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Today's Gift
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What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...
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Sunrise Quote
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Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry
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Grapevine
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February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."
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Another one......
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Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon. 
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MY FAVORITE!!!!!
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A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...
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craving sugar
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Sunrise Quote
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela
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Extra Special Chocolate Cake for Your Valentine or AA Meetings! Special Alert to PAPPY!
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This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...
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Today's Gift
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I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...
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Grapevine
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February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."
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sittin' on my hands again.
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Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...
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90 in 90
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Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...
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Family Day
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Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...
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Would This Be Considered Cross Talking?
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Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...
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Can Willpower Alone Keep An Alcoholic From Drinking?
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Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...
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How Much Info Is to Much Info to Tell Relatives About Our Sobriety
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Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...
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Heard @ Meetings
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and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...
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Grapevine
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February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."
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Sunrise Quote
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand
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Today's Gift
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...
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On Death by Kahlil Gibran warning religious content
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Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...
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now, I'm not complaining. ...
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My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks.
it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m.
I've tried getting up for a pee and going back.
I've tried getting up and doing something boring.
I've tried just laying there...
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Birthday Sunday
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at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...
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Heard @ Meetings
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the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...
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Grapevine
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February 10 "A vast communications net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches ... Nothing can matter more to the future welfare of AA than the manner in which we use this colossus of communication. Used unselfishly and well, the results can surpass our present imagination. Should...
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Sunrise Quote
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Wisdom is knowing the right path to take integrity is taking it.M.H. McKee
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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February 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "I don't believe in miracles,I depend on them!" If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. "Look at my life!" I would have said. "There are certainly no miracles happening h...
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Where and how do we find God?...As you understand God.
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This is one of my favorite passages from the Big Book. I love how Bill says the same thing over and over with different wording.Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we on...
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Today's Gift
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.--Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...
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A Funny ... from an AA brother!
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Complete and Finished> > No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference> between these two words. In a recently held linguistic competition held in> London , England , and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar> Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bache...
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What Alcoholics Anonymous Has Done For Me
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These are just some of the ways Alcoholics Anonymous has changed my life........ I am starting to love me again!! I love that I don't want to cry all the time I love that I don't worry as much. I love that I am not as lonely anymore. I love that I am not as fearful as I was. :fea...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...
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"One Drink Killed Philip Seymour"
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That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.
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Been Watch'n Some Golf, ... ergo ... 50 Shades of Golf
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I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...
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Today's Gift
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To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...
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Sunrise Quote
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Knowledge is like climbing a mountain. The higher you reach the more you can see and appreciate.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Insanity - an alcoholic going into a bar for a drink . Daniel , Did NOT Go back into the lion's den to get his hat . Think , Think , Think We GET sober for Our drinking . We STAY sober for our Thinking.
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An honor
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My sponsor is a 71 year old single man with his only family really being an 82 year old brother that lives in Chicago. He asked me to be his health care surrogate after a meeting last night. This is not the kind of thing I think should prop my ego up, but I couldn't even be bothered to go to someone's funeral...
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Today's Gift
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Failure is impossible.--Susan B. AnthonyFailure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.An attitude of failure often comes from making mista...
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Sunrise Quote
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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying I will try again tomorrow.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Ask - aka - ass Saving kit. Alcoholics - aka - A Life Centered on Helping Others LIVE in Complete SOBRIETY. Anonymous - aka - Actions , Not Our Names , Yield Maintenance of Unity & Service & ASAP - ALLWAYS Say A Prayer
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that minefild called life
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Yes it's a minefield out there. There are bombs bumps and traps everywhere.
So this morning all is as it should be, isn't it.
not as I want it to be but as it should be.
all I have to do with it is to fit myself around it.
the automatic heat came on as it should.
the alarm woke me for the first time in days
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It's one of the days.....
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I wana smoke I wana drink I wana do drugs today. I wana pig out to deal with my wants. I can't do any of it (if I have too I'll eat but I don't want to give to bad behaviors and self distrucktion or the auto correct spelling on my phone). I got busy stupid busy. I say stupid because I s...
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IF I COULD ASK ONE QUESTION
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If I could Ask One Question.. The disease of Alcoholism is deadly It kills.. sometimes very quickly sometimes slowly. I have learned that recovery is One day at a time.. I learned to simply to ask God each morning to help me stay sober just for today. I learned regardless of what happensgood thi...
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Grapevine
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February 7 "Be willing to be willing to follow directions and you will find your life changing in all areas."
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Today's Gift
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose. --Benjamin Disraeli In Twelve Step meetings, we don't talk about counseling, treatment centers, or non-program reading. Many of us have been helped in these ways, but we shouldn't confuse them with Twelve Step programs. We must keep our Twelve Step pr...
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Sunrise Quote
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Those who are touched by an inspirational idea and allow it to take charge and dominate their thoughts find new vistas open to them.Unknown
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Patience
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Today I might have broke two toes. It hurts so stinkin much! I found that I was pretty angry for no apparent reason for a while after. I guess pain has always triggered anger in me, and I suppose it's pent up anger that I haven't released appropriately. I'm just guessing here... but this has been on go...
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Long but excellent read
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http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/
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A power greater than me.
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I just drifted back to the keyboard, after emerging sort of dazed from my shower. Just prior, I read a PM regarding a positive decision someone was making for themselves. The very mind blowing thing about it was, I had been praying for this very decision to come about almost word for word as it came abo...
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