When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

October 21

"Only by accepting my powerlessness over alcohol did I begin to discover the powers that alcohol had obliterated: God, health, truth, love, nature, fellowship, humor, creativity, and even simple daily kindness."

Barrington, Ill., June 2007

"In Your Bones,"

Into Action

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October 22

"My anger served as an iron shield, and I refused to remove it for fear God would send me still more pain."

Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 1997

"The Littlest Things,"

No Matter What: Dealing with Adversity in Sobriety

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October 23

"To be teachable, I had to be reachable."

Wollstonecraft, Australia, May 1984

"The Winner's Guide to Boring Meetings,"

Into Action

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October 24

"This process of identification and transmission has gone on and on. The skid rower said he was different. Even more loudly the socialite (or Park Avenue stumble bum) said the same -- so did the arts and the professions, the rich, the poor, the religious, the agnostics, the Indians and the Eskimos, the veterans and the prisoners.

"But nowadays all of these, and legions more, soberly talk about how very much alike all of us alcoholics are when we all admit that the chips are finally down; when we see that it is really a question of do or die in our world wide Fellowship of 'the common suffering and the common deliverance."

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1960

"AA Communication Can Cross All Barriers"

The Language of the Heart

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October 25

"I made the decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, and then I got out of the way."


Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2010

"Gimme Shelter,"

No Matter What: Dealing with Adversity in Sobriety