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Grapevine
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June 16 "Alcoholics Anonymous has an answer to problems in sobriety, making sobriety, eventually, something wonderful instead of something that can drive people to drink."
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The 24-Hour Club For Alcoholics
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The 24-Hour Club for Alcoholics Today, club life for ex-drunks-to supply their needs for companionship and fun-is A.A.s second miracle by FOWLER HILL Your LifeŠ, January 1953 Two years ago, an old actor, whose name used to appear on Broadway marquees (call him Lionel Sloane), got drunk again in Hol...
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Weekly Thought --- (warning religious content)
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Weekly VerseIf anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 1 John3:17Weekly QuoteIf you cant feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother TeresaWeekly Thought When was the last time you really witnessed love in action? W...
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Hey You Guys.....Can You Do Me A Favor????
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The good news is, I received a letter from my daughter. Over the last six years, I hardly heard from her at all. She sent me a box with a few gifts in it. I am not sure what for, except maybe when I reached a year she wanted to do something for me. Inside was a letter. I couldn't believe it. At first I thought it wa...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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June 16, 2014Quote of the Week"The good part of recovery is that you get your feelings back; the bad part is that you get your feelings back." Ah, the paradox of recovery (one of many). When I was 'out there' I had an easy way of dealing with my feelings - I'd numb them. Unable to feel or even ac...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/16
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Give people a fact or an idea and you can enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls.Hasidic Proverb
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Today's Gift - 6/16
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Living according to principles If we live according to spiritual principles, we will know harmony in our lives. If we ignore these principles, our harmony will be destroyed.Fortunately, the principles are constant. Once we recognize our mistakes, our task is to once again apply the principles we...
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Death of my sponsor.
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My sponsor committed suicide today. 26 years ago, he brought me to AA and worked with me everyday. His son committed suicide 2 years ago with a drug problem. My sponsor relapsed after 8 years because of a gambling problem. The great thing about my sponsor, was that he had the humility to hand me over to an...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/15
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.Jim Rohn
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"Stick With the Winners!" My Thoughts.........
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To be honest....(and isn't that what all of us recovering alcoholics should always do to be successful in this program?).....I hated this AA slogan! "Stick with the winners!", I thought, how horrible that human beings, and especially sick alcoholics, are divided into two categories-...
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Today's Gift - 6/15
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Taking Care of OurselvesIt's healthy, wise, and loving to be considerate and responsive to the feelings and needs of others. That's different from caretaking. Caretaking is a self-defeating and, certainly, a relationship defeating behavior - a behavior that backfires and can cause us to feel re...
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Today's Gift - 6/14
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I don't believe in predicting, especially about the future.-- Casey StengelWith the pace of change continuing to accelerate, the future is not what it used to be. From one moment to the next, no one can be certain of anything. Your job, your marriage, and your relationship to your children - none of th...
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Going back to Hong Kong
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Hi All,I just found out that one of the projects I am working on is going to involve some trips to Hong Kong this summer. I'll be doing a ten day trip starting four weeks from today, and then another ten day trip at the end of August. It's likely there will be several more after that.I used to do quite a lot of b...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/14
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Dont wait. The time will never be just right.Napoleon Hill
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Clarence Snyder....1944
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Going Through The Steps A.A. Sponsorship Pamphlet by Clarence SnyderŠ 1944 This is the first pamphlet ever written concerning sponsorship. It was written by Clarence H. Snyder in early 1944. Its original title was to be "A.A. Sponsorship...Its Obligations and Its Responsibilities."...
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"It's okay to not be okay"
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Last night I was listening one sermon and the woman, who was preaching said: "It's okay to not be okay." I don't know why I remembered it, but I have past with it. She said that it's not necessary when we are not okay to play role in front of people, saying that we are okay and all the false smiles ....
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Grapevine
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June 13 "The compulsion among most of us to survive and to grow soon becomes far stronger than the temptation to drink, or to misbehave. Literally, we must 'do or die.' So we make the choice to live. This, in turn, means the choice of AA principles, practices and attitudes that can salvage us from...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/13
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
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Today's Gift - 6/13
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.--AristotleOnce we have embarked upon this program, we find spiritual recovery through relationships more than any other single factor. We find it through relationships with other people, with ourselves, and with our Higher Pow...
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Lois W.
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In AAs First Five Years Lois W., wife of AAs co-founder, Bill W., recalls the time in AA when there were few members and no Big Book. In the early days of AA things were really different. For five years there was no Big Book. The only way to communicate with other people was to go and tell them, so that...
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Grapevine
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June 12 "Today, as I look back over 27-plus years of sobriety, I can simply thank Him for being wherever I am going before I even get there."
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Today's Gift - 6/12
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Dust on diamonds, tears we cry, first we walk, then we fly.--Mark Chapple"First things first," "Easy does it," and "Keep it simple" are the touchstones of our recovery. At first, we may grasp recovery like a drowning person. We find that the harder we hold on to our l...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/12
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You can tell when you are on the road to success. It's uphill all the way.Paul Harvey
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A Nurse In An Alcoholic Ward
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I'm a Nurse in an Alcoholic Ward Anonymous The author--a onetime alcoholic--has nursed 5000 drunks through the fading hours of their most spectacular sprees. Here is what she has faced in salvaging doctors, lawyers, ministers, priests, housewives and stenographers from drink and the devil A re...
