Yesterday at my home group, I had the great fortune to celebrate my 11th A.A. birthday with all those to whom I owe my life, and who just keep loving me no matter what.This year's celebrations were international when I was blessed to receive wishes from members around the world. How grateful am I to be a "small part of a great whole" (12&12 p.130). Amongst the many global members that sent those emails, there was one special gentleman by the name of Bob from PA. His words truly convey the miracle of Alcoholics Anonymous. He said, "I have found the 'Fountain of Youth'. A cup of AA coffee every day that I am able. They told me to keep coming back, and it worked. I've been to over 300 meetings a year for over 31 years. I became 90 yrs young last July, one day at a time." It's member's like Bob that keep the doors of A.A. open for me. Thanks.
If you're interested in sending birthday wishes to A.A. members around the world, you can find anniversary dates at http://www.aahistory.com/newbirth.html.
23 comments:
Awww....Happy Birthday! Congrats, 11 years is awesome. Thanks for all your support and helping keep me sober today.
mAAry AAnne, thanks for the comments. I'm a bit retro kind of person and love enjoy song from that era.
Anyway, happy, happy birthday! 11 years under your belt, I salute you.
Keep on blogging. Love reading your post.
congrats on your 11th!! My 11th was on Jan 28th... how kool is that? I am glad we've "met" here in blog world... it's been fun getting to know you through your blog!
mAAry AAnne... I was posting tonight and when I was done , noticed your comment...First I want to thank you for stopping by my blog. Second I want to thank you for showing me, and other new comers' that it does indeed work ( one day at a time) !
You are a miracle of this program and an inspiration to me to keep going on my journey. Thank you and congratulations on your eleventh AA birthday! HUGS
Awww...mAAry AAnne. Thank you for your thought and concerned.
Maybe you were thinking I'm up there on stage singing with Joe Walsh. LOL. Just kidding.
Thanks again. It's now 12:27AM. So, happy Valentine to you. Here's a cyber rose from me.
hAAppy birthdAAy!!!!!!! That's just wonderful! thank you for all the sharing too!
Happy Big 11. It is so beautiful (like your pic posted here) that you can celebrate this with people that you have grown to love and love you.
Thanx for the link too!
Happy 11th AA birthday, glad you stopped by and I hope you are having a wonderful day!
how cool!! Happy 11th Anniversary Mary Anne!!!
I got lots of nice emails on my anniversary as well after putting myself on a simmilar list. It was really lovely gettin gso many kind wishs from people all over the world. i'm glad you had a good experience with this too!
Happy Anniversary, awesome gratitude in your posts!!
Happy belated Birthday.
Uh, oh, it's march and i don't see any posts.
Salvation is always the ending of the minds fascinated identification with the dead and unchanging image of what it was. It is the complete reversal of the
"natural" order of things a METANOIA - the Greek word for repentance, meaning precisely a turning around of the mind, so that it no longer faces into the past, the land of the shadow of death, but into the Eternal Present.
So long as the mind is captivated by memory, and really feels itself to be that past image which is "I" it can do nothing to save itself; it's sacrifices are of no avail, and it's Law gives no life.
After years of therapy, I had a metamorphosis - I asked Jesus to have mercy on me & forgive me my sins. He delivered me from my inequities. Praise the Lord!!
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Message From Noor
I'm sorry, Michael. I'm in a Cyber Cafe in town right now. I can't get access to my Internet since last Friday's night. I guess my CPU was struck down by lightning. I forgot to take out the telephone line and I pay dearly for my carelessness.
I can't always go to my friends' house just to use their computer and this Cyber Cafe are using, most of them are using dial-up connection and it took ages for anything to get loaded. I didn't get the chance to visit all my Recovery Friends' blog and I hope you will spread the words around about my predicaments whenever you visit them.
I'm reaching out for your help to tell them all. You can use My Sacred Links to visit and leave a message on their blogs.
I don't know when I shall be online again. Still waiting for their technician to repair my PC. I was told it may take at least two weeks before I shall be online again.
Oo boy, how can you live without your beloved PC for two long weeks?
Please Michael, I'm counting on you. See you in two weeks time. Bye for now...
