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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseYou will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12Weekly QuoteAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston ChurchillWeekly ThoughtBad habits are e...
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"Daddy...can I have do-overs?"
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When my youngest son Patrick was born, I had been sober in A.A. for several years. When he was little, we usually played board games together, and as he became more able to learn, I taught him how to play Chess. One of the rules of play in Chess is that, once you've made your move and have removed your fing...
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Welcome to MIP Marley and Social Butterfly
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I'm glad y'all found us ... Most all of us here have been sober 'today' ... we did not find it necessary to drink, or drug, for today ... we're here to support each other within the family that's AA ... some of us have days, months, and even years of living the AA 'way of life' ... most of us have been where you...
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Time
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Here are six terrific truths about time:First: Nobody can manage time. But you can manage those things that take up your time.Second: Time is expensive. As a matter of fact, 80 percent of our day is spent on those things or those people that only bring us two percent of our results.Third: Time is per...
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Recovery is like a vast supply of water....
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Welcome to Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums! Twelve Step recovery programs can be a life sustaining substance to many people, just as water is.You can get a cup full or a barrel full. There is plenty here to take as much as you want or need.If you leave too quickly and don't get enough, you are...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/23
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Alcoholism is the only disease that tells you you're alright." 12stepsource.com BTY
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Today's Gift - 3/23
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I want somehow to tell the story of how the dispossessed become possessed of their own history without losing sight, without forgetting the meaning or the nature of their journey. -Sherley Anne Williams To use the past without being controlled by it that is our responsibility to history. Because t...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/22
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One today is worth two tomorrows.Benjamin Franklin
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Wanna find out who your true friends are? Get sober" -unknown- (Since I have been sober I actually have friends now and more than I could have ever imagined. I chased away the few friends I had when I was drinking.) I am grateful for the friends I have on this board and you guys! BTY
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Sobering Quote for the Day
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald BTY
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You MIGHT BE an alcoholic IF...
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20. You have awakened with an overwelming feeling that you should go back and apologize... but you don't remember where. 19. The Tipsy Taxi service has banned you from all its vehicles. 18. You refer to your favorite song only by its jukebox selection numbers, G-12. 17. People consider your spouse a...
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Today's Gift - 3/22
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When we do for other people what they should do for themselves, we both stay stuck.Perhaps it's human nature to grow and change only when we have to. Unrelenting pain can serve as a motivator. Sometimes ultimatums are effective too. But making excuses for others or taking over their responsibilitie...
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Our fellowship.
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AA and Alanon is not a social club. It's a hospital for sick people. We must continue to express our gratitude by helping others. If we cannot help, let someone else do it. We must never forget what it was like, what happened and what it is like now. After 25 sober years my heart is still longing for the God w...
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Who would like to be my e-sponsor?
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I am a very private person who values his personal space. In the past I have had problems with the in-person demands of real world sponsors. They've been wonderful people with the best intentions but I've always found myself pulling away when beginning to get close to them. It's my hope that someone he...
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For Natasha, ... sung by Natasha B...
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I heard this this a.m. and simply had to post for others who may want to take a 3 minute break and enjoy ... it's one of my favorites ... Love Y'all and God Bless, Pappy -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Wednesday 5th of March 2014 11:20:36 AM
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A Sign Of Spring In Ontario Canada
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Sunrise Quote - 3/20
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The balanced man is he whose thoughts soar on the wings of vision but whose feet remain on the rocks of reality.J. A. Rosenkranz
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Today's Gift - 3/21
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At first, I resented it when my friends in the program told me to be God or let God. -- Myrna K. Who consciously decided to play God? Not me. Not you. But many of us have a terrible time letting God run the world. No matter how much we resolve not to, we take responsibility for things we can't control. That...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/21
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We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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When I got here I HAD to - Learn to listen & listen to learn. Listen , like only the dying can. Listen , or , thy tongue . Will keep you deaf. A Closed mouth , gathers no feet. Alcohol preserves most things , dignity isn't one of them Hearing Is a gift , listening an art. At the end of a game , the queen & p...
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the flu
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I am laid low with the flu and really it is the only really bad bout of ill health I have had since my HP got me sober 4 years ago. It is giving me time to reflect and slow down and realise I can be done without, easily. I have to cancel all my appointments as I believe in self care today and the little things I was w...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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I kept waiting for something bigger, something more profound, something that I could hitch myself to and be carried away once and for all to the heaven-on-earth that I deserved. I kept struggling for control, which was really a demand for everything I wanted--peace, happiness, love, perfection--...
