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24 Hours a Day ~ 26th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of submission, release, and action. When we're drinking, we're submitting to a power greater than ourselves, liquor. Our own wills are no use against the power of liquor. One drink and we're sunk. In A.A. we stop submitting to the power of liquor. Inste...
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Daily Reflections apr 26
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HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs,...
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Looking for opinions
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To give you a little background, my husband and I were asked last year to start an Alanon group at our church. At the time I told them that we could not be affiliated with the church, we would have to rent the room etc. Recently an AA meeting was started at the same church, same time as Al-Anon and both non s...
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Books
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I know my friend needs to decide on his own to quit drinking but are there any books that maybe someone could recommend? Something to motivate him a little. He won't attend meetings right now so maybe something in the meantime.
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Finding Our Own Truth
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We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light. We often need to struggle,...
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Daily Reflections Apr 25
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ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...
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Feeling Safe
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the brea...
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I screwed up
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I screwed up... 8 months down the drain... I knew what I needed to be doing, I talked about how I'm going to stay sober, and get to meetings, etc... and I did try to get to a meeting last night, didn't make it because I had to pick up some stuff way across town and didn't realize how long that would take... ...
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Sponsor 'giving away' sponsees!
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My sponsor, since 2005, has been the very first one I chose. She had quantity and quality and of all the women in this area, she had the most of what I wanted! I found out a few weeks back, she's retiring from her job and moving away. I really wasn't worried, I know God will send me who he wants me to have. BUT...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 24th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I kno...
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Patience
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"You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time." -- Johann R. Wyss The story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...
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Daily Reflections Apr 24
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LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depend...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 23rd April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol, often given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they themselves admitting they're helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay sober over a period of months and years, I know that A.A. works. Th...
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Feed Your Soul (from care2.com)
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Printed from www.care2.com Feed Your Soul - 3 Easy Ways Adapted from Fifty Ways to Feed Your Soul by Rosemary Cunningham (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004). Simple Solution When the world is too much with us, or personal crises erupt, or were just plain having a bad day, these three simple but potent ideas can b...
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Types Of Fear
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There are two types of fear, deluded or unhealthy and non-deluded or healthy. These can also be divided into fear of the inevitable and fear of the evitable. The key to dealing with fear is to check which type of fear we have, and to transform our unhealthy fears of what we can do nothing about into heal...
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How to go about quitting???
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I need to quit drinking and I dont know how to go about it I heard you can die during detox what should I do? I have no insurance to be monitored!!!
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Imprisoned by your thoughts
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Problems exist only in the human mind. -- Anthony de Mello For most of us, theres always a long to do list. Thats a fact. And its easy to feel victimized. Poor me! Thats not a fact thats a choice. Experiment with your life to explore how much your mind is your jailer. Simply let go of the oh woe kinds of though...
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Daily Reflections April 23
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A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 In my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. It certainly was the basic ingredient for m...
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Courage
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we're not...
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Guess everyone was right...
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There's too much crap going on right now... but I'm getting to meetings again even though the drive into town kills my back, it was getting better, now it's all screwed up again... but I need meetings right now. I guess everyone was right... not about moving up here to Nebraska... I still think that...
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We've had it!
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To make a really long story short my husband and I have a couple that we are very close friends with. The husband in the couple is an alcoholic. He has had numerous close calls ie. serious fall of his bike resulting in a brain injury leaving him with damage and now no drivers license to keep a job. He has b...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 22nd April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn't always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to...
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From MIP...For those that haven't seen this
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http://www.12stepforums.net/interviewwithgod.html
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Daily Reflections Apr 22
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NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselv...
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An Uphill Climb
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When life seems like an up hill climbTake comfort in the factThat you are mooning everyone behind you
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Coping With Stress
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Inevitably, there are times of stress in our lives, no matter how long we've been in recovery. Sometimes, the stress is outside or around us. We're feeling balanced, but our circumstances are stressful. Sometimes, the stress is within; we feel out of balance. When the stress is external and interna...
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baby!
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Well, I'm an... ex-aunt? lol um, my ex-husband's sister had her baby on the 18th... they just sent pics, they didn't get a whole lot of good ones, but here's a couple... My ex-father-in-law and Shannon Kimi and Shannon His name is Shannon Michael Thomas Knight, weighed 6lb 13oz, not sure of his len...
