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Today's Grapevine Quote
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December 14 "Life's formidable array of pains and problems will require many different degrees of acceptance ... Sometimes, we have to find the right kind of acceptance for each day. Sometimes, we need to develop accep...
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Simple program
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The only thing that I had was a desire to stop drinking. AA did not ask me anything else. After I entered the doors and listened to the speakers and read the AA book, the realisation became apparent to me that I was an alcoholic. After my 1st relapse, I found that I was powerless over alcohol, and no matter h...
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Sense of Humor ?
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GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMORA woman received a call that her daughter was sick. She hurried to the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside. The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground. She looked at it and said "I don't know how to use t...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 10, 2012 Quote of the Week "Give all your problems to God - He'll be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lay in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actuall...
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Welcome to MIP Joybear80!
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Welcome to the site...Look forward to hearing your story!
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My first post at miracles
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i am new to this and to aa just trying to get some help for this darn thing they call addiction............ (May 21st, 2005) That was my first post at this site, I was new with a few months of not drinking and no meetings. Last night I picked up my 8 year chip.. Miracles was a great safe place for me in those f...
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Step 2
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You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Step Two Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their liv...
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1st day and its hard!!!!!!!!
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well first day off the cigs and its so hard!!! Been a smoker since 14 and will be 40 this year,did give up for 1 1/2 years but stupidly started again. Its the snappiness thats hard,have to remember to take deep breaths and walk off for a few minutes to calm down.I have a steely resolve to quit,and it will no...
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Today's Gift 02-02
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Humility is our acceptance of ourselves. --Anonymous It is strange how we can go to school and learn a lot of facts, but never learn much along the way about ourselves. We can take up nursing, teaching, counseling, and giving ourselves to the needs of others, while never having our own needs met. Why do...
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Is a Sponsor in AA a must?
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have been sober now for 12 Days (will not pick up a drink, will not pick a drink, will not pick a drink) Praise God! I have been to a few AA Meetings received several numbers and the Big Book, which I am slowly working through reading. I don't know if I have the guts to ask for a Sponsor yet, I haven't even call...
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Familiar faces
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The first week I went to meetings I was struck by the many people I met who looked and/or acted very similar to people I already knew. Not 1 or 2....more like 6 or 8. It was strange. I thought I was imagining things. A little unsettling. It came up in conversation after the meeting tonight and I continued to...
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Note to Chris - the program WORKS!
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Yesterday, I had someone come at me with their pointer finger and swear at me "I am not fucking happy with you right now" RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CHILDRENS MUSIC CLASS! Seriously! I babysit for these two sweet little two year olds, and have told the parents many times that I am a music teach...
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Ever Since the World Began....
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Don't really know why I'm moved to post this here this morning, but it hit me, and I just wanted to share it.
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Grapevine
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February 1 "These days I find that nothing is as precious as my sanity. I used to be addicted to drama and could only function on excitement and high levels of adrenaline. It's very different today ... It's all very ordinary...
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Today's Gift 02-01
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Action carries us in the direction we choose. Recovery involves doing - going to meetings working our program, reaching out to others. We don't get a job by sitting at home thinking about it, and we don't get a degree by looking at college catalogs. It's true that we need to reflect; we need quiet times w...
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A spiritual malady?
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I hate myself. I have this overwhelming sadness mixed with anger about who I am, what I look like, how I talk, that I'm not enough, that i can't keep up. I can't stand being in this body anymore. And, I know that when I bring these feelings to my sponsor or another AA friend, they think that meditating or goi...
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A Major Key To Self Esteem
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One of my most favorite little books I read several times a year at leastIt only takes about 45 minutes to read it, is James Allens book As a Man ThinkithThinking well of yourself changes attitudes and circumstances.. giving you opportunities. Based upon that which you put your mind to.. One guy years...
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Thanks from Lady Eli!
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Dearest Dear Miracles! Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughtful replies! Your page crossed my mind, while I was in the courtroom yesterday! Thanks to God, A.A., and you guys I was carried through a nightmarish day.....sober and clean!
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Sitting in the background... I am a alcoholic.
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Hi everyone, as most of you know, I started building the MIP website in the late 1990's. Back then it was because I could not get to face to face meetings due to 2 herniated disk in my back, and riding in a car was way too painful. I had surgery in 1999 and haven't experienced so much as discomfort in it sinc...
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Too busy to pray (cont. from Tasha's Post) --- Also known as 'Daddy's Empty Chair'
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DADDY'S EMPTY CHAIR A man's daughter had asked the local ministerTo come and pray with her father..When the minister arrived, He found the man lying in bed with his head Propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed.The minister assumed that the old fellowHad been informed of his v...
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Today's Gift 01-31
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You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John KnoblauchOnce there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...
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Daily Reflections ~ Freedom From.. Freedom To.. & 24hrs a Day
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We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear fear of people, of economic insecurity, of commitment, of...
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Morphine....
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I remember a surgeon being angry at me for refusing this drug just after ankle surgery citing that the ankle break was the most painful of injuries. My reply was I had no pain and that was true and then the anesthesiologist making his appearance wanting to appologize for the ingury to my throat and na...
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Let's always remember these - Amazing Home Remedies!
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1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto! The blockage will be almost instantly removed. 2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away. 3. Avoid argume...
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Help please!
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Help please my dear Miracles! My A.A. p-gram today, so far, has included a meeting, 1-2-3, 11 & 12...and now I got the nudge, to share my grim details, with this room. To those who know my story "Angel in the Glass"....welll.....there was no room for details there. He...
