Yes,it is quite inspiring!

28 years, today.

im an alcoholic addict i was on hard drugs an booze for 3 an a half yrs solid alcohol for more than that i cant say that any aa room ever helped me just made me want to get a beer an fast when i got out of the room even if i hadnt had a drink in a month i would want one after an aa meeting. as for the hard drugs i gave them up in 98 i may have a j here an there but nothing else i dont drink an if i decide to i have one glass an that is it cant explain why i slowed down on the drinking just lost my taste for it somehow as for the hard drugs was truly in my opinion an act of gods help to get me off of them .dont miss that world at all or the alcholic world either .now i think one of our worst addictions that is so covered up is the pill addictions people have an its legal what a shame ive seen them stutter an stagger on pills an still legal for them to drive home scary in my opinion.

Our first reading meeting took place, yesterday on Tuesday. All three of us that showed up and are local had a great time. We all three are alcoholic/addicts. The church that lets us have the AA meetings we met at. But the church across the road we still have the NA literature in from when both meetings were in operation. Luckily, we have no problems with either literature. We started with the forward on the step book.

I am finally able to share the chair. We just got to start choosing a new chair at the end of the meeting. We even had a successful group conscious. It was wonderful that we had enough members who interested in the group long enough to stay after the regular meeting to have a business meeting.

Yeah,Great!

Congrats!
Keep it up,you are doing something right!

Thanks, Conrad. As usual I am going to try to make extra meetings this time of year. My workaholism might have to take a second to my alcoholism. First things first.

One of the things that one of our members, Bill P always says in our meetings in Flippin is, "Keep coming back. That is what gave me the desire to stop drinking." That is just so powerful a statement to me. Even with all of the problems alcoholism caused me I still had this terrible denial. It took that relapse so many years ago to break the denial for me and I was finally able to accept the first step without any reservations. Then the second step actually started to make sense once I surrendered instead of trying to quit.

and it helps too,by affirming that First Step every day,That I am powerless over Alcohol,and that my Life had become Unmanageable.
Or just simply renew the Desire to Stop Drinking daily!
Then on to the Job of Living!

3 months alcohol free today! Despite one re-lapse.....this would be 6!

Great!
If you fall down,get up,dust yourself off,and keep on walking!

Awesome. I am so happy for you. Stick in there. One of my higher powers is the dog tick. It was a nickname for a while. One of members called me Dog tick for a while.

Trout....it is soooo hard, man. Can you give me advice? Outside of the meeting a day thing. I mean.....it is a devious disease. I don't know what to do. I do the meetings, man. It's just hard.........

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire



Okay. I got to quit reading this guy. He has me in stitches.

They told me to stick with the winners. The friends I had before I came to the meetings left when the alcohol did. I had a tough sponsor. He was heartless and unrelenting. But he kept me sober.

No....seriously. I'm doing the work, the program. I know you think this is funny.....but it's not. You have recovery under yr belt. I have a sponsor.....and he sucks. I'm firing him cuz' I think he is using. I want good advice.......

O.K. That's good.

For example. Today....I had laundry to do. I really wanteds to drink with that money......but I chose to spen $12 dollard on laundry. If it weren't for the fact that I absolutely had to do laundry....I woulda' gotten drunk. This was cuz' I woke up wanting to drink. Now.....If i had any other choice.... I SWEAR ia woulda gotten drunk. I'm glad I made that decision.....but scared that laundry was the deciding factor. Feel me? This is after 3 month being sober, dig. This was my thinking........

Nope,we know it is serious business!

there is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem


God taught us to laugh again but god please don't let us forget that we once cried