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Today's Gift - 1/29
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Nothing is so bad that relapse won't make it worse. --AnonymousThe stories we hear in meetings often shock us. It seems hard to believe that some members could have harmed themselves in such ways. We hear about arrests, bankruptcies, loss of family and home, lost jobs, violence, jail, physical inju...
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Spiritual Things I Remind Myself Today
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Amigo.. you frequent that awful restaurant called "The Past"...The only thing they serve there are thick slices of resentment..with a side order of self pity..topped with sweet and sour ego sauce... You ALWAYS wind up with a case of spiritual diarrhea..and you "should" a...
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Today's Gift - 1/28
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When a, man leaves off believing in imaginary property, then only will he make use of his true property. --Leo TolstoyThe original meaning of property is "belonging to the self." In this sense, land, houses, money, paintings, jewels, cars cannot be our property; they are all things, and...
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January 28 "Anger in all its forms is ugly. I see the absence of anger as one form of grace."
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Welcome Rayray
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Welcome to MIP Rayray, ... Glad you found us ... I hope you will make time for some AA meetings ... these forums are great, but noth'n is quite like going to a meeting and seeing others that are or were in your same condition ... "Together, we help each other recover to enjoy life, not tolerate it ......
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Today's Gift - 1/27
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Where is God?AA members have always had a difficult time explaining the "God business." We didn't want to be considered religious, but at the same time we've always believed some contact with a Higher Power is necessary for real personal growth. There's nothing wrong for our purposes in...
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Blessings and prayers to alcoholhater... wherever you are.
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Peace and love friend. Xxxxoxo
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Sunrise Quote
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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.~ G. Randolf
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Spiritual Things I remind Myself Today
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The way to truth is through the spirit. In the outer world is turmoil, chaos and unhapiness. You think with the mortal mind, with the mind that is part of substance of earth. You should think with your inner mind; you should approach problems through the inner self, through intuition. the very word exp...
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This Life is a test
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Hello I hope everyone is doing well I wanted to share an interesting story that happened to me recently. I've been sober now for somewhere around 2 years, one of the main reasons I became sober was from the support from my wife, how she encouraged me to sober up. At first I found not drinking hard, then no...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 26, 2015Quote of the Week"Keep doing the things that got it good, not the things that got good." I was in a meeting the other day when a guy took a newcomer chip for seven days sober. Before he sat down, he shared that he had twelve years but had gone out. He said it took almost five yea...
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Sharing My Sobriety.
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My names Brian and Im an Alcoholic. I just wanted to stop by the board to share my journey, and hopefully shine a light into anyone, or as many people, at meetings or wherever as I can.If you haven't quit fully. Pour it out now. Its amazing how quick we start getting better mindsets out of WANTING to be S...
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Sunrise Quote
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You dont have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. ~ Les Brown
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Today's Gift - 1/26
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Accepting Every Task Dear God,Help me find the strength to be effective and accept responsibility. I am asking you for the strength I need each day. You have proven in countless lives that for every day I live, You will give me that necessary power.I must face every challenge that comes to me during the...
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Grapevine
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January 26 "Putting my ego aside to ask others for help still doesn't come naturally, so I've made it a part of my Tenth Step inventory, asking, 'Have I failed to ask for help when I needed it today?'"
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Day one?
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Today like so many other days over the last few years I start out the day full of hope that I'll get through it without having a drink. Unfortunately on almost every one of those occasions I have failed. Slowly but surely during the course of each day my mind starts to talk itself around and once 5pm-6pm co...
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Sunrise Quote
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.~ Richard Wagner
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Today's Gift - 1/25
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In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing. - St. John of the CrossExpectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a basic right to be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean life will always go our way. The twists and turns of life often carry us...
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Another 'funny' to break the monotony! ... Don't be afraid to laugh!
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I haven't verified this on Snopes, but it sounds legitimate. A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight livelonger than the men who mention it.
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I don't know how you do it but you seem like an amazing person that gives us all hope. I just wanted to let you know as I've been reading these posts and see your words of encouragement it makes me feel like someone cares. So thank you for being there for us alcoholic's and making us feel comfortable in shari...
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Sunrise Quote
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork, and determination, a person can overcome anything.~ B. Dodge
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Today's Gift - 1/24
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First Things First - OrderBusy people often declare, with some exasperation, that they cannot do everything at once. People with emotional problems, a group that includes many alcoholics, often feel that they are trying to do everything at once. Quite often, this pressure means that we waste our...
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Welcome Rambling Wreck
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Welcome to MIP Rambling Wreck, ... glad you found us ... Tell us a little about yourself and if we can help ya in any area of sobriety ... We 'been there, done that' and have the bruises to prove it ... Today we learned, again, that we would die without a drink ... Love ya bro and God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift - 1/23
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Moving ForwardTime past is gone forever, and we can never go back to it. Even our disease progresses forward. We cannot expect to control it by a return to measures which may have worked for a time in the past. Those methods eventually failed, and trying them again will only bring us to the same point of f...
