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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; its what you share.~ Unknown
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Today's Gift - 12/30
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Being less than perfect.It was not a perfect year. But is there ever a perfect year? Being clean and sober does not purport or offer perfection. It gives us a chance to strive for progress. When we keep our Higher Power in our thoughts and actions, we come closer to perfection all the time.Despite the di...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 29, 2014Quote of the Week"God handed me the menu. He didn't tell me to choose the shit sandwich." This quote seemed appropriate for the New Year because it reminds me that in recovery, with a relationship with a Higher Power, I have a world of opportunities open to me. In meeti...
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Sunrise Quote
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.~ Soren Kierkegaard
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Today's Gift - 12/29
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Has it been a year of growth?As any year draws to a close, we should reflect on how we have grown in sobriety. We should also identify changes during the year that enabled us to overcome bad habits and to move closer to better patterns of living.Though we never are guaranteed favorable outcomes, we shou...
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Thoughts on my first sober Christmas
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This is my first sober holiday season since I was a child. I don't have the words to express how amazing it is that I am experiencing a Christmas this way with my babies and wife. I won't go into detail about the way it used to be because I want to focus on the positive right now. All I know is that I'm 100% prese...
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Sunrise Quote
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.~ Mahatma Ghandi
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My Christmas Gig
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The Peanut Gallery was an easy audience once they were warmed up by Princess Kandy Kane..Distributing "All they could Eat" candy. I posted picture through My avitar
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Speaker Tapes of Famous People!
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Check out our selection of AA talks by famous people, it turns out, they're just like us! The disease of alcoholism doesn't discriminate, but thankfully, neither do the 12 steps of AA. Enjoy this playlist, and if you like our channel, please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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Sunrise Quote
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere.~ Frank A. Clark
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Today's Gift - 12/27
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Love-abilityA friend of mine recently told me how he met his wife. He had watched her walk by his store every day for a year with her young son. She also happened to be a friend of his neighbor."Fix me up," he suggested to his neighbor. "We'll go on a double date. I really want to meet her.&...
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Can I go back to a meeting after I had a lapse
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I worry they won't welcome me. I am ashamed I need to find a sponsor and it's a group I can walk too? I'm disappointed in myself and worry about others being too.
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A day of rebirth
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For me... coming home like never before after a christmas party some years ago... saying the words to my inner most self... and logging in here... never to be the same again. Merry Christmas. I love you all. Xxxxhugsxxx.
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Sunrise Quote
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Today's Gift - 12/26
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Working todayAs we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.Am I ensuring a fruitful future by wo...
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Merry Christmas
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From Hilo...cloudy and cold and niiiiice. Wishing you all sober and sane and serene days. Our AA by the Bay, "Brunch before the Christmas Crunch" went awesomely well and wish ya`ll could have been with us. God Bless. (((((Hugs)))))
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Today's Gift - 12/25 - Merry Christmas
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Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go. --Matthew FoxA holiday presents us with an opportunity to practice the letting go of this program. This is a special day to set aside our work and our routines, to put our problems and bur...
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Twenty Six years sober today
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Hi All, Today, 12/23/14, I'm celebrating 26 years of continuous sobriety. I just flew into southern California this morning to spend the holidays with my family and I'll be taking the opportunity to visit some old AA friends in some of my old meetings where I got sober. Happy Holidays to all, one day...
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Sunrise Quote
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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.~ Clarence E. Hodges
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Today's Gift - 12/24
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... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas MoreWe take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...
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Grapevine
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December 24 "My miracle occurred when I became willing to go to any lengths to take action. Like the trapeze artist, it wasn't the knowledge of it being there -- it was the action of letting go."
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Cunning, Powerful and Baffling...
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There isn't any doubt and there is no effort to do anything other than accept that description. I was driving home from work with my wife and another passenger in the car. My wife is a very fear based person and her imagination seems to be addicted to it. It is safer for me to let her drive rather than...
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Sunrise Quote
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.~ Joseph Addison
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Today's Gift - 12/23
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --ConfuciusSome of us were raised to decline generosity - to argue over who pays the restaurant bill, not to accept money for helping s...
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Grapevine
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December 23 "The first 100 members of this Fellowship, who hammered out the Twelve Steps, knew what they were doing. They could have made it two steps or ten steps or twenty-five steps, but they didn't. I don't think they put anything in they didn't think they needed. They were working the whole p...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 22, 2014Quote of the Week"When you own your part, you own your power." When I was new to the program, I dreaded doing my fourth step inventory. What possible good could it do me to list all my resentments I wondered? When my sponsor told me there was an invisible category called &...
