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First Timer...
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So I'm new here.. And after reading some posts I guess the thing to do is tell you a little bit about myself.... My name is Caitlyn, and I am an alcoholic. (Typing that sentence wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be!) I am only 25, and I feel like this just isn't supposed to be happening to me. It ha...
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Sunrise Quote
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
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Grapevine
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September 25 "Those little maxims 'Easy Does It' and 'Live and Let Live' have come to be deeply meaningful and significant."
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Today's Gift
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When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De Rojas Sometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by outperforming today" - Stuart B. Johnson To me this means to achieve another day of sobriety, to add another day being sober is to break my personal rec...
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Grapevine
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September 24 "While we readily share our views, perhaps one of the nicest things about the AA program is that we don't always have to agree with each other."
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THE BIG BOOK AND SPONSORSHIP
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Hi all! This probably comes form a "strange mental blank spot" but I was thinking that the Big Book doesn't (and I stand to be corrected) place any importance on being sponsored, but does place great importance on being a sponsor (Into Action, A Vision for You)."Thus we grow. And so c...
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Welcome To MIP Lins....
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It's great to have you with us.
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How Much Support Is Available In Your Area
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I know things like this typically come up in meetings and such, but I'm from Louisville, KY and the AA support here is great. I know everyone is different but we have meetings everyday, all day. Our local website (louisvilleaa.org) lists 446 meetings in the Louisville Area. All within about a 20 m...
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Today's Gift
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The Simple Things Lord, I pray to stay uncomplicated and do well these simple tasks: If I open it, I will close it. If I turn it on, I will turn it off. If I unlock it, I will lock it up. If I break it, I will admit it. If I borrow it, I will return it. If I make a mess, I will clean it up. If I value it, I will take care of...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing; It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
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Grapevine
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September 23 "I have made a determined effort to focus more on seeing myself as God sees me."
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A gift for my HP
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My wife and I just came back Saturday from a wonderful vacation with my father. I couldn't have scripted a better visit. While there I did something I've never done before and decided to share it here... My concept of a higher power includes my higher self's secretary. She's not really a secretary but i...
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Thanks
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To all my buddy alkys...old and new...for helping me get through 6 months...one day at a time...and truckin on.. You are loved
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Welcome to MIP 'jimo'
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Welcome to the group Jimo ... we're happy to have someone with a lot of ESH to share ... glad you found us ... Take Care and God Bless, Pappy
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If Dogs Worked in Offices
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If Dogs Worked in Offices Secretary -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Sunday 22nd of September 2013 07:59:19 PM
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A 'Weekly' I thought some of you would like!
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Weekly Quote"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." -Mary C. CrowleyWeekly ThoughtIt is believed by some that worrying is a sin. Do you believe that? How could such a natural and common emotion be a violation of God's will? Without attempting to...
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Sunrise Quote
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.." - Dalai Lama
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Today's Gift
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Reflection for the Day What is the definition of humility? "Absolute humility," said AA co- founder Bill W., "would consist of a state of complete freedom from myself, freedom from all the claims that my defects of character now lay so heavily upon me. Perfect humility would be a ful...
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9th step started...
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on the major one I have been putting off. Got some feed back from a brother for that country who wasn't even there and as I read it the slogan "Keep it simple" popped up. I thought I might be trying to control outcomes way too much and so took the simplier route...not the easier...just the si...
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Grapevine
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September 19 "One day, after sitting alone, soaked in tears and feeling empty, worthless, and crippled in the smallest task, I reached out and gave my phone number to someone else - they were hurting, too. In that simplest of acts, my world changed."
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Today's Gift
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Becoming willing to actThe miracles in our program dont simply rub off at meetings. The key to getting clean and sober and staying clean and sober is a willingness to act. Once we feel scared enough or strong enough to do something once the willingness appears miracles can happen. Action is the magic w...
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Sunrise Quote
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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment is a miracle and a mystery." - H.G. Wells
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Today's Gift
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. --Samuel Johnson The Twelve Steps won't work for anyone unless they are practiced. That's why so many veterans of this program work the Steps over and over. It's a good habit, and good habits - just like bad ones - strength...
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Sunrise Quote
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"A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?" - Mary Anne Radmacher
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Don't Judge Too Quickly!!!
