http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/ AA Beginners Club - We can tell you precisely how we have recovered. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:57:09 GMT Ann in Raleigh http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145962 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145962 Hey Jocelyn   What we all have in common is so staggering!! People don't get it. My sister down the street says ,when I say I'm not drinking, "Oh here we go Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:53:25 GMT Ann in Raleigh http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145961 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145961 Good morning! Michele-can I email you to chat about all we have in common? Maybe it would help us both! I am on day 8-feeling shaky-nightmares last night. But Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:44:44 GMT Jocelyn http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145960 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145960 Jim, " To thine own self be true " is one of the mottos of AA.  It is on the sobriety chips that we receive for increments of sober time.  You have to do Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:22 GMT friendswoodgolfer http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145959 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145959 I've only been awake for a couple of hours now, and I already feel like having beer. I need to go to work this morning and find out if I still have a job, and Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:35:05 GMT ecuttell http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145958 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145958 hi erik here. i am going on my 1st day again i have a meeting at 9:00 a.m. at the hospital. my sponsow will be there. i know now i am poweless over alchol. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:13:25 GMT Sammy http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145957 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145957 dont forget to thank God while you are there for holding you up the last few days!!!!! gratitude that is honest and truly felt will make ALL the difference in Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:10:36 GMT c.berrier@... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145956 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145956 I went to a meeting day before yesterday and I've been sober 3 days now. Going to a treatment center with my sponser today to hear his testemony. Thanks- Sent Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:34:31 GMT c.berrier@... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145955 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145955 I'm on day 3 also. It was tough last night. But I feel good this morning. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ... From: Claire Buck Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:31:57 GMT Claire Buck http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145954 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145954 Good Morning Everyone, I want to thank everyone for the encouragement I have received! It's so easy to communicate with you all, we have so much in common, I Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:26:59 GMT bisquequeen@... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145953 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145953 welcome to all the newcommers!.. i read alot of the newcommers posts who tlked alot about going to parties barbeques etc..but no talk about aa meetings..when Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:04:37 GMT Bill Triebe http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145952 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145952 Jim, My friend rick said real good things, and he included a quote from the Big Book on page 30. I'm enclosing a lengthier section, that I would suggest you Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:17:52 GMT robert http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145951 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145951 Letting Go When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:41:13 GMT rick http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145950 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145950 Jim... let me first send you the quote i sent you a few days ago from the Book Alcoholics Anonymous... Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:38:37 GMT Alice Hawrilenko http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145949 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145949 Jim, your wife will come around once she unerstands mor about the disease of alcoholism. You might suggest she attend an alanon meeting just to find out more Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:29:39 GMT Alice Hawrilenko http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145948 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aabeginnersclub/message/145948 From page 63 of the Big Book 4th edition "God, I offer myself to Thee-to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that