Where in the steps does it say to gossip gossip gossip about all your crap. Better work some steps here and take a look at that stuff. I can't believe how much poison is spread by gossip alone. This is what causes a lot of friction for the hall and for suffering alcoholics.
Get out some pens and start writing it down if you want to be rid of it and quit spreading your blah blah blah around everywhere you go.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Cigarette Butts Anyone?
Has anyone cared enough outside of themselves to take a look at the back parking lot? There's an entire sea of cigarette butts out there. If anyone is stuggling to stay sober, or so caught up in some drama that they cannot focus enough to NOT FLICK THEIR CIGARETTE BUTTS out in the back parking lot.
Not only so we need someone to pick them up, or a team of people for that matter, how about NOT flicking them out there anymore.
Have some respect for our hall, the ski shop next store, and the grocery store, not to mention... YOURSELF!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sponsorship Anyone?
If anyone is available and willing to be sponsors, please post yourself into a comment with this posting.
Rumors in the Air
Where does it say in the 'Big Book' of AA that we're supposed to get all wound up in the drama going on between members?
Who is sponsoring this mess?
Is this the way Bill Wilson and Bob Smith were doing things?
I don't think so...
Who is sponsoring this mess?
Is this the way Bill Wilson and Bob Smith were doing things?
I don't think so...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sunny Days
Hey, what better way to spend sober time than to visit Fremont Fellowship AA Hall and bask in the sun between meetings. You can grab an espresso at the nearby coffee shop, chat with friends, play guitars in the sun, get a sun tan, watch the traffic roll by, eat some great Chinese food and pick up a pack of cigarettes.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Check out a nooner!
Got a lunch break in North Seattle near 90th & Aurora Avenue North? Fremont Hall has meetings every day at 12 noon. Bring your lunch, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a meeting. Even if you only get in a few minutes of a meeting, it's a good way to keep on the road of recovery during a busy work week. Go back to work after lunch feeling more SERENE!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sober on a Sunday
It's such a great feeling to wake up sober on a Sunday. I see people out early in the morning who have obviously, been up all night drinking and using all that jazz, which is something I did for years too. I'm very grateful that I'm sober today and hope that all afflicted find hope in recovery.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The 12 Steps of AA
The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
1.) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.) Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7.) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8.) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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.
12.) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
1.) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.) Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7.) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8.) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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.
12.) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
In My Opinion...
The best meeting at Fremont Fellowship Hall is the "For This Day" Meeting on Saturdays at Noon.
They are big book focused, have a lot of old-timers in attendance who have worked this thing, and it is usually packed!
That's it for this posting!
They are big book focused, have a lot of old-timers in attendance who have worked this thing, and it is usually packed!
That's it for this posting!
Friday, September 5, 2008
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