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Sunrise Quote
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.~ H.W. Dresses
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Today's Gift - 12/22
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Keep your recovery First to make it Last. --Anonymous We all encounter places, people, and times of the year which trigger memories of our old lifestyle, pleasant or painful events. Holidays and family gatherings may be especially stressful times for us. There have always been a lot of expectatio...
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Weekly Thought (Religious Concept)
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Verse Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. Luke 2:14 Quote Love came down on Christmas Day so many years ago and brought the greatest happiness the world would ever know. Peace came down on Christmas Day to fill the hearts of men with all the sweet tranquility...
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Sunrise Quote
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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's Gift - 12/21
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Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. --Catherine PonderGetting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it s...
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Patrick STARfish@SpongBob or crowling spiders :- system
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sharing a book i had read couple week ago, alcohol is my personal future problem to be i guess, anyway the book teaches method of centralized and decentralized people's living condition. they titled it starfish and spiders. Wow that is where i have actually knew about the 12 steps open sys for AA? i en...
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What A Gig This will be.
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TOMORROW I dress as Santa... beard and all...I bribed my audience 3-10 by buying $100.00 worth of candy "That will get their attention"... I will be making Balloon animals and space helmuts for my audience. I will be bringing my guitar..but will be informing my audience " aint gonn...
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Today's Gift - 12/20
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A.A. Thought for the Day The satisfaction we 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. Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. Just hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to us. Is my life becoming really w...
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Sponsorship Pamphlet
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Pamphlethttp://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/nopage/p-15-questions-and-answers-on-sponsorship-- Edited by Tanin on Friday 7th of November 2014 09:52:08 PM
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Sunrise Quote
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.~ Barbara De Angelis
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Today's Gift - 12/19
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Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. --Jeraldine SoundersWe are only alone in our minds. In reality, we are each contributing necessary parts offering completion to the wholeness o...
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Musings from a Sober Recovering... Spiritual Bully
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There are some people whom I am acquainted with who would not give the warmth of their urine to heat a soup kitchen in a Leaper Colony. Then there are those who are totally un-dependable.."How Do they think"? Amigo...do not ATTACK even in your thoughts the ACTIONS of others who IRRITATE o...
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Night Light
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer----Albert Camus When things seem to be going badly and everyone appears to be against us, what do we see? Do we think things will never get better, or is there a ray of hope inside us that believes everything will soon be okay?...
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Sunrise Quote
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A dream doesnt become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.~ Colin Powell
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Today's Gift - 12/18
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love. --Kahlil GibranLove doesn't demand; love compromises. It doesn't possess; it frees. Love doesn't gloat; it praises. Love makes friends of strangers. It softens our rough edges and strengthens our assets. Knowing we're loved inspires us and invites fo...
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I'm going to a meeting this morning
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I foolishly thought I had everything under control. Work was great, family was great, I was happy. Somehow all of that good stuff made it easier to slide right back into the bottle. I haven't had a drink for a week but I realize now, after all this time, that it will only take a moment of uncertainty and I'l...
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Grapevine
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December 18 "The realization that I had experienced something spiritual was in itself a spiritual experience, and I am only slowly understanding its implications. What happened in the past, without my knowledge, is probably continuing now. And in the future, when tomorrow becomes today,...
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Recovering with a child using
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I'm recovering and have a 19 yr old using drugs. He is stealing from us - money and pain pills (his Mom's). I have talked to him but it doesn't seem to be the message his Mom thinks I should be telling him. In AA what I know is I can't fix someone else (even my son). What I told him was that the stealing had to...
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I've been away for a while
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So, the long and short of it is i am still sober but i'm struggling like a * with what they call bipolar and i'm doing ok with going to lots of meetings however when it decides to rear it's ugly head i typically end up in the hospital and from what i can see i joined here back in April of last year and have been hos...
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Sunrise Quote 12/17
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.~ Orison Swett Marden
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Today's Gift - 12/17
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This one is for Tipsy ... don't know why, but I thought of 'the Tipster' when I read this: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. --Edward Everett HaleWe once heard someon...
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Sunrise Quote
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.~ E.S. Bouton
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For the Holidays
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"We cant predict the future, but we can choose to be hopeful. We cant control those around us, but we can choose to lovingly disengage from their dramas. And we cant prevent the busy, hectic holiday pace but we can choose calm." ~ Begin With Yes, via Contemplative Monk Perhaps my mantra f...
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Spiritual Things I remind Myself Today
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Amigo You MUST ALWAYS become aware of your Master despite the crowding of the multitudes that can lead you astray. Concentrate on Peace and Harmony amidst the worldiness of turmoil...The news stories on Yahoo and the like are a snakepit of turmoil..do not even attack in your thoughts... You see t...
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