Alcoholics Anonymous

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "God cannot do for you what he cannotdo through you." Before recovery, I had the God thing all mixed up. My conception of God was that if I was good and behaved myself, and then good things would happen for me. When I prayed, I prayed for the things I wanted...

Stepchild · Stepchild

MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific fait...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before. --Aristotle Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from four elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marve...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"On this Veteran's day, God bless the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives so that we remain free." - America

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Zilar

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I would love to hear from you and how you are doing? I have under a year, too. Also what are you doing to stay sober each day? I'll start with me... I have been an alcoholic for over 30 years. My life became a real mess because of it. DUI, in and out of hospitals due to alcohol related injuries, wreaked my marr...

robbie0330 · robbie0330

Fucked out the window again. Its bad. Shaking and all that. you been there. talk all the shit you want. Kneeling don on the dirt. Life found me out like the bitch is is. 666. laugh. have a good laugh. it keeps you sober after all.

lovinglife413 · lovinglife413

hey everyone, I am knew to this site and i kind of need help! i am 21 years old and am in the military. if someone could lend me a hand, i would appreciate it

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 11 "We can't grow without giving ourselves space for silence and the voice within."

Stepchild · Stepchild

SELF-ACCEPTANCE We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 I pray for the willingness to remember that I am a child of God, a divine soul in human form, and that my most basic and urgent...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Check this out! ... click on link below: https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151823097153841

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - Scott Fitzgerald

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I haven't won yet but I haven't lost, either. --Dennis C. A favorite saying in sports is, "It isn't losing to get knocked down. Losing is staying down." In life, as in sports, that idea makes great sense. Like "Let go and let God," or "Let it begin with me," it is a saying...

Stepchild · Stepchild

A SENSE OF BELONGING Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is - belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging becaus...

Philipld · Philipld

A man goes into a pub, takes a seat at the bar, and orders five shots. The bartender gives him an odd look since hes all by himself, but he serves up the five shots and lines them up on the bar. The man downs them all quickly. He finishes the last one and calls out, "Four shots, please!" The bart...

newquaylad · newquaylad

Hi, I live in Newquay, Cornwall which is in uk for those that aren't from here I find it a little hard to talk about my drinking but I do realise I need to stop, I got really drunk last night and don't remember getting home. I've got work in just over an hour, feel so bad.

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Good Morning, I would love to hear how others began to share at meetings. I have been going for several months and although I want to share, I still get too nervous to. I am worried I will say something wrong in my nervousness and/or get tongue tied and get embarrassed. I would really love to be able to poss...

Stepchild · Stepchild

STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time f...

Glen1Fiji1 · Glen1Fiji1

At one of the meetings I used to attend the chairperson was obliged to make a personal comment on what anonymity meant to them. I have seen many meetings where it was customary to have someone at random make a comment on the subject. I know I am contrary by nature but it seems to me much better to go directly...

Stepchild · Stepchild

An Individual Adventure Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STE...

Stepchild · Stepchild

LET GO AND LET GOD . . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 When I "Let Go and Let God," I think more clearly and wisely. Without having to think about it, I quickly let go of things that cause me immediate pain and...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself."- Frank Tyger

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 8 "Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober."

mandm · mandm

Hello everyone, I just want to do this post, I am six months sober, its funny when I started this journey in soberity I thought it would be an impossible feat. However it was amazing, it brought me closer myself and others. I can't even imagine the old me anymore, its just a story from my past now, I no longe...

Stepchild · Stepchild

GOING WITH THE FLOW Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I arise, O God, to do Thy will," This is the shortest prayer I know a...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Opportunity may knock only once, But temptation leans on the doorbell. --AnonymousWe have an opportunity. We've made getting out of debt a priority in our lives. Just having this desire gives us the opportunity. For this, we are grateful. It's all too easy, however, to slip into our old ways of think...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson A truly powerful force in the universe is that of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health. Feelings of hope can stimulate the bodys immune system and inspire re...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 7 "Our Twelve Traditions ... represent the sum of our experience as individuals, as groups within AA, and similarly with our fellows and other organizations in the great fellowship of humanity under God throughout the world. They are all suggestions, yet the spirit in which they h...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 6 "The Twelve Steps ... are simple in language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no special interpretations, and certainly no reserva...

Stepchild · Stepchild

"THE QUALITY OF FAITH" This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELV...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. --D. Elton Trueblood Our lives are enriched by the contributions of those who lived before us. Many men and women gave more than they ever took from society,...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"All the water in the world cannot sink a ship - unless the water starts getting inside...All the troubles in the world can't sink a human being -unless those troubles invade his inner life."" - Vera Werblo

Standing_Tall · Standing_Tall

Wow, where do I start........ Wife invited me to the house for a birthday part for a couple of my children. In-laws, brother and sister-in-law, Grandma.......whole crowd was there. Yeah, it was brutal. Emotions were all over the place. Still sober though :)!!!! The wife followed me around......ev...

