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Today's Gift
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Becoming forgiving The lack of a forgiving spirit hurts our spiritual progress. Being unforgiving causes resentment, which is always a danger to our new way of life. We have learned that if we forgive, we will be forgiven; but if we do not forgive, we will not be forgiven. So it seems we are just hurtin...
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Meeting of the mods!
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Stpetedean and pinkchip aka Dean and Mark
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All my friends relapsed this week.
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I have 3 close friends in AA - we all came in around the same time. One has a young girl the same age as my daughter, and we did many play dates this summer. One has been off and on sober. One I found out has pretty much never stopped drinking, but was hiding it. Anyway - they all crashed and burned last wee...
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Today's Gift
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It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all. -- Father Desmond WilsonToday is full of endless possibilities and dreams. In many cases, we are limited only by our fear and lack of hope, in others and ourselves. Each new day we are given a clea...
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Grapevine
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October 15 "I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed, upon any set of circumstances whatever. Then only could I be free to love."
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I am in St. Pete
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I think someone that posts here lives near here...not sure who...
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Welcome Curly
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Welcome to MIP Curly, ... glad you found us ... looking forward to you sharing your ESH here ... God Bless, Pappy
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Alcohol and the Soul
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I just spent the past half hour Google searching various iterations of "alcohol and the soul" and "addiction and the soul". I was looking for articles or blog posts by people who have written about what alcohol does to the "soul" while we are drinking, both in the sho...
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I did not relapse
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This time the grapevine let me know they are going to publish another one of my posts from here at MIP. It was from about 2 yrs ago - when I first came to MIP and drank again after about a month. It's going to say "my recent relapse" in one of the paragraphs, now mind you - this will be 2 years old....
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Sunrise Quote
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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." - Billy Graham
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Today's Gift
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Simplicity and greatness go together. -- Monty Cralley We have probably heard the phrase Keep It Simple thousands of times. It's possible we are mystified by it, even yet. So many things in life have seemed complicated: getting an education, starting a new job, advising children and friends. Not...
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Grapevine
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October 14 "How does one tune in to the Higher Power? The answer I have learned from AA is to recharge my spiritual battery every day -- 'you can't pull today's load with yesterday's horse.'"
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 14, 2013 Quote of the Week "The answer is not in the problem;the answer is in the solution." Before recovery, I lived in the problem. If things weren't going right, or if something went wrong, that's all I thought about. I'd dwell on it, talk to my friends about it, and think about...
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A simple meeting?????
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Ok I went to a meeting this morning. I decided to share on the topic of fear. I am a musician who has some high profile concerts coming up. I have performed in the past based on fear. Fear of not being well thought of as a musician, a person etc.... I know what I need to do and I spoke to my sponsor about it,...
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Col
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I have your avatar pic on my phone as you know, and my daughter and I were scrolling through pics. When we got to your picture my daughter had to stop and look a while. I did too. She asked who you were, and I said 'that's my friend' and she said you look nice. You are nice Col. How's it going?
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Just a simple "Hello" to everyone!
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Hi MIP folks! Nothing big to write about today. Life is getting rather simple and I like it like that. No drama, just me, my dogs, a bit of work, going to meetings, and trying to stay on top of things financially as we head into the winter season, which is always a rough time for me. Pressure Washing home...
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THE STEPS OF A.A. - AN INTERPRETATION
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I really like this guy...One of the original 100 that worked on the book. He was a strong headed alkie...I think he and Bill W. butted heads...Also a strong headed alkie. Some say he should have been one of the Co - Founders of AA...I just like how he kept it simple.He talks about the phases of the steps.....
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Sunrise Quote
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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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Today's Gift
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Children do not know how their parents love them, and they never will till the grave closes over those parents, or till they have children of their own. --Edmund Vance Cooks As adults, we may feel we were cheated out of a "normal" childhood because of our parents' emotional, physical, or sp...
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Welcome 'brigy'
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Welcome to MIP brigy, ... we're glad you'r here and Congrats on 8 months sober ... please share with us ...
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Grapevine
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October 11 "One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, 'God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...' I knew intuitively it was the answer."
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Sunrise Quote
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly will light upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Will Step Four be painful for me?"
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Hi everyone! I'd like to share with you a question that I've been asked many times by many sponsorees: "Will Step 4 be emotionally painful for me?" The only way I can ever answer that question is out of my own experience with doing a Fourth Step inventory myself. To begin with, we must est...
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Sunrise Quote
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"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich
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Today's Gift
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CommunicatingHe said, "Let's go to the movies when we're done with our work." She said, "That's a great idea!" But when the work that she had in mind was finished, he still had several tasks that remained undone. So they got into a dispute. It was not a disagreement, it was a misun...
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Love and Tolerance
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Yeppers...that was the topic at this mornings AA at the bay, Saturday version, home group meeting. Go figure...really?...alcoholics and alcoholic/addicts talking about love and tolerance of others who may be threatening their recovery? Has recovery become soooo valuable that a recoveri...
