0,2Miracles In Progress 0,2~~Family Teens Group~~ . We welcome you to our Family Teens Group and hope you will find in this fellowship the help, support and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. . . 0,5We meet here every Monday and Wednesday nite at 8pm eastern time. . Your help in keeping our message board active would be truly appreciated, its a great way to get support between meetings. . Our Family Teens Message board is at http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=42762 Would you help us open this meeting with a moment of silence, followed by the Serenity Prayer? . . . . . . . . Serenity Prayer God, Grant me the Serenity . To Accept the things I cannot change, . Courage to Change the things I can, . And the Wisdom to know the difference. . Amen. . . . . . . . . Family Teens Welcome . . We welcome you to the our Online Family Teens Group and hope you will find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as perhaps few others can. We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Ateen we discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us to find contentment and happiness, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that lead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to place our problem in it's true perspective, we find it loses its power to dominate our thoughts and our lives. The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the 12 Step principles in our lives. Without such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most of us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions and we become irritable and unreasonable without knowing it. The Family Teens program is based on the Twelve Steps (adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous) which we try, little by little, to apply to our lives, along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving interchange of help among members and daily reading of appropriate recovery literature thus makes us ready to receive the priceless gift of serenity. Family Teens Group is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the group meeting and member to member, must be held in confidence. Only in this way can we feel free to say what is on our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another in Family Teens. . . . THE TWELVE STEPS Study of these Steps is essential to progress in the Family Teens program. The principles they embody are universal, applicable to everyone, whatever his or her personal creed. In Family Teens, we strive for an ever-deeper understanding of these Steps, and pray for the wisdom to apply them to our lives. 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable. . 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. . 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. . 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. . 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. . 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. . 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. . 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. . 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. . 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. . 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. . 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. . . 8,5To share on the topic please indicate that you would like to do so in the text box by using a exclaimation mark (!) to raise your hand and I will call on you in the order your hands were raised. 8,5When finished please type . This helps cut down on crosstalk and helps avoid confusion. . 8,2Does anyone have a topic they would like to have discussed related to alcoholism or coping with someone elses alcoholism?