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Grapevine
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March 19 "Through uncovering and admitting my character defects, I realized that I was no different than the people I was so afraid of. I understood that we were all suffering and that I didn't need to disguise my authentic self."
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New to board. My story
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I am a 33 year old woman with a beautiful daughter and wonderful husband but I really have a problem with alcohol . Today is day 2 of being sober and I feel miserable not because of not having alcohol but because I am depressed from what alcohol makes me do. so here I go , I am one of those peoples that gets ho...
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New territory
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Looks like I'm going to be a single dad. Well last piece of the puzzle the house is being foreclosed on the 23rd. The ex still has no job income or place to go which is not my problem but the children are. I planned for this day 8months ago. I'm anxious sometimes knowing I'll have full time parenting respons...
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Grapevine
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March 18 "Most of the important and astounding things that have happened to me in the last eighteen years of sobriety in AA have been slow in coming and impossible to recognize or appreciate until long after they took place."
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Grapevine
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March 17 "The expression of true humility is the willingness to serve others without expectation of reward, prestige or recognition for our services to them. It should be done in a spirit of cheerfulness and joy."
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Today's Gift 3/17
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. --Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 16, 2015Quote of the Week"When fear knocks on the door, and faith answers, no one is home." When I was new to the program, I was taught that I could not be in fear and in faith at the same time. I was either living in fear, or I was living in faith. What recovery has taught me is that today I h...
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Today's Gift 3/16
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Say when it's time to do that difficult thing.Sometimes, true windows of opportunity open in our lives. We get a chance to make that amend. The perfect time to end or resolve that relationship arises. It's like a gift from God when that window opens up. All we need to do is gently step through. But someti...
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Sunrise Quote
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Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself.~ Frank Tyger
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My almighty thought for the day...
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When I first came into AA, I thought I was like joining a AARP club with all the grey haired, false teeth, bifocal wearing old folks in it... Today I am just grateful that I stuck around long enough to have grey hair, false teeth and reading glasses, and to qualify for that other AA... RP program too!! LOL
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Something other than a drunk
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yet the symptoms are recklessly similar. I rely on the program and my large recovering family too stay sober and to support me as we all do thru problems other than booze. I have been blessed beyond my wildest imagination as a lifetime member of AA. Outside of our program we have other maladies as o...
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Sunrise Quote
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Love is the beauty of the soul.~ St. Augustine
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Today's Gift 3/15
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What we lack are not scientists but poets and people to reveal to the heart what the heart is ready to receive. --Joseph CampbellA short time ago, a friend handed me the following credo. It read:This is the artist's dream:To receive the inspiration to create,To share that creation with others,And to...
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Today's Gift 3/12
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When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. --AnonymousAt times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with God, then I can control the outcome that God alone seems to determine.We cannot make deals with God - not because God is so hard-no...
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Today's Gift 3/14
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You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. -- Job 11:16Many of us have painful memories we carry with us like pictures in a wallet. We keep these memories alive through feelings generated by those moments. Why are we so attached to unpleasant memories?It's dif...
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Grapevine
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March 11 "In AA I learned to take the risk of being real."
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Welcome Onzello
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Welcome to MIP Onzello, ... glad to have you here AND thanks for sharing your story with us ... I'm happy to know you've found a home in AA and pray for you to continue to have the strength and desire to stay this time ... Like you, I tried AA about 1995, but I didn't come to stay until '08, it saved me from my dy...
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Sunrise Quote
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How to deal with slips?
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Hello everyone, I am very new around here. I started about two months ago attending a local AA group as a periodical alcoholic. I still haven't found a sponsor. I seek alcohol and cannot stop and binge when I experience difficult emotions, especially those concerning my relationship with my partne...
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Sunrise Quote
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.~ Henry David Thoreau
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I'm baaack
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Hey everyone. It's me again. So here we go. I didn't drink for 2 weeks then my boyfriend takes me out and asks if I'm ready to drink....Well let's start from the beginning, he wanted me to quit, told me I needed AA. Well I stopped for 2 weeks and then he asks if I'm ready for a drink. In my head I feel, of course I...
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Today's Gift 3/13
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. --Charles SchulzLiving one day at a time is a big project. Most of us have just enough faith, patience, and courage to last 24 hours. We all seem to be in need of a daily refueling.Living in today helps keep our lives balanced and simple. At f...
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Grapevine
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March 13 "I must learn to open my mind as well as my eyes."
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Today's Gift 3/11
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -- W. B. YeatsIt's a bitter pill to swallow, but our intelligence only gets in the way when we're dealing with things that really count -- our feelings and how we express them. Love is the be all and e...
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I Am Reminded We Are Indeed Connected With All life
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I was empting the "honey bucket" off the aft deck before boarding my dinghy on a hot sunny beautiful morning...A big turtle about 2 feet long emerged to the surface as if he saw a Carl's Junior Roadside Sign for a hungry lunchtime 12:30 PM pit stop...He enthusiastically imbibed..and how...
