rosie readandpost
06-29-2003, 09:29 AM
bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
...................... harry emerson fosdick
"Robert McGregor" <robert_mcgregor@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:bdmn55$tq65d$1@ID-49289.news.dfncis.de...
>
> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:NUALa.153404$Xl.2402843@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> > June 29, 2003
> >
> > Daily Reflections
> >
> >
> > A RIPPLING EFFECT
> >
> > Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everyone else how. .
> .Yes,
> > we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since
> most
> > alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . .So why shouldn't we share
> our way
> > of life with everyone?
> > TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156
> >
> > The great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to spread
> the
> > "good news" to the world around me. The grandiose thoughts of my
> > drinking days returned. Later, I learned that concentrating on my
> own
> > recovery was a full-time process. As I became a sober citizen in
> > this world, I observed a rippling effect which, without any
> > conscious effort on my part, reached any "related facility or
> outside
> > enterprise," without diverting me from my primary purpose of
> staying
> > sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
> http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_20.htm
> Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert
> opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind
> and body.
> >
> From: "rosie@readandpost" <readandpost@yahoo.com>
> Message-ID: <l%Rl5.19132$E05.337271@nntp0.chicago.il.ameritech. net>
>
> actually, i would have to say that i have had GOOD long term experience with
> the treatment of my depression over the past 13yrs.
> i have however had to take several different meds as each once finally
> "wears
> out" and i need to change.
>
> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:A98Ka.109221$Xl.2092045@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> >
> > i will never be recovered..............................
> http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_58.htm
> Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give
> themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are
> constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
>
>
>
...................... harry emerson fosdick
"Robert McGregor" <robert_mcgregor@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:bdmn55$tq65d$1@ID-49289.news.dfncis.de...
>
> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:NUALa.153404$Xl.2402843@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> > June 29, 2003
> >
> > Daily Reflections
> >
> >
> > A RIPPLING EFFECT
> >
> > Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everyone else how. .
> .Yes,
> > we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since
> most
> > alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . .So why shouldn't we share
> our way
> > of life with everyone?
> > TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156
> >
> > The great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to spread
> the
> > "good news" to the world around me. The grandiose thoughts of my
> > drinking days returned. Later, I learned that concentrating on my
> own
> > recovery was a full-time process. As I became a sober citizen in
> > this world, I observed a rippling effect which, without any
> > conscious effort on my part, reached any "related facility or
> outside
> > enterprise," without diverting me from my primary purpose of
> staying
> > sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
> http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_20.htm
> Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert
> opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind
> and body.
> >
> From: "rosie@readandpost" <readandpost@yahoo.com>
> Message-ID: <l%Rl5.19132$E05.337271@nntp0.chicago.il.ameritech. net>
>
> actually, i would have to say that i have had GOOD long term experience with
> the treatment of my depression over the past 13yrs.
> i have however had to take several different meds as each once finally
> "wears
> out" and i need to change.
>
> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:A98Ka.109221$Xl.2092045@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> >
> > i will never be recovered..............................
> http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_58.htm
> Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give
> themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are
> constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
>
>
>