{"id":6892,"date":"2016-11-18T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2016-11-18T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:02:01","slug":"depending-on-aa-for-help-with-our-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/2016\/11\/18\/depending-on-aa-for-help-with-our-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Depending on AA for help with our disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day&#8217;s group meeting of sober alcoholics was amazing. It was about us practicing our devotion to our Higher Power, and doing what we need to do. It&#8217;s about not just working these Steps, but also being faithful to our Higher Power and depending on His help for us, which we desperately need.<\/p>\n<p>One member didn&#8217;t believe alcoholism is a disease, but, like drugs, an habitual problem. But then one alcoholic pointed out what doctors had declared, as a result of long term examinations of alcoholics, that we are born with this disease. I have never forgotten what was proven by in depth examinations and physical tests.<\/p>\n<p>But then almost all members talked about their having to believe and to practice this program in depth. It was a very healthy description for all of us. Made myself and many others very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day&#8217;s group meeting of sober alcoholics was amazing. It was about us practicing our devotion to our Higher Power, and doing what we need to do. It&#8217;s about not just working these Steps, but also being faithful to our Higher Power and depending on His help for us, which we desperately need. One member &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/2016\/11\/18\/depending-on-aa-for-help-with-our-disease\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Depending on AA for help with our disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}