Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

Carrying the message of hope from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Posting passages once daily from the Fourth Edition. The Road of Happy Destiny Joined January 2015

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

13 hours ago

That job would have been lost whether I was drunk or sober, but thank goodness I was sober or I probably would have killed myself. When I was drinking, the prestige of the job was my self worth, the only thing that made me worth loving. #recovery #sobriety #alcoholic #odaat #aa

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3 days ago

After five months of sobriety, I lost that six-figure job with the firm. The wreckage of my past had caught up with me, and I was out of work for a year. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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4 days ago

(2/2) That day I learned two things: the real meaning of Step Three and to always be careful what I prayed for. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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4 days ago

(1/2) Returning home, I begged God on my knees to help me stay sober one more day. I told God to take the house, take the job, take everything if that's what was needed for me to stay sober.

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5 days ago

I was in absolute awe of the power of 2,000-plus sober alcoholics holding hands, saying the final prayer together, and I wanted to stay sober more than I wanted life itself. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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6 days ago

I attended at least one meeting every day emptied ashtrays, washed coffeepots, and on the day I took a thirty-day chip, a friend took me to an A.A. get-together. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

God had restored me to sanity, and I took Step Two the very moment I surrendered and accepted my powerlesness over alcohol and the unmanageability of my life. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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a week ago

I went home that night and for the first time in years I did not have to open the cupboard with the half gallon jug of vodka in it - not that night or any night since. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

(2/2) A physical sensation came over me, like a wave of pure energy, and I felt the presence af God in that dingy little room. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcohol #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

(1/2) I sat in that cold metal chair just as I had for the past five months and read Step One on the wall for the hundredth time, but this time I asked with all my heart for God to help me, and a strange thing happened.

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

I went to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous the next night, knowing I wanted what you had. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

On Super Bowl Sunday, when I enjoyed it, I couldn't control it, and at the hockey game when I controlled it, I couldn't enjoy it. There was no more denying that I was an alcoholic. What an epiphany! #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

(2/2) At that moment I knew what the Big Book meant about the great obsession of every abnormal drinker being to somehow, someday control and enjoy his drinking. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

(1/2) Sitting near the ice, frustrated, and pondering the fact that two tall beers didn't give me any relief, something in my head - and I know it wasn't me - said, "So why bother?"

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

That week I had to go to a hockey game. It was a work event, so I tried to really watch my drinking, consuming only two large cups of beer which, for me, wasn't even enough to catch a buzz. And that was the beginning of my spiritual awakening. #recovery #sobriety #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

When I put alcohol in my body, I'd lose the ability to choose how much I drank, and Super Bowl Sunday that year was no different. I ended up on someone's couch instead of my own bed and was sick to death all the next day at work. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #odaat #aa

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2 weeks ago

To this day I am amazed at people who get sober before the holidays. I couldn't even attempt it until after the Super Bowl. One last blow-out party when I swore I wouldn't get drunk. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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2 weeks ago

For almost twenty-three years I had done something nearly every day of my life to change reality to one degree or another, yet I had to try this sober thing. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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3 weeks ago

I despised all of it, but at least it was familiar. I had no idea what sobriety felt like, and I could not imagine life without alcohol. I had reached that terrifying jumping-off point where I couldn't drink anymore but I just couldn't not drink. #recovery #sobriety #odaat #aa

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3 weeks ago

I'd start thinking about a drink by noon and would leave the office earlier and earlier. Or, promising myself that I wouldn't drink that night, I'd invariably find myself in front of the refrigerator with a drink in my hand, vowing, Tomorrow. I won't drink tomorrow. #sobriety #aa