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Grapevine
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September 4 "AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort."
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More About Alcholism
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Here's an interesting WaPa article I came across about alcoholism in America. The magnitude of the problem is enormous (behind only smoking and obesity in life-threatening consequences).But science is making some strides in addressing the problem, both in concert with AA and separate from. Of p...
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Layers of sanity - The Flapjack Syndrome
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Good Morning! A few recent posts here and events at work and home got me thinking. It feels to me like this new life, with my Higher Power and step guide for living, comes in layers. baby steps at work, gradual moves up, all with AA principles providing the power for them better relationships with wife, d...
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Today's Gift
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A problem well stated is a problem half solved. --Charles F. Kettering Denial never really goes away, it creeps into everyone's life. We may admit we're powerless over alcohol and drugs but still believe it was the school's fault that we were suspended. Denial is especially dangerous for us, becaus...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.." - Elbert Hubbard
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Grapevine
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September 3 "I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn't want a parade of people at my funeral singing, 'Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!'"
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Sunrise Quote
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"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." - Samuel McChord Crothers
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Today's Gift
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Listening and Sharing Let us review what others have said about listening and sharing: "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." --Churton Collins "They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles....
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Im brand new to this forum.
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Hello, i am new to internet chat eccept a bit when i have gamed online. I want to tell you something up front. I have been banned by my homegroup today. The police told me so. I used this group to sober up 3.5 years ago. When I joined it, my temp sponsor pointed at the old guy starting my new group ad said, &qu...
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Ego
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I spent the day at a fair yesterday while my wife was working a booth. I am sometimes really not good around other people; yesterday was one of those days. I allowed someone to push a button and I responded with all ego. It was, in retrospect, so ugly and very disappointing. I will do better in the futu...
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25 years sober in AA.
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Many thanks to God and my brothers and sisters on this forum. This success is a tribute to you for caring and sharing with me. My online meeting with you any time of day and night, across huge time zones, has been such a blessing to me. I am closer to you then many who I meet face to face every day. The 1st day I c...
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Today's Gift
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I have to laugh at the times Ive knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through. --Robert Franklin Leslie We receive messages throughout the day that tell us ways of doing things. The door to the store says, Pull. The red light tells us not to drive throug...
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Twelve Step call
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At 10:11am this morning I had just entered a pawn shop looking for a home phone...ours went kaput three days ago and money is tight so I thought I'd try there first. I know it was 10:11am because my cell phone rang at that moment. It was a man in the program who had the good sense to call before he relapsed...
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It is impossible for an athiest to hate God
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I was speaking at a meeting last Monday on Step 11, and this came out my mouth, "It is impossible for an atheist to hate God." I have no idea where it came from, whether I read it or heard it somewhere. For years in sobriety (dry drunk) I hated God, and tried to be an atheist, as well (no hypocr...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
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Today's Gift
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Constant togetherness is fine But only for Siamese twins. --Victoria Billings Newcomer I heard someone in recovery say, "I dont have relationships, I take hostages." Everyone laughed, but it left me feeling insecure about how to evaluate my own relationships. How close is too close? S...
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Far enough down?
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When I first discovered the 12 steps in another program, 15yrs ago, I had a question come up whenever I heard another person's trials, tribulations, stories. No matter who it was talking or when, I began a comparison game. I only did this much of.... And they did so much more/different/worse/less...
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Today's Gift
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill How many times today will we think or say, "I wish I knew what was going to happen"? We can find contentment in the knowledge that God will take care of us, regardless of t...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience" - Eleanor Hibbert
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Inspiration 365 Days a Year
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I have posted this before, with very few comments, but I want to repost it because I find such 'inspiration' from it ... I don't know if in the past whether others could not afford the 3 1/2 minutes to watch it or they were just not in the mood, who knows ... This short clip really does say a lot to me and makes m...
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How to Handle Stuff at Meetings
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I am again coming to you guys for help, as there is no one at the meetings I feel comfortable talking to about this...tomorrow I get to pick up my 90 day chip. Haven't missed any meetings for all those days and feeling quite good. I love the meetings I have been going to and there is only one women's group dur...
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Grapevine
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August 30 "Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile."
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A Great Short Story about 'Time' ...
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A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, di...
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Good time flying by
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and I'm smiling. My wife told me tonight that her eldest son called and announced his 24 year clean and sober which just makes me smile out loud. When my wife and I met in program and on our first sit down at her home where I was gonna be fed mexican style soft tacos (it wasn't force fed that's for sure) J wa...
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I need this fellowship AND want it
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I have recently found myself pulling away from AA. It began at around the year mark. I am an isolator- always have been. I don't trust people and I generally keep them at arms length. I thought I was working really hard at overcoming this. If I am honest with myself, I have not. I am still holding onto this f...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus
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Grapevine
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August 29 "Not only ... could spiritual experiences make people saner, they could transform men and women so that they could do, feel, and believe what had hitherto been impossible to them. It mattered little whether these awakenings were sudden or gradual; their variety could be almost in...
