Early in sobriety I was taught that my road of life would narrow the longer I lived and stayed sober. This is a perfect example of that though only those closest to me might recognize it today.
I was actually looking for a copy of “Footprints In The Sand” this morning in order to post it for “us” as a reminder. It still is one of many God poems that help me through many days. By sheer curiosity, after I had found a copy at Barefoot Bill’s, I clicked through to something I’d never seen or known before a few minutes …read more

Another phrase that I rarely hear anymore… “with a mustard seed of faith you can move a mountain but you better bring a shovel.”
The Topic? The Third Step. The New Resource? Grapevine articles from Mel B. The article for this entry;
Let Go and Let God
The Anxieties that Accompany Many Problems Besides Drinking Often Respond to Handling the AA Way
“I’ve turned the problem of alcohol over to the Higher Power, but I have trouble in many other things. How do we go about turning our whole lives over? This subject has come up at our beginners’ meeting, but we …read more

Here is “The ABC’s I”
From “How It Works” pg. 60;
“Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
c) That God could and would if He were sought.”
There is an area where I was once as passionate as any newcomer to comply with “principles” and never waver from what I was told. It was a difficult lesson to learn that I was powerless over people, places and …read more

Hah! Yeah – that philosophy worked well eh? Not…
“So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. …read more