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| Life the gift of recovery! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Home is where the heart is
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A foundations stone is also a concept which provides the basic tools for understanding a larger intellectual edifice. Each time we help others we place another stone in the foundation of our recovery. We shore up our faith from the stormy waters of self-centeredness by selfless action. Helping others reinforces our faith by continually providing spiritual experience. Helping others is evidence of our gratefulness for the gift we have been given. Building a foundation of stone is essential to our recovery. A foundation built on shifting sands will only fail with time. How do I develop and maintain a firm foundation? I develop this through working with other alcoholics, applying the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions to all areas of life, and maintaining and developing a spiritual connection. Through these things I continue to learn, develop faith and trust in our Higher Power, and grow in gratitude and selflessness. What is your foundation built upon? How do you maintain and build your foundation?
__________________ NOTE: All BB quotes are from the 1st Edition of the Big Book Depression is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of being too strong for too long. | |
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| God's Kid Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: New Zealand
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__________________ ....blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. | |
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| same planet...different world |
I remember when I came back to AA this last time a couple of years ago, that kept running in my head as well. I wanted a REAL foundation this time. I wanted to do it for real. every little piece of the program. Because skimping or pretending wasn't going to make a true foundation for me. I was going to have to do the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous for real or I wasn't going to live. I dunno. I just remember that continually in my mind.
__________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad. ![]() |
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| Adjusting my Sails |
I had an unusually hard time accepting both the problem and the solution. As has been said here many times, "You can't give away what you don't have". I was unable for years to stay sober with self knowledge because truth had little power without acceptance. Acceptance of thy will be done is the doorway to a new way of life for me and my new way of life is now filled with the peace that comes with accepting truth. Until somebody pisses me off.
__________________ I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but my chief duty is to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble - Helen Keller |
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For me, the foundation was going to a meeting every night or close to it at the beginning I always ask someone coming back around the tables after they went back out what happened. I get the same answer, they quit going to meetings. Not to say, someone can't leave a rehab and go on about their lives by not attending meetings I had to build up a different thought process for my foundation. My thinking process was skewed. My best thinking put me around the tables. I also believe, my foundation remains strong by going to a rehab center on Friday nights and reaching out to help others. We build ourselves up by lifting others up with us!
__________________ LIFE IS GOD'S GIFT TO YOU WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE IS YOUR GIFT TO GOD J - Jesus first O - Others next Y - Yourself last John 14:6 |
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