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 4Grapevine Quote One of the truly great gifts in this Fellowship of mutually concerned people is the gift of the art of listening ... But our need to listen goes beyond meetings and talks with friends ... We need Step Eleven and our greater conscious contact with the Divine Listener. Then wil...

d_willing · d_willing

Hi Everyone, This is my first post here, I have been reading a lot of your posts over the past few weeks. I am on day one "again". I have had so many struggles with Alcohol over the last 10+ years. The longest stretch of sobriety I managed was about 6 months, but I am sure that is due to the fact I...

Mike D · Mike D

Lord...please make me into the man my dog thinks I am....amen.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Realand more..." There are a lot of great acronyms in the program, and three of them describe the progress I've made with respect to fear. The first is: F*#k Everything And Run. This is how I dealt with fear before recov...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Cultivating AuthenticityAuthenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think were supposed to be and embracing who we are.The idea that we can choose authenticity makes most of us feel both hopeful and exhausted. We feel hopeful because being real is something we value. We feel exhauste...

debird17 · debird17

I went to a wedding Friday night I thought about making up an excuse not to go but they where very good friends and I felt I needed to go. I did not drink. I have not drank in 14 days but the guilt and the dishonesty of all of the lies I told while I was drinking is beginning to eat at me. My children are suppo...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Some see things as they are and say "why". I dream things that never were, and say "why not?"" - George Bernard Shaw

Mike B. · Mike B.

November 4 "Regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"

Chaya · Chaya

This has been a tough year. In this first year of sobriety I lost my mom, changed careers, moved, and took in my niece. And I stayed sober no matter what. It wasnt always easy but if I could stay sober through all that I can stay sober no matter what. Newcomer--you can get sober and stay sober through anythi...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Weekly Verse"Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31Weekly Quote"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. it's the life in your years." Abraham LincolnWeekly ThoughtAll good things we have are gifts from God. Even the faith wi...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky." - Helen Lowrie Marshall

Mike D · Mike D

Good morning everyone! It's a beautiful chilly November day here in Iowa, and things are good. Hope everything is good with you. This morning I was thinking about the ways that the A.A. acronym H.O.W. -- Honesty, Openness, and Willingness -- began to manifest itself in my life through the early mo...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Sometimes it seems I've spent my life trying to live up to others' expectations of me, and failing. I never thought much about pleasing myself. That would have been "selfish." --JoAnn Reed We can feel burdened, inadequate, and overwhelmed by expectations, even when they are our own. Mo...

debird17 · debird17

I have not had a drink in 8 days but I can't seem to get anything right and I'm really getting on my husbands nerves. I bounced a check and now have several overdraft charges. Then my car broke down. My husband said it's because of the way I drive and he is going to have to pay for my mess up again. T...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. --Confucius Step Ten tells us that when we are wrong, we must "promptly" admit it. We aren't used to admitting our mistakes. We defend ourselves or blame others. This is called denial. Denial is bad for...

