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Use this thread to post your sobriety date and any other related stuff like where you got sober, and what group if you like. I got this idea from the NA board, which has 3 pages of replies, most of which are less than a year. Mine is July 25th, 1989. I got sober at the Unity Club in Falls Church, Va. -- Edited...
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Hi Folks, Next month I'll be chairing my home group's weekly, open AA meeting on Zoom, and I'm looking for folks that want to tell their stories. Our format, like many others, starts with some readings, reminding folks of ground rules, then introductions before the meat of the meeting (see what I di...
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Our GoDaddy annual subscription of $187.87 for web hosting is due May 15, 2021. A MIP member has graciously volunteered to collect donations via PayPal and use the funds to pay our bill. Please use PayPal to send donations of any amount to lightning711@yahoo.com For our Sparklit account, which m...
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This thread is an archive for members to post their "Story" in a collection in a convenient location for others to read. Please be sure to include the post sobriety portion. Please create an original thread for your story, so that others can reply. After your thread is a few days old, cut...
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MIP Business Board
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The MIP Business board has been set up at https://mipbusiness.activeboard.com MIP Business is a place where members of all the fellowships in Miracles in Progress can be informed and have a say in changes that affect the MIP website pages. This is a place to communicate, discuss, and, when necess...
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Website Links To Recovery Based Sites, AA Speaker tapes, etc
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Please use this thread to post (and find) links to sites containing AA literature, step work, or other spiritual material that has helped you. No spam, self promotion, or sites that could be deemed as controversial with regards to the program or specific religious content, thanks. I found this wh...
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MIP Funding Drive
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Reply DeleteKennyFenderjazz Hi everyone the bills to cover the operations of the MIP Boards are again due I have established a pay pal account to receive funds for the Go Daddy bill of: $187.05 and urge all to contribute . Remember a contribution of as little as $5.-- helps. Please note...
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Letter To A Woman Alcoholic
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Source: Good Housekeeping, March 1954 A Letter To A Woman Alcoholic Wherever you are, at whatever stage in the long descent, this is for you. It says nothing of shame or scorn or ridicule; it brings only love and understanding. And help If I lived across the street from you and saw you gallantly but hop...
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Step Work Board Info (Merged)
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Please accept this as your personal invitation to join us at the Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums Step Work Board and share with us, your own experience, strength and hope. If you are new to recovery, you can ask questions related to the 12 Steps here, see how others work and apply the step...
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It's a Tradition going back over25 years that I post my AA anniversy
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January 12th celebrated 48 years of continuous sobriety since my First AA Meeting....Going back now many years....I can see where the Program meets one at the level of your needs... God at times always worked Miracles for me...for that I am profoundly grateful......He gave me almost consecuativ...
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Been A While
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It's been a while. Still alive, though. I'm retired now, so I don't have any cute stories about work. My home group is back to zoom meetings. we're having pandemic issues again. It is what it is. We either adapt to life on life's terms or we can have our misery refunded to us. On November 30, I celebrated 24...
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Want to hear something funny?
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I'm sneaking up on two years sober. This might not seem like a big deal to anyone who hasn't met me before, but if you're at all familiar with my idiocy on this forum over the years, you're probably a bit shocked. I am walking, living, breathing proof that if you never quit trying, it just might stick one...
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Easy does it
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/1306/MUaqFV.gif-- Edited by FlyingSquirrel on Saturday 18th of December 2021 02:17:59 AM -- Edited by FlyingSquirrel on Saturday 18th of December 2021 02:19:06 AM
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Home Group Questions...
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I swear I read somewhere in AA literature that if you arent in alignment with your home group to find another group. Does anyone know where I can find this in the literature? My group has 20+ meetings a week. Should there be one group conscience meeting for the entire group? Some members think its the gr...
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Think, Think, Think??
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Anyone who has been to more then a few meeting has seen the AA slogans on the wall.
Easy Does It (my favorite) Just for today and Think, Think, Think. Most of us have heard the story of the sponser who told his sponsee that the "Think, think, think" didn't apply to him as his thinker was broken, LOL. That a...
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online sponsor
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Hello I have 8 years of sobriety which is a lot for my area. I cant find a sponsor here and would like to find one online. My original sponsor relapsed 5 years ago. I spent about 2 years upset about this and the past 3 going through people like theres no tomorrow kind of... I would ask someone and they would sa...
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Fishing Invitation - Mississippi River, L&D #9, Harpers Ferry
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Hiya, Jasper's Sober Fishing thread gave me an idea.... The weather for Sunday, 11/1/09 in Zip Code 52101 looks pretty hard to pass up! At about 11am my (3) kids and I are going on a fishing outing for the day. Any one on this board who wants to stop by is welcome!! We're hoping to get there by 11am and leav...
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Big Book Help
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I'm working with a fellow and am searching for a passage in the Big Book (I believe it is in the personal stories) where it describes a suggestion for praying for someone toward whom we hold a resentment. Can anyone help? Thanks
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Station 12 Recovery Books & Gift Shop in Wilmington, NC
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With John's permission we would like to introduce ourselves to the board. John stopped in recently to visit our shop, "Station 12". Over a cup of coffee we looked through my collection of early editions of the Big Book. The collection is available for viewing at the store anytime during re...
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I am responsible
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When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that, I am responsible. This is the AA responsibility statement. I have recited this statement before. I have not been very good at putting it into practice, however. Judging by what I have seen on this me...
