Category: The Recovered Word

Working with Other Addicts

Randolph Jason

Working with Other Addicts from Big Book Sponsorship Step Twelve states: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics (addicts), and to practice these principles in all our affairs.(p. 60, A.A. 4th Edition) This means that the addict who has taken the Twelve Steps and who has had a spiritual awakening or spiritual experience or an entire psychic change and is recovered from their addiction is qualified to work with others. What does a recovered addict look like? Then…

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All Sorts Of Absurd Actions And Ideas…Step 11

Randolph Jason

All Sorts Of Absurd Actions And Ideas…Step 11 by Jason Randolph for Gospel News Network 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous When we finally make progress in getting our life back on track we find that we haven’t done anything except get out of God’s way so that He could restore our lives. We had to do a little clean…

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THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN REMOVED… STEP 10

Randolph Jason

THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN REMOVED… STEP 10 by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network As we get deeper and deeper in to the Steps our footing should become evermore solid with each passing day. This, of course, rest upon the idea that the person working the Steps has been following along, doing as their sponsor is guiding them and they are in fact doing the work that is necessary to change their life. This is a simple program, but parts are just not easy. Looking, honestly, at ourselves is serious…

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The Price of Just Don’t Drink and Go To Meetings! OR Why Meeting Makers Don’t Make It

Randolph Jason

The Price of Just Don’t Drink and Go To Meetings! OR Why Meeting Makers Don’t Make It by Cliff B. TX for Big Book Sponsorship When Bill W. prepared the Forward to the Second Edition, he shared with us the success that he and the other recovered alcoholics had witnessed as the result of having the book “Alcoholics Anonymous” as the only guide for recovery within the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. What he wrote was, “Of alcoholics who came to AA and really tried, 50% got sober at once and…

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What happend? Meetings have gone from “rarely have we seen a person fail” to “seldom do we see a person recover!”

Randolph Jason

What happend? Meetings have gone from “rarely have we seen a person fail” to “seldom do we see a person recover!” by Cliff B. Dallas, TX for Big Book Sponsorship Thirty and forty years ago, we were keeping 75% or more of the alcoholics who came to us for help. Today, we aren’t keeping even 5%. What happened? 07/22/2004 – What happened? That question is being asked by a lot of alcoholics lately. What happened to our high success rate? Thirty and forty years ago, we were keeping 75% or…

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Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love

Randolph Jason

Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love by Dick B via Silkworth.net What are these “Four Absolutes?” You have to be around A.A. for quite a while before you hear much about the “Four Absolutes.” Exceptions to that statement are those who read our Conference Approved history DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, or Dr. Bob’s last major speech, or are in the chain of sponsees beginning with Clarence Snyder, or come from the Akron area, or who have dipped their feet into A.A.’s Oxford Group origins, the role of Rev. Sam Shoemaker,…

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