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Online Meeting 2nite :D
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I'd love to take part in an online meeting with everybody but being a 5hour behind Scouser means it'd be way past my bedtime! Have a good meeting for those of you who can make it ;) Maybe I'll catch up with you soon or read the minutes! lol Happy Sober Day dears & if you're struggling it's because you're...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 21st April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ After we've been in A.A. for a while, we find out that if we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble people. The men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all humble people. When I stop to think that but for the grace of God I might be drunk right now, I can't help feelin...
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Just checking in
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Morning all Just Thought I would check in to say hi, and things are progressing well. It's been a few days or so since my last post, my daughter and are doing fine, son is doing well. He's started home schooling not along ago, and done 2 exams already and is doing well in that area, he's seeing a counciler o...
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Daily Reflections Apr 21
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CULTIVATING FAITH "I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especiall...
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Going To Meetings
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I am still amazed, after years of recovering, at how easily I can begin to talk myself out of attending meetings. I am also still amazed at how good I feel when I go. -- Anonymous We don't have to stay stuck in our misery and discomfort. An immediate option is available that will help us feel better: go to a m...
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you ok ryan?
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miss seeing u on here........hope u are ok......?
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Just call me "Grandma"
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This cat showed up on my porch last October. She was sooo tiny & dirty. I ran ads in the local paper and even put up flyers w/pictures around the neighborhood. When no one claimed her, she became our Itty Bitty Kitty. Well, low and behold just a few days ago my b/f said "when are the kittens due&qu...
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Hey Peanut Brain
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You still freezin' it off up there?! When you gonna make down for some warm SC weather!
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Daily Reflections April 20
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SELF-EXAMINATION . . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often used to se...
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RISK
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RISKTo laugh, is to risk playing the fool. To weep, is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another, is to risk involvement. To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true selves. To put your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss. To love, is to risk not being loved in return. To...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 20th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. You take out of life what you put into it. So I'd say to people coming into A.A.: "Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. J...
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First dream
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I took a nap today and had my first dream about drinking--I think, or possibly my second. I remember something sad happened (in my dream) on top of my reflection of the Virginia Tech shooting and I decided I wanted a beer. It was odd because I didn't dream about getting it--I just had this tremendous sadn...
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Deadlines
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I don't know whether I want in or out of this relationship. I've been struggling with it for months now. It's not appropriate to let it hang indefinitely. I will give myself two months to make a decision. -- Anonymous I've had this unsolved problem hanging over my head for six months now. I'm confused. I...
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AA Archives
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http://www.mensworkshop.org/AA_Gallery/source/aa_co-founders_dr._bob___b.htm You might hafta paste and copy into an address line...its worth seeing...lot of different pics -- Edited by Phil at 12:01, 2007-04-19
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Sober Blogging
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I have a blog I started almost two years ago, I just got back to updating and adding to it the other day. Ive been around the board here a little while, but I didnt want to spam ... lol :) Id be glad to post the address if it's OK, and anyone is interested in taking a look... Id also love to get some folks pos...
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Prayers Needed for Wandajf
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Hi guys. Please take a bit of time today and pray for Wanda. She got home from taking an elderly neighbor in for a blood test, and her home was burnt to the ground. Thank God her little dogs were with her. She has lost everything material and is still in shock right now. I know this community will help her get...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 19th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put sobriety into my life, almost everything I take o...
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Daily Reflections Apr 19
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BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167 The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritual--almost incomprehensible. But...
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Seeds Of Joy
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Inch by inch, row by row Someone bless these seeds I sow . . . 'Til the rain comes tumblin' down. --David Mallett We plant a garden with faith, never knowing exactly what the harvest will bring. We attend to those aspects of gardening, which we have some control over, planting good seeds in rich soil, in s...
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What's wrong with me?
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*sigh* I don't know what's wrong with me today... I haven't been this depressed in I don't know how long. I just want to cry and I can't, and I don't even know why I want to. No thoughts of drinking... but thoughts of something else I shouldn't do (another bad coping mechanism) and I haven't done it in m...
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Opportunity
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"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. -- Margaret Mead A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon "What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifeti...
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Sponsor
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Hello, I'm going to be looking for a sponsor. Can anyone tell me what to look for. I've heard people asking for one at meetings...I have a hard time asking my own family for anything, and havent had the nerve to speak up and ask for one. Thanks Nancy Jo
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24 Hours a Day ~ 18th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ As I look back over my drinking career, have I learned that you take out of life what you put into it? When I put drinking into my life, did I take out a lot of bad things? Hospitals with the D.T.'s? Jails for drunken driving? Loss of job? Loss of home and family? When I put drinking in...
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