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Today's Gift - 4/7
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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. -- Spanish proverb How happy we are right now may hinge on dinnertime - whether it is just before or just after. It may also depend on whether we are examining ourselves to see if we are happy or not. There's nothing like a little introspection...
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Judging Others
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Appraising, ascertaining, assessing, deciding, discerning, checking, distinguishing, estimating, evaluating, gathering (information), mediating, reviewing, resolving, testing. Judgment is everywhere in our society as well as in other cultures. There is no such thing as living in a wor...
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Grapevine
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April 7 "May those who come to know the truth never forget it."
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New
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I am new to the AA online thing. Would anyone be willing to help me out and tell me how this works? I am thirteen days sober today and want to continue on that path. I am looking for a way to receive help without going to meetings, where you are not heard or seen. Thank you so much.
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseThe man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14Weekly QuoteThe point of having an open mind, like having an open mouth, is...
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Today's Gift - 4/6
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Home wasn't build in a day.--Jane AceNewcomerI'm a lot better than when I was active in my addiction. But parts of my life still feel beyond my control. I don't mean earthquakes or floods. I mean getting to the dentist, repairing the car, doing the laundry, eating well. There are a lot of things I'm not t...
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Meetings
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I have put good use to my computer this morning. I have two numbers to call later that will hopefully lead to me getting a ride. When I do I am going to try the 90 meetings in 90 days. I appreciate everyone who has given me advice on here so far. I also intend on starting Chapter 5 of the Big Book today. I am...
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Who I am with a HP
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Yes - lets talk about family :) We are family here - family of choice! I get a feel for what a real family is all about. I learn to go with the flow, I learn I can adapt to the changes, I learn there are things for me, and there is a place for me. That I'm a special part of this, and we each have our own special pa...
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One Step at a time
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I Could Really fly through this . But I like to take it - One Step at a Time
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Learning about my many roles
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"Another method for identifying our control or attempted control of others involves a look at the roles and behaviors that a controlling person uses. We have identified the aggressor, enabler, martyr, and obsessive-compulsive personality. Here are other roles and behaviors that ident...
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Meetings
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When are the online meetings?
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May be a little religious, or may be just spiritual ...
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Hey, people. Today I was reading from the Bible. I've always tried to escape from reading Peter. But, now I'm trying to do the things that I don't want to do - just to see what will happen and just to see how I'm going to die, while I do the things that I don't want to do (my poor ego). This is now some kind a law fo...
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Today's Gift - 4/5
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Not what we would, but what we must, makes up the sum of living.--Richard Henry Stoddard"We must do the things we must" is frequent advice in the Program. Each Step is evidence of what our founders did in order to achieve abstinence and keep it going with serenity and security. All of the &qu...
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Wine in food
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What are your thoughts on foods that have a little wine in the sauce? I am going to a restaurant where I usually get clams, and I know they use some white wine when cooking them. I believe the alcohol is cooked off, but don't know entirely how it works. My father was in AA for 30 years and he would eat thin...
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YEP!!
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Sunrise Quote - 4/4
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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.Flora Whittemore
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Emotional Sobriety
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Emotional Sobriety: Emotions produce euphoric and intoxicating effects. They can produce a sense of ease and comfort and contentment. When we are operating under the influence of our emotions verses the influence of our intelligence -- we are Emotionally Inebriate. The euphoric and intoxicati...
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Short break
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Short Break for me...I am an alcoholic and get caught up in my own self-destructive thinking. I was depressed all yesterday and am having board withdrawals. I don't want to quit something I started like I have done so much of in the past. I like this quote....Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet com...
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Chocolate Krispie Treats
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Wow! I'm really loving baking for the meetings and trying out all kinds of different things. I am kind of lazy when it comes to recipes and alot of times throw things together. Here is a quick one which is a variation of the marshmallow and rice crispies squares I grew up with....without the butter and ma...
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GOD IS DEAD
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I frequently start my daychecking the scores on Yahoo and simply shocked at many of the headline stories.. concluding the world is in quite a mess. If you let it One story.. A billboard God is DEAD.. So sad, so childish, so egocentric, so depressing.. I thought the person who wrote that must be in such...
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Today's Gift - 4/4
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Easy Does ItSo, you surrendered. You let go. Now you're ready to face a particular challenge. So you hunker down and garner all your forces. And you hit the wall again.What's wrong? you may ask. I'm doing all the spiritual things I'm supposed to do. And things still aren't working, I can't get anywhere...
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Thoughts For Friday
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Sunrise Quote 4/2
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.Orison Swett Marden
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Care taking
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Caretaking: the act of taking responsibility for other people while neglecting responsibility for ourselves. When we instinctively feel responsible for the feelings, thoughts, choices, problems, comfort, and destiny of others, we are caretakers. We may believe, at an unconscious level, tha...
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Grapevine
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April 4 "I am responsible as a trusted servant to be informed -- my group expects and deserves that. That responsibility requires me to take action, to do some reading, and to find out what the principles say -- not what I think ... The beautiful thing about AA is that we don't have to reinvent th...
