Currently, the source from which I’m taking this has no idea who to attribute it to so, if you know, the info would be cool and I’ll edit it in and let the other person know;
A Writing on AA and the Higher Power
God In His wisdom, selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of his goodness. In selecting them, through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous, or the brilliant; He went to the humble, the sick, the unfortunate; He went right to the drunkard, the so-called …read more

And why don’t they compute? Because you’re an alkie!!!
And so am I…
Our brains get in the way of sensible, responsible and mature computing because we “looooooove” negative thinking. We “looooooove” negative thinking because we are self-centered in the extreme! So self-centered that we’ll walk into a meeting late, shuffle around noisily making our coffee while disrupting the meeting, park our a**es and immediately raise our hands making a seriously self-centered statement like “Sorry I’m late and didn’t hear your qualifications but…” followed by some inane comment having nothing to do with anything other than our self-serving agenda (although …read more

Oh boy how we dislike, even hate, God’s waiting room. (Hi Jen )
We pray and pray for something we want. We exert ourselves with an effort beyond any we’d ever made before. We just aren’t sure we’ll get what we want so we ask God to please, please God, let me have this just this one time, please…
God, you know how hard we worked, you know how qualified we are, you know how much we want this in our hearts.
We’ve been good God! Honest! You know we have… We’ve fulfilled all of your requests, even did things we didn’t …read more

I thought that might be an appropriate title for this entry considering that I’m about to begin it with “I was thinking today.”
Perfection. I was the type who had an unrealistic expectation of perfection from those around me. Who were those around me? Those who now have their own unrealistic expectation of perfection from me.
I must have taught them well.
My friend Mike is right on…
The disease hasn’t gone away and it still has the same agenda. It wants us dead, as in “US!” Everyone. With no prejudice. I must remember that and, as Mike said, be on guard for the …read more

But I forgot to tell them…
The recent events that have come and passed with my son and brother. “I’m a lover not a fighter.” How many times have you heard someone say that?
I had no control. I tried. I couldn’t change what happened. I tried again and again. Nothing changed. Thank God for AA and the 12 Steps. Eventually I let go.
I had come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and I saw that it said “ourselves” and “us.” Did they need to be restored? I didn’t know but, on the chance that …read more