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Today's Gift 04-09
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. --Robert Frost Flowing with whatever comes to us in life eases us through each day's demands. When we resist change and the unfamiliar, we imprison ourselves and hide from God's invitations to grow. Only when we willingly experience God's lessons w...
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Burnout
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Before I got sober I did not understand the need for balance in life. So, I am currently in a rather insane work-education situation for the next month which is a product of the unbalanced situation I got myself into. Things should improve in the summer. Today I have not felt well. I was in a work situatio...
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Chairing
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I'm going to chair a meeting tonight at the meeting I've been going to this entire year, where they require you to have a year sobriety to do it. It's a very very large meeting, and people take it pretty seriously, coming up with things ahead of time to talk about etc. I've chaired lots and lots of meetin...
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Grapevine
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April 9 "When I go to a meeting today, I no longer have the delusion that I am supporting a good cause. I need AA; AA did quite well without me during my ten years of self-exile. I go to AA meetings today to hear and see how God is working. When I share at a meeting, it is not to try and 'help' those poor wr...
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What are we searching for in that bottle anyway?
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Is it just me... or does it feel like we're just searching and searching for something our whole drinking lives... and when we come to AA we either find it, or we don't? I went to a fairly large meeting tonight. I thought I could tell who was finding what they were looking for, and who was still searching...
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Today's Gift 04-08
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Talk doesn't cook rice. --Chinese proverb Some of us are crazy about self-help books, inspirational tapes, and personal improvement seminars. We'll buy or sign up for anything, whatever the price, if it promises revolutionary insights or a foolproof new system. We want relief in a day and deliver...
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Day 7 and feeling much better!
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I'm very happy to say i'm on day Seven, I had a small craving to drink something yesterday for no paticular reason, but instead I called my sponser and talked to her about work, which completely got my mind off things. i've been hitting the gym, and really focusing on my art business. I even dodged my dri...
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Poll: Is Alcoholism a Sin or a Disease?
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Is Alcoholism a Sin or a Disease? Choices1. Alcoholism is a disease with no aspect of sin.2. Alcoholism is definitely a sin. Calling it a disease is a modern copout.3. Alcoholism is an addiction. It starts out as a sin but ends up being a strong force of habit that takes away free will.4. I really don't k...
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Schafer 2008
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Good wine- GREAT wine. A good vintage for this vineyards Cabernet. At over 250$ a bottle, I was more than pleased to serve several bottles to a table I had recently. At the end of the meal, the host of the group offered me the remainder left- close to a full bottle. This is a very generous gesture, and graci...
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New Career (Humor)
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Never too late to start another career.Someone asked me what I do since I have retired.... Do I have a partime job?I replied, I am my wife's sexual advisor."Somewhat shocked, they said, "I beg your pardon, but what do you mean by that?""Very simple. My wife told me that when she w...
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Home, Sweet Home!
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Got home Fri. and all is well (after three weeks)... ... ... Got in long 'nap' yesterday and sat down today to watch Nascar race today and slept through the whole thing ... LOL ... woke up when they were presenting the trophy ... ... ... Ann(my wife) is going to Houston, Tx this week on business, so I wil...
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Prayers
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First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who along the way has been so helpful and given me your wisdom in the past years. It has given me the tools to cope with this dreadful disease. It has now come to pass that although, I thought with the passing of my ex.AH that so much misery, heartache, ect. th...
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Mania and alcohol abuse
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Common? i think so. Are a lot of alcoholics suffering from bipolar dissorder? Speaking Personally, yes. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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April 6, 1983
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I smell OK, hair is clean, can walk steady, am safe to drive. I take myself over to the 11:30 AM Wednesday "Seminary Self-Study" group in Northside Richmond. (It's still going, on Thursday now!) I feel shame and guilt for the risk and danger I subjected my child to, but I have no reservati...
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Grapevine 04-07
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April 7 "Sometimes taking somebody else's inventory can be most beneficial. When I was doing my Fourth Step, an old-timer suggested I list the names of those against whom I held resentments, followed by two or three sentences describing what they had done to earn my displeasure. Then, after...