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Self Pity
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The Doors To An AA Meeting
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I remember someone knocking on our door years ago. It was a man who my dad used to refer to as "one of the town drunks". I remember him being very loud and obnoxious and my dad's voice steadily growing from calm to angry. Then I heard a door slam and the man was left staring at a closed door. My dad c...
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Grapevine
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March 20 "If you haven't been to a meeting for a while, come, and add to the mix ... we need you. Come for yourself, come for the Fellowship, come to celebrate sobriety, and come for the alcoholic who still suffers."
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Today's Gift - 3/20
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Communicating...armed to deal with whatever comesOne couple never told each other anything negative if they could avoid it. They always protected each other from bad news. Their neighbors, however, were not that careful about what they said. They had a positive attitude but they believed that re...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/19
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The will to win the will to achieve goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.Vince Lombardi
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Attitude
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New Road
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I am new to this group and the road to sobriety in general-this is day 1. I have been trying on my own and have failed so I am starting to reach out. I am not ready to go to a local meeting yet. I am a 37 year old single mom of 3 wonderful children. I have been in a serious relationship with a great man for the pa...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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Sunrise Quote - 3/18
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Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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Sobriety Quote for the Day
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"Sober up and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before." Sammy Davis, Jr. BTY
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The IDEA!!
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"Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol--cunning, baffling, powerful!" Pg 58 AA book. "The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of...
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Today's Gift - 3/19 (this one made me think of BTY)
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Moving Forward Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to change as well. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to grow, even thou...
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Grapevine
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March 19 "New people are the lifeblood of AA. I am eternally grateful to them. By extension I am, therefore, grateful to Tradition Three for making it possible for all who want what we have to come to AA."
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Grapevine
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March 18 "Pain is one of our greatest teachers. Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can, if I try hard, give thanks for present pain nevertheless."
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To Tell Or Not To Tell
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I have been dating a wonderful man for almost 10 months. He knows that, when I drink, I drink too much and can't remember anything. He also knows that I make poor decisions when I drink and wants me to stop. The thing that he does not know is that I cannot stop alone and that I went to my first AA meeting tod...
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Today's Gift - 3/18
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I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me. --Frances Newton Fear of the unknown, often referred to as free-floating anxiety, catches up to us on occasion. But it needn't. The program offers us strength whenever we need it, and faith diminishes all fear. It is said that fear canno...
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It's Snowing Here Again! What a Crazzzzy March!
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We got a mixture of sleet and rain last night. Went out to take a smoke break a bit ago, and the snow was pouring down. I have never seen snowflakes this big! They are almost like "clusters" of many snowflakes mixed together with some being 2" or more long! I tried to catch one to take a pict...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here are a Couple of Funnies for You!
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(I am finding adding a couple of jokes to my day helps me not take myself so seriously and get as blahhhh as I sometimes do! I hope everyone has a great, safe and sober St. Patrick's Day!) BTYMums Meagan and Caitlin were bragging about their Irish sons accomplishments.Meagan says, My son Franci...
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RARELY HAVE we seen a person fail...
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"RARELY HAVE we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfo...
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Well...Ill Be Damned!!
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Or...Almost Was!! 365 days ago..this morning? This Kid was in pretty rough shape... Had 2 king cans of beer to keep the body from vibrating..and poured the other 4 down the drain... Went into my first AA meeting in over 6 years...Knew everyone there...and the weird part about it? They didn't recogniz...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/17
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No road is long with good company.Turkish Proverb
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Today's Gift - 3/17
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Our teachers surround us.When we were young, our parents and siblings served as our teachers, but they weren't always good ones. We may have learned habits that haunt us still. Shame and guilt may still trouble us because of the messages our parents and siblings gave us. We can't undo the past teachin...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"At 62 I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect." Ted Nugent (Sounds like sobriety is nature's Viagra for hair.) BTY
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 17, 2014Quote of the WeekThere are some days when I say, "What program?" "God who?" Last week my business website was hacked, my site was taken down, and my account was suspended. For hours, while I lost revenue and customers, I pleaded, begged and threatened my hosti...
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Grapevine
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March 17 "Surrender has nothing to do with giving up. It means to stop fighting."
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A Sober St. Patrick's Day
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Although this online article is from 2012, I came across it and loved it and wanted to share. I think it certainly bears repeating and it gives me a special kind of feeling inside knowing that someone did something to ensure that this holiday, which has been made into a drunk fest, be celebrated in a sobe...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there. Bucky Sinister BTY
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