After many years of Addiction in general i have decided to go to AA. It was an eye opener and i recommend going. Dont do what i did and wait for the problem to get worse. Gods blessings on you.
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My first day at AA
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Good for you. Now, you need to get some phone numbers, get a sponsor, and start working on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Take it from someone who did not work all 12 Steps in the first 20 years I was in AA. I kept relapsing, not understanding why I could not get sober and stay sober. It says in "How It Works" "If you want what we have, and are willing to go to any length to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps to get it. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find any easier softer way.
God bless.
Trish
God bless.
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Congradulations. I am sober for a couple of months. First 6 weeks where hell. ERR maybe not quite that bad, but pretty tough. It got dramatically easier after that. Almost as if I had scaled a cliff and now am hiking the path. The very hardest thing and the thing that cost me my one day of indescretion was my friends. I had to give up on some as the influence is too much to bear. Now I only hope to find a better class of friend. Birds of a "feather flock together." Good Luck
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I started AA a little over a year ago. Didn't get a sponsor, struggled constantly with the fourth step, harbored resentment relentlessly, rationalized my addiction and have yet to make the slightest effort toward service. I did everything wrong except I appealed to my 'higher power', who I had known as Savior and Lord for 30 years. I asked Him why after thirty years of drinking he didn't deliver me from this dangerous trapping. He said (not in an audible voice), 'you never asked'. It might not sound like a harsh rebuke but it was a devastating truth. I don't know what you consider a miracle but me being sober for a year is more remarkable then the parting of the Red Sea, no exaggeration intended.
I'm glad you started the meetings, it's a special fellowship, there is healing in those meetings. I hope it occurs to you to return and give us an update.
Grace and peace,
Mark
I'm glad you started the meetings, it's a special fellowship, there is healing in those meetings. I hope it occurs to you to return and give us an update.
Grace and peace,
Mark
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