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~~~~~ ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualifications for membership are that they can't hold their liquor and have decided they don't want to learn how. Not that they could anyway, they never could, and it's highly unlikely that they ever would. It has no rules, dues or fees, nor anything else that any sensible organization seems to require. At meetings, the speaker starts on one subject, winds up talking about something entirely different, and concludes by saying he doesn't know anything about the program except that it works. ~~~~~ The groups are always broke, yet always seem to have money to carry on. They are always losing members but seem to grow. They claim AA is a selfish program but they always seem to be trying to give it away and to do something for others. Every group passes laws, rules, edicts and pronouncements that everyone blithely ignores; members who disagree with anything have the privilege to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as if nothing has happened and be greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet great projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in AA is according to Hoyle. ~~~~~ How can it survive? Perhaps it's because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man. He made laughter too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right no matter who pushes the wrong button. Maybe He is pleased, not with our lack of perfection, but with our sincerity. Maybe He is pleased with our trying to be nobody but ourselves. We don't know how it works, but it does, and members keep receiving their dividends from their AA investments. It is smart to be sober, and much easier, my friends, to stay sober than to get sober.
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Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell. ~~Peter Brock~~ |
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FAITH VS. DOUBT
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"Sorrow looks back Worry looks around But, faith looks up." ~~From 'God's Little Instruction Book'~~ |
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The 13 Steps Of Humor Anonymous 1. We admitted we were grateful for the role humor plays in our recovery, and our laughter had become unmanageable 2. Came to believe a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and a little laughter now and then couldn't hurt. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him, and laughed about how if we measured what we understood about God on a scale of one to ten, the needle on the gauge would probably point to minus one, and we don't need to tell you which end of the scale is which, which makes us laugh, because we are desperate, aren't we? 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, and when appropriate, laughed at ourselves and the foibles of addiction. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, and didn't laugh too much here, because this step involves some serious *S*. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character, and laughed out loud when we realized how great life could be without these defects. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings, and imagined God stripping us down to our shorts in front of our home group, to keep us humble and to provide a few laughs for the other drunks, junkies, and misfits. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and realized there was nothing funny about the length of this list. Became willing to make amends to all of them, but realized it was going to take a lot of thinking and head scratching just to figure out what "amends" were, and then to actually make them, whew! 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Made indirect amends when we didn't want to get caught or feel guilty. 10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when wrong, promptly admitted it. When our behavior was funny, ironic or ludicrous, we laughed at it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out, and sought through laughter to understand that God has a sense of humor, because after all, He created the likes of us. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others in recovery and to practice these principles in all our affairs. And we remembered humor also has the power to heal. 13. You know what step 13 is. You shouldn't be laughing. |
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May those who love us, love us. And those that don't love us May God turn their hearts. And if he doesn't turn hearts May He turn their ankles So we'll know them by their limping. (On old Celtic blessing)
~~Some of it's magic~~
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Senility Prayer (A variation as you age)
God, grant me the Senility |
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~~Japanese Proverb~~ The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson~~ "Blessed are the Cracked for they shall let in the light" |
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