AA doesn't say we can't have personalities, it just says we put principles before them. ~Liz J.
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Today I am grateful...
- for the beautiful snow falling on TV and that we are not experiencing it locally
- that I can behave in grocery stores
- that I got to have lunch yesterday with someone who will soon be moving back to California. I got to know him a little better.
- that there are plenty of highly smart and really funny alcoholics in the world
- that I can be sure, in a world that is constantly changing, that a program of recovery keeps me on the straight (no pun intended) and narrow
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription. It reads: "This is the way to a faith that works." In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions did not require action; they required only acceptance. ~12 & 12
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"Swing the door open", that is a great way to put it.
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I kind of enjoy watching people who can't behave in grocery stores. Well, unless they are mean spirited then I feel all uncomfortable and awkward.
I once dressed up in a white sheet and acted like a retarded person in a grocery store. I was coached by my older cousin. I think that we were around 6 or 7 years old.
"Today I am grateful...for the beautiful snow falling on TV..."
Did you shovel that snow off your TV yet?
ok, I gotta know why you said you were grateful for this, -that I can behave in grocery stores - lol tell us what happened!
Shannon, because yesterday I heard someone with lots of years of sobriety say they can't shop for groceries because they can't behave themselves.
I was once married to a man who was sober in AA and could not be depended upon to behave anywhere. He would sporadically throw fits in the grocery store, the department store, the post office, restaurants, even AA meetings. It was an exercise in detachment to go out with him and not simply die of humiliation.
i prefer to be on the gay and narrow myself
i love the third step, it's a great plan.
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