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Site is down....
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Our web site, 12stepforums.net is down for the time being, not long, but a short while. I am working diligently to get it back up and running asap. John
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Daily Reflections ~ Taking Action & 24hrs a Day
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Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among ussometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze, is the ability to...
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God Calling - In My Presence
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"You do not realize that you would have broken down under the weight of your cares but for the renewing time with Me. It is not what I say; it is I Myself. It is not the hearing Me so much as the being in My presence. Gradually you will be transformed, physically, mentally, spiritually. All who see...
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God Calling - Inspiration, Not Aspiration
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"The world does not need supermen, but supernatural men. Men who will persistently turn the self out of their lives and let divine power work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. I have always plenty of work to be done and always pay My workpeople well, as you will see, as...
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God Calling - Never Ruffled
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"Be still. Be calm. Wait before Me. Learn of patience, humility, peace. When will you be absolutely unruffled whatever happens? You are slow to learn your lesson. In the rush and work and worry, the very seeking a silence must help. In bustle so little is accomplished. You must learn to t...
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Second meeting today!
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Again everyone was very welcoming! One guy tried to invite me to the big table (I was sitting on the out skirts of the room) I told him maybe next week. lol. One of the ladies came and sat with me and asked me if I had the big book, I told her I didn't so she went and got one for me and told me that her and another wan...
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The Iron Lady
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Saw this movie the other days. It was pretty good. Interesting subject matter and Streep just doesn't do average performances. Anyway at one point Maggie was explaining her personal philosophy: Watch your thoughts because they become your words. Watch your words because they become your actions...
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Thank you members old and new.
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It's such a blessing to be on this forum. The recent posts by both our older members and especially our new ones has been such an inspiration to me personally. Thank you all. Alone I will perish no matter how long I am sober. God has been good to me by giving me the gift of you. I have been blessed just by the ho...
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how do online meetings work?
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i am new to this site. i'm trying to find out about the 9pm online meeting tonight. i can't bring up the info when i click on it. what about my paper that needs to be signed for court? i don't understand. please explain. help! thank you.
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Something Im seeing...
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Ive been sober for 69 days . Im starting to see something I havent seen in years and its something the promises state about gaining interest in our fellows. Im really noticing how good of a feeling it is to care for someone else or just want to brighten someones day which has really gotten me thinking a...
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Dead Parent Advice Please
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Saturday was my father's mother's 90th birthday. Everyone was there. All of my 7 surviving aunts and uncles, and their family. It was gigantic. For the begining, I was more distracted that I didn't know most of the people there, but then, my sister and I stood by the poster board of the pictures of my gra...
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Barisax and Flyn S. Happy Sobriety Birthday!
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I want to say "Congradulations" to Barisax and Flyn S. who both celebrated double decade sobriety birthdays this month. I wish you both many more sober 24 hours!
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God Calling - Meet Me Everywhere
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"Life is really consciousness of Me. Have no fear. A very beautiful future lies before you. Let it be a new life, a new existence, in which in every single happening, event, plan you are conscious of Me. Get this ever-consciousness and you have eternal life. Be in all things led by the spirit of...
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When it gets Dark, AND IT WILL!!
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Hello and blessings of this day! Welcome to all newcomers, those just coming around and those just coming back, WE are glad your here. Welcome to those continuing their daily journey, a day at a time,working in the "solution". I am still in physical recovery from a long sickness(for me) bu...
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God Calling - Drop Your Crutch
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"Just go step by step. My will shall be revealed as you go. You will never cease to be thankful for this time when you felt at peace and trustful, and yet had no human security. When human support or material help is removed, My power can become operative. I cannot teach a man to walk who is trustin...
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The disease marches on!
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One of my friends who came into AA with me, lost his son. This child was in Alateen, spoke at conventions and an altar boy in church. Some one apparently spiked his drink at a club and he went into a coma and died. He was married with 3 children, one of whom is 5weeks old. This was a sad funeral to see a sober fat...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Root of Our Troubles & 24hrs a Day
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Selfishnessself-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and things will be perfectly okay without my...
