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libodem

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6. I'm still

Reply to Bertha Venation (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:04 PM

Feb 2013

Practicing so I'm no role model. I've been involved in Al anon any do try and read my daily, One Day at a Time, book for guidance.

Both my folks got sober in AA. My dad was an atheist intellectual. He was a very intelligent man and did NOT like the religious overtones what so ever. Trouble was he had a DWI, while driving a state car. He was going to, out smart the program, and attend meetings just long enough to get his licence back. He found a way around the Higher Power, talk at first. He came to believe in the power of the group. He was sober for his last 30 years.

He left a living legacy to his children and to those he sponsored. Both my folks did.

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think I might be a drunk [View all] Bertha Venation Feb 2013 OP

not AA annabanana Feb 2013 #1

Seriously? Old Codger Feb 2013 #2

I had trouble with that too when I joined AA. The thing is a higher power can be anything. applegrove Feb 2013 #3

Amen Old Codger Feb 2013 #4

.... NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #5

I'm still libodem Feb 2013 #6

I also worked in a treatment center libodem Feb 2013 #7

You know what? I don't remember posting this thread. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #8

.... NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #9

Yeah. Not good. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #10

I entered AA outraged at the higher power stuff cally Feb 2013 #11

What could a higher power be?? Stuart G Mar 2013 #12

12 years sober coming up in August TommyCelt Mar 2013 #13

Sorry, I'd like to follow your rule, but AA and all the anonymous 12 step groups tavalon Jun 2013 #14

exactly libodem Jun 2013 #15