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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseI sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. Psalm 34:4-5Weekly QuoteGod walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awes...
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Today's Gift - 3/30
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In the long run, it's easier to carry out our Higher Power's will than our own. The good news of the Twelve Step program is that we don't have to continue trying to make self-will work. Attempting to make the rest of the world conform to what we think we want is a little like trying to push water uphill. It's...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/30
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
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Sober Stuff for the Day -----How to Get Through Your First AA Meeting
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Instead of the Sober quotation I do everyday, and so the board won't be too filled up with "BTY" (my) postings, I have decided to post this "burning desire" I have to share this instead. I hope it helps someone thinking about attending AA meetings and helps alleviate any fear(s...
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4th Step issue and obsession
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So the reason I drank and totally accepted I was a piece of shit came up with my 4th step. I am obsessed with this turama from the past. Well years of crap ages 10-23. It hurts and I have seen a shrink and talked about it and talked and talked about it and did everything I can. Everyone agrees my childhood was b...
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my mum
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Visited mum yhis afternnon and she was fast asleep. My sister looks absolutely drained too. Went back this evening and mum had woken up and is looking well for an 88 year old. Staff have no concerns and she responds well to gentle teasing. She's determined to get back home asap.. all very positive and me...
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I pick up my 30 day chip 3/26/2014
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Hi, I'm wanda an alcoholic and an addict . So I've been real busy going to AA meetings and other things, that's why I have not been here in awhile. I call my sponser every morning and night rather I need to or not. And when all hell breaks through I call her again. we just went through the 3rd step prayer toge...
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Waking Up Sober
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This is not a deep philosophical insight by any means, but this morning as I was getting ready for work it really hit me that at no point in the course of my life have I ever woken up sober and regretted avoiding alcohol the night before. I've never rolled over in bed, bright-eyed and awake, and wished that...
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My Eulogy
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Ok guys. Wtf are you doing here??? You must still need some kind of proof that there is something greater than yourself "out there" Never mind what you've been "told" It's bullshit. It's "the man behind the curtain in Oz" Pay no attention It's Ed Harris in The Truman...
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Happy Sobriety Birthday justadrunk!
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Happy Sobriety Birthday, justadrunk! Thanks for sharing your stories, inspiration and hope and helping me stay sober, too! BTY
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"If some days the best I can do is get out of bed and make it to a meeting, then so be it. The day was a success any day that I stay sober is a success." --unknown BTY
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Sunrise Quote - 3/29
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The strength of the team is each individual member The strength of each member is the team.Phil Jackson
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Humor Time!!! Proof, Men have Better Friends!
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A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it. Friendship among Men: A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife he had slept over a...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave" Mo Williams BTY
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Before and After
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Snows a melting and the waters risin!!
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Today's Gift 3/29
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Do I trigger gossip?There is a saying that listening to gossip is gossip. How true! If there were no listeners, there would never be any gossip.Some of us who pride ourselves in refraining from gossip may still have a problem with it. It's possible we still keep ears open for any juicy gossip that could...
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resentment? maybe i've dealt with this one.
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My mum had a fall a few days ago and busted her leg. She's had a half hip replacement and will be in hospital for some days So it's my great niece's christening on sunday and I've committed to attend purely because it was a chance for mum to have her family round her...of coirse that won't happen npw, only tw...
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Thoughts For Today
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When you're home by yourself you're behind enemy lines I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex A critic is a person who goes onto the battlefield after the battle has been fought and shoots the survivors I need to put things in perspective because I have a disease of perception My biggest p...
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That Moment You Cross the Line
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Today I was listening to a speaker talk about how he made the transition from heavy drinker to full-on alcoholic. He started drinking with the same frequency as his friends, he said but, "Somewhere along the line, I went from drinking a little too much to becoming an alcoholic." It made me s...
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Grapevine
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March 28 "One of the first insights Dr. Bob and I shared was that all true communication must be founded on mutual need. Never could we talk down to anyone, certainly not to a fellow alcoholic. We saw that each sponsor would have to humbly admit his own needs as clearly as those of his prospect.&q...
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Today's Gift - 3/28
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Changing destructive habits is what changes lives.People grow accustomed to habits even when they are self-destructive. We who have sought the help of Twelve Step programs were often caught in patterns of behavior that injured us or other people. We want help to change these habits or we wouldn't b...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/28
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The best thinking is done in solitude. The worst has been in turmoil.Thomas Edison
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Yearning to Learn
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Hello all, I want to introduce myself to you all. My name is Rebecca and I am 21 years old. I am not a recovered or recovering alcoholic, but I would love to learn about how many of you recovered and continue to recover from your addiction. I struggle with resisting things in my life and I wanted to know how y...
