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Old 07-16-2008, 08:07 AM   #1 (permalink)
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hi all 5 months today

Today is 5 months.
Longest I ever had.

I'm having Humility issues. They are talking alot about it this month
I also finally came clean at my meetings as to why I'm having a hard time getting a sponsor

1. I don't want to talk and confide about higher power issues with a single person.

2. I know I'll lie and say what they want to hear when it comes to the higher power issues.

and

3. I don't know anything.

Of course I spralled that out between several meetings like I do cause I don't want any one person to know my stuff. I do that all the time.

I'm just full of humility. I don't know. Anyway.
I'm also getting confuse with humility and being humble. Sometime AA makes humility sound like humble and I get confused. Take care all. I'm a mess but still sober.

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Old 07-16-2008, 08:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Well done on your 5 months LL!

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Old 07-16-2008, 08:18 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Congrats on your 5 months LL, I'm sorry to hear it's been a struggle.

Humility is one of the greatest gifts I've received as a result of AA, The 12 Steps, and my higher power. These aren't my words, but they definitely sum up what humility means to me......

On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:
"Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble.
It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore;
to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing
done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises
me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a
blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the
door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace,
as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and about
is seeming trouble."

"Dr. Bob and the Good Old timers", page 222, first written
by Andrew Murray, a So. African religious leader, ca. 1828-1917.
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Old 07-16-2008, 08:26 AM   #4 (permalink)
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It's always awesome to hear from you LL, and I'm thrilled that you are continuing to move forward, and to be asking questions. Just keep going - it WILL get better.
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Old 07-16-2008, 08:26 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Congratualations on Five Months! Wow! Good for you!
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Old 07-16-2008, 09:22 AM   #6 (permalink)
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LL 5 months is awesome, & if I may say so, you certainly seem to be doing better.

I learned that the last person to notice they are getting better from alcoholism is the alcoholic them selfs. You may feel you are still a mess like I did at 5 months, but I can tell simply by that one post you are doing a whole lot better.

Bye the way I see plenty of both humbleness and humilty in your post! LOL
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Old 07-16-2008, 10:28 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Thank you for this bright moment LL. You can do it!
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LL,
Congratualations on Five Months. I have always thought that the act of living a humble life creates humility as part of our character. By the way my favorite definition of humility is as follows;

Humility is NOT thinking LESS of oneself, but rather thinking MORE of OTHERS.

Good luck and keep coming back no matter what.

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Old 07-16-2008, 04:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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You are 5 months LL!!!!!!!!! That is unbelievably wonderful!! Well done - keep going to meetings, keep praying about it to whatever your higher power is - you will be given the solution. well done on your sober time. Each day sober is a victory.
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I have always thought that the act of living a humble life creates humility as part of our character. By the way my favorite definition of humility is as follows;

Humility is NOT thinking LESS of oneself, but rather thinking MORE of OTHERS.
I love that definition, Jon. Thank you for sharing that.

LL,
Congrats on the 5 months. And don’t worry. I think everyone struggles at first. Or at least I did. One thing I had to learn was that I was just as addicted to the lifestyle as I was addicted to the alcohol. The life I had been leading did not lend itself to the definition Jon shared above.

Just keep bring the body and the mind will (eventually) follow.
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Awesome!

Keep doing what you are doing.

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