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Changing everything
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It is so hard to look, when we try to look at ALL OF IT, and then attach 'A FIX' to each 'thing' in our mind. So in other words, if I think that I am seriously messed up in many many ways... I better do many many things to fix me. While it is true that this program only asks us to change one thing: Everything ------...
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Sober Quote for the Day and Taking a Break for Some Serious Introspection
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"Live and Let Live" I am not sure who originally said this. I do know that it is an AA expression. I posted something on this board earlier this week and realized that I need to take some time and practice "Live and Let Live" in my life. I looked this up and found varying meanings of th...
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Sunrise Quote - 4/3
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It doesnt matter where youve been, it only matters where you are going.Brian Tracy
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What others think of me is none of my business...
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Something else to ask myself: When people feel inclined to gossip or 'talk shit' or complain about stuff 'at' me, or to me, why do they feel so inclined? What makes them feel comfortable to say it to me? What is my part? My sponsor told me that it was an honor that I felt comfortable to tell her off and t...
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Grapevine
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April 3 "In AA ... I was once again able to hear the sounds of nature. I looked at a pine tree one day and began to cry at how beautiful it was. I learned to laugh again."
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ah yes , th kwestyun bit
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The Story Of My Life
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-- Edited by Philipld on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 11:04:48 AM -- Edited by Philipld on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 11:07:14 AM
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. Give freely of what you find " AA Big Book, pg 164 I used to think to myself that I wished I had enough time, enough inclination, compassion to help other people. I was hearing and reading about all these p...
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Today's Gift - 4/1
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When people don't forgive, they probably shorten their lives.--Doris DonnellySometimes forgiveness seems impossible and we feel stuck in the quicksand of our own resentment. When everything else fails, we can try the "First Five People Forgiveness Plan." Each morning we make a deci...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 31, 2014Quote of the Week"The people who are the angriest are the people who are the most afraid." It took me a long time to make the connection between my anger and my fear. For years I drowned my fear in alcohol and drugs, and lived pretty detached from my feelings. Those times when I c...
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Today's Gift - 4/3
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You are the hero of your life.Each of us plays the starring role in the drama that is our life. We co-create the script along with our Higher Power. Sometimes we forget our lines, and so we improvise as best we can. We are heroes, each of us, as we move through the events of the day, refining our character an...
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Today's Gift - 4/2
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Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us. --Marsha SinetarKnowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip through our fingers so quickly? One way o...
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Grapevine
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April 2 "For all the slow mornings, there are just as many when I arise with an open mind, willing to see what God has in store for me that day. Every chapter of self-pity ends when I am willing to abandon my pride and reach out to another alcoholic."
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Sponsorship
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I have to thank my many sponsors for the time they made available in their own lives to help a sick alcoholic like me. My sponsor Ronnie used to give at least 2 to 5 hours of time daily. My sponsor Richie from India, with his limited time will spend nearly all of it with me. My last session with him in 1996, was...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others. They shared their homes, their slender resources and gladly devoted spare hours to fellow-sufferers....
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Grapevine
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April 1 "Despite the happy transcendence of the difficulties of yesterday and of today, we nevertheless deeply realize that our negative traits are still with us, and always will be. Therefore our constant responsibility should be that of taking a fearless inventory of our defects as we g...
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Has anyone had a similar sober path?
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This is how my stop drinking story goes. I realized that these past two months since getting off ativan is pretty much the longest I've been without any medication since I quit drinking. When I quit drinking in June of 2012, my doc put me on zoloft and ativan. I was on that for ten months or so, then quit col...
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My experience Step 3.
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"Step3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." AA book. "This is the how and the why of it. 1. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didnt work. 2.Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director...
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a wee bit angry and sad today
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my last drink was 4/21/05. my first AA meeting was 4/23/05. after a little while, I got into a friendship with thom. he was a lil wild, but always had good stuff to share, wasn't afraid to admit he wasn't perfect, and shared often his perception of god. that helped me out quite a bit. he helped learn how to h...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/31
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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between it is all a matter of balance.Paul Boese
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We need to talk!!
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"The thing is if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything." Matthew Perry BTY -- Edited by betterthanyesterday52 on Monday 31st of March 2014 08:09:30 AM
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Today's Gift - 3/31
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust How have we felt when we return to our hometowns, childhood homes, old playgrounds, or high schools after years of absence? Suddenly each place isn't as it once seemed because we're looking th...
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Grapevine
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March 31 "If I am in pain, it may be beneficial to me if I am aware of those in even more pain ... The answer for my pain is in the Twelfth Step."
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10 Months Sober Because Sobriety Is My Number One Priority
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This past Thursday I made it 10 months without a drink. If someone told me before I stopped drinking that I would get sober and not drink for this long I would have told them that they were crazy and to leave me alone. The night before I stopped drinking, I was contemplating ending it all. I didn't want to li...
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