Daily Inventory
When we retire at night, we constructively review our day.
Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid?
Personality Characteristics of Self Will – Personality Characteristics of God's Will
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Review of My Own Sex Conduct
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Joe &Charlie Workshop – Handout – Work Sheets – Page 4 Review of Resentments COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 COLUMN 3 COLUMN 4 COLUMN 5 I Am Resentful At: I list people, institutions or principles with whom I am angry. USE YOUR OWN PAPER TO RESPOND The Cause: I ask myself why
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STEP 4 Inventory Comparison Business Personal FACT-FINDING FACT-FACING TRUTH STOCK-IN-TRADE < — > < — > < — > < — > SEARCHING FEARLESS MORAL OURSELVES OBJECT: DISCLOSE DAMAGED OR UNSALABLE GOODS < — > FIND FLAWED THINKING PROCESS GET RID OF THEM PROMPTLY WITHOUT REGRET < — > GET RID
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Joe & Charlie Workshop – Handout – Work Sheets – Page 1 WHAT IS THE SOLUTION ? Fellowship supports us. Spiritual experience or spiritual awakening changes us. OLD MEMBER…supports through experience-> OLD MEMBER…supports through strength- – > OLD MEMBER….supports through hope- – – – > A Fellowship of those who suffer the same
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The following are quotes from the book Alcohlics Anonymous (also known as The Big Book).
“Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.” Big Book, page 164
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I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s when parents still told their kids to go outside and play. My friends and I would spend all day in the yard and when we got hot and sweaty enough we’d run to the back patio, open the water spigot on the side of the house and get down on our hands and knees so we could get low enough to turn our mouths up for a drink of water that splashed all over our faces and down our necks. In the evenings I remember seeing my parents shaking their heads as they watched the oil crises in the 1970’s unfold on the nightly news. Gas prices skyrocketed to 73 cents a gallon! “Turn it off,” my mother would say to my dad. “Good grief! The wheel’s are coming off but they make it sound like the world’s ending.”
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Ask Angie: I am finding it hard to trust my husband again. We’ve been married for 31 years. this Valentine’s day and in year 28 I found out he was heavily into drugs, which he now claims to be free of, but I still have a hard time believing him because of the extent he wants to hide his use. All the lies, deceit, and now the unwillingness to discuss it with me, leaves me with many unanswered questions.
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Utter confusion, misery and pain,
Humiliation, remorseful, ashamed.
Dreading to face the light of each day,
Not wanting to hear what people would say.
Like, “Where is your power? Where is your pride?”
They don’t understand that deep down inside
I wish I knew the answers to give,
Or how to find the courage to live.
I know that you can jump the hurdle of addiction and live a content filled peaceful life because I did, and I am. In my marriage and life I went through a lot of terrible emotions and marital issues during my bout with alcohol addiction. I have been sober for fourteen-years now, and I have never craved a drink, nor have I ever wanted to have a drink, socially or otherwise.
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