Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Carrying the message and not the mess! Let’s get to know basic definitions used in our step work and in the Big Book. Struggle versus Suffering: An …
Category Archives: Taking the Steps
Step 11- The Prayer of St. Francis
A. Yes. I believe in karma* I believe that it better to Comfort than to be Comforted. Karma* In Buddhism, karma is a kind of natural law, like gravity, that explains the causes and effects of what we think, say, or do. The Sanskrit word karma means “action,” and in Buddhism, it refers to volitional or …
Understanding the Fourth Step in AA: A Guide
We all are driven by our instincts. But sometimes we don’t watch where we’re going and we trip up. We take our God given instincts, so necessary for our survival, beyond what Mother Nature intended. We drink when the stock market goes up. We drink when the stock market goes down. We take the f-i-g-h-t …
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Finding God in Unexpected Places: AA Insights
If you’ve never heard about AA–like me in when I was 39 years old, God showed up and brought me to meetings and the AA literature to find a new way of life. If you’d have asked me in my twenties or thirties if I would ever hold a book in divine reverence like a …
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AA Insights: The Three Facets of Alcoholism
In the movie ‘Young Frankenstein’ Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (who insists his name is pronounced “Fronkensteen”) played by Gene Wilder, becomes curious of his grandfather’s study of reanimating a dead human body, and has a task for his odd hunchback assistant, Igor, to break into the town’s morgue and steal a brain for his experimental subject. …
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