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Daily Reflections ~ Love Without Strings
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Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 89 Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude was more like love. they wanted...
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Please Share Your Personal Story of Recovery
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If spreading stories of people's recovery is spam then I'm guilty Thank you! Georgia W. -- Edited by Early Recovery at 21:18, 2008-09-29
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Miracles do happen
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Hi all, I have been busy as always fixing up my home and I also filled out the FAFSA and VT grant to start back to college in the Spring. I only need 6 credits and my internship to finish my BA in psychology. I had called a lady through a program that had worked with me for college helping me with books and car re...
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Please Read my biography
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Please read my profile bio if you have the time. I would like people to get to know me and my story.....which is quite shocking to most Any comments would be so helpful to me and very much appreciated.....
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Congrats on 2yrs, Christine!!! xx
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Well Done on ***TWO YEARS*** Sobriety ~ 1Day@aTime, Christine. Too Cool, Lady. Thanks for coming back & sharing them with us as you go. GodBless, Sister! Daniella xxxxx
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Wow!!
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Hi all lit's been over 2 years since I've been on this site..lost access to a computer for a long time. This is the first place I checked out and it's great to be here again. I was suprised I was still able to access without creating a new account, but I guess that's AA for you...we go away for a while and it's l...
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I like this....
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My thoughts guide my day. Noticing how I awake can help me save the day.
-- Kelley Vickstrom
We may envy friends who seem happy and peaceful. Why aren't they troubled as we so often are? The fact is, we can take actions to become more content too. One of the simplest is to ask our Higher Power for a positi...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 28th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day For the past two months we have been studying passages and steps from the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Now why not read the book itself again? It is essential that the A.A. program become part of us. We must have its essentials at our fingertips. We cannot study the Big Book to...
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Good Morning God, or is it Good God it's morning!!!
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Hello family! It is 3:15am and I still cant fall asleep! I hate to complain but the pain on my tounge and ear is hurting worse and worse. The pain pills work great but only for like 2 hours, and then the pain is right back as bad as ever. I can only take 2 pills every 4 to 6 hours and I am being very strickt wit...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Children
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The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid. Marvelous results often follow such a reunion. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 134 Wh...
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Prayer
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Here are some of my favorite prayers:
Help. Please. Don't.
Show me. Guide me. Change me.
Are you there?
Why'd you do that?
Oh.
Thank you.
Today, I will tell God what I want to tell God, and listen for God's answer. I will remember that I can trust God.
From The Language of Letting Go
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Daily Reflections ~ Without Reservations
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When brimming with gratitude, ones heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p.37 While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on withou...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 27th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Continuing the consideration of the term spiritual experience: "What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self discipline. With few exceptions, our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource, which t...
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New here...having trouble navigating
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Hi, Finding I am having a hard time staying away from alcohol after withdrawing from benzodiazapenes (Lorazepam)...If I drink at all it is a very bad thing because my body has not recovered from the drug yet and I have been off since Aug. 3... Doesn't look like there is much activity here..my chat featu...
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Hello!
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Hey guys, hope all is well with everyone. Work has been a nightmare-I dread waking up in the mornings. I feel like I'm having a late 20's-life crisis... But it's been 54 days without a drink and that I'm grateful for. I had a dream where I was at a party or some social event with loud music and lots of people....
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the howya thread.
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hows it going everyone, have a great day, or night, cheers peter.
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God answered my prayer quickly!
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As most of you know I lost my sponsor/best friend last Oct. 10 For a year she was my main focus. We spent almost every day together. I gave her showers, took her to apts. visited often cause she was lonley. I basically lived to take care of her. This whole year has been awful. Well it dawned on me that th...
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55th Annual GA Convention
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Anyone planning to attend? If so, I would love to meet up. http://www.aageorgia.org/prepaid.htm ~ Jen
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 26th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Continuing the consideration of the term spiritual experience: "The acquiring of an immediate and overwhelming God consciousness, resulting in a dramatic transformation, though frequent, is by no means the rule. Most of our spiritual experiences are of the educat...
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experience shows me
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and beckons me to tell everyone that alcoholics are often young and unseen, as I thought I was...(Im sure most know this already but, just in case). I had two months sober and then I drank last week because i thought that since my tolerance would be low, one time would be harmless. Wrong. I drank like i did...
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FUNNY AA COMMERCIAL
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http://www.videosift.com/video/Funny-Alcoholics-Anonymous-Commercial
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Daily Reflections ~ First Things First
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Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job wife or no wife we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Before coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking a drink: She said . . . , He sai...
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Feeling Protected
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Our task is not a naive one of feeling safe, of living and loving in a utopian world. One woman commented that our task is making ourselves feel safe while learning to live and love in a world that is unsafe.
We do not want to dwell on the danger for that gives power to the negative. Neither do we want to ign...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 25th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Let us consider the term "spiritual experience" as given in Appendix II of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous: "A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are change...
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Reply from Dr. Carl Jung To Bill W ~ 01.30.61
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Dear Mr. W. Your letter has been very welcome indeed. I had no news from Rowland H. anymore and often wondered what has been his fate. Our conversation which he has adequately reported to you had an aspect of which he did not know. The reason that I could not tell him everything was that those days I had to b...
