Audio Speaker Files Page 2
Our speakers share their own experience about the miracle, the freedom from the grip, the bondage, of unhealthy eating behaviors.
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Stef (Minnesota) 9/12/08
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Recorded Speakers Not from the Monday Night Phone Mtg.
These ABA members, whose recordings are placed here, were unable to attend the Monday Phone Mtg. They are doing still great service by agreeing to share their recovery stories recorded at another time. These ABA members are walking in the solution, working their programs, doing service and sharing the message of hope to those who still suffer.
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EXCERPTS ON SERVICES
~ABA Basic Text pg 164 “Tool 8: Service Work”
“We have come to believe this to be our most powerful tool, one that will suffice to keep us sober when everything else fails, so we encourage all our members to employ it freely…”
DOCTOR BOB’S NIGHTMARE pg 180
“Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I bad ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience. In other words, be talked my language. He knew all the answers, and certainly not because he had picked them up in his reading.
It is a most wonderful blessing to be relieved of the terrible curse with which I was afflicted. My health is good and I have regained my self-respect and the respect of my colleagues. My home life is ideal and my business is as good as can be expected in these uncertain times.
I spend a great deal of time passing on what I learned to others who want and need it badly. I do it for four reasons:
DOCTOR BOB’S NIGHTMARE pg 181
1. Sense of duty.
2. It is a pleasure.
3. Because in so doing I am paying my debt to the
man who took time to pass it on to me.
4. Because every time I do it I take out a little more
insurance for myself against a possible slip.
Unlike most of our crowd, I did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence. It was almost always with me. But at no time have I been anywhere near yielding. I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it so frightfully that it was withdrawn. So it doesn’t behoove me to squawk about it, for after all, nobody ever used to throw me down and pour any liquor down my throat.
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. If you still think you are strong enough to beat the game alone, that is your affair. But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when getting another drink.
Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!”