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Happy Belated 7th Anniversary Pappy!
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Amazing! A good word for you because they way you reach out here consistently to others and keep giving back is amazing. Even in spite of health issues....I bet you don't even realize how many folks you have helped. You have also been the "rock" of this board for at least the last year. Go...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Celebrates 75 years in Philadelphia
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Alcoholics Anonymous marks 75 years in Philadelphia, cheering successesAlfred Lubrano, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: Saturday, March 7, 2015 People cheered the man who was 50 years sober, but they stood and screamed wildly for the guy who hadn't had a drink in a day. "That's for you, Mr. On...
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Today's Gift 3/10
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Accepting LoveMany of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate.To compensate for the other person's unavailability, we worked too hard. We may have done all or most of...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 9, 2015Quote of the Week"It is the mosquitoes that will chase me out of the woods, not the bears!" It's amazing how I intuitively know how to handle the big things. A few weeks ago my brother and his wife - who live right around the corner from me - came home from vacation to find their h...
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Today's Gift 3/9
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Reflection for the DayWhen I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't always rosy; some days are a lot better than others. I tend to accept the bad days more easily on an intellectual level than I do emotionally, or at gut-l...
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Today's Gift 3/8
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Some of the experiences we go through are hard. We get heavy at times. "I'm drowning in my grief," I told a friend after my son died. "It feels like I'm swimming across an ocean, and I'm getting tired." When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.Action:What's more irritati...
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confused
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my first time on here. Am looking for support.
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Today's Gift 3/7
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Every new moment that arises in your life can now be a point of choice. . .in which you can choose to treat yourself and others with Compassion rather than Judgment. --David Harp NewcomerI wince every time I hear the words "God as we understood Him" and "Higher Power." When meeti...
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Today's Gift 3/6
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When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it. --Mildred NewmanEach one of us is very good at something. Maybe it's baseball or tennis where we display talent. Maybe we're good in math or at giving reports. A few people are talented at being good listeners or helpfu...
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Spiritual Lesson I Remind Myself Today
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Train yourself Amigo in the way of serenity...find that inner tranquillity and peace....Then, you will be a power for peace. Do not fear the unknown not even death itself . For with every forward step you take you are entering a fuller existence. As you step forward you will carry the light which will r...
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Welcome 'atlas927' ...(Alan)
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Welcome to MIP 'atlas', ... glad to have you here to share your ESH ... Love ya Brother and God Bless, Pappy
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Grapevine
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March 5 "Today I can look upon myself and others with understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, and love ... Recovery is a wonderland."
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Sunrise Quote
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Friendship doubles your joy and divides your grief.~ Swedish Proverb
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Today's Gift 3/5
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I was talking to a friend about something I didn't want to do but believed I needed to do anyway. I was dreading it and feeling irritable. Often when we talk like that, other people scowl and say, "Oh, don't let shoulds control your life. If you don't want to do it, don't."But this man unders...
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Today's Gift 3/4
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G.O.D. = Good Orderly Direction --Anonymous When we decided to turn our will and lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him, we made a declaration of independence. We declared our freedom from the chains of our self-centered ego and the unrelenting demands of our self-will. When we decided t...
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Grapevine
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March 4 "Even in self-protection, we do not wish to erect the slightest barrier between ourselves and the fellow alcoholic who still suffers. We know that society has been demanding that he conform to its laws and conventions. But the essence of his alcoholic malady is the fact that he has bee...
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Desiderata Poem in the Big Bookj
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Sunrise Quote
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Today's Gift 3/3
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The first skill needed for the Inner Game is called "letting it happen." This means gradually building a trust in the innate ability of your body to learn and to perform. --W. Timothy GallweyA strange and intriguing mystery confronts us in the Twelve Steps. We are mending our ways; we are b...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 2, 2015Quote of the Week"The difference between me and God is that God doesn't want to be me." I can't tell you how many times I've tried to arrange all of life to suit my needs. I've planned and schemed, worked and manipulated, hoped and dreamed, and then manipulated some more all...
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Another Joke ... 'Just Take Care of Dad'
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A young cowboy from Texas goes off to college.Half way through the semester, having foolishly squandered all his money .... he calls home. "Dad," he says, "You won't believe what modern education is developing!They actually have a program here at A&M that will teach our dog, O...
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Am I on the wrong board?
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Well hello everyone , when I first quit drinking my smoking picked up, I was never a sober smoker in my life, in my drinking days I would often wake up finding a pack of smokes that I bought over the course of the night and now was just a foggy memory. However when I quit drinking I found my self smoking. The...
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Sorry, I Gotta Send One More
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Laugh for the day! Crisis runs in the family Bobbitt Family Update In a recent news broadcast, it was announced that Lorena Bobbitt's sister Louella was arrested for an alleged attempt to perform the same act on herhusband as her famous sister had done several years ago . Sources reveal the sis...
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Desiderata
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Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressi...
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