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Faith Without Works is Dead

  This is another saying that we hear around Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) on occasion.  It suggests that we should not rest on or laurels after taking the steps.  We have to give it away to keep it is another admonition around the fellowship.  If a person has truly taken the step, applied them in their

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What It Was Like

  When leading a meeting it is suggested that the leader shares what it was like, what happened and what it’s like now.  What it was like is to characterize our drinking career.  We may share when we started drinking and using and what was going on in our life at the time.  Possibly some

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Experience, Strength and Hope

  When being the solo speaker at a meeting it is suggested that we share our experience, strength and hope with the group.  Our experience is highlights of our drinking and using careers.  We may have gone very far down the scale, and we need to share this so that others may identify with our

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Experience, Strength and Hope

  When being the solo speaker at a meeting it is suggested that we share our experience, strength and hope with the group.  Our experience is highlights of our drinking and using careers.  We may have gone very far down the scale, and we need to share this so that others may identify with our

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What It Was Like

  When leading a meeting it is suggested that the leader shares what it was like, what happened and what it’s like now.  What it was like is to characterize our drinking career.  We may share when we started drinking and using and what was going on in our life at the time.  Possibly some

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Selflessness

  I was recently at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and there was a cluster of people at the end of a table.  By their conversation they proved to be relatively new to the program.  One of them stated that he was so glad that this was a selfish program and that he was really

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Reconstruction

  According to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 63, there is a long period of reconstruction of our lives ahead.  Reminding ourselves that we are to be willing to go to any lengths to keep our sobriety, we set out to right the wrongs we committed while drinking.  There is sure to be

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Outside Help

  Outside help is defined as any assistance or help from a professional outside Alcoholics Anonymous.  This can be a physician, psychiatrist, dietician, psychologist, clergyperson, mental help therapist and many more types of professionals.  The suggestion to seek outside help is voiced in many places in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.  The writers realized

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Expectations

  We alcoholics tend to have the attitude that the world owes us a living.  This could not be farther from the truth.  We come up with unreasonable expectations of people, places and things that end up not materializing.  Just what is an expectation?  Well, an expectation is an ego driven idea that we are

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Honesty

  Honesty is the most essential element of the program of recovery.  It starts with personal honesty and a realization that you are alcoholic.  For those wishing to work the program it starts with identifying in the first 30 days of sobriety that you are a newcomer and an alcoholic.  This is done in meetings. 

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