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Sometimes I have to remember The Beginning...
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This is the second half of my son's 8th grade year. He's 13. So was I, I think. It started when my cat got killed by a car outside the apartment and my sister, ten years older and broken inside, gave me a vodka & OJ to "make me feel better." It was Mother's Milk. I got drunk. I felt whole, and saf...
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Brand Spankin New, With a question.
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My question: I have an account on the NA message boards, just for support, a supplement. And now I have an account here. I think that the NA meets in my area are a joke, all about slap and tickle BS. I thought I could go to AA, they are more focused, and I don't mind not including drugs in the actual meeting. I w...
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AA Traditions
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I am very confused and a bit sad right now about something that is occuring in my home group and was hoping to get a little input from folks here. There is a male member who has been coming in & out of the hall I go to for the past year, about the same amount of time I have been going there. He identifies him...
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Whitney Houston Dead at 48
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Sad to think its most likely addiction related.. RIP
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4 months without a drop today!
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I am very grateful! Its amazing how good it gets... a bit scary but I am humble and grateful for this gift :)
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23 Years Today!
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Unfortunately didn't make it to a meeting - I'm in the hospital again. But grateful for 23, and being in generally good health in between kidney stones and complications thereof. Barisax
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Contempt Prior To Investigation
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Last night at a meeting I was asked to share. The topic was "Contempt prior to investigation". While others before shared I kept thinking about contempt of ethnic and minority groups, the OTHERS, not so much the concept as it applies to religious or spiritual concepts. It is so appropo...
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Rage while drunk
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Hello AA message board, I am a normal poster on the Alanon boards but thought I would jump over to get your insight. My husband is an alcoholic/addict, he is currently in the thros of his alcholosim. This has been a problem since our marriage (8 years ago). He drinks in secret, lately when he is drinking h...
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God Calling - The Voice Divine
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"The divine voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness." 365 One-minute Meditations from God Calling
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30 awesome days today!
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Hi everyone, 30 days today for me; have had to do some hard praying this week to my HP due to some challenges; not so much that I wanted to drink but had some things come up that historically would have been an excuse to drink but kept reminding myself that a drink never fixes anything and the problem would s...
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The joy of the poorest in AA.
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I gave a lift back home to 3 members who came to the meeting in the back of a truck. They are 3 of the humblest people I had come into contact with. The one sister is 1 year sober and she lives in a shack. She has such a love for God and fellow members. She earns a living washing clothes for people. The one brother...
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God Calling - On Me Alone
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"I am your God, your supply. You must rely on Me. Trust to the last uttermost limit. You must depend on divine power only. I have not forgotten you. Your help is coming. You shall know and realize My power. Endurance is faith tried almost to the breaking point. You must wait and trust and hop...
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New here
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Hi, My name is Melissa. I joined 3 days ago and have just been lurking. I have been with my husband for 23 years, we have 2 beautiful girls. I started drinking beer about 6 years ago. It then progressed to tequila and wine and a few other things. My mom passed away about a year and a half ago and I have been drin...
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God Calling - Another Start
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"Take courage. Start a new life tomorrow. Put the old mistakes away. I give you a fresh start. If My forgiveness were for the righteous only, where would be its need? Why do you fret and worry so? I wait to give you all that is lovely, but your lives are soiled with worry and fret. I can only bles...
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AA Meeting/ Chat room
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I have tried several attempts to sign into the chat room here on this board and it says I am not registered. Do I need to sign up a new account for the chat here at MIP?
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Daily Reflections ~ A Path to Faith & 24hrs a Day
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True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My last drunk had landed me in the hospital, totally broken. It was then that I was able to see my pas...
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Choosing someone to do a Fifth Step with
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I am at that point where I must choose who to do a Fifth Step with (besides God and myself). I have heard one horror story of someone not respecting the privacy of the guy doing the 5th step, putting his dirty laundry out for all to see. Another issue is getting past one's lack of trust. You spill your gut...
