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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseAnd God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8Weekly QuoteWe are never more like God than when we give. Charles SwindollWeekly ThoughtAlong with many others, the Litt fami...
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Today's Gift - 3/10
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An intimate truth is also a universal truth. --John CournosTruth is often associated primarily with the larger issues and set alongside such ideals as Justice, Freedom, and Democracy. We like the grand words - and properly so on the grand occasions.But let's remember, too, that truth between us a...
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Today's Gift - 3/9
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I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow travelers, for neither of us is to the other's personality the end-all and the be-all. -- Joanna FieldIt's not mere chance that we gravitate toward those who become our friends. Nor is it only happenstance that we are picked by others. We are, in f...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/9
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heard @ Meetings
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I have a dysfunctional home . That scares me . I live alone When you're home alone , you Are behind enemy lines. When your head begins to swell , your mind stops growing . The Worst of All deceptions , IS self deception(Plato) NOBODY 'lives' rent free in my head.
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Why Women have Handbags!
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Today's Gift - 3/8
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Slipping A common rationalization about not making the program goes like this, "Harry over there slipped ten times before he made it. So what if I slip a few times?" What is overlooked is that the last time Jack slipped, he slipped into a coffin; the last time Bob slipped, his baby son burne...
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Step 9.
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Step 9. "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." -- Edited by gonee on Sunday 9th of March 2014 06:55:11 AM -- Edited by gonee on Sunday 9th of March 2014 06:55:40 AM
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it." Samuel Butler (When I was drinking, I reached the point where I thought it would be alright if I reached the point where I didn't have money for food, clo...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/7
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.Ferdinand Foch
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God's Grace -- our abilities
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Before recovery, I spent much of my past life feeling less than others. I wanted to be more and do more, but I always felt that other people had more intelligence, more talents, better skills, and greater achievements than I. In some cases, I was absolutely right. In life, we'll always find that the...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex" Kurt Angle BTY (Just wanted to wake you folks up!)
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Mental Health Meds.
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So I'm Bipolar, and a month ago I threaten suicide, of course a friend called the cops and one was waiting at my home when a friend conviced me to go home. I have had 3 overdoses in the past. A month ago my mind was racing I could not raltionalize my thoughts and emotions. I felt I was really going crazy. No pot...
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Fresh Mouth One Day at A Time
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I stopped using mouthwash because of the alcohol content. I noticed in my googling search this am this slogan for it..."Fresh Mouth One Day at a Time". Made me smile and wanted to share it. I am not supposed to post ads on here, so cannot give the company name and I believe that there are non-al...
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We Become What We Think About!
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An excerpt from The Strangest Secret by Earl NightingaleGeorge Bernard Shaw said, "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if th...
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Grapevine
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March 7 "AA gives us a Ph.D. in life and a black belt in common sense."
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Reminder.
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I remind myself, that I was in jail with alcohol. I also remind myself of the sheer joy of my release, when I realised that I could get sober and stay that way. I never want to forget the hell of active alcoholism, and gratitude is the only way not to forget. Pain has never been a cure for me to stay sober. Horr...
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Today's Gift - 3/7
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Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. --Mary CaseyHow easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to look into the fac...
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Question About Home Group Meetings
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I finally joined one! I love this group. Although the meetings are sometimes 100+, there are hardly any HG members. Does anyone have any ideas on how to encourage new members? I know I am a fine one to talk, however they are trying to come up with ideas to do that and I thought maybe someone here has some id...
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Inspired by anothe board member cleaning house I'm doing a little of my own...
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Only I'm trying to work on my flesh and bone house. I signed up for a very lengthy and intensive physical fitness program. I have no doubt it will add years to my life. It never would've been something I considered while I was a practicing drunk. Don't worry, I won't be posting any nude before and afte...
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Friendship and Love ... ... ... a Spiritual Foundation
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In God We Trust, WE DON'T HAVE LOTS & LOTS FRIENDS... JUST GOOD FRIENDS. Let's see if you send this back...<ATT00001.gif>L A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the l...
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Today's Gift - 3/6
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Recovering takes practice. No one learns how to play golf in a day, or masters a musical instrument in a week, or builds a relationship in a month. Neither does recovery happen overnight. If we're ready and lucky, we may immediately take the direct path of abstinence and stay on it without making any de...
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uncomfortable meeting places
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Before I get to my reason for this post... please do not jump to judgment without truly understanding what I'm saying. I am new to AA. The only places the meeting are being help are in the parts of town where I do not feel safe. Alcoholics come from many back grounds and walks of life. I have tried attendin...
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Grandma's experiences leave a mark
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http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes#.UxFvPngayc3
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Some thoughts on prayer....
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When someone brings a gift to our door, we receive it and say thank you. We have not opened the gift as yet, but the thank you is an acknowledgement of the gift. It's the same with prayer. When we pray we must not forget to thank God as an acknowledgement of the gift not yet opened.
