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Me an Alcoholic? p382-387

Hello everyone,
Hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl as much as I did, sorry Carolina Fans!! Watching Peyton Manning take the field (probably for the last time, if he's smart) was awesome! True his performance wasn't the most stunning but you look at the way his leadership skills helped the team stay focused and avoid all the Super Bowl media-hype bullshit (which the panthers clearly couldn't) and it's clear why he was at the super bowl for the 4th time of his career.
Anyways, what's really nice is waking up the Monday after and being able to get to work on time and remember the whole game!! This week we're reading Me an Alcoholic? p382-387 out of the big book. I like this story a lot because I was one who had a head FULL of prejudice and old-ideas when I came in.

I thought to myself "I've got 2 college degrees, I can't be an alcoholic!!" but the old-timers would lovingly point out that "Thermometers have degrees, know where they stick those?" Jajaja I think once you come to terms with the fact that alcoholism is a disease, as real as diabetes, cancer or the flu, you realize that absolutely no one is immune to it. Pointing to your employment position, social status, financial wealth or even college degrees is nothing more than wishful thinking.

Acceptance was the key. Clearing away those old ideas and the prejudice we had against the very word "alcoholic" and the notion of "accepting spiritual help" gives way to freedom.  

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is
contempt prior to investigation.”
Herbert Spencer
Happy 24hrs,
David t.


2016 Meeting Dates

-->Reading: Being Sober and Becoming Happy
01/28/15 Speaker Meeting <Steve W.>
02/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Gerard P>
03/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Mark D.>
--> Reading: A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck C. 
04/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Russ W.>
05/27/15 Speaker Meeting <Omar P.>
06/24/15 Speaker Meeting <Ricardo A.>
--> Reading: Personal Stories back of Big Book of AA <--
07/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Adam S.>
08/26/15 Speaker Meeting <Kevin M.>
09/30/15 Speaker Meeting <Fred D.>
10/28/15 Speaker Meeting <Owen A.>
11/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Roy M.>
12/30/15 Speaker Meeting <Joe B.>
1/27/16 Speaker Meeting <Todd P.>

2/03/16 Winner Takes All p375-381
2/10/16 Me an Alcoholic? p382-387
2/17/16 The Perpetual Quest p388-397
2/24/16 Speaker Meeting

03/02/16 A Drunk, like You p398-406
03/09/16 Acceptance was the Answer p407-420
03/16/16 Window of Opportunity p421-436
03/23/16 My Bottle, My Resentments, and Me p437-445
03/30/16 Speaker Meeting
04/06/16 He Lived Only to Drink p446-451
04/13/16 Safe Haven p452-457
04/20/16 Listening to the Wind p458-469
04/27/16 Speaker Meeting
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