responsible for… MY OWN RECOVERY!
Before you go correcting, judging, or criticizing someone in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous for what they have to say -you might want to read the book or the manual 1st. If someone is sharing in a meeting and they are in line with the program and you are at odds with them then you are hurting this program!
Albert from 1989 with 50 years sober. I think he got sober in 1940
Alcoholics Anonymous is a million dollar program shut up your ass and nickel at a time
If you are speaking and some people are enjoying what you have to say and others are becoming frustrated or angry about it… chances are you are probably speaking something akin to the truth. Human beings tend to be split down in the middle with regard to truths interestingly enough. The one thing in the universe that is probably more more pervasive and powerful than anything else is the truth. Proof. Probably nothing else like it…… Welcome I mean some people like rocky road ice cream and some people don’t. But if you’re being an asshole nobody’s probably gonna like that – but as you ascend, The numbers go from unanimously negative to split.
You know how I can always tell the arrogant people from the humble people? I tend to get on the nerves of arrogant people rather quickly where as humble people seem to enjoy my…. I’m kind of like that angel that comes down from heaven disguised as… the one that arrogant people don’t want to have anything to do with or that is a bit difficult or troublesome is troublesome… Trying to determine which people are which here on Earth. Trying to teach impatient people patients….
When I started getting a little cocky and Alcoholics Anonymous set about 2 years sober… God pulled me aside and said, “Do you remember what it was like before you got here? Do you remember back when the harder you try to quit the more you ran toward your addiction? How much do you think you are responsible for the life of sobriety you have today?” I thought to myself 🤔, 10%? He said “Guess again.” 5%? He said “Guess again.” 2%? He said “that’s a little high but I’ll give you that.” And ever since then I’ve never forgotten it’s gotten which side of the bread my butter’s on! Where it is my true source of sobriety comes from! Everything I have comes from God! Thank you Lord