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Heyo
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Hey All, Like many folks, I haven't been around in a while. When I logged in this morning, though, I was really impacted by recent posts about pathological lying, the benefits of criticism, and gratitude for the program. I had a major self-pity episode through the majority of last night that's been cu...
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Message board format changed slightly.. Please Read.
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Hi everyone,Previously the post at the top of the board would be based on the date it was started. Now, I have changed it so that when a post is replied to, it is moved to the top of the board, so the reply doesn't get lost at the bottom of the board and can be seen and replied to by both the original poster, a...
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Today's Gift - 6/11
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Having loosened our grip on the past, we are free to reach for the future. --Ann D. Clark Everyday of our lives we think of some situation we wish we had handled differently. Perhaps we left a job we now miss, disciplined a child needlessly, or responded rudely to a friend. Our Fourth Step inventory abu...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/11
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.Maori Proverb
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Grapevine
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June 11 "Asking for help is not just a path to humility; it is a path to connection with my fellows and with God."
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cadillac problems
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I know I haven't been on here for a while, been lots of stuff going on.
what's the cadillac problem. It's a problem that's good to have in a way.
last week I was told there was no more funding for my job. I was expecting this but hoped it would run until September.
So as of today I don't have a role in the c...
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AA 79 years 10 June 1935.
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.Happy birthday, Alcoholics Anonymous 10 June 1935. 79 years of helping alcoholics and their families. Thank you Dr Bob and Bill W. The doors were open for me on that 13 April 1988. As Bill always said: "PASS IT ON"
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An article that helped me today - reassurance - loving self.
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The Benefits of CriticismPersonal Growth 1. Looking for seeds of truth in criticism encourages humility. Its not easy to take an honest look at yourself and your weaknesses, but you can only grow if youre willing to try. 2. Learning from criticism allows you to improve. Almost every critique gives y...
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Grapevine
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June 10 "Alone in the town, I was scared to death of getting drunk. I was no longer a teacher or a preacher, I was an alcoholic who knew that he needed another alcoholic, as much as that one could possibly need me. Driven by that urge, I was soon face to face with Dr. Bob."
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Doctor Paul
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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. PAUL AUTHOR OF "DOCTOR, ALCOHOLIC, ADDICT" July 1995 Dr. Paul's story "Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict" was published in the Third Edition of the Big Book; his remarks on acceptance, which appear on pages 449 and 450, have been helpful to many AA members over t...
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Sunrise Quote - 6/9
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Theres no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.Robin Crow
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Sunrise Quote - 6/10
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Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you are going to do, and just do it.Marilyn Grey
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Today's Gift - 6/10
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.-- Chinese proverbLife holds so many choices now that we are sober. We'd like to go so many places. We'd like to see so many things. We have so much to do.We are slowly learning how to trust our dreams and reach for them. Our program teaches us that w...
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Sorta religious but not really
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I'm sharing this because I love it. And wish it. Please can I have a God (after Selima Hill) not fossilized, hardened, stiff, unshaken, not contained in creeds and testimonies, judgments and stone tablets, but in the wound breaking open. Please can I have a God who asks me to worship at the altar of my...
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Just a drop by
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Hi All, I know that I've become very hit and miss quiet on the board for a few years now. I stop in, read, see how things are going, and then wander off into life and its terms. Life has been good to me. I've been blessed in so many ways. The things that weren't blessings were lessons. They may have seemed like...
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Is it really failure?
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Our perception of what "failure" is, subjective as it is to each of us, awakens us to how sensitive we are to our concept of self power. When we feel a loss of control, we sorta stumble thru this external blindness, and can only trust in our inner light to help us navigate the terrain in this 'st...
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AA 1944
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Alcoholics Anonymous by Gurdon Simmons The smartly groomed woman, showing no self-consciousness before her audience of several hundred, launched into a graphic recital of her recovery from chronic alcoholism. The doctors, she said, had pronounced her case hopeless. Unable to "take a dri...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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June 9, 2014Quote of the Week"I don't have to like the situation, but it's important that I like myself in it." When I first got sober, I took a job in Beverly Hills as an investment broker selling municipal bonds. I hated getting up at 4:45 in the morning to drive to work, hated making co...
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Today's Gift - 6/9
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do. --Richard L. EvansWhat is courage? Many of us think it involves surviving against all odds. Some of us believe courage is personified by an individual like Helen Keller, who coped with many physical d...
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Grapevine
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June 9 "I can change my viewpoint anytime I want to. I can look at things from down, by lying back and waiting for someone to rescue me. Or I can stand tall and look at the way things are as the way they're meant to be."
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Re: MIP Site Hosting and Domain Reg. Funding
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I am not able to contribute at this time and frankly, though I do know that such feelings have no intrinsic value whatsoever, I still feel twinges of guilt from time to time as I wait to see references to the request scroll onto page two... Anyway, so there I was, wrapped up in what I can't do and totally mis...
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do posts get bumped to top?
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http://aa.activeboard.com/t23228527/my-name-is-bill-w-movie/?page=1
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I'm trying to find an old thread I really liked....Little help....
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J/K Phil....Listen to Bob.
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Today's Gift - 6/8
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She walks around all day quietly, but underneath it she's electric; angry energy inside a passive form. The common woman is as common as a thunderstorm.--Judy GrahnMany people spend their days in anger and aren't aware of it. The conditions of work and life make many of us angry; we feel powerless to c...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseMake sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else. 1 Thessalonians 5:15Weekly QuoteBe thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest and simple grac...
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This Is What I Will Have If I Start Drinking Again........
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