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i too encourage you to go to AA. there you will find many answers to your staying sober there. it can be a guide for you working the steps.
step 6. if you have done step 3 thorougly and have turned your will over to a god of your understanding, then step 6 is handing it over. in step 4 you will find your defects of character. those charecteristics led us back to the drink. if your way worked you could have gotten sober alone. the oversight is trusting that something/someone other than yourself has produced the miracle. there's no way, imo, that doing it on our own works. so look at the reason why/how you got sober.
defects of character-this part of the step is doing the footwork to change. and prayer to ask for the willingness to change helps us accomplish this step.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
Last edited by madisgram; Sep 09, 2011 at 09:10 AM.
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