Saturday evening December 31,2011 and I am sitting at Central Office with members of my Sunday morning meeting The Garden Variety Group that meets every Sunday morning at Anna’s Restaurant at 9:30. Please feel free to join us for a great meeting and pretty good breakfast. As is normal Doug, our LIFELINE editor, has extended
Greetings to all. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and a safe and enjoyable Black Friday. To all of my fans (both of you) I apologize for not writing for the November issue of the LIFELINE. I was very busy trying to secure a paying job with a race team in Las Vegas. Being unsuccessful
My spirit began to wake up when my desire to stop drinking coupled with a willingness to do whatever it took to accomplish that desire. The process of getting desire and willingness on the same page took years of desperation drinking. On May 12, 1989 I spoke to my first recovering alcoholic. On that day,
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I am a man of three score plus 13 years. I have been searching for my understanding of God or a Higher Power all my life and have never been able to truly deep down within my head or heart believe that someone or something is actually pulling the strings on this puppet. As a
Step Eleven provides a strong foundation for spiritual development of our AA program. As it is noted in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, “The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.” Since prayer and meditation are our principle means of gaining conscious contact with God, these are essential components for
There is a passage in the big book that says: “…we have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned.” This is one of the promises of step ten outlined in the Big Book. The dictionary defines a milestone as: An action or event marking a significant