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Today's Gift 07-15
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.--Dr. Wayne Dyer It's generally a struggle to let a child develop a new skill, particularly if it's not one we share or appreciate. It's even more dif...
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Group Conscience
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I can no longer work a regular job due to my physical health deteriorating. In fact, and this will be the last time I share this on the site, my doctor believes I'll be graduating and completing my thirteenth step some time in the next two to three years. In the meantime, my higher power has convinced me...
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Thought for the day
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Sunday, July 14, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay. Codependent No More Do you ever find yourself thinking: How could anyone possibly love me? For many of us,...
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my new house
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Apparently eagle's nest has been used before for a mountain retreat by a chap in Germany who ended up not so popular in the forties.
Let's have a game...rename bill's house.
I came up with ego's rest
My work colleagues came up with biker grove (there's an area in Newcastle called byker which led to a k...
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Joke
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FREE PENCIL SHARPENER FROM THE IRSThe IRS has announced that they will give a free pencilsharpener to all taxpayers who pay their taxes on time this year. It can be placed onyour desk as a constant reminder of the "public service" theyprovide to you each year.One picture is worth a t...
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Joke #3
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"Woman stops gator attack with a small Beretta pistol."This is a story of self-control and marksmanship by a brave, cool-headed woman with a small pistol against a fierce predator. What is the smallest caliber that you would trust to protect yourself?A Beretta Jetfire testimonial.He...
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Joke #2
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***TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO THE NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN (Ob-macare):*** (10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters. (9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you enter the trailer park." (8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of...
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Today's Gift 07-14
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Sometimes, the way is not clear. Our minds get clouded, confused. We aren't certain what our next step should be, what it will look like, what direction we are headed. This is the time to stop, ask for guidance, and rest. That is the time to let go of fear. Wait. Feel the confusion and chaos, and then let i...
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Grapevine
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July 9 "My soul remained a mystery until my Higher Power settled inside me, appearing to me as a very real feeling of love and caring. Kindness slowly took precedence, and I became comfortable with the idea that I didn't need a drink."
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The doctor put me on the Paleo Diet.
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Said my cholesterol was too high. Eat like a caveman, he said. So I'm thinking: we've lots of deer around these parts - I guess I have to wrestle one down with my bare hands, club it to death with a rock, then chew on the bloody corpse. Then I can have some spiders and grass for dessert.
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Bow before your new king.
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Im taking over this discussion board. From now on I want you all to refer to me as "KING" your "YOUR HIGHNESS" Im in charge now.
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A.A sponsorship
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At my group there is a real reluctance to become a sponsor. There are many long term sober members who when asked to become my sponsor , and I really need one , who are very reluctant to do so . Now I know that it is not just an issue with myself, it is an over all issue that seems to be manifest within the group an...
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Respect.
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Please respect this forum. It is a place for the recovery from alcoholism, which in itself is a fatal disease. Let us also keep our sharing to personal experience and refrain from giving advice. -- Edited by gonee on Sunday 14th of July 2013 08:15:17 AM
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Remember that one time...?
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Hi all:) I think I have been very fortunate and blessed to have experienced few cravings for booze- its more the insanity of an alcoholic mind that I struggle with, as opposed to the notion that drinkings a good idea for me. That being said, the cravings I do get seem to come out of nowhere full- force. As m...
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Unfolding the Rosebud
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UNFOLDING THE ROSEBUD It is only a tiny rosebud, A flower of GOD's design; But I cannot unfold the petals With these clumsy hands of mine. The secret of unfolding flowers Is not known to such as I. GOD opens this flower so sweetly, When in my hands they fade and die. If I cannot unfold a rosebud, This flower...
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Law of the garbage truck
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The Law of the Garbage TruckOne day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the oth...
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Welcome!
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To all my new friends on the board. Stay with us, we understand. WELCOME!!!
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Today's Gift 07-10 (Robbie)
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When I read this, I first thought of Robbie's trouble with the AA 'way of doing things' ... I pray he reads this and takes it for the value it holds ... Limited expectations yield only limited results. - Susan Laurson Willig Our thoughts determine our actions, and when our thoughts are negative, ou...
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Choose your own God- What is this? Gregopolis??
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Love the program that has saved my life, but me and a friend who are both of the generic Christian persuasion were kidding around the other night about the ability to "choose your own conception of God". The online game Gregopolis came to mind. The one that advertises, choose your God, buil...
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Grapevine
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July 12 "I sometimes forget to feel gratitude for my sobriety ... This is why I must continue to work with others, to go to meetings, to be of some service to the world around me -- not because these are 'good' things, but rather so that I can once again be stimulated into feelings of gratitude for th...
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Today's Gift 07-13
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Problems are opportunities for stretching our minds. Wringing our hands over circumstances gone awry wastes our energy. In any twenty-four hours we will experience many situations that will evolve according to God's plan, rather than our own. We'd feel our spirits being lifted if we could assume...
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Showing my "stuff" off... an ad I created to gain more work... :)
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Thought for the day - (Let God be a Higher power of your understanding) - this is not a religious program.
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Friday, July 12, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Letting Go of Fear of Abandonment "Where are you, God? Where did you go?" So many people have gone away. We may have felt so alone so much. In the midst of our struggles and lessons, we may wonder if God has gone away to...
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In all things.
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Just to know that God is with us no matter how we feel. His eternal love for us is not based on our feelings. The valleys are designed to break my stubborn self will and strengthen me with His power. The hills are times of exultation and joy which He gives me to celebrate with. It's the plateau in which He des...
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Ahoy ahoy!
