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                From the book of Alcoholics Anonymous: 

   
"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God.  Admit your faults to Him and your fellows.  Clear away the wreckage of your past.  Give freely of what you find and join us.   We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.  May God bless you and keep you - until then."
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Hello.  Let me introduce myself.  My name is Bill L. I’m an alcoholic.  Millions of people a day have introduced themselves this way in thousands of A. A. meetings all over the world.  For the better part of the last two decades I have ministered to and sponsored people who have fallen into the abyss of alcoholism as I did.  Together we are on a daily journey into recovery.

  
I put the plug in the jug on May 20, 1984.  I did not want to stop drinking, but I wanted to live a life without suffering and fear even more.  I had to make a choice.  Live or die.  It is so simple isn’t it?  All the life choices are so cut and dried.  Making the choice is the hard part.

    
When I first sought help for my drinking, I didn't know what to expect.  I was afraid.

   
Those first few people to reach out to me told me that the only thing that I had to do right was not drink.  Everything else was to the best of my ability.

    
They told me that I needed to let go of my old ways, old haunts, and old drinkin' buddies.

   
They suggested that I  to be willing to do whatever it took to become and stay sober. 

    
They suggested that I  make amends to those I caused harm.

    
They suggested that I come to believe in something greater than myself - a Higher Power then turn my will and life over to it.   Spirituality.

   
In the beginning, when I stopped drinking, I had a great deal of trouble with spirituality.   It took some time to work things out and develop a spiritual relationship with a higher power I now call God  Once I found it, I decided to pass along what my mentors and sponsors shared with me.  This set me upon a journey into recovery.

    
This site chronicles with that journey.

   
Alcoholics Anonymous is not a religion or cult as some would have everyone think.  It is the spiritual emphasis of the principles that throws people off.  We as sober alcoholics need to believe in something greater than ourselves.  As long as our egos have the run of our lives we cannot be taught how to live in a healthy and fruitful way. 

    
I dedicate this web site to the alcoholics who still suffer...wet or dry.  I humbly remember those who didn't make it back.   But for the Grace of God...

   
If you are  suffering , I hope that you may find something here to give you hope. 

   
Pain is part of life and at times there is no escaping it.  To the extent that we allow it to control our lives is a choice.

   
To you I say this: Everything that happened to me when I was drunk has happened to me sober and then some.  Good and bad. Right or wrong and indifferent.  I got through it by not taking a drink, by the grace of God, and the support of other sober alcoholicsone day at a time.

  
As an alcoholic, I thought that I was omnipotent and that others were inferior.  I was wrong.  I found out that I was not superior to others.  Nor was I inferior.  I had to learn that we were all equal.  To seek spirituality is to find humility and thus to at last become able to learn how to live life on life's terms. 

  
I do not have all the answers.  I still ask a lot of questions.  Together I hope that we may find a way of life that will allow us to experience the kind of lives we have thought only a dreamuntil now.

   
So come with me and let's trudge together  the Road of Happy Destiny.
In silent memory of those who suffer from the effects of alcoholism.
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