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Today's Gift 04-07
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There can be a lot of hurt in love, and there is always risk, and one can't help wondering sometimes if there couldn't be a better way to live. --Merle Shain We want to love and be loved, and we mistakenly believe the right significant other will complete our world. The pain and troubling times that feste...
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@ Dean & all who misunderstood
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My last drink was April 3rd 1983. I am celebrating my 30th, April 6 being the date I picked up my last while chip. I have been taking myself--and you guys --on a 6 day retro-recall of "what it was like & what happened", and tried to convey the depth of my gratitude for "what it is like no...
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Another 24 hours
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Nothing major happened today- just another 24 hours under the belt. I did realize a few things about myself, though. Often when I have realizations about my own behavior, things I've heard others say in meetings run through my head. I understand that I'm not all that unique, much to my dismay at times....
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Countdown continues
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I remember finally getting someone to take my child to school. And I remember them bringing her home with a bag of easy-to-fix groceries. Apaprently she let it slip that she hadn't eaten for two days because mommy was sick and there was no food in the house. I remember nothing else of day five in the seque...
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Egomaniac with an inferiority complex
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-- Edited by Col on Saturday 6th of April 2013 12:28:31 AM
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Happy Anniversary Lee
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A truly blessed celebration of LIFE...I'd make you a cake(cyber) but little limited in my laptop skills!!!! and thanks so much for continuing to give back what you have been given and for your ESH and help through the years ,one day at a time.(((lee))).
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Today's Gift 04-06
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. --Alex Karras In o...
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Grapevine
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April 6 "Sobriety does interesting things to the mind - clears it up some, lets a bit of honesty and truth filter in, and begins to demand reality."
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The Perfect Person!
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In my search for what describes, or rather what is it that makes up the perfect person, I've come across the following ... (hope this helps, Tasha)(excerpt from the writings of Henry Drummond): The spectrum of love has nine ingredients: Patience ----- "Love suffereth long."Kindnes...
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AA meeting secrets
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Came across this today on the way to looking up something else.Seems like a pretty good description. AA meeting secretsJune 13, 2011By: Kris BestEver wonder what goes on at your local AA meeting? Yes, thats Alcoholics Anonymous which has been in effect since the 1930s. Actually, it was Bill W.s wif...
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'Logic' of a Beer Drinker
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> Subject: Logic of a Beer Drinker
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> Lady Interviewer: Do you drink every day?
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> Man: Yes.
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> Lady Interviewer: How much a day?
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> Man: Around 3 six-packs starting at noon.
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> Lady Interviewer: How much does a 6-pack cost?
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> Man: Roughly $10...
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Today's Gift 04-05
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People who make the biggest mistakes are often the holiest. --Mary Kassan We've heard it said that it takes a brave person to make a mistake and keep trying. We used to get down on ourselves too much for messing up. We are learning to accept our humanness. It's not such a big deal to be imperfect. We learn t...
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Just a 24 hr thingy...
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all the prayers and best wishes and suggestion with my MIP meds and the chicken soup my wife cooked up and I was ready way before the morning meeting which was cold and windy...bout a 40+ knot breeze blowing off the pacific and then the meeting still had good attendance. Thanks for the best wishes and pr...
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Well meaning, just not aware of one beng alcoholic
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Morning and blessings of this day! Yesterday at a family gathering at my brother -in-laws home in Boca Raton,we were gathered in a sitting room and my brother in laws wife asked me what I would like to have a drink.I asked for my usual ice water or seltzer with lemon if she had that. She said would you rathe...
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Male Sensitivity
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"Male Sensitivity" The room was full of pregnant women with their husbands. The instructor said, "Ladies, remember that exercise is good for you. Walking is especially beneficial. It strengthens the pelvic muscles and will make delivery that much easier. Just pace yourself...
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Today's Gift
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Recognizing Choices We have choices, more choices than we let ourselves see. We may feel trapped in our relationships, our jobs, our life. We may feel locked into behaviors such as caretaking or controlling. Feeling trapped is a symptom of codependency. When we hear ourselves say, I have to take car...
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Question regarding anonymity
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Just curious what you all think about this. Is it appropriate to approach a coworker, who's in the program, regarding his breaking the anonymity of another coworker who's new to the program? Just a little background- I have been advised to steer clear of this gentleman by my sponser, because he has ex...