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Greetings. I am on day 7 of my sobriety journey. Today I really felt like drinking for some reason. I didnt do it...but it was close. WM
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Where I live, there seems to be a big division between those AAs who say they have recovered and those who say they are recovering. The 'recovered' ones insist that no time can be lost, to get a sponsor, take the steps and, above all, to find a higher power. Personally, I went through a 4th and 5th step befo...
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Greetings and Salutations! St.PeteDean looking for regulars to check in.
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Hello Fellow Sobrarians, sorry for my absence, been a little busy navigating C-19. Celebrated XXXII in July, everything is good. 6 years cancer free. I spent 30 minutes kicking out the spammers and deleting their posts. getting a little burned out on zuckerburgs place. hopefully I'll be in h...
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What exactly does "clean house" mean?
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I assume its not clean house like make the bed, do the dishes etc/?
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flutter apps needed
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Well, for the perfect app development if you have strategies like easy handling software instruct the employees related to this app development there is such companies who provide you proper knowledge link is here you should know about the cost of developing a banking app As all info is available h...
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The Program Works Group Needs Support
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Hey, Everyone! Come join and support The Program Works Group's online Zoom meeting. Every night at 8 pm EST. www.theprogramworks.com - tap Use App button to join from Facebook page Meeting ID 860-801-229 Note- There is no password, however, meeting greeters will remove any hijackers. Service co...
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Welcome to the newly-registered forum members: Tim Nelson and ColoradoRyan Let us know if we can help...
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Big Book Study format
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I'm new to this board, but it looks like there is quite a bit of activity here...that's awesome...my home group is going to start a Big Book study one night a week, and I was asked to get some feedback on other people's experiences with different meeting formats...thanks to everyone in advance for your...
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When Food Is Cooked With Alcohol
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Since first coming into AA I adopted a zero tolerance for any food that uses alcohol of any type in the recipe. My well meaning "Normal" friends have tried to persuade me for years that "Its OK the alcohol cooks off". I never believed that and would not take any chances eating...
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I just read this today. I'd heard it long ago, but forgotten it until now. And look who wrote it! Keep Us From Pettiness ~ Mary Stewart, Queen of ScotsKeep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away al...
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This is currently the only online message board I haven’t been banned from.
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The Three Ps
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Today, someone mentioned the three Ps of recovery. Two of them are paranoia and paralysis. Anyone know the third? Anyone know where there might be readings on the topic?
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Hello Everyone, I am currently working on Step 9. My sponsor suggested I begin with living family members, so I contacted my two brothers and sister-in-law. They all agreed to chat with me on Zoom, and the amends went very well. Now I am trying to begin the process of contacting friends to ask if it is OK...
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Happy Easter to all those who celebrate this day and to those that don't, Happy Sunday. I'm usually at work, but as fate would have it, I'll be available to cook the turkey. I'm only cooking for 2 today because the powers that be have asked us not to have large family gatherings this year and if I've learne...
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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It has been a long while since I have been here. Aloha. :)
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Hey, all. I have not been here regularly in a very long time. I have been out of the rooms for around 10 years, and of course you can predict that nothing great resulted from that. Nothing terrible happened, except that I wasted ten more years of my life, doing the same old shit. Anyhow, I am back working...
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Went to my first meeting today and scheduled for rehab on Monday. How do you guys deal with the small hours when you are up, used to drinking by yourself, and everyone is asleep? I am 48 hours without a drink, some withdrawal stuff (no DTs) but need someone to help with ideas that wont have me relapse.
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Big Book repair
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Hi Everyone,
As a part of my service work, I repair Big Books for free. Pages fall out, tear and covers loosen as they accompany us on our journey in recovery. I mend them a longer life. For more info, visit www.bigbookrepair.com. Please announce my service work at the meetings you attend.
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Hello my name is David and I am here from NV and I am an alcoholic. I know that I am in the right place when I can speak about my experience with alcohol. I am forty four years old. I grew up pretty normal from the outside although inside alot of turmoil. I got to drinking pretty early around sixteen. I a...
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I went to AA for 24 years and had some success but very little. I became the club relapse king and my self esteem went way south to the point that I went from being a problem drinker to a full blown alky with street bum mentality, I drank cologne and rubbing alcohol to take off the shakes on many occasions. I w...
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The Sparklit Board Funding has been expended. We are asking in the spirit of Tradition 7 for funding to continue the forums. Sparklit ActiveBoard Donations GoDaddy will be ready for renewal in May as well. We are looking for a solution for accepting donations. Last year we used my business PayPal a...
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Hello, new to this Hopefully I can give as well as learn.
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In 13 days I will have a major announcement to make.
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I just know all three of you are on the edge of your seats, wondering what could be so important. Well, you just better be here to see it. This will be world-shattering.
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Hello Everyone, I am not so well-versed in all AA terminology, so I would like to get your opinion about the term "a geographical." I read that it means to move in order to get a fresh start, or begin with a clean slate. Would changing university majors, transferring to several different universities,...
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How do you read the ABC's?
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A guy in a meeting yesterday was saying the ABC's are steps one, two and three. Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably...
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The original 13th Step
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The founders of this great group originally talked about an unwritten 13th Step. And it was a thing of beauty. After living a life of sobriety by using the 12 Steps, the alcoholic took the 13th Step to his/her grave. When they were placed in their grave they began their 13th Step. There by living in...
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