I HAD TO COME TO AA TO LEARN HOW TO PRAY

A Memoir and 365 Days of Recovery Reflections

von Frank Conners

402 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sometimes finding sobriety is only the beginning. The deeper journey is learning how to live.In I Had to Come to AA to Learn How to Pray, Frank Conners shares the deeply personal story of how alcoholism brought him to the lowest point of his life-and how recovery led him somewhere he never expected: into a genuine relationship with God.When Frank entered recovery in 1988, he knew the words of prayers, but he didn't know how to pray. Angry, frightened, filled with guilt and driven by self-will, he struggled with the very idea of God and a Higher Power.Then he met Syd, a seventy-year-old Jewish man who had been sober in Alcoholics Anonymous since 1947.Over cups of coffee, AA meetings, difficult conversations, laughter, arguments, and the patient guidance of a sponsor who refused to give him easy answers, Frank began discovering that prayer wasn't about convincing God to give him what he wanted. It was about surrender, gratitude, humility, forgiveness, service, and becoming willing to ask a very different question: Not "What can God do for me?" but "What can God do through me?"The first part of this book tells that story-from alcoholism and desperation to sobriety, faith, prayer, and a new way of living.The second part turns those lessons into 365 days of recovery reflections built around twelve spiritual principles associated with the Twelve Steps: Honesty, Hope, Faith, Courage, Integrity, Willingness, Humility, Brotherly Love, Justice, Perseverance, Spiritual Awareness, and Service.Each day's reading provides Scripture, a recovery reflection, a question for personal examination, a practical action for the day, an evening reflection, and a closing prayer-creating a simple morning-and-evening practice designed to turn spiritual principles into daily action.This is not a book about practicing recovery perfectly. It is about practicing it daily.For those in recovery, those searching for a stronger spiritual life, family members who want to better understand the journey, or anyone struggling to understand prayer and a Higher Power, I Had to Come to AA to Learn How to Pray offers the experience of one alcoholic who discovered that sobriety was not the end of his story.It was the beginning.God - Program - Everything Else.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174639461
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published