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Prayers for G.
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At one of my meetings there's this guy whose ESH blows me away everytime he shares. His stories are so haunting it's one of the few times I can actually feel the horror of "being there". For purposes of maintaining his anonymity I'll call him G.. He put himself through hell with his alcohol...
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Guilt, I quess?
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Had a wonderful weekend with the family, son was home from college. He left to go back on Sun. night and from the time he has left, I have been feeling very strange. I was around him all weekend, and realized what a terriffic young man he has turned out to be. And i realized he has grown to become this excepti...
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Wheres Pappy?
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Last log in 4 days ago,,?
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deja vu all over again
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so..........this would be day one of no alcohol down the gullet; sick, but puking in a bowl instead of on the floor; not driving the kid back and forth to school because I'm no longer in a blackout and can't get out of bed; smell bad-haven't washed the dried vomit out of the hair yet, having thoughts that I...
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It's a great day to be sober.
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I've been having some issues with boundaries - especially with sponsee's. They hang up on me, don't show up for our meetings, don't call, show up late... and I have a really hard time coming down on them for acting exactly how I acted when I got here! I struggle with what to put up with, because no on walks...
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Grapevine
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"I've likened that transforming instant, when despair gave way to a glimmer of hope, to a tiny flower sprung into bloom amid the bombed-out wreckage of my life. Thanks to AA, that tiny bloom was to become a garden."
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Roger Ebert, RIP
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Roger Ebert passed today. He had a bunch of years in AA.He outed himself as an AA in a long article in the Chicago Sun-Times about 4 years ago*. It showed he was a grateful guy, though he unabashedly violated Tradition 11. Kind of surprised me then. No more, many do it. *eta:[url]http://blogs.suntim...
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There is a Solution - Filling The Void
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Filling The Void We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. Alcoholics Anonymous,...
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Little boy and starfish
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An old man was walking along an expansive beach one summer evening. In the distance, he saw a small figure running up to the waters edge, throwing something into the sea and running back onto the beach. After watching the figure repeat this course for some period of time, the old man became curious abo...
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Alanon
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Do any of you have partners involved with al-anon? Have they found it useful? What tends to go on at an alanon meeting?
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Anniversary Countdown
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Just so y'all know that I don't get too hung up on "the date", or the year, I'll tell on myself that I completely missed my 25th year and "tried" to celebrate it on the 26th--home groupers have refused to let me forget it ever since. My "special gratitude countdown" beg...
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Grapevine
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April 4 "The phrase 'God as we understand him' is perhaps the most important expression to be found in our whole AA vocabulary. Within the compass of these five significant words there can be included every kind and degree of faith, together with the positive assurance that each of us may choose...
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Meeting tonight!
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9pm EST and 6pm Pacific (I have finally got the time difference down). I'm really looking forward to it!
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Hi, My name is Fi and I am an alcoholic
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I walked into an AA meeting on the 18th February and it is by far the best decision I have ever made in my life. I drank 2 bottles of wine a day, while trying to work full time, care for my children and run a house! I have no idea how I carried it off. I wake up everyday and thank God I dont feel like rubbish. I have j...
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Hi
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It's good to see the board so active. I thank you for your posts. It's a meeting for me when I am busy at work. It's like a kaleidoscope of people who share with me.
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Spring
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He just hangs out in the backround. It doesn't really matter to him if no one pays any attention to him. He pretty much takes what comes, and sits silently through it if that is what's to be. There is no worry for me, that he will call me up and complain that I didn't do this or that, or how I should pick up my...
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Mentally drained
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I'm really sick of the mental engery that is wasted with drinking. Why is it when I wake up at 3 in the morning I actually think to myself oh liqure store opens in a few hours. I try to think about other stuff but its the first natural thought that come to my mind most days, Its really amazing how much I think...
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AA Membership -- what is our future?
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I was talking with an old-timer on Friday about the current demographics of AA members in the U.S. I haven't been able to find reliable statistics online but he told me that AA membership is 85% white and 75% men. This bothered me and I've been thinking about it the last few days. For an organazation th...
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