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07-16-2008, 09:07 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Missouri
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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. Bye |
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07-16-2008, 09:18 AM
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| Forum Leader  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family!
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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.
__________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---*WOW-What a ride*!" |
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07-16-2008, 10:22 AM
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| Follow Directions!  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
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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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07-16-2008, 11:28 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL
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Thank you for this bright moment LL. You can do it!
__________________ "It is what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden Excerpts from Original Manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous |
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07-16-2008, 11:56 AM
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| Another Day in Paradise  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Upland, CA
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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. Jon
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07-17-2008, 07:24 AM
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| 1 bite&all resistance crumbles  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: IRELAND
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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. Cathy31 x
__________________ Sober since 22nd March 2006 by the Grace of God and the Programs & Fellowship of AA and NA  Life is Beautiful! Fake it til you make it... |
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07-17-2008, 11:37 AM
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| '55 Classic  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Waco, TX
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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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