March-14 topics

From Pancake Marathon: 

• Finding the parts in my life that I have created the room for insanity: taking someone peace of mind/keeping them from there higher power, for that is what we all do when we are angry; for its that angry that really is the disease that we have and somehow hold on to; see it is that anger/disease that we see that we have to keep going, simply it is the fact that we have to have a level of pushing within us, for it is us that has to put the work in; it’s in this work that we see that we have the moment: just this moment, for there is only the now moment (yes we can call that the power moment/the god moment: as all is true); for its always the point of the simple fact that we have to see that we are all at a different level, that they teacher is only going to be seen when the student is ready for the lesson.  

• That Ultimately it comes down to the point of doing the next right thing, yes only where you are and by wearing the Spiritual armor:  the principles; for simply to say it truly is Life On Life's terms, life life happens and as I come to know through this wisdom of putting the work in and showing up, that I am life and that's why it's happening.

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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

1. The moments when i can go nuts, for it still happens this is true, I know that I have to Cultivate an attitude of gratitude as at some point i started to q-tip or really needing too; seeing that I now get to do it with easy: for Easy does it but do it, rebuilding the trust in me( yes it is true that you don’t rebuild you just build, so what I is saying simply is that you have to keep on putting the work in so that you can have a level of what seems to be rebuilding: as it does say that in the big book) keeping in mind that Change is a process, not an event by pushing, doing what is the First Things First so that I can think as Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less, for it is the wisdom that got me here; that all together that this is a It's a simple program for complicated people.

Acronyms 

1. NUTS: Not Using The Steps

2. Q-TIP: Quit Taking It Personally

3. T R U S T = Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions.  

4. PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens 

5. THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind

6. WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

Slogans

1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

2. Easy does it but do it

3. Change is a process, not an event

4. First Things First 

5. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less

6. It's a simple program for complicated people

• Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

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Slogans (underlined) blog page  Acronyms (bold) blog page  step (italic): A.A. files

NA Just For Today:   Relationships 

1. "Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships." Basic Text p. 29 

2. What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our  relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships with lovers, friends, parents, co workers, children, and others with whom we come in contact. A look at these associations can tell us  much about our essential character. 

3. Often our inventories catalog the resentments that arise from our day-to-day interactions with others. We  strive to look at our part in these frictions. Are we placing unrealistic expectations on other people? Do  we impose our standards on others? Are we sometimes downright intolerant?

4. Often just the writing of our inventory will release some of the pressure that a troubled relationship can  produce. But we must also share this inventory with another human being. That way, we get some needed  perspective on our part in the problem and how we can work toward a solution. 

5. The inventory is a tool that allows us to begin healing our relationships. We learn that today, with the help  of an inventory, we can start to enjoy our relationships with others. 

6. Just for today: I will inventory the part I play in my relationships. I will seek to play a richer, more  responsible part in those relationships. 

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Daily Reflections: THE KEYSTONE 

1. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we  passed to freedom. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 

2. A keystone is the wedge-shaped piece at the highest part of an arch that locks the other pieces in place.  The 

3. "other pieces" are Steps One, Two, and Four through Twelve. In one sense this sounds like Step Three is the most important Step, that the other eleven depend  on the third for support. In reality however, Step Three is just one of twelve. It is the keystone, but  without eleven other stones to build the base and the arms, keystone or not, there will be no arch. Through  working of all Twelve Steps, I find that triumphant arch waiting for me to pass through to another day of  freedom. 

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