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Persistance
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Hello family! As most of you know I have been going to doctor after doctor trying to get help for my sore tounge and ear. Well after 4 docs and an ER visit I had an apt. with a brand new doc today and she was wonderful! She really cared and I didnt feel intimidated like I ususally do with doc. Anyway she kne...
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Peace with the Past
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Even God cannot change the past. -- Agathon
Holding on to the past, either through guilt, longing, denial, or resentment, is a waste of valuable energy - energy that can be used to transform today and tomorrow.
"I used to live in my past," said one recovering woman. "I was either t...
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Dancing With God
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Dancing With God When I meditated on the word Guidance I kept seeing 'dance' at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky...
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Daily Reflections ~ Vigilance
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We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be i...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 24th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Let us continue with Step Twelve. We must practice these principles in all our affairs. This part of the twelfth step must not be overlooked. It is the carrying on of the whole program. We do not just practice these principles in regard to our drinking problem. We practice them i...
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Hey Doll
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Congratulations on 1 year sober. Sorry its late, not been reading on here as much as usual. Im one year at the beginning of December one day at a time and like others, I thought you had longer with your knowledge and great advise. I still feel like a baby in A.A. You seem to have great recovery. God ble...
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Allowing Ourselves to be Needy
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We can accept ourselves as people who have needs - the need for comfort, love, understanding, friendship, and healthy touch. We need positive reinforcement, someone to listen to us, someone to give to us. We are not weak for needing these things. These needs make us human and healthy. Getting our nee...
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Step 4 Question
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So, I can hear the little voice inside my head saying "just let it go, just wait until you actually get there" - but it won't go away and is causing me a little discomfort - so what does it hurt to ask...??? (I am only on step 2 with my sponsor) And - I know my sponsor is the appropriate person to ask...
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Looky Looky!!
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I'll be a monkey's uncle! I am a Senior Member here on MIP! What a great honour! Now the quesiton is,,,,,,,,,,how do I become an Oldtimer? LOL! Love you all! You are the best family I could ask for. Lots of Love, Allison
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 20th Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Step Four is, "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Step Five is, "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our, wrongs." Step Six is, "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these de...
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Daily Reflections ~ I Was An Exception
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He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, Do you think that you are one of us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413 During my drinking life I was convinced I was an exception. I thought I was beyond petty requirements and had the right to be excused. I never realized that the dark counterbalance of my attitude w...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 23rd Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Step Twelve is, "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Note that the basis of our effectiveness in carrying the message to others is the real...
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Tolerance
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Practice tolerance.
Tolerate our quirks, our feelings, our reactions, our peculiarities, and our humanness. Tolerate our ups and downs, our resistance to change, and our struggling and sometimes awkward nature.
Tolerate our fears, our mistakes, our natural tendency to duck from problems...
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Cool AA 'stuff'
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http://www.aahistory.com/ Found this website looking for AA history. It has links to The BB, The Grapevine, Meeting schedules, Just for Today, etc. along with some other cool stuff like Trivia, sobriety calculator....... Enjoy! ~ J
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We women need to stay sober!!!!
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Don't mean to upset anyone, but this is just another reason to stay clean and sober.... love you, all my female friends here. We can make it, we really can!!! Love, Joni
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365 Days.........
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....and 10,000 ass-kicking nights. But I finally made it! Woo Hoo! Thanks to all of you who have been so instrumental in this process of recovery. (((hugs))) -- Edited by Doll at 07:51, 2008-09-22
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Let it be ??
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Hi Ive just joined site and this is my first posting so apoligies if I get it wrong .. Ive been in the rooms 5yrs now and have managed to stay sober a day at a time (not bad for a girl that had to hit rock rock bottom before finding the rooms)! However I struggle with emotional sobriety people intereaction is...
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Repost: Funnies from Phil 2004
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Thanks for the many years of laughs and ES&H, Phil!!! This is YOU, from 2004...... The why and how of things 1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it? 2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white? 3. Is there ever a day that mattres...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Limitless Lode
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Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 22nd Sep 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day Step Eight is, "Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Nine is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." Making restitution for the wrong...
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Carl's Recovery Share
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My name is Carl and I am an Alcoholic. For me, to drink is to die. The last drink I had was on 27th July 2007 and at that time my life was helpless, homeless and hopeless. I had spent the previous hours debating whether to kill everybody in the world or myself. As the affects of my last drunk wore off I knew the w...
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Time Magazine's 1940 AA Article
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Last week one of the best-known teetotalers in the U. S., John D. Rockefeller, had 60 people to dinner. No cocktails were served, for several of Mr. Rockefeller's guests were members of "Alcoholics Anonymous," a widespread, publicity-shy group of one-time guzzlers who have cured...
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Trusting Ourselves
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Many of us believed that heeding the words of God or our Higher Power meant following rigid rules, an instruction booklet for life.
Many of us now believe differently. The rigid rules, the endless instructions, the exhortation to perfection, are not the words our Higher Power whispers.
The wor...
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Wanna Make God Laugh? Tell Him your Plans!!
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Oh yes, it is Sunday morning. Every Sunday morning I come up with some excuse not to go to church. Well this morning I guided through my satalite tv to see what is on today and there is an all day marathon I want to watch today so of course wasnt going to go to church. So Im sitting here enjoying my program a...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Last Promise
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We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 84 The last promise in the Big Book came true for me on the very first day of sobriety. God kept me sober that day, and on every other day I allowed Him to operate in my life. He gives me the strength...
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