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Today's Gift 02-05
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When I am lonely, I try to think of angels. --Betty MacDonald We need comfort when we feel lonely. Loneliness is often coupled with fear. We wonder, Can I handle what faces me today? Often we think we can't. But we don't ever have to face any situation alone, or handle any painful relationship in isolati...
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Feeling grateful
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I've been thinking about you guys today. Had a great day and have been spotting little miracles ALL over the place lately! I am beginning to wonder if there is something wrong with me because I'm so super happy and gratefufl for my life today!!! Thank you so much for everything - my life - my love - my eve...
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Resentment Flow-Chart
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Hi all... It's been awhile, hope u have all been well. I came up with this little idea a few days ago -- a Google search did not turn up anything similar so who knows - maybe I've actually done something a bit original. Anyway, have a look and post your critiques if you would! [IMG]https://i1263.phot...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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February 4, 2013 Quote of the Week "The bottom starting falling out faster thanI could lower my standards." The last few years of my drinking and using sure were ugly. It had stopped working long before I got sober, but I had failed to realize it. Instead, I obsessively pursued oblivio...
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Start the Day Right!
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This is a very short 3 minute video clip to give you inspiration ... It's very much worth the time to watch ... Enjoy!!! http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/first-thing-every-morning/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MO-_-02.04.13-_-FTEMmovie&j=48920&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=35...
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Today's Gift 02-04
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Over and over, we begin again. --Banana YoshimotoNewcomer Yesterday was such a difficult day. But here it is, morning again somehow. I've gotten through another 24 hours, and without a drug. I wish I'd known yesterday that things wouldn't feel so bad this morning. Sponsor Yesterday, we did the bes...
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"It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers."
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Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: "It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." --James Thurber "I believe the purpose of my life is to learn, grow, and be the best possible person I can be," said a group member. "In order to do that, I must ask big...
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Directions for the steps.
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I once heard the directions for the 12 steps broken down like this. Just curious if you've ever heard it. The directions for the 12 steps are contained in the 8 pages of The Doctor's Opinion and the first 103 pages of the Big Book. That's 111 pages. Step one is covered in The Doctor's Opinion and pages 1 thr...
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JUST AN URBAN COWBOY
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It was around the time that John Travolta made Urban Cowboy.. Here was this guy working at an oil refinery in Texas who is a regular at Gillys bar in Houston.. where he fathoms himself a cowboy riding a mechanical bull. .Mickey Gills hit.. Looking for Love.. was quite the song circa 1981. I had about 7 yea...
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Too busy to pray
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I spent the greater part of this year swimming the waters of recovery. I did very little else. I put every footstep into it, and my thoughts never left it. If I wasn't thinking about it, I was reading about it, sitting in it, meeting people about it, absorbing every thing I possibly could about it unti...
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So Confused
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I have been sober for 5 months today. I go to 3-4 meetings a week and feel great. Lately I feel as if my wife, who is active in al-anon, has been treating me as if I am still drinking, ponting out what I am doing wrong. I am trying to do the right things at work and at home. Being the responsible father and paren...
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Heard in a meeting last night...
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"Sobreity is not merely the absince of alcohol, but coupled with the presence of God".
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How do I ask...?
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I have been sober for 151 days and become a very active member in the AA community. My wife filed for divorce in April, 2012 after several druken blackouts and it will be finalized in April 2013. Although I realize it may be too late, I would like to ask her to go to an Al-Anon meeting with me. I feel it wou...
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Grapevine
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February 4 "The Twelve Steps are not steps to take progressively in order to arrive at a conclusion, but a code for living -- the constitution of a way of life."
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No more morphine...
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It is not necessary only acceptance. The day after he didn't die, he did die and my brother was leaving while in company of some of his family who would have before been much more comfortable being miles away. We all, the family were born within this disease and no one escaped being affected...some of...
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Seeing a Mystic
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In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the Mystic delivered grave news: "There's no easy way to tell you this, so I'll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year." Visibly shaken, Laura stared at the woman's lined...
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Alcoholic husband believes he can still continue to smoke pot everyday
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Hello. My husband is a new member of AA. He has had trouble obstaining from alcohol since he joined. He also continues to smoke pot several times a day, everyday. There are times when I will think he has been drinking but he denies it therefore I think it must be the pot. Usually when he has had somethi...
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Heard in the rooms
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(On accepting responsibility) "All of my disasters had a common denominator - me. I was there for all of them."
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Pride Is Evil
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Pride is evilToday I had an epiphany of sorts.....a friend of mine, and fellow alcoholic pointed out a line from a scripture...."Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18. The epiphany comes in because the word "pride" virtually too...
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Today's Gift 02-03
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Reflection for the Day The experiences of thousands upon thousands of people have proven that acceptance and faith are capable of producing freedom from dependence on chemicals. When we apply the same principles of acceptance and faith to our emotional problems, however, we discover that only re...
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Weekly
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Weekly QuoteGod is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope. - Catherine MarshallWeekly ThoughtThink about it. If you had everything you wanted, if there were no challenges in your life, if you didn't have any questions about why things are the way they are, and if you didn't feel th...
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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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