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Daily Reflections ~ The Challenge of Failure & 24hrs a Day
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In Gods economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 31 How thankful I am today, to know that all my past failures were necessary for me to be where I am now. Through much pain came experience and, in sufferin...
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God Calling - Swift Help
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"Pray for more faith, as a thirsty man in a desert prays for water. Swift and strong comes My help. Do you know what it is to feel sure that I can never fail you? As sure as you are that you still breathe? How poor is man's faith. Pray daily and most diligently that your faith may increase." ...
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Wow, this disease really can mess you up and kill you!
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I've been hearing over and over that alcoholism is progressive and can kill you. Just like when I get into a car, I don't assume I'm going to be the one to die on the road that day, I know that it happens. It seems like something not worth thinking about, as I have to get from point a to point b. I put on my seat be...
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Freedom - what freedom has sobriety given you?
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This was the topic at last night's meeting... For me: I have gained... the freedom to answer my phone whenever it rings without worrying about remembering who I talked to, what I said or whether I made an a$$ of myself during the conversation. freedom from having to check Facebook first thing in the mo...
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Problems with disruptive member during meetings
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At my first meeting, a young lady with about 9 months of sobriety introduced herself and introduced me to some other ladies and was very friendly. Since then, she seems to have latched onto me and sits with me at every single meeting. (small town, limited meeting options, mostly same group of people at...
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What is the line between someone helping and someone not minding their own side of the street?
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20 days sober.... In the beginning of my journey I went to meetings every single day. Withdrawals got really bad last week and I stayed in bed for 3 days in a row. When I came back & was asked where I'd been, I was honest. But someone asked me if I had started drinking again and told me I should just tell th...
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al-ateen sponsors
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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. Are people who go to aa allowed to be sponsors for al-ateen? I have an issue with a male who sponsors our children's al-ateen group. He has made inappropriate comments to myself. I have spoken to another sponsor of the group. The other female adult responses...
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New to the board but need to share
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I'm new to the board but not to AA. It took me many years and many visits to local meeting to finally stop drinking and I've not had a drink in over 17 years. However, I stopped going to meetings probably about 15 years ago as I got fed up of the bickering, backstabbing and the constant reference to members d...
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Do I belong in an AA meeting?
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I consider myself a compuslive overeater and have attended 12 step OA meetings on and off for 20 years. In the last few years I've become concerned about my drinking. I don't often drink to excess but even doing it once a month bothers me. On those occasions I can't seem to control it and I don't like the &q...
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Sober today
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Thank you God for another sober day. -- Edited by Tasha on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 05:35:30 AM
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Who/What/Where am I? - overwhelmed newbie
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Hi, my name is Christine, I'm an alcoholic/addict and I'm 19 days sober. The above statement is all I know right now. It seems like my identity is all wrapped up in that sentence. Every day, I read some of the big book, I do some reading here, I watch episodes of "Intervention" on Netflix to re...
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God