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	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "God cannot do for you what he cannotdo through you." Before recovery, I had the God thing all mixed up. My conception of God was that if I was good and behaved myself, and then good things would happen for me. When I prayed, I prayed for the things I wanted...	Pythonpappy	3	492	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Daily Reflections 11/12/13 (Preview) MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific fait...	Stepchild	1	385	Nov 12, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before. --Aristotle Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from four elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marve...	Pythonpappy	1	350	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Sunrise Quote --- for 11/11/2013 (Preview) "On this Veteran's day, God bless the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives so that we remain free." - America	Pythonpappy	3	456	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Zilar	Pythonpappy	2	341	Nov 12, 2013 by Mr_David
	Anybody With Under a Year of Sobriety? (Preview) I would love to hear from you and how you are doing? I have under a year, too. Also what are you doing to stay sober each day? I'll start with me... I have been an alcoholic for over 30 years. My life became a real mess because of it. DUI, in and out of hospitals due to alcohol related injuries, wreaked my marr...	betterthanyesterday52	19	745	Nov 11, 2013 by Stepchild
	The clown is down. (Preview) Fucked out the window again. Its bad. Shaking and all that. you been there. talk all the shit you want. Kneeling don on the dirt. Life found me out like the bitch is is. 666. laugh. have a good laugh. it keeps you sober after all.	robbie0330	50	1242	Nov 11, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	new to this site! (Preview) hey everyone, I am knew to this site and i kind of need help! i am 21 years old and am in the military. if someone could lend me a hand, i would appreciate it	lovinglife413	10	566	Nov 11, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) November 11 "We can't grow without giving ourselves space for silence and the voice within."	Mike B.	1	299	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections 11/11/13 (Preview) SELF-ACCEPTANCE We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 I pray for the willingness to remember that I am a child of God, a divine soul in human form, and that my most basic and urgent...	Stepchild	1	311	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Take a Break --- Let Me Share a 'BIG' Laugh with You! (Preview) Check this out! ... click on link below: https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151823097153841	Pythonpappy	0	396	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - Scott Fitzgerald	Pythonpappy	0	288	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) I haven't won yet but I haven't lost, either. --Dennis C. A favorite saying in sports is, "It isn't losing to get knocked down. Losing is staying down." In life, as in sports, that idea makes great sense. Like "Let go and let God," or "Let it begin with me," it is a saying...	Pythonpappy	0	338	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections 11/10/13 (Preview) A SENSE OF BELONGING Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is - belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging becaus...	Stepchild	3	421	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Insanity Rules (Preview) A man goes into a pub, takes a seat at the bar, and orders five shots. The bartender gives him an odd look since hes all by himself, but he serves up the five shots and lines them up on the bar. The man downs them all quickly. He finishes the last one and calls out, "Four shots, please!" The bart...	Philipld	6	636	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	hello all (Preview) Hi, I live in Newquay, Cornwall which is in uk for those that aren't from here I find it a little hard to talk about my drinking but I do realise I need to stop, I got really drunk last night and don't remember getting home. I've got work in just over an hour, feel so bad.	newquaylad	16	618	Nov 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sharing at Meetings (Preview) Good Morning, I would love to hear how others began to share at meetings. I have been going for several months and although I want to share, I still get too nervous to. I am worried I will say something wrong in my nervousness and/or get tongue tied and get embarrassed. I would really love to be able to poss...	betterthanyesterday52	38	3084	Nov 10, 2013 by justadrunk
	Daily Reflections 11/09/13 (Preview) STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time f...	Stepchild	2	441	Nov 9, 2013 by tomsteve
	Anonymity (Preview) At one of the meetings I used to attend the chairperson was obliged to make a personal comment on what anonymity meant to them. I have seen many meetings where it was customary to have someone at random make a comment on the subject. I know I am contrary by nature but it seems to me much better to go directly...	Glen1Fiji1	5	619	Nov 8, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Daily Reflections for 11/8/13 (Preview) An Individual Adventure Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STE...	Stepchild	2	395	Nov 9, 2013 by Stepchild
	Daily Reflections for 11/7/13 (Preview) LET GO AND LET GOD . . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 When I "Let Go and Let God," I think more clearly and wisely. Without having to think about it, I quickly let go of things that cause me immediate pain and...	Stepchild	6	605	Nov 9, 2013 by Stepchild
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself."- Frank Tyger	Pythonpappy	2	367	Nov 9, 2013 by Closer
	Grapevine (Preview) November 8 "Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober."	Mike B.	1	358	Nov 8, 2013 by mikey50
	6 months sober and new exciting news! (Preview) Hello everyone, I just want to do this post, I am six months sober, its funny when I started this journey in soberity I thought it would be an impossible feat. However it was amazing, it brought me closer myself and others. I can't even imagine the old me anymore, its just a story from my past now, I no longe...	mandm	14	898	Nov 8, 2013 by chris
