Posts Tagged ‘fear’
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
If I sat in a group of women in sobriety and point blank said, “I smoked crack, I sold my body for it, and now I’m living with the consequences,” they’d all probably relate. THAT right there, is the beauty of alcoholics anonymous as well as narcotics anonymous.
Forgiveness pt. II
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Jeremiah 18
At the Potter’s House
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD : 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he [...]
God, Take Me As I Am
Tags: AA, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, brokenness, clay, discontentment, fear, free, God, happy, hurt, jeremiah 18, jeremiah 29:11, joyous, judgment, pain, past, potter, pottery, promises, raising botom, rock bottom, self-pity, stone
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
– Page 64 of Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book
I’ve tried to run AA/NA meetings on this topic, but it seems as if everytime I try, everyone else takes it as a chance to explain their quirks and pet peeves. That’s not what I want to talk about when I [...]
Tolerance
Tags: AA, accept, acceptance, actor, actress, alcoholics, alcoholics anonymous, alocholic, big book, breathing, code, controlling thoughts, ego, egotystical, Experience, fathers, fear, feelings, God, journal, let go and let god, patience, pity, rehab, self-centered, selfish, selfishness, thoughts, time out, tolerance
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
I wrote a poem while I was still in a maximum security holding center about a week ago. This is the first poem I’ve written in about eight months, as well as my first positive poem.
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I’ve hurt so bad in life.
All I knew before was the knife.
I now know better ways to cope,
When before [...]
Blessings and Healing
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