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Happiness is Simple
Happiness is not complicated. Happiness is a lot like our Program. Our Program is straightforward. Happiness is simple; we can ...
A Foolish King
“Even a foolish King can win a battle with good advisors.” (Paul at a meeting in Gulf Shores, Alabama.) Good ...
Stay on the Program Bus
“Stay on the bus, the scenery will change. Get off, and you are there forever.” --Heard at a recent meeting ...
Navel Gazing
This post is for the word freaks in the crowd. Words are really neat. And some words are just fascinating ...
Breaking into the Bank
I came to AA and found two dimensions: The Program and the Fellowship. At first, I paid more attention to ...
The heart is a divine antenna
At a meeting last week someone shared that “the heart is a divine antenna.” An antenna picks up invisible radio ...
You can’t make a sandwich without the bread
Making a peanut butter sandwich is the end result of a causal chain. It requires a series of events and ...
Look where you want to go
I am not interested in sky diving. But a fellow I know in the Program is; and he taught me ...
Living in Fear
When I am running on self-will, I am entirely reliant on myself with no external power to help me. When ...
Practical Zen
A share at a meeting: “It is amazing how long the day is when you are there for the whole ...
Tale of Two Quotes
“God will never give us more than we can handle.” I have learned that this is not true. The world ...
How I see is what I see
I wear glasses to improve my vision. My glasses alter what I see. My glasses don’t change the outside world, ...
Finding where you went wrong
Imagine a ski hill; I am standing with you, my student. “Turn where I turn,” I instruct, then I take ...
Our Understooding of God
In the Steps, when we refer to how we think about God, the past tense is used. We talk about ...
Causes and conditions
With Step 4 we “get down to causes and conditions.” At a recent meeting, this topic came up and we ...
Ethyl was a Great Old Girl
I heard this at a meeting recently: “Ethyl, my old friend. Ethyl Alcohol was a great old girl. She made ...
