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05-16-2008, 04:42 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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|  TOPIC: Which Do You Have? Compulsion To Drink Or Live
"Yes, I began with blind faith, but the proof of truth is that it works. I believed those who said they had suffered from alcoholism, but, through A.A., were now enjoying sobriety. So the truth was there for me to see. But shortly I knew the truth from my own experience. I was not only released from the compulsion to drink; I was guided toward a compulsion to live! Hi Im Sharon And Im an Alcoholic. By the grace of my HP and people like u here in SR and Bikers in Recovery, I havent had the desire to pick up another drink since 8-11-90. For that and u I am truely grateful. Today I have the desire to live....the cumpultion to drink was lifted from me from the very beginning when I took those first few steps in recovery. Admitting I was powerless and my life was unmanageable. When I turned my will and life over to Something greater than I to guide me and lead me. When I came to believe that this Power could and would restore me to sanity. Today my life is an example of how this program works. Today I have that compultion to want to live and ride free. Thanks for letting me share.
__________________ "A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED" SHARON M.  Baton Rouge, La. 8-11-90 "Made A Decision To Turn My Will And Life Over To The Care Of God As I Understand Him." |
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05-16-2008, 08:58 AM
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| Zoo Crew Keeper  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kansas
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The compulsion to drink was lifted from me many years ago thanks to a loving God and AA. Today I chose to live in recovery 
__________________ DeVon & the Zoo Crew  "Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog." ~Sydney Jeanne Seward |
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05-16-2008, 05:12 PM
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| Have we seen a person fail...  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S.S. Marie, Ont. Can.
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__________________ Rarly 2002 FLHTC "Annie" " as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same"... Nelson Mandela | |
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05-16-2008, 05:14 PM
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| Codaholic Alcodependant  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ, in a home filled with love
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Drink? &%$# that! I'll live and ride free!
__________________ "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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05-16-2008, 08:10 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: mountain grove, missouri
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The cumplusion to drink or use was taken from me some years ago. I am truly grateful to a loving God, and the loving people of AA who tolerated my insanity and told me to "Keep coming back," when nobody else was inviting me anywhere. Except the cops, they always had a place for me! I think the complusion left sometime after I made the decision to go to meeting not for what I might receive, but when I went to give something back to AA. To shake someone's hand, to give someone a hug, to look someone in the eyes and tell them honestly that I was glad to see them,.........maybe to just go get someone a cup of coffee. To put up chairs, rinse the coffee pot, and wash ash trays (when we had smoking meetings). When I started doing these things because I wanted to, things changed in my mind and spirit........ Today I have a complusion to live......I am running over three miles a day, and have lost over 25 pounds in the past 4 months.......that is complusive behavior I know for sure.
__________________ Tet Vet PGR member 2007 Road King Classic 96 C.I. Six-speed Vivid black God......... Let You........... be enough for me. |
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05-18-2008, 02:46 PM
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| Biker  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Delmar, MD (Eastern Shore)
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| A sincere statement to the God of my understanding, "Okay God, I'm through...!" His answer,...Yes! Since that moment I have not had the compulsion to use nor the desire. The programs have been helping/teaching me with the unmanageably (and the rest of the steps) as God strengthens me to handle what comes to the surface for me to face. I call this life! Gimmie some more!!
__________________ Mykl (aka-Jazz) SRMC-Club Area Rep-MD When you feel it, you will know! |
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05-19-2008, 06:51 AM
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| Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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I knew I was powerless over drinking....because there was no way I could stop. I had tried and tried but continued to fail. The more I wanted to stop and the more I tried I eventually got tired....worn down.... Today as I look back over my alcoholic behavior I can truely say with the knowledge learned about alcoholism, it is a disease..... No im not ashamed of this disease because I know how to handle it....no, i dont have to take shots....no medicine....no office visits.... kinda cool isnt it..... All I have to do is take each day...each moment, minute to not pick up a drink.....and how do i do that.....well.....i removed ALL things in my house, in my life that is alcohol related. No bottle, no people, no nothing related to alcohol. That way i am not tempted while learning to stay sober..... Learning.....there's a word....i had to LEARN all there was about my disease....how it affects us....how it made me feel.....what it made me do while under the influence.... It made me do things that normally a sane person wouldnt do.... Once i got the books....once i went to meetings once i went thru a 28 day rehab program and once i became willing to go to any lenghts to learn to stay sober, then and only then i began to put one day at a time together,,,,,, One full day with no drinking....one day to have someone to stay with me to not drink....one day to have someone to talk to about what was going on with me....one day to sit in a meeting and listen ....one day to begin to see that there was hope for me after all to finally stay sober one day at a time..... To relalize I have just one day to live at a time with not drinking.... It is possible to stay sober because Ive see those that said they couldnt, could. If they can....even the worst cases....then so can u..... And the most awesome thing about learning to stay sober is.... YOU NEVER EVER have to do this by urself. I share all this with you because it helps me stay sober just for today. Share ur story and see what happens..... Thanks for letting me share.
__________________ "A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED" SHARON M. Baton Rouge, La. 8-11-90 "Made A Decision To Turn My Will And Life Over To The Care Of God As I Understand Him." |
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