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Today's Gift 01-30
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Miracles are instantaneous. They cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments to those who least expect them. -- Katherine Anne PorterNobody can force us to be in recovery or twist our arm to make us work our program. There might have been times when we wanted someone to, es...
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The Alcoholic Prayer
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Found this and the previous post I posted on another recovery website. Love the other one, this one is funny and very fitting for me some days. (((hugs))) to all. The Alco...
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Yeah, its a disease
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http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/science-addiction/drug-abuse-addiction
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Will you please pray for me
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I don't know if I've ever asked anything like this before. Maybe I have in the depths of the despair of one of my hangovers but I can't remember. I'm having such a struggle right now. I feel very lost and confused. I'm willing to try anything. I have everything to live for but when I'm in the grip of my alcoho...
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The Old Dog
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An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch. The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep trouble now!" Noticing some bones...
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1st business meeting
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You all were right! I pretended to be upset I didn't have enough sobriety to be chairperson and those sneaky drunks voted me greeter before I new what was going on! Lmao! It's good though. A good way to get to know everyone.
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Cleansed
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Well, I haven't been hiding the fact that I'm struggling a bit with the program lately. I felt very let down after my 5th step, feeling lost, dumb, and like I'm just not getting it. My sponser likes to say that she has a tendency towards 'getting drunk on self pity'. I like that phrase, and I felt myself doi...
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Welcome MIRecovery
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Welcome to MIP Wes ... we're glad to have you ... feel free to share what's on your mind anytime ... God Bless, Pappy
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Peace
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(rumor has it) Letter from StPeteDean's neighbor somewhere in Florida
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I've sure gotten old! I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementi...
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Been away for awhile
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Hi everyone. I've missed coming to the board. I have had some life changes and health issues. I broke my neck many years back and am having a lot of pain recently form this. Through the testing that has been done the Drs have also found I have caprel tunnel and a torn rotator cuff. Needless to say thin...
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Who would have thought......
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Hey folks, been awhile, hope all is well. Been busy over here, work, kids, trying to stay warm. Have had a few ups and downs but nothing I can't handle now a days. Mainly just a happy sober achololic. No drinks, well except for last night the dreaded happened. I was making my wife a cocktail, along with jus...
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Today I made the choice to be sober
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I'm 23 years old and have always had problems with drinking. Not so much drinking every day or while at work, but drinking too much when I do drink. I turn into a different person. Someone mean, rude, and aggressive. Also foolish. The worst part is not remembering and then having other people piece toge...
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Today's Gift 01-29
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You can't let adversity get you down. Keep smiling. --Violet Hensley Violet's smiles certainly fit this category. She lights up rooms with her joy and energy, her fiddle playing and storytelling. We don't all smile quite so easily. Why is that? Some naively assume one's easy; individual circumsta...
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What shall i do?????????????????
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Hiya all got a problem and i really dont what to do for the best! You see my ex partner is AA and has been for 15 years,he has been clean and sober for that time aswell. My problem is do i tell him im in AA? We have 2 children together who he sees every 2 weeks for the weekend and he is a fantastic dad,its just i dont...
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Grapevine
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January 28 "Demands, hopes, yearnings, and desires tie us to the static horror and the utter futility of the forever departed past and the never-arriving future. To want nothing - to know that we cannot make anything h...
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Today's Gift 01-28
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Believing in change At first, drugs or booze turned us on; later they turned on us. We couldn't find any peace anywhere. We began turning into the kind of person we didn't want to be, but we didn't know what was happening to us or how to change. When we came to believe that our lives could and would turn arou...
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Update on "New to the Group"
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I am so grateful that you all were so encouraging to me yesterday, I was shocked to hear that you are all the same as I, especially you Tasha. I hope that some day I can honestly & openly admit all of the things that are so shameful to say outloud. I have done just about all that you listed and more. I am...
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Welcome littleDeb1965
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Welcome to MIP littleDeb ... glad to have you aboard ... ... ...
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Welcome to MIP Sports Dude!
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I hope you'll join the group....Not a bad place to learn to live without alcohol.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 28, 2013 Quote of the Week "The Power behind me is bigger than the problem in front of me." Before recovery I faced life alone. It was up to me to manage all of life, to try to arrange things to get what I wanted, and to solve the problems I encountered. This was an exhausting task an...
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33 min left in my first 90 days
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90 days today and it's awesome. So grateful to be a part of the fellowship.
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Angel in the Glass
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With her permission I'm pasting the story of MIP's own Lady Eli from the Grapevine online edition Dec 2011. Amazing lady indead. Web Exclusive: Angel in the Glass A woman looks back at the ups and downs of 10,000 days of a sober life E-mail Print The alcoholic gene runs strong in my family, and I picke...
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After Rob and Lady Eli...
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I had cause to reflect on this morning's read from the Daily Reflection; Page 34, January 26th. May I offer it here out of gratitude? RIGOROUS HONESTYWho wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant?Who wants to confess his faults to another and makerestitution for harm done? Who cares anything...
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New here, and to the world of AA.
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Hello. I am trying this before going to a real meeting. Guess I am hoping this online work will be what I need. My life from the outside appears normal, but inside, it's a mess. I've been drinking to escape my own mind and life for 10 yrs. I am tired of making excuses, and would like to see it, and talk about it...
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