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The Serenity prayer.
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When I knew not who God was, this was my prayer. I desperately needed serenity or I would have gone mad. The 1st step deflated my ego and allowed God to intervene in what was a wreck of a life. The only thing I could utter was this prayer, and it kept me alive until I could grasp bigger truths about God.The Ful...
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Today's Gift 06-24
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What I said never changed anybody; what they understood did. --Paul. P. How often have we given our all to change somebody else? How frantically have we tried to force a loved one to see the light? How hopelessly have we watched a destructive pattern - perhaps a pattern we know well from personal experi...
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Grapevine
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June 24 "Older AAs who know the record are unanimous in their feeling that an intelligence greater than ours has surely been at work, else we could never have avoided so many pitfalls, could never have been so happily related to our millions of friends in the outside world."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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June 24, 2013 Quote of the Week "Relapse begins a long time before you pick up that first drink or drug." I'm a three meeting minimum a week kind of guy. Anything below that and I begin feeling, well, kind of vulnerable. Oh, not that I'm going to pick up and use, but vulnerable to what m...
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I am alcoholic.
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The seed was planted.
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A lady walks up to me in a meeting today to invite me to her husband's 1st thanksgiving. I say thank you and then she asks me whether I remember taking her to an Alanon meeting 15 years ago. My wife says yes we did, but I have no recollection of this. I always say that some plant the seed, some water it but God ma...
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He tried to get me to Drink
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I don't understand it at all and now, after almost 2 years of absolute sobriety I took a small sip of wine last night! 2 and half years ago I married into a blended family. Our kids are teens and last night I was just taking it easy after a long 2 days at work. As typical, my husband got the urge to go get somet...
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Welcome Captain Jim
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Welcome to MIP Captain, ... glad you found us ... Sobriety ??? ... 'Today' is as good a day as any to start!!!
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How do I "Break Up" With My Home Group?
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I've been reading a lot of "feeling uncomfortable with my group" posts lately, and I know exactly how the authors feel. I am in a group that I have absolutely nothing in common with. I'm poor and struggling, a person who didn't have much to lose but lost everything, and can't find any direc...
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Speaker Meeting
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So guys, I spoke at the big speaker meeting in my area last night and it was incredible. I had been so frightened but I just asked G-d to help me with my fear of not being good enough and to be there with me up at the podium. What was amazing was how great it felt to share with a room of so many other alcoholics. Th...
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I Am
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I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking. My name is I AM! He paused. I waited. He continued.When you live in the past with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I Was.When you live in the future with its problems and fears, it is hard. I am n...
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Today's Gift 06-23
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What happens to us is not as important as how we respond. The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These are gi...
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Other AA Forums
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This is a great forum. Can anyone tell me about some other forums I might enjoy - relating to AA and recovery.
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Do I tell someone?
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Hi...I had 105 days sobriety in, but I recently had a slip. I am attending an AA mtg tonight. Do I need to "confess" this slip?
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Feeling loved by HP
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I did a 5th step with the sponsee that I've had since I was 6 months sober. She's been relapsing the whole time - now has 3 months and experienced the 5th step the way it was meant to be (I felt it anyway). It went really well and I almost heard audible clicks : ) I do hope that God has chosen this to be her time....
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Today's Gift 06-19
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The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. --Moses Luzzatto This program promises many rewards for those who follow it, but it does not promise to be easy. We search our conscience for resentments and face them. None of us can progress in our recovery while holding o...
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Thought for the day
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Making Life Easier Life doesn't have to be hard. Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affa...
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Ugh. I dropped the ball.
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Missed an appointment with someone, work-related. It just flew out of my head, and I stood them up. It's not a huge deal because I apologized and rescheduled, but I'm overly-sensitive to my mistakes. They remind me that this was a pattern when I was drunk, and I have a difficult time letting go of the gui...
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Lessons from exchanging pennies
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Lesson From Exchanging PenniesIf you have a penny and I have a penny and we exchange pennies, you still have one cent, and I still have one cent. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, you now have two ideas and I now have two ideas. -- Edited by Bob K on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 06...
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Today's Gift 06-20
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Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. 'Tis grace that hath brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.' --John Newton Today and always, let joy be your compass. When choosing a direction in life, choose the path of your heart. Do what you love, follow your bliss. Fun is a...
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Grapevine
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June 20 "When we reach a maximum in understanding, we know how very much we shall never understand."
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I Need to Find A Sponsor....Any Advice?
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I have been told that I need to find a sponsor asap. I have been sober for 22 days today. This intimidates me so much, but I never had one before when I was in AA and I hear at the meetings that without a sponsor it is hard to have success in this program. I don't know how to go about this. I know I need to find a wom...
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More to be revealed
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Morning and blessings of this day! After many applications and searching for part time employment, finally got a call from OFFICE DEPOT to come in for online assessment 2nd stage of interview.Excited because haven;t worked since retired last april from a job I held for 34 years, before we moved to Fl...
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We are not a glum lot
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Someone the other day described me as 'fun'. I was so worried when I stopped drinking that I wouldn't be any fun anymore. What I've realized is that when I was drinking I was fun at parties (until the moment when I was a gong show), now I am fun the rest of the time. Freedom, right? Have a good 24, all!
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Grapevine
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June 21 "Imperfection offers me the freedom of a million potentials."
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As Bill Sees It 2
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In God's Hands When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned. << << << >> >> >> My depression deepened unbearably, and finally it seemed to me as though I were at t...
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I Love This Quote...