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Below is several short video clips of judging too quickly ... I thought they were hilarious, you know me, I love things that bring a smile to those I love ... AND I think there is a message to be learned as well ... Enjoy: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=59b_1363799230
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Today's Gift
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.--Rabbi Seymour SiegelWe ask ourselves what drove us to do some of the things we did? We went to extremes even when we knew our actions were not rational. Still today, we are drawn to extremes. At times we still long for things that we know will hurt us. Are...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Nothing so conclusively proves ones ability to lead others as what one does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J Watson
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4 Years ago today...
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4 Years ago today...I got down on my knees and said the alcoholic prayer, "GOD PLEASE HELP ME". He guided me to get in touch with a friend, who introduced me to a friend, who introduced me to the Steps of AA. I started doing some work for the first time and haven't had a drink since. I have n...
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Men are Deep Thinkers
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I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold iced tea. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking. My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing and I said 'nothing'. The reason I said that instead of saying 'just thinking' is because she wou...
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AA meetings in Uzbekistan?
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Hi all, I'm Dave P, first post here. I do a fair amount of traveling and I've had the great fortune of finding AA meetings all over the world. In a few weeks I'll be traveling to several places in Uzbekistan (mostly Tashkent, Samarkand, Khiva and Bukhara). But so far I have had no luck locating any AA meeti...
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Living Now
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It hurts. This stuff we work through. It hurts and I want to make the pain go away. It was my kid. We were all talking about 'our' kids. And it hurts. My old solution when in pain was to crack a bottle... I don't have that solution now. Instead I am learning honesty with myself. I am learning acceptan...
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Being Sober, (& retired) Can be Fun!!!
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Yesterday I was at the Villages' (an area in north Macon which is full of retirees) Publix (our large food chain in Georgia) buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Owen the Wonder Dog. I was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant?...
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Today's Gift
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, Then people gonna treat you better. You're gonna find, yes, you will, That you're beautiful as you feel. --Carole King "Act as if." There's magic in behaving the way we want to be, even t...
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Sunrise Quote
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"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - E.E. Cummings
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Grapevine
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September 18 "The inner energy that is love connects all the parts of us - our emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual selves."
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Been a Long Time... Had to Check In
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HI Family! Victoria here. It has been a few months and I wanted to check in about why that is. My first piece of news is I am still sober. Celebrated twenty months sober on the twelfth of this month. Next piece of news is I found full time work as a merchandise supervisor at a local Walmart Nei...
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Just for today.
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Have I stopped to thank God for His blessings or am I continuing with my petitions for more gifts? Today I will stop and take time off to thank Him and to praise Him and to honour Him.
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Sunrise Quote
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm." - Sir William Osler
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The interventionist...
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by Joani Gammill. My wife just gave me my early birthday presents one of which is this book. Joani Gammill is one of us and for the first 15 pages she spoke from inside of me. Her voice coming from my memories which are accompanied with the emotions of walking thru our disease of addiction. I won't...
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Need a ride to meetings 19th Ave & Cactus area
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I am returning to aa more broken than before, i want to attend meetings but have no transportation, if you can help please post
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Welcome to MIP Ullysses (Al)
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We're glad you found your way back to AA Al ... many of us don't ... I was about your age when I made it back ... glad to have you with us ... God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift
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The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius AntoninusIt's awesome, the power we each wield in the life that unfolds before us. The inclination of our thoughts invites that which we encounter, which is that which we expect to find. What we can become or exp...
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Grapevine
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September 17 "Though all alone out there, an AA from the Marshall Islands still claimed his group had three members, to wit: 'God, the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and me.'"
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Triggers
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Early in my step work I learned of HALT (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired). I payed attention. I still pay. I notice when I'm in the middle of triggers and letting the HALT run my life. The realization that I have a choice to make now. Right now. Can be overwhelming and make me want to run even further into m...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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September 16, 2013 Quote of the Week "Once you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I've always heard that alcoholism is a disease of perception. For example, when I first got sober I kept hearing that it was a disease, but I never really saw it that way. Once I s...
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Today's Gift
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How important is it? The young man in the meeting was very angry and upset. His lawnmower had broken down. He was having a cookout in his back yard that evening, the yard "looked terrible," and he'd paid a lot of money for that mower! After he went on for some time, an older woman gently interru...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart; pursue them." - Author Unknown
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Sunrise Quote
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill
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Grapevine
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September 16 "Am I strong enough? Am I willing to commit my life and my heart at an even deeper level to doing whatever it takes to keep moving forward?"
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