Today's AA online meeting was the "Twelfth Step. After implementing these steps and gaining spiritual awakening, I tried to convey this information to other alcoholics and implementing these principles in all daily affairs" meeting. Anan was hosted by the meeting. After the study, everyone began to take turns to share. The first speech was Adong: "Hello everyone! I am Adong, the drunkard, and the content I learned today is the twelfth step. A few days ago, I also learned this step when I collaborated with other members to do the steps, but I still felt like "daily familiar" because AA is philosophy, and its meaning is very profound. I, an ordinary person, need to spend a long time studying it carefully like an ant gnaws on bones, otherwise I will not gain anything.
"Actors of Alcoholists"
Here mentions two very important concepts: "two-part" and "pink cloud". This is a trap and disaster that we alcoholics can easily fall into. But how to prevent the troubles of "two-part" and "pink cloud"? The book gives us the answer, and also gives We asked a new question: ‘What should I do with ? Do our AAA alcoholics have or can gain all kinds of spiritual strength to accept these disasters that have happened to many people ?’
I was originally addicted to alcohol , and I never faced the problems in my life. After learning the twelve steps, can I, with the help of the "God" we each understand, behave correctly like those of my non-alcoholic friends, , handle these problems properly and bravely?
Do I have the ability to turn the original pain, mistakes, and unbearable past into assets, into motivation for my own growth, into comfort, tolerance, and friendship for myself and others around me?
With the help of "God", I can definitely turn the "two-step" into "twelve-steps", turn the "pink cloud" into a clear sky, and use the "God's"'s kindness, blessing and strength to create a better life.
My ordinary troubles every day It is the same as non-alcoholics. Normal people will also have personality defects such as greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt. They will also have emotional, money, interpersonal relationships and other troubles. The only difference between us alcoholics and them - we will use alcohol to solve the above problems, they will not.
Based on the above reasons, we should make sincere efforts to "implement these principles in all daily affairs."
Generally speaking, for a member of the mutual admonition with sound quality, we must have the ability to bravely with the help of "God" Take on the troubles in life and turn them into evidence of the existence of higher power.
Many of the mutual admonition members I have seen have endured the incurable disease for years without complaints and often optimistically. These people are role models for me to learn from. They show the magical power of AA and "God".
Some members rely on the power of AA to actively solve economic difficulties and eliminate their fear of the economy. A member I know. He is a single father who has no housing, no job, and has to raise him for years. Mai's old father. He relied on his tenacious perseverance, while doing his best to make a recovery plan, worked hard, went out early and went home to set up a street stall every day to do small business, and trained his child to a student of 985 universities, allowing his mother to live in a new house. He went from an alcoholic who was criticized by everyone to a model of filial elderly man, and was respected by people.
I know an AA member because of the harm, misunderstanding, and conflicts he had given to his wife during his alcoholism, and his lack of moral integrity, which led to the collapse of his family. After he joined the AA Association, According to AA's lifestyle, I strictly demanded myself, and compensated my wife, children and her wife's family to do their best to make his family reunited. There are many examples like this in AA.
When I first stopped drinking, I had a lot of troubles, especially the friction with family members, which made me upset. As mentioned in today's study materials: ' But at the same time, like others, we often find bigger challenges in smaller but longer-lasting problems in life .’
Old member told me that we should solve these challenges through further spiritual expansion.
They say that only through perseverance of spiritual life can we encounter opportunities to enjoy a truly happy and beautiful life.
As I grew up spiritually, I discovered that my old attitude towards instinctive needs needed profound revolutionary changes.
I, an alcoholic, have to control and adjust my desire for emotional protection, money and wealth, power, status, fame, and control my family members. I should cultivate my living habits of being content and less desire. I should regard material needs as a tool for survival, and put spiritual growth first in everything.
I finally realize now that instinctive satisfaction cannot be the only purpose and goal of my life. I can't put instinctive needs first, otherwise I'll put the cart before the horse.
Only by putting spiritual growth first can I have hope of a better life.
Thanks AA! Thanks to "God"! Thank you for listening! I've finished sharing! ”