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I picked up this journal which I am going to use on my new "journey". When I bought this a couple of weeks ago, I didn't pay any attention to the quote on the cover, I just purchased it at a yard sale and thought since it hadn't been used, it would be good to jot down things I learned along the way. It...
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"Relax God is in charge."
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I saw this slogan at a group recently. For me it stated all the traditions and steps in one go. I thought about this in my own life, and I realised that self will runs a riot sometimes. God has to be in charge for me otherwise my peace and serenity is affected.
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Today's Gift 06-22
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. --Archibald. MacLeish Many of us have lived double lives. There were public selves whom others knew, and private selves whom no one met. It was a compulsive world, and both sides were false. Many of us grew up in addicted families and learn...
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Need Advice From You Seasoned AAer's
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I'll try to make this short....I've been an alcoholic for 30+ years. This is my third attempt in last five years at trying to get straight. I have been living with a man during this time. Thought it was "true love". We are both alcoholics...met in a bar...need I say more? The alcohol has reall...
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Just some thoughts on prayer.
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Last night I was unable to sleep no matter how hard I tried. My mind would not switch off. I tried breathing exercises, physical exercise to no avail. Eventually I just got into bed and asked God to clear all memory. When I got up this morning, I felt like I had a blackout sleep. I cannot recall what time I sl...
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60 days
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I haven't been on here for a while...I think I joined when I started treatment. I cannot believe how much has changed since then. I'm doing pretty good but have been dealing with some painful things in treatment. Learning to deal with my emotions....oh how that can be tough but willing to go to any l...
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Today's Gift 04-16
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Having realistic expectations. Sometimes we expect much too much of people and things. We will never be happy if we expect our doctor to work instant cures or if we blame our teacher for what we failed to learn. We need to examine what's realistic to expect of others and what we are responsible for ourse...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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April 15, 2013 Quote of the Week "The only thing worse than my problemsare my solutions to them." Before recovery, I couldn't understand why my life wasn't getting better despite what I did to fix it. If my boss was a jerk, I'd quit. If my girlfriend wasn't paying attentio...
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Don't let perfection get in the way of the good
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A friend of mine in the program said this to me recenty as I was carrying on about how imperfect I am, and my plans to change this. Im not always aware of my habit of doing this- I need it to be pointed out. I understand the theory of 'progress not perfection', and it sounds great.. In theory. I tend to hold mys...
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As Bill Sees It 1
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Personality Change It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without u...
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One situation that continues to annoy me - feedback welcome
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My partner and I went out to a gathering and it was a party for someone at a restaurant. I thought "Cool. A dinner thing. Sounds nice." Okay, so we get there and they are waiting for an hour to seat us and I don't know the reason, but in that time all that is going on is people slamming mojitos a...
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Weekly Thought
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Weekly Quote Let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more. Love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. -Henry DrummondWeekly Thought Have you ever noticed that we tend to b...
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Funny
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No matter what your job is, you should always try to make it as interesting as possible...
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On my return.......
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....to Alcoholics Anonymous, the 4 months on the outside had broken me adequately to become teachable. Any further experimentation would have resulted in my demise. I was very sick but not stupid, and so I came back a little worse off but not totally insane. I tried my own resources and they did not wor...
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God will make a way
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I always find that God will make a way where there is no human way possible.
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Programme in action in every day life
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Well, I suppose that a big part of my recovery was and still is the 12 step programme and applying this in my life, as step 12 says. So I manage a small team of technical draughtsmen, who also climb structures and work in hazardous locations on the structures. Every other climber (apart from managers) ge...
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In awe of the 'normies'
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Due to my current industry of employment, I have front- row seating to watching many people drink. It's odd.. How bizarre to be an alcoholic in recovery and be surrounded by booze. I have learned many valuable things through this experience. First and foremost- I AM an alcoholic. Truly, deeply, alwa...
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Today's Gift 06-18
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We Are Who We Think We Are How we think about ourselves has an impact on what we do. If we decide that we are less of a person because we have an illness, then we may not fulfill our potential. If we decide our illness will consume our every thought and action for the rest of our lives, then it probably will. I...
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The Gifts of The Program
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I thought I would share a special message that was forwarded to me that my daugther(16) posted on Facebook. I'm not a member of Facebook. I'm grateful for the gifts my HP(God) has given me and The 12 Step Program. This is what can happen to folks who suit up and show up and work The Program. Everyone is...
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Grapevine
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June 18 "As I peel away the layers of day-to-day expediency, I realize that my zigzag, erratic, and inconsistent course was in the general direction of progress all the time."
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Welcome Q
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Glad you found us, ... looking forward to your ESH ... God Bless, Pappy
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Balance
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Normally I'm on one side of life or the other - trying to figure out what 'balance' really is. I know that life with children has a wider range of emotions to offer. I know it widens the spectrum for my husband and I too. I was meditating this morning and some things that drifted by were thoughts of life w...
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What I've Learned about Sobriety...So Far!
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Coming up on 27 years of continuous sobriety...thank you AA for helping me find a God who has blessed me by removing the obsession of the mind ONLY by working the steps of this beautiful program of living. The first thing I learned was that, just because I'm powerless does NOT make me helpless! Addition...
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Broken Hearts Still Beat
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On May 31st, after twenty-two years of marriage, my husband passed away in my arms at the hospital. He'd had various health issues over the past fourteen years including strokes and a weak heart. Weak according to medical standards. According to me, his heart was one of the finest ones I have had the ho...
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