As an addict I want credit for things normal people do anyway – John G

A funny thing happened on the way to make a 9th Step Amends.

In making amends today, I found a solution. My amends was to a person for which, my inability to censor what I say led to the dampening of someone’s special event. In making the amends, the person shared with me that they too had been plagues with “foot in mouth” disease. She shared with me the solution she used to combat her problem. It is simple, but – as with many things, simple is usually not evident to this addict – sensible. The solution is to never say the first thing that comes into my head. Seems pretty simple; but, my ego and need to always be right, leads to words popping out of my mouth before I realize what I have said. I think this solution will work because if I am always using this strategy, then when I become passionate or excited, it will be more natural to censor myself.

With all this, however, the real miracles are: 1) that I allowed my Higher Power to open my eyes and ears enough to hear the solution from someone I never even expected to hear it from; and 2) that when it was time to make the 2 amends that I intended to make today, God cleared the room and clearly alerted me that the time was now to do it. Today truly was a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

A funny thing happened on the way to make a 9th Step Amends.

In making amends today, I found a solution. My amends was to a person for which, my inability to censor what I say led to the dampening of someone’s special event. In making the amends, the person shared with me that they too had been plagues with “foot in mouth” disease. She shared with me the solution she used to combat her problem. It is simple, but – as with many things, simple is usually not evident to this addict – sensible. The solution is to never say the first thing that comes into my head. Seems pretty simple; but, my ego and need to always be right, leads to words popping out of my mouth before I realize what I have said. I think this solution will work because if I am always using this strategy, then when I become passionate or excited, it will be more natural to censor myself.

With all this, however, the real miracles are: 1) that I allowed my Higher Power to open my eyes and ears enough to hear the solution from someone I never even expected to hear it from; and 2) that when it was time to make the 2 amends that I intended to make today, God cleared the room and clearly alerted me that the time was now to do it. Today truly was a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

A funny thing happened on the way to make a 9th Step Amends.

In making amends today, I found a solution. My amends was to a person for which, my inability to censor what I say led to the dampening of someone’s special event. In making the amends, the person shared with me that they too had been plagues with “foot in mouth” disease. She shared with me the solution she used to combat her problem. It is simple, but – as with many things, simple is usually not evident to this addict – sensible. The solution is to never say the first thing that comes into my head. Seems pretty simple; but, my ego and need to always be right, leads to words popping out of my mouth before I realize what I have said. I think this solution will work because if I am always using this strategy, then when I become passionate or excited, it will be more natural to censor myself.

With all this, however, the real miracles are: 1) that I allowed my Higher Power to open my eyes and ears enough to hear the solution from someone I never even expected to hear it from; and 2) that when it was time to make the 2 amends that I intended to make today, God cleared the room and clearly alerted me that the time was now to do it. Today truly was a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members (12×12, p 182). What a concept4all

Although I had no corner on it, I knew humiliation well. The more I grow in this program, the more humiliation gives way to humility.

First, I used to feel good; then I used to feel normal; then I used not to feel. What really sucks is when it stops working all together

Y.E.T –> You’re Eligible Too

Try to imagine life if you couldn’t make it back to AA and you couldn’t
die.

. . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of
them this qualification. . . . . if it be Thy will. TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03

I ask simply that throughout the day God place in me the best
understanding of His will that I can have for that day, and that I be
given the grace by which I may carry it out. As the day goes on, I can
pause when facing situations that must be met and decisions that must be
made, and renew the simple request: Thy will, not mine, be done. I must
always keep in mind that in every situation I am responsible for the
effort and God is responsible for the outcome. I can Let Go and Let God
by humbly repeating: Thy will, not mine, be done. Patience and
persistence in seeking His will for me will free me from the pain of
selfish expectations.