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Sunrise Quote
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"It requires the eye of wisdom and bravery to see the radiance of a dark day, and impart its brightness to the world." - Ella E. Dodson
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Today's Gift
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Reflection for the Day In a very real sense, we are imprisoned by our inability or unwillingness to reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves. But in time, we pray to be relieved of the bondage of self, so that we can better do God's will. In the words of Ramakrishna, "The sun and moon are n...
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Grapevine
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August 28 "Not drinking is the first requirement for joy; the second requirement is gratitude."
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Sunrise Quote
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"Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change." - Joe Konrath
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Today's Gift
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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. --Florida Scott Maxwell In our quiet moments we dream of the gifts that accompany being loved and imagine ourselves as alway...
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Swimming in seaweed.
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As a child - it didn't bother me much to swim in mucky waters... filled with seaweed or blood suckers or whatever else I didn't want to really know about. I'd get a bucket of tadpoles and drag them back up to the house several corn fields away, only to be told by my mother to TAKE THEM BACK!!! I loved all 125...
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As we speak...
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At the moment my beloved wife is upstairs shooting up. She relapsed two days ago though I just found out an hour ago. She is on parole and the consequences of a dirty UA is life without parole. She says that she wants to quit tomorrow and is willing to go to a meeting tonight. Of course, addiction has he...
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Been B U S Y. Exercising the "Giving it to my HP" power.
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My wife and I have been agonizing over moving the family closer to my work. The kids are 11 and 13, and it is tough moving. My wife and I made a lot of military moves over the years, and had settled into my current house for 10 years. We have made a lot of friends here in South Carolina, but if I move to Fla, I can...
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For Mike B & MrPeel --- Let's go Blonde!!!
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Okay boys, ... Here we go ... A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject and finally getting all of the necessary tools together, she made for the ice. After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly, from the sky, a voice boo...
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a place ofchange
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at 1st . You put your whole self in........... me thunk you get th drift........
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Impulses
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Yesterday was my Friday. It had a rough start that I conquered and perservered over until by the end of the day I was all smiles. But I had that thinking in the back of my head. That stuff that allows me to make a choice before I can't make a choice. The Little Voice (vice) was saying, "Just a lil'bi...
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Up early for once and feels as though it helps my state of mind
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Although i feel depressed after a binge, I've somehow got my sleeping pattern into waking up in the early hours of the morning instead of going to bed in the early hours. It's a bit strange but I've woke up, done some AA reading, 3 cups of tea, textd my friends, sent a couple of e mails, and i've just noticed...
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Sunrise Quote
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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." - G.K. Chesterton
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 26, 2013 Quote of the Week "The ONLY thing that can ever make me drink again is untreated alcoholism." There is a lot in this quote. First, it reminds me that no matter how much time I have, I also still have the disease of alcoholism. Like someone once said, after each day I stay so...
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Today's Gift
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Expectations of Others It is our job to identify our needs, and then determine a balanced way of getting those needs met. We ultimately expect our Higher Power and the Universe - not one particular person - to be our source. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to be able or willing to meet our every requ...
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Grapevine
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August 27 "AA membership cannot depend upon any particular belief whatever ... our Twelve Steps contain no article of religious faith except faith in God - as each of us understands him."
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Sunrise Quote
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
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POWERLESS?
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When my wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was reminded what it was like to be powerless. But, the doctor said, there are certain things we can do to improve the situation. There are various medications and treatments we can use to slow the disease down that will give you a bit more time, and impr...
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Grapevine
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August 26 "Ego was being replaced with self-respect ... resentment and hatred were being replaced with tolerance and understanding ... fear was being replaced with trust ... loneliness and self-pity were being replaced with gratitude and love -- all because I was working the program to the...
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Your Past
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I've been finding myself feeling alot of resentment lately, not able to get over the people that I have hurt including myself. I've been writing a bit in a journal to help me get into the right head space , I found this nice image/quote and I thought I would share if anyone is experiencing the same thought...
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Today's Gift 08-26
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -- E. W. Howe Do you let yourself be afraid of your illness? You'd better. Many of us were scared into sobriety. Often, a spiritual awakening directly follows a good scare. Fear seems to improve our vision. Are you smart enough to run from your addictio...
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Bash you over the head drinking dream
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Wow! I have drinking dreams pretty frequently. Early this morning I had a really intense relapse dream, and the dream was mostly about the aftermath. The intense pain and shame and horror and confusion and wanting to just disappear. It also involved some pretty intense revisiting of my steps 4 and 5 t...
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Willing to make amends
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The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change. This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with others and ourselves. It means we become willing to let go of our hard heartedness - one of the greatest blocks to our ability to give and receive lov...
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