For those who might not understand – the pop is a sound heard when someone’s head makes a sudden, strained, and loud emergence from the nether regions of your ****ole! anal cavity!

Heard something else at a meeting today and I loved it. Why? Because it came from the mouth of someone who is a Viet Nam vet, has 10 years sobriety, is a cancer survivor and is also a “retired” member of a “motorcycle club.” He now calls himself a “motorcycle enthusiast” rather than a biker!
He closed his sharing with;
“Once I was a hopeless dope fiend. Today …read more

We’ve seen the First Step Promises, the Second Step Promises, , the Third Step Promises, now here are the Fourth Step Promises from the AA History Lovers Group at Yahoo!
1. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. (64:0)
2. Our liquor was but a symptom. (64:0)
3. Resentment is …read more

Beginning on page 43 in AA’s 12&12;
“We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.”
For ex. – this comment.
Forward to pg. 44 – “Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace.”
In response to a post where I’m disagreeing with the concept of “Meeting Makers Make It” someone takes the time, lacking any communication, to immediately make a defamatory remark about “not working the program of action” to another human being, knowing nothing at all about that person and going to length to belittle …read more

From Silkworth.net;
4th STEP Prayers
WHEN IN DOUBT
“I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me. Never was I to pray for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others. Then only might I expect to receive. But that would be in great measure.”
(p.13)
WHEN I AM DISTURBED BY THE CONDUCT (SYMPTOMS) OF OTHERS
“This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done.”
(p. 67 BB)
God help me to show this person the same tolerance, …read more

Rick taught me to never give up the dream…
I haven’t paid attention all that often – usually only when I need to the most. Like now.
Today’s Daily Reflection;
“We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction.”
Emotional deformities – that’ll stop ya’!

Yes, heard at a meeting…
“Pain shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is cut in half; Joy shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is doubled!”
Also heard in meetings and known, by personal experience, to be true…
More reality from the Daily Reflection;
“When I stopped drinking I began a lifetime process of recovery from unruly emotions, painful relationships, and unmanageable situations.”
Positively.

Bill Wilson tells a pointed story about a group of fellows finding fully minted gold coins in “The Language of the Heart” (page 256) that you might want to read…
The story creates a symbolic picture graphically which tells Bill “that I may attain ‘humility for today’ only to the extent that I am able to avoid the bog of guilt and rebellion, and that fair but deceiving land which is strewn with the coin of Pride.”
He then offers that “this is how I can find and stay on the Road to Humility which lies in between. Therefore, a constant inventory …read more

How did they know?
Page 64 – 66;
We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were “burned up.”
Our injuries? One example;
Self-esteem: (Mr. Brown is such an a**) “Brown may get my job at the office?” Oh heck no – Brown is not better than I am! He doesn’t deserve that. I’m telling the boss. What’s that? At least Brown is here everyday without a hangover? How dare you!
As I slink away hating myself…
Another example – …read more

It had been some time since I last heard someone do this…
A Fourth Step meeting. A newcomer. Not on the Fourth Step yet. “But, I’ve been thinking.”
And this is one of those times when everything after “but” is BS. You simply ought not even attempt to “do” a Fourth Step in your head!
“In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry.”
Since I don’t live in your head I can only submit my own experience. I am entirely capable of, and extremely good at, forgetting, ignoring, denying, minimizing, maximizing and …read more

Returning to yesterdays’ Daily Reflection… (sarcasm ahead)
Looking Within
Ambivalent feelings: “Simultaneously feeling opposing or contradictory feelings.”
“By discovering what my emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for me.”
Contentment? I’m not sure I know what the word means…
“the neuro-physiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one’s situation, body, and/or mind.”