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Hi all. I am currently at my in-laws' home, and as I have revealed before, they are alcoholics. I'm lucky to have access to Internet this time around. I wanted to post because 1. this board often feels like a lifeline, and 2. because the more time I spend around them sober the more I notice the sort of insid...
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Today's Gift 07-12
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If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. --Carl Sagan Everything is given to us. Our lives came forth with no plan on our part. We have no lease on life and no control, ultimately, over any possession. In the addictive and codependent families most of us ca...
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Relativity
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Thank you for the vote of approval and allowing me to put tidbits of my writing up as I write the story. I probably should give you the gist of the story first though. The book is intended to be a Buddhist allegory, not unlike The Chronicles of Narnia which was a Christian allegory. The template is fro...
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Two years sober...What have I learned?
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The most important thing I've learned...If I let go of my old ideas...Open my mind...And follow the clear cut directions in the first 103 pages of the Big Book....This works....It really does. As promised. I also learned I don't have to do this alone...Thank You God...Thank you AA...And thank you go...
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Lets See...
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Had I not been sober today... I would not have determinded that the CD on my desktop had failed. I would not have tried another CD and realized that the MB connection had failed. I would not have been able to order a new MB, CPU and RAM. I would not have washed towels that needed to be washed. I would not hav...
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Thought for the day
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Ending Relationships It takes courage and honesty to end a relationship - with friends, loved ones, or a work relationship. Sometimes, it may appear easier to let the relationship die from lack of attention rather than...
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Today's Gift 07-11
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I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi It has been said that when we ask someone to do something three times and they don't, what we're asking becomes our will and not theirs. Do we really believe that the only person we can change is ourselve...
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Grapevine
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July 11 "There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us."
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great marriage except for passion and intimacy. How do you fix this?
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So I have been sober for a while now and have been married for 30 years. We have a great love for each other however on my part there are no feelings of passion. This has been for a long time but the respect and love we have seemed enough for me. In the last few months I have been experiancing feelings of passio...
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Hope
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It's hard to swallow for me, that the people who loved me 'the right way' were the people who let me know they cared - but completely left me alone to hit my bottom back in my earlier days of drinking. I think back now to my drinking, and I assumed that if it weren't for my parents and certain boyfriend/husb...
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Sunlight
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Hi All, Today I was driving around running errands when a song started playing in my car that I used to listen to when I was at the height of depressed addiction. The song is called "Sunlight" by a hip hop artist named MC Yogi and it's all about finding a brighter future by letting go. I'll post l...
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Not is more fun
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Yesterday, I got in my car to go to a potluck at my regular Monday night meeting. It never occurred to me to question the competency of the engineers who designed my car. Got in, started it up and drove away. Never doubted that the brakes would work, never doubted that the car would go forward when I pus...
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Thought for the day
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Overspending and Underspending I used to beat my husband to death with my credit card. It made me feel like I had some control, some way to get even with him. Anonymous I spent ten years buying everything for myself at garage s...
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Old Quote --- Seemed appropriate for those having trouble with AA
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"Wisdom is knowledge you learn after you know it all." You couldn't tell me anything before I entered recovery because I knew it all. I had all the answers for my life, and I had all the answers for yours, too, and I was quick to tell you about it. In fact, my favorite saying back then was, &quo...
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Look to this day
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Look to this day. For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a Dream of happiness And every tomorrow a Vision of hope. Look well, Therefore to this day
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Grapevine
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July 10 "We made a lot of mistakes. On the basis of our mistakes, Bill W. put together the Twelve Traditions ... The early members brought us one Tradition at a time, in the long form -- for our group conscience and vote. We discussed each one, took out anything that we didn't want, made amendments...
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The joy of recovery!
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When you spend 25 years of your life and many hours in the life of our AA, Alanon and Alateen family, then a bond develops that no one can explain in human terms. It is by suffering that we have bonded. As a family we cannot even count the people that have graced our lives and made it richer for what it is today...
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Take my inventory, PLEASE!
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Okay, folks, here's a kooky problem. I ask myself "do I still have character defects BESIDES the anger?" If so, what are they? None of you can answer that because you've never met me. But there are PLENTY of folks in face2face who do. So would it be appropriate to offer them the opputunity to t...
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For you Coffee Nuts Out There --- Especially Women
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All I can say is..if you don't laugh out loud at this one you are having a bad day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A great coffee ad. Ok ladies, I promise you a laugh.
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Update
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Its been an eventful year thus far. Amidst the chaos Ive enjoyed my time and have trudged the road with a smile on my face for the most part. There was one event that shook me but my higher power was able to steady me quickly. Im sharing the following to catch up with old friends and give hope to those who...
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My dysFUNCTIONAL Family...
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Don't Quit
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DONT QUITWhen things go wrong, as they sometimes will,When the road youre trudging seems all uphill,When the funds are low, and debts are high,And you want to smile, but have to sigh,When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest if you must, but dont you quit.Life is queer with its twists and turns,As ever...
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Today's Gift 07-09
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He that plants trees loves others besides himself. --Thomas Fuller Trees take many years to become beautiful. They start out small and scrawny, and they need attention and care. Planting them is a lot of work for very little payback in the short-term. But over time, trees become big, beautiful, and u...
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Today's Gift
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013You are reading from the book Today's Gift A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher A strong, healthy tree is one which is free to grow straight and tall. A weak tree often must lean against another for support. It is not t...
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Eat More Fruit?
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Got home late last night and the wife left a message in the kitchen. I guess she wants me to eat more fruit.
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on the move
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After more than seven years in rented property ...... I'm buying my own house.
At 57 years old and not quite 7 years sober I'm taking on a mortgage and putting down roots.
Affordability is well within budget. Funds arranged. Mortgage will be less than rent. A modest house. Two small doubles and a si...
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