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Today's Gift - 3/27
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The more I learn of others' problems, the more my own problems automatically dissolve. --Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche Newcomer The second part of Step Eight says, "became willing to make amends to them all." I have to admit that this is a lot harder for me than simply recognizing that I've caus...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/27
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In the confrontation between the river and the rock. The river always wins. Not through strength but by perseverance.Unknown
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Grapevine
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March 27 "When we early AAs got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: 'Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!'"
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Sober Quote for the Day ..brought to you by AA
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I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good might turn up at any moment. That's a big change for someone who used to come to in the morning feeling sentenced to another day of life. When I wake up today, there are lots of possibilities. I can hardly wai...
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One week?
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I posted yesterday about how I am on a business trip that ended up being very early in my sobriety. It is challenging, but doable. It has to be. Last night I was able to avoid going to the bar with my colleagues and being a bit of a hermit, but it worked for me. Tonight I have to go bowling. Now, I love bowl...
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Today's Gift - 3/26
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Fall in love with lifeI was sitting in the chair at the beauty shop getting my hair cut one day and listening to my beautician chatter away. She showed me a picture of one of her friends, a woman who had gotten married and recently had a baby girl."She's been so in love since that child was born,"...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/26
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Chang Tsu
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The Pebble in the Shoe
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The following is an excerpt of a new book, just thought it appropriate to those of us in recovery also ... (in addition to those with non-alcohol generated problems) ... : Whats your pebble? From The Pebble in the Shoe by Jim FanninEveryone has had a pebble in his or her shoe. You may have one or two now....
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Character Flaws? What Character Flaws????
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This was probably next to the biggest fear I had about working these steps. As if the 4th Step wasn't enough--listing my resentments and reading my creeping crud to a person I have known only a few months, then I have to deal with this same person make a list of my "character flaws"! After the m...
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Sober Quote for The Day
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Its a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (I have found it necessary for me not to be around anyone that is drinking no matter how much they are drinking. Staying sober is my number one priority and I have not reached the point where I feel like I...
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Grapevine
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March 25 "I'm better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn."
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Spirituality and Alcoholism
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Hi All, It's been a while. Still holding on dearly to my sobriety, and I had an experience that I wanted to share. Over the weekend, I was at a birthday party when I found myself talking to an in-law who is a self-proclaimed "spiritual advisor" by education and trade. She is also an alcoholic....
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Today's Gift - 3/25
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Why go to meetings?The first time we hear that Al-Anon is not about getting people clean and sober, we question the point of going. But what we soon learn is that the program is for us, not for the addict or alcoholic. We learn that we deserve peace.We'll think with greater clarity because Step One wil...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/25
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A single idea can transform a person, a life, a business, a nation, a world.Anonymous
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Divorce -vs- Murder
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DIVORCE VS. MURDER A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide." The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady replied, "I need it...
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Grapevine
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March 26 "As AA grows, it is impossible to know everyone, but if I try to relate myself with just one other person, something will happen, something remarkable."
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4th and 5th Steps with ADHD
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Hi, I'm new to this site. I was googling ADHD and the 4th and 5th Steps and found this site. I have ADHD, diagnosed before I got sober, I have 2 1/2 years sober and had a hard time getting my 4th step written out because it's hard for me to think in chronological order. My 1st "5th Step" didn't go so...
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Pretty Sad But Not For Myself This Time
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I talked to someone yesterday and she told me that she had a drinking problem and had decided to stop drinking. I invited her to my meeting last night and she couldn't go however, she said she really wanted to go tonight and said that she wanted to know I would be there and I said I would. Well, she just call...
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Day 6 and away from home
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Today is day 6 for me. I don't feel as awful as the first few days. I just feel weird and completely out of sorts. And my timing isn't great, but I guess there is never a "convenient" time to get sober. I am from NYC and started on Tuesday. Yesterday I had to fly to Arizona for five days for work...
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Happy Birthday Mike F.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE F.!!! BTY -- Edited by betterthanyesterday52 on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 10:33:59 AM
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Sober Quote for the Day
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I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves. Craig Fergusen BTY
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When One Door Closes
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God and A.A.; The REAL Interview
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God; The REAL Interview.A.A.; Hey God!!! I reeeally wanna say that I'm soooo grateful to be sober and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous ...God; Yeah yeah right. Now if you will listen...I mean REALLY listen for a moment I'm going to tell you why this is happening.First of all you guys are a sounding-boa...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/24
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly, embrace the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.Unknown
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Ever feel Like Youre Just Not Part Of The Herd?
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson (I think this is a good example of what AA teaches us about how to maintain our sobriety.) BTY
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Step Nine Has Hidden Benefits
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Hi all, Ive been away sailing and out of range for a while which is why I haven't been around. My travels have taken me to the port of Bluff, right at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand, famous for its oysters, the best in the world. I don't buy them anymore. Much as I love them, they have just got too...
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