Christine's Anthology · 03. September 2024
From the local recovery magazine, The Point. Here's my contribution for the month of September, 2024.
"What's Your Sign?" Enjoy!
https://aasfmarin.org/whats-your-sign
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Does the noise in my head bother you? Find out this and more in my recent contribution to The Point, the online recovery magazine for the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond!
https://aasfmarin.org/listen-here
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Baseball is an all American sport - All American and in AA. No curve balls here. Just a healthy line up of references in our texts. Sure to please and bring a smile to your faces. Enjoy!
HOPE equals Happy Our Program Exists.
Are you happy our program exists? After hearing the Following, I sure am.
“Now about sex.” This single sentence from page 68 of our Big Book pulls the covers for a world of room to talk all we want about sex. The sex discussion continues on 69, proving “there are no mistakes in God’s world.” “We all have sex problems.” Underlined and highlighted several times over in my book.
Alcohol is a great eraser. Put alcohol on a clothing stain and “Voila!” The stain is erased. Vanished. Gone. In fact, alcohol erases just about everything for us alcoholics. It removes: your job, your driver’s license, your car, your marriage license, your home, your family, your children, your friends, and eventually, your life. Works wonders, eh?
A long-time member of my home group went out on vodka. A person with many years of sobriety, a member with shares right out of the old E.F. Hutton advertisement, “When this person speaks, everybody listens.” Boy! Did we listen. Big Book, Steps, all the literature and all the experience with a tremendous amount of humor and bravado. He could tell a great tale. Then, from out of the blue, he drank. Or was it from out of the blue? Here’s his story. “I’d stopped going to meetings. I...
Sometimes, we need the salt of our tears to bring forth the oncoming sweetness of recovery.
Our book describes the alcoholic personality as being akin to Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde. Two personalities in one body. Boy did I relate. Maybe you do too. Enjoy the read!
Christine's Anthology · 04. September 2023
A stirring presentation using transformational stories and wings of eagles as real-life metaphors for new beginnings. Everything from potting a plant to quoting Isaiah, “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount on eagles’ wings. They shall run and not grow weary. They shall walk and not faint.”