Alcoholics Anonymous Mallorca
Posts by: Jonas
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
I came to Alcoholics Anonymous because I was no longer able to control my drinking. [...]
Continue Reading →It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession/or destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us.
My act of Providence, (a manifestation of divine care and direction), came as I experienced the total bankruptcy of active alcoholism—everything meaningful in [...]
Continue Reading →The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent.
My powerlessness over alcohol does not cease when I quit drinking. In sobriety I still have no choice—I can’t drink. The choice I do have is to pick up [...]
Continue Reading →Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.
Every day I stand at turning points. My thoughts and actions can propel me toward growth or turn me down the road to old habits and to booze. Sometimes turning points are beginnings, as [...]
Continue Reading →We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
When alcohol influenced every facet of my life, when bottles became the symbol of all [...]
Continue Reading →He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end.
Only an alcoholic can understand the exact meaning of a statement like [...]
Continue Reading →It’s usually pretty easy for me to be pleasant to the people in an AA setting. While I’m working to stay sober, I’m celebrating with my fellow AA’s our common release from the hell of drinking. It’s often not so hard to spread glad tidings to my old and new friends in the program. At [...]
Continue Reading →It is no coincidence that the very first Step mentions powerlessness: An admission of personal powerlessness over alcohol is a cornerstone of the foundation of recovery. I’ve learned that I do not have the power and control I once thought I had. I am powerless over what people think about me. I am powerless over [...]
Continue Reading →Practicing the AA program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, was the equivalent of stopping drinking. But it’s pretty uncomfortable living on a concrete slab, unprotected and exposed to the heat, cold, wind and rain. So I [...]
Continue Reading →This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle. I always believed in God, but could never put that belief meaningfully into my life. Today, because of Alcoholics Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand Him; I am sober today because of that! Learning to trust and [...]
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