	Daily Reflections for 11/6/13 (Preview) GOING WITH THE FLOW Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I arise, O God, to do Thy will," This is the shortest prayer I know a...	Stepchild	3	377	Nov 8, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) Opportunity may knock only once, But temptation leans on the doorbell. --AnonymousWe have an opportunity. We've made getting out of debt a priority in our lives. Just having this desire gives us the opportunity. For this, we are grateful. It's all too easy, however, to slip into our old ways of think...	Pythonpappy	2	376	Nov 8, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson A truly powerful force in the universe is that of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health. Feelings of hope can stimulate the bodys immune system and inspire re...	Pythonpappy	2	344	Nov 7, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) November 7 "Our Twelve Traditions ... represent the sum of our experience as individuals, as groups within AA, and similarly with our fellows and other organizations in the great fellowship of humanity under God throughout the world. They are all suggestions, yet the spirit in which they h...	Mike B.	1	343	Nov 7, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) November 6 "The Twelve Steps ... are simple in language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no special interpretations, and certainly no reserva...	Mike B.	2	352	Nov 7, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Daily Reflections for 11/5/13 (Preview) "THE QUALITY OF FAITH" This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELV...	Stepchild	4	862	Nov 7, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift (Preview) A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. --D. Elton Trueblood Our lives are enriched by the contributions of those who lived before us. Many men and women gave more than they ever took from society,...	Pythonpappy	2	337	Nov 6, 2013 by Mike B.
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "All the water in the world cannot sink a ship - unless the water starts getting inside...All the troubles in the world can't sink a human being -unless those troubles invade his inner life."" - Vera Werblo	Pythonpappy	1	355	Nov 6, 2013 by Mike B.
	The Weekend.......... (Preview) Wow, where do I start........ Wife invited me to the house for a birthday part for a couple of my children. In-laws, brother and sister-in-law, Grandma.......whole crowd was there. Yeah, it was brutal. Emotions were all over the place. Still sober though :)!!!! The wife followed me around......ev...	Standing_Tall	5	562	Nov 5, 2013 by Stepchild
	Grapevine (Preview) November 4Grapevine Quote One of the truly great gifts in this Fellowship of mutually concerned people is the gift of the art of listening ... But our need to listen goes beyond meetings and talks with friends ... We need Step Eleven and our greater conscious contact with the Divine Listener. Then wil...	Mike B.	1	309	Nov 5, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	New Here... Struggling (Preview) Hi Everyone, This is my first post here, I have been reading a lot of your posts over the past few weeks. I am on day one "again". I have had so many struggles with Alcohol over the last 10+ years. The longest stretch of sobriety I managed was about 6 months, but I am sure that is due to the fact I...	d_willing	13	586	Nov 5, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	My new prayer (Preview) Lord...please make me into the man my dog thinks I am....amen.	Mike D	3	413	Nov 5, 2013 by mikef
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Realand more..." There are a lot of great acronyms in the program, and three of them describe the progress I've made with respect to fear. The first is: F*#k Everything And Run. This is how I dealt with fear before recov...	Pythonpappy	2	393	Nov 5, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Cultivating AuthenticityAuthenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think were supposed to be and embracing who we are.The idea that we can choose authenticity makes most of us feel both hopeful and exhausted. We feel hopeful because being real is something we value. We feel exhauste...	Pythonpappy	2	352	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Tired but still not drinking (Preview) I went to a wedding Friday night I thought about making up an excuse not to go but they where very good friends and I felt I needed to go. I did not drink. I have not drank in 14 days but the guilt and the dishonesty of all of the lies I told while I was drinking is beginning to eat at me. My children are suppo...	debird17	11	568	Nov 4, 2013 by Closer
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Some see things as they are and say "why". I dream things that never were, and say "why not?"" - George Bernard Shaw	Pythonpappy	1	303	Nov 4, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) November 4 "Regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"	Mike B.	1	318	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Hey there, newcomers!!! You deserve sobriety! (Preview) This has been a tough year. In this first year of sobriety I lost my mom, changed careers, moved, and took in my niece. And I stayed sober no matter what. It wasnt always easy but if I could stay sober through all that I can stay sober no matter what. Newcomer--you can get sober and stay sober through anythi...	Chaya	10	791	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Weekly Thought --- (religious concept) (Preview) Weekly Verse"Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31Weekly Quote"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. it's the life in your years." Abraham LincolnWeekly ThoughtAll good things we have are gifts from God. Even the faith wi...	Pythonpappy	2	371	Nov 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Quote About Hope I'd Like to Share With You (Preview) *"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.* Dale Carnegie	betterthanyesterday52	4	445	Nov 4, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky." - Helen Lowrie Marshall	Pythonpappy	0	319	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Becoming Open (Preview) Good morning everyone! It's a beautiful chilly November day here in Iowa, and things are good. Hope everything is good with you. This morning I was thinking about the ways that the A.A. acronym H.O.W. -- Honesty, Openness, and Willingness -- began to manifest itself in my life through the early mo...	Mike D	5	692	Nov 4, 2013 by Mike D
	Today's Gift (Preview) Sometimes it seems I've spent my life trying to live up to others' expectations of me, and failing. I never thought much about pleasing myself. That would have been "selfish." --JoAnn Reed We can feel burdened, inadequate, and overwhelmed by expectations, even when they are our own. Mo...	Pythonpappy	0	360	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	I just can't get anything right..... (Preview) I have not had a drink in 8 days but I can't seem to get anything right and I'm really getting on my husbands nerves. I bounced a check and now have several overdraft charges. Then my car broke down. My husband said it's because of the way I drive and he is going to have to pay for my mess up again. T...	debird17	18	685	Nov 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust	Pythonpappy	0	282	Nov 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. --Confucius Step Ten tells us that when we are wrong, we must "promptly" admit it. We aren't used to admitting our mistakes. We defend ourselves or blame others. This is called denial. Denial is bad for...	Pythonpappy	0	398	Nov 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
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