A recent copy of Reader's Digest has a couple of articles on Alcoholics Anonymous. The crux of the articles is that the famous 12 Steps, don't work at all. Apparently, there's no data to support the claim that Alcoholics Anonymous is successful at getting people to stop drinking. From my own experience, the 12 Steps, shut down the critical thinking section of ones brain. What do you think? Comments are welcome!!
PEACE BE WITH YOU
MICKY
Hi mAAry AAnne. If you can read this, please come over to my blog. I got something for you there. I hope you like it.
Greeting and lotta loves from Malaysia.
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Still not in, are you mAAry AAnne?
Anyway, Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.
Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia.
Hey there! I'm Sam, one of the many who Micky graced in his list. Please pardon my putting the same comment on your site that I've put on so many others.
I've copied his list (with some omission of content!) and posted in on my site, www.raanch.com. You might want to take a look, for there are 82 blogs listed there. You're bound to find a new friend to follow. Also, I'm offering to everyone the code to put the same list in a post on their site. Lastly, there's a non-link to Micky's site, where folks can post a thank you to him for his service. After all, he really helped us out by compiling this list!
Take good care!
Sam
Hola mAAry AAnne,
A blessed Christmas to you and your loved ones.
Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.
~ ArahMan7
THE SEED
Our Choices
If you had a choice, right now, to choose to be with Christ Jesus in heaven would you choose to do so? Being human and having the power of choice, can we choose to ask God to grant us a wish? You see, there are three realms, earth, heaven, and hell. We live on the earth in the now, and we believe, as Christians, that at some point Christ will return to the earth and judge us in the final days. Between now and judgement day, death will end our stay on earth and God will judge our fate when that happens.
Christ said: "And all things whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive." What if, we asked God to stop this game that is being played out on earth, and grant us the one wish of living with him in heaven right now. What if, we choose to not allow Satan any more control over our lives and our future and made the decision to ask God to end this game. What if we, as human beings, with the power of choice, made a conscious decision to choose Christ Jesus, right now, over the day to day challenges and temptations that Satan offers.
Say, if in 2015, we were able to gather 9 billion, or 8 billion or 5 billion people, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Protestants, Jahovah Witnessers, Lutherians, Episcapalians, Muslims, Buddists, Hindu's, and every other worshiper, together to pray to God, asking him to bring us home. If we ask Jesus Christ to come, would he be with us??? If we asked him to bring us home to his kingdom in heaven, would we receive??? Do you want to stop playing this earthly game??? Our home is in heaven and not here on earth. Is that a challenge?? Can you see the vision???
Christ has said: "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." We can ask billions of people to take one moment in time to act as one, crying out to God, our heavenly Father, "Take us home." OH GOD, take us from the land of the Pharaohs!!! Take us from the hands of evil, bring us home to your kingdom!!! Can we ask strong enough?? Can we ask hard enough?? Can we ask loud enough??? Do you believe???
Christ said: "And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full." Do we want to be filled with eternal joy?? Why have we not asked???
Can you imagine how we can make this happen?? Can you understand the power that God has given us in order that we may choose our own destiny, right now. We don't have to wait until tomorrow, while Satan tricks and traps millions more souls into the fires of hell!!! The decision is ours. Can we choose?? Can we make this happen?? Can we start a holy movement around the world and set the date of our going home??? Or are our hearts hardened so much by this earthly realm that we can not conceive of the idea that God will grant our request???
Christ said: " I say to you further, that if two of you shall agree on earth about anything at all for which they ask, it shall be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I in the midst of them." Christ come into the mist of millions, of billions and grant our wish!!!
Take the poll!
Leave a comment and express your belief!!!
Make it happen!!!
This is your seed, plant it and watch it grow!!
Pass this message on to your friends and family!!
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love!
Give a contribution! Donate to this cause!
That's awesome-your committment to your sobriety and being 90 years young. I'm 30 and 77 days of sobriety. follow me or check out my blog...www.countingdays.org!Please contribute a few words of wisdom on the page on Spiritual Experiences. I’d love to hear your experience with a higher power! Thanks!
Elizabeth
www.countingdays.org
Awesome post .i hope everybody will like your post
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