Old Time AA

I got this in an e-mail from a friend and thought I'd share it with you all!

1.It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

2- If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress.

3- An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.

4- Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse.

5- A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000to find out that AA meetings are free.

6- The idea that alcoholics, drug addicts, sexaddicts, overeaters, smokers, etc, etc, should all just go to AA Meetings because a disease, is adisease, is a disease...was started by a treatment center that only had one van.

7- This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA.

8- If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy Drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an Alcoholic.

9- I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.

10- When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.

11- How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells,it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

12- From a newcomer reading the 'Promises' for the first time: "We will Comprehend the word cemetery and we will know peace."

13- If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough to be God!

14- If you want to quit drinking; you are going to have to quit drinking.

15-Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week? Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you get drunk. Then you'll know.

16- I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic.

17- Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go Away.

18-The difference between a problem drinker and an Alcoholic is that:
(A)When alcohol is taken away from the problem drinker, the problem goes away.
(B)When alcohol is taken away from the Alcoholic, the problem begins.

19- Before I came into AA, I was dead, but I did no tknow enough to lay down.

20- I drank when I was happy. I drank when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to drink.

21- You don't have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don't want to get well, you ARE sick.

22- I can't do His will my way.

23- In order to change the way we feel we need to change the way we act. There is only one way to coast, and that is down hill.

24- The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back.

25- All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as Possible.

26- I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all.

27-Joy isn't the absence of pain -- it's the presence of God.

Great Spirit Prayer

Oh Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
And whose breath gives life to everyone,
Hear me.
I come to you as one of your many children;
I am weak... I am small...I need your wisdom
and your strength.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunsets.
Make my hands respect the things you have made,
and make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.
Make me wise, so that I may understand what you
have taught my people and
the lessons you have hidden in each leaf and each rock.
I ask for wisdom and strength,
Not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able
to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me ever ready to come before you with
clean hands and a straight eye,
So as life fades away as a fading sunset,
My spirit may come to you without shame.

Today was a wonderful day. I am finally beginning to relax a bit and today I actually enjoyed life for a while. I was able to spend some time today enjoying some of the beauty my Higher Power left in this world for me to enjoy and it felt good. Vacation was just the thing I needed to get my head back on straight. It has been a slow progresssion, but at least it has progressed some. I am grateful today for the opportunity to experience my Higher Power.