Focused and Free

"A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls." -- Proverbs 25:28 ESV

This article takes a look at what is HEARD in recovery meetings, compared to the ORIGINAL PROGRAM, of Alcoholics Anonymous.

"Meeting Makers Make It!" (Overheard in a 12-Step Recovery Meeting)

A godless heart leads to spiritual and sometimes even physical death.

"At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail." --Alcoholics Anonymous, top of page 24

"Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

In recovery, we often hear people say that we must forsake our old friends and hangouts in favor of new friends and new playpens. This is suggested so that we are not tempted to fall back into our old ways of thinking and living. This is a New Testament principle as well...

Here are Eight Recovery Principles Based on the Beatitudes

Our disease doesn't need us to drink in order to kill us.

A Healthy Faith is Based in Reality

"Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power. We had to have God's help." (Alcoholics Anonymous, Chapter Five, page 62)

How Ancient Spiritual Teachings are Linked  to the Inspirational Program of Alcoholics Anonymous

There are two types of sobriety; physical and emotional.  Physical sobriety must come first for emotional sobriety to even be possible.