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Negative disease talk in my head...
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I'm starting day 4 of sobriety today, so I don't know a whole lot... Last night at my 3rd meeting, it was a bit different, it was the first "discussion" meeting I attended, so everyone in the group shared. As I listened to the stories of multiple attempts at rehab, being in domestic violence s...
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60 days.
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Been an AA member for a while, today is 60 days without a drop. Very nice changes.
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New and confused
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Hello - I'm Christine, an alcoholic/addict. I am on day 3 of being sober. I went to a meeting on day one (and got a 24 hour coin) and day two and am going to a meeting tonight. I am planning on doing 90 in 90, but only because I heard someone say that on TV, or maybe I read it. I don't remember. I don't have a sponso...
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Eleven Chapters in the Big Book (& Bill and Lois had no children...)
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There are twelve steps and twelve traditions but eleven chapters. Now hold that vision in mind while you contemplate this next point; Bill Wilson did not have children. Is it possible that Our Father has waited till now for us, the second generation of A.A., to come of age for these facts t...
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God Calling - You Shall Know
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"Walk with Me. I will teach you. Listen to Me. I will speak. As you persist and make a life-habit of this, in many marvelous ways I will reveal My will to you. You shall have more sure knowing of both the present and the future. Life is a school. Believe that your problems and difficulties can b...
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Ego or no Ego
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Someone recently said that those people who stand at the podium and share their experience strength and hope must really have big egos to say all the stuff they do. Then I heard someone say that those people who choose not to go to the podium (who choose not to share) generally have a much bigger ego than...
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Cross talk in meetings
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Anyone experience sharing your experience in a meeting then having ot torn down by someone else afterwards in their share? I get this a lot because I don't really have the courage to be myself, even though I really know the program of recovery. I am also an attractive women who the other women don't seem...
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Sent Via Email to All MIP members
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Hello Everyone!
I hope that the start of 2012 has shown to be a blessing to everyone who is registered on our site's message boards.
As a registered member on our message boards, you may receive 3-4 emails per year. Your email account will not be slammed with a bunch of emails, nor will your em...
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Gratitude Thread
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What are you grateful for right now?
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Eleven Chapters in the Big Book: VOTE on it!
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My Grandfather was born in Ireland sometime in the late 1890s, were not sure exactly when. He came to America, got a good job, married my Grandmother and then got a promotion at work. The depression hit in 1929 but Grandfather had a career with a large utility in Manhattan. In 1931 my Dad was born and the...
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Still relapsing and need help
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Hi all. I posted last March about relapsing after 22 years of sobriety. I am still struggling and in the depths of despair. Everyday I wake up and say I am not going to drink. Everyday for the past month I have. I am depressed. Can't seem to shake this thing. I feel alone and scared. You all were encouraging...
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If one has the mental compulsion without the allergy is he an alcoholic?
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In the first paragraph of We Agnostics (Chapter 4) is states, "If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic." As I read this, I can have either one or both maladies (that is...
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Alcohol- amazingly powerful
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Left my sober-living ranch that I've lived at for 18 months. Left my GF, flew 2,000 mi basically for a drink. Amazing. Alcohol never ceases to baffle me. Been home for like two+ weeks and wish I could stop drinking..it's bad. knowing what the solution is doesn't make it easier to put the drink down. Been...
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Had a good week
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I had a good week, got to lots of meetings and am off to a convention day tomorrow. Hope you all are keeping well.
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Sailing-Part Two
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Hi Guys, well I'm off tomorrow for another month of sailing, this time just my partner Jane and me. We are going to do a boat master course while we are away so that will be a challenge and next week, weather permitting I will celebrate my AA birthday at a lovely meeting I discovered in Nelson. I really enjo...
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Overtalking in meetings
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I love my "home group" of women. Yes, we tend to talk perhaps more than guys, but it is always mentioned (by the leader) that we are to limit our sharing to 2-3 min. Our group has grown but we don't break off into groups. There is one woman in there who is (sort of) a local stand-up comedian. She's...
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