Alcoholics Anonymous | Feb 20 2014 | DonInLondon | Step 2 "Sanity"

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Full Daily Blog Link 2014: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/alcoholics-anonymous-feb-20-2004-2014.html Alcoholics Anonymous | February 20 2013 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 2 "Sanity" | "common ground, common sense and gumption!" Step two, "came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." At the beginning of each meeting, especially newcomers meetings, we are encouraged to listen to the similarities and not the differences when people share their experience, strength and hope..." In early days, sometimes all we can hear are the differences being shared, so we can find our get out, a way out of fellowship, so we can return to the insanity... From the first meeting to the second meeting of fellowship, when I really did not understand what was going on, there was a five-year gap. In my first meeting of AA, I had been pushed through the doors by an anxious family member who told me to go in and sort myself out. The irony? Being pushed through the doors into a meeting of AA, and all these smiling people, some I knew as neighbours, health club friends and arts club members. And of course, a scattering of famous individuals living in my area. All I could see on my first visit were the differences, and the one similarity eluded me completely. That I was in a meeting of alcoholics, and strange as it may seem, I too was an alcoholic, the difference for me was simple. Looking back I was in denial and even though I was an alcoholic, and I admitted and accepted I was an alcoholic when I was there, as soon as I left the meeting, I rejected the notion of being an alcoholic and proceeded to the pub at the end of the road. Another five years of agony to follow... [continues on the blog: http://oddbook.co] Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps AA, Addiction And Recovery, DonInLondon, Don Oddy, AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=359 February 2013 | Big Book Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF5F3EC98C6012A4 February 2013 | Twelve Step Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3BFA6062268A289D February 2013 | Step Two Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkS55ZKHZ40 February 2013 | Video Reading How It Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rj3wPVvk3Q February 2013 | Video Reading A Vision For You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8B5pqwGXgU February 2013 | Video Daily Playlist Step Two: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4974F3D2A26DF187 DonInLondon [ Full daily blog: http://oddbook.co ]