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Can someone help me, please?
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This is my 3rd time coming back to this board. Somehow, I guess I just keep getting myself stuck in the same messes, over and over. A lot has changed in the last few years. When I first started writing, I was new to Boston, in my early 20s, on my own, meeting new people, dating new people, and JUST starting to...
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Any one live in Georgia??
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I am considering making a move to Monroe, outside of Athens... just curious... no decision made yet, but it is a possibility.John
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Welcome to the MIP Board 'harley kid 67'
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Hi harley kid, ... Glad you found us and we look forward to you sharing your ESH with us ... God Bless, Pappy
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Just when I thought life was getting simple and drama free!!
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Some of you might remember the video i posted about an ex girlfriend drinking for 6 days and going into a alcoholic comatose state after a length of sobriety. Well, anyways that was about a year ago, and she was in the hospital for 11 days, and in coma for 9 of them. Upon her discharge on day 11, she was phy...
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I Finally Got a Sponsor!!!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
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I had been making excuses out of fear for not finding one. Been praying lately to my HP that if He wanted me to have one, please bring one into my life and lo and behold, I was introduced to someone the other night after a meeting. I have enjoyed this person's shares and feel a big sense of relief. Still a litt...
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Today's Gift
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If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks. --Sidney Lanier When does a good program turn into a bad program? When it becomes a hiding place. As adult children, we are good no, ingenious at finding hiding places. Sometimes we hide behind our work by staying super busy. We hide in prayer itself...
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Today's Gift
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To the rationally minded, the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. --Frances Wickes Intuition is a valuable form of wisdom that often seems mystical. We lose our keys and can't find them in any of the usual places and then an idea...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world." - Samahria Kaufman
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Ohhhh I don't know...
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Recovering alcoholic use to work for NASA and use to counsel kids about alcoholism and drug addiction in life and yesterday I watch a news clip that NASA is sending an 11 year old boy into space soon and what will he do?....Brew Beer. Somebody please realign the thought here so I can get it better? Rea...
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Today's Gift - THIS was an Extremely Hard Lesson for me!!! ... A Must Read!!!
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This hit home for me like you wouldn't believe ... I had made it to step 8 a couple of times and just never had that 'change of heart' referred to here ... Once that did occur, I was able to complete the rest of the steps, and the miracle happened, I was 'free at last', I was now capable of 'love' like I'd never k...
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Grapevine
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October 9 "With the clock ticking like it is, I do not have time for anger, resentment, or self-pity. Time is far too precious."
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Sunrise Quote
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."- Leo Tolstoy
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 7, 2013 Quote of the Week "You need to spend some time with God this morning and then let your day go." I can start my day two different ways: the way I usually do which means rushing through my morning preparing for work and thinking (or worrying) about how I'm going to control eve...
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Grapevine
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October 9 "The slogans are simple things ... these AA tranquilizers do not solve our problems, but they can calm us down, remind us of a better way to proceed, and perhaps even put us in a mood to make better decisions."
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Today's Gift
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved . . . the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. --George Eliot We've all heard many times that we must love ourselves if we're ever to love another. Too often we mistakenly think that means we shouldn't need to hear someone's affirm...
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What alcohol does to us
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Hi All, This morning, I am really internalizing the extent to which alcohol has at times made me an unpleasant person. I have been playing out past behavior in my head and realizing that even being *around* alcohol has made me feel the compulsion to lie, to sneak, and be a really negative person. Being a...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
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Grapevine
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October 8 "I know what the temptation of fame and money really is ... I was once a breaker of anonymity myself. I thank God that years ago the voice of experience and the urging of wise friends took me out of that perilous path into which I might have led our entire Society."
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Sunrise Quote
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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm" - Paul Boese
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Today's Gift
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without also helping himself. --Ralph Waldo Emerson When Albert Schweitzer said, "The only ones of you who will be truly happy are those who have found and learned how to serve," he was st...
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here i go again....
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I didn't want to post on the board because I feel like I am sounding like a broken record and worry about getting criticized for it. I just feel like I have no where else to turn and you have been so nice in giving me advice during my sobriety. I am extremely grateful. A while back when I was at a meeting to get...
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Lucky
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About a year ago I read a book called Undrunk: A Skeptic's Guide to AA by A.J. Adams. At one point in the book the author writes that once you have spent time working the AA program, any remnants of fun you had drinking is pretty much ruined. I was intrigued by that idea at first and now am pretty sure I unders...
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Grapevine
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October 7 "As of this moment I repose serenely on Cloud 9, being thankful in silent meditation. I know the grim realism of this troubled world will bring me sharply back to earth at any moment, but I pray I may make a safe, happy landing."
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Motivational Quote of The Day
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I do not need any alarm clock anymore... for now, it is my PASSION that wakes me up every morning! _________ World's most expensive coffee till date :: Kopi Luwak -- Edited by Finn Felton on Monday 30th of September 2013 10:04:23 PM
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