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Grapevine
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March 6 "Today, my short version of the Third Step is this: Keep taking care of me, Lord, because I appreciate it now."
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Sober Quote for the Day
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The Twelve Steps 1. I can't 2. God Can (or your Higher Power) 3. Let God (or your Higher Power) 4. Look within 5. Admit wrongs 6. Ready self for change 7. Seek God's help (or your Higher Power's help) 8. Become willing 9. Make amends 10. Daily inventory 11. Pray and meditate 12. Give it away (I am not sure wh...
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Thanks Pappy, Your Posting Jogged a Memory
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I just read one of Pappy's daily postings and it made me think of something painful (literally and just the memory of it) which happened to me a couple of years ago. We had gotten some "junk" together to take to a local auction house. The woman working there told us to get there before 11:30 a.m...
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Today's Gift - 3/5
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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. -- Flora WhittemoreWe often hear the phrase, "When one door shuts, another opens." It means everything has a beginning and an end. When our travels on one path are completed, another path lies ahead.It's not easy to feel a door cl...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/5
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We all live under the same sky, but we dont have the same horizon.Konrad Adenauer
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Grapevine
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March 5 "I still don't have answers for all the eternal questions, like why bad things happen to good people, or why babies die. But I have found that life works better when I focus more on how I am contributing to God's world than musing about what he is or is not doing in mine."
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"If you pray to God to move a mountain, be prepared to wake up next to a shovel". Anonymous (I am not sure if this quote was posted recently. If so, please forgive the repeat. I love this because it means to me not to expect my HP, who is God, to dig me out of the mess I got myself into. He will provide...
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Today's Gift - 3/4
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation fortomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.--Harriet MartineauThe word "sanity" is derived from the Latin word sanitas, which means "health." In our group,...
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Picked up drink after 13 years continual soberiety
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Hi everyone, I picked up a drink 2 months ago after 13 years soberiety. What can I say, the old notion that I could control my drinking. Now I am back on the AA road today, nothing major happened but the feelings inside me are the same as before AA, the pain is sore but AA will see through this.
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Grapevine
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March 4 "Alcoholics have short memories."
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Grapevine
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March 3 "Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and to act upon clear obligations -- these are truly our touchstones for all growth in the life of the spirit."
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Today's Gift
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadows follow the body. --Ruth Benedict Our identity, our being at any moment, is a composite of all we have been in the past. Some of our actions have made us wiser. Others haunt us because we didn't put forth our...
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Sunrise Quote
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May you always find new roads to travel; new horizons to explore; new dreams to call your own.Unknown
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 3, 2014Quote of the Week"I would love to, but I need to talk to my sponsor first." Before recovery I listened to my own best thinking, and you can imagine where that got me. Time and time again I'd follow one "good idea" with another until I was in so much trouble I didn't kno...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic than go through life drunk trying to convince myself that I am not." unknown (if anyone knows who quoted this, I will update it. I couldn't find the source.) (I spent so many years telling myself that "I got this" a...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion." Pythagoras 570 BC-495 BC (Wise words for an old dude. ) BTY
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PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE COMING BACK....A REMINDER TO ALL
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: I read about those coming back on this site..I said nothing..I went to take a nap on my boat.. The wind is howling but on the other hand..it has cooled things here in Samoa.. Three hours earlier than it is in HollywoodI thought,,lying there, maybe Ill be there some day but that is all in the Hands of God...
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Doesnt matter how long we have been sober
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The one day at a time....holds true..It doesn't matter how long weve been sober...If we stop doing the DO THINGS?Shit will happen...and we revert right back to our old thinking.. At 22 years sober?I had the world by the ass..I had raised 3 kids on my own for 13 years..I was DCM over 32 groups..in the are...
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Get up and move....
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Sunday morning version "AA By The Bay"...more than just a meeting a reacquaintance of several levels. Some one led it off on the Daily Reflection and we chipped a member who had been out of the area and not drinking for 3 years. He remade the acquaintance of so many members he has not seen...
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For Tasha and all our Canadians
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Redneck 'Snowshoes' ... ... ...
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One Foot In, One Foot Out
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I've been thinking about this theme a lot lately because it is very much how I started with the program. It took me a long time to stop being afraid of meetings and connecting with others about our disease. I have been surprised at how many people I have met who have done the same thing. Like all alcoholics...
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Today's Gift - 3/2
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.--Arabian proverbWe need to remember what got us well. The Twelve Steps heal us. The meetings we attend heal us. Reading and listening to program tapes heal us. Talking with our sponsor heals us. The time we spend with program friends heals us.Sometimes we...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/2
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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.Clarence E. Hodges
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An Old'y but Goodie - Humor
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Jenny Craig for men I called the company and ordered their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program. The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before me a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign around her neck. She introduces hersel...
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Hope These Make Your Day.....
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