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Grapevine
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January 23 "Change happens in sobriety and, big or small, I try to see where God wants me to fit in each day."
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How 'bout some Old Style Humor?
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The Wit of Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. A smile is a cu...
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Sunrise Quote
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Your dream. See it. Seize it. Keep it alive.~ Unknown
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Today's Gift - 1/22
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Letting go is a decision.The obsession to pressure other people to see things our way keeps us agitated. In contrast, the wisdom to understand that every person's view has validity, at least for that person, is a gift we receive from working the Twelve Steps. Our daily assignment, then, is to be patie...
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Grapevine
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January 22 "Today it is no longer about who cares for me, it is about learning to love others."
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So much for rigorous honesty
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I was applying for a life insurance policy and they ask all sorts of questions including ones about alcohol/drugs. I told the truth because they said "do you drink?" and then "have you ever...?" So, even after 6 plus years sober, they come back to me with that they want me to pay...
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Sunrise Quote
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.~ Diana, Princess of Wales
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Today's Gift - 1/21
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Make yourself at home.It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure. It was too cold to stay in my tent; I had rented a cabin near the drop zone. Now I'd come back to hang out for a while, before retiring for the night. One of the skydivers I'd met recently was sitting in a lawn chair,...
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Grapevine
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January 21 "Sobriety for me was the complete life change that occurred after I fully invested myself in the AA program."
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Spiritual Things I Remind Myself Today
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Jesus was quoted as saying...."The Kingdom of God is here on Earth...Yet men do not see it" Keep Your Eyes Open Amigo. My Sobriety is Contingent on my Spiritual Well Being Just for Today
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Question for Christians on the board
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I have been having an inner conflict lately. I started noticing it about a month and a half ago at my home group meeting. It is a step study group and we were on step three. There were probably 15 people that shared that night. Most of the ones who shared prefaced their sharing by saying, "I don't cons...
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Grapevine
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January 20 "If I am truly going to grow along spiritual lines, I'm going to have to walk with the truest spirit of human compassion for others that I can muster in all of my affairs."
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anxiety
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I have 151 days sober... and a sponsor and meetings daily sometimes 2x a day. a therapist and the world's worse ANXIETY.... so bad that I am feeling like giving up the sober life...
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Sunrise Quote
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try.~ Beverly Sills
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Today's Gift - 1/20
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What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. --Henry David Thoreau Let us think of ourselves as made of dust, and allow us to be as proud of it as if it were true. For dust is everywhere. We see it in solemn rooms streaked by sun, dancing like fine angels in a cathedr...
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Traveling
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My company is sending me away to work for the next 3 days. Last time they sent me to this site I only have a few months sober. I was going stir crazy in the hotel and I recall checking in here on MIP constantly but I needed a meeting. I recall asking the person at intergroup there if they had any "gay&q...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 19, 2015Quote of the Week"When I'm alone and by myself, I'm out numbered." I remember the first time I heard about the committee. Someone shared that when she went to sleep, the committee in her head got together and started going over all the things that were wrong and why her lif...
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Sunrise Quote
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Grapevine
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January 19 "We should question no one's transformation -- whether it be sudden or gradual. Nor should we demand anyone's special type for ourselves, because our own experience suggests that we are apt to receive whatever may be the most useful for our needs."
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Today's Gift - 1/19
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Slow Down and LiveMany of us rush through our days as well as rush through our meals. Often we let ourselves get so busy that we do not enjoy what we are doing or what we are eating. We swallow life in great gulps instead of savoring it moment by moment.Hurry and busyness are forms of self-will. Deluded by a...
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New international English speaking group in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Hi folks, Two and a half years into a five year stint in Uzbekistan I am really missing my Home Group in Seattle (go Charter Denny Park!) and have started a meeting here in Tashkent on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. at the Tashkent International Clinic. Tell the guard you are here for "the lecture at 6" and...
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Today's Gift - 1/18
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Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. --Ingrid BengisIn the imagination are transmitted messages, from God to us. Inspiration is born there. So are dreams. Both give rise to the goals that urge us forward, that invite us to honor this life we've been given with...
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Today's Gift - 1/16
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There is no right way to pray.Prayer is not a requirement of Twelve Step programs like Al-Anon. In fact, the program has no requirements. It has only suggestions that if followed will change how we see our experiences. This, in turn, mysteriously changes our very experiences. One suggestion is that...
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Grapevine
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January 16 "Rigorous action coupled with conscious reflection and human compassion will gain me new opportunities for greater hope and harmony with all those I deal with -- even ones with whom I disagree."
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January 15 "True morality has its inevitable compensations, for when we benefit someone we increase our own happiness."
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Today's Gift - 1/15
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The human brain forgets ninety percent of what goes on. --Jan MilnerThere were two women who shared a house and raised their daughters, two toddlers, together. Then one of the women got transferred to another city and moved with her daughter.Ten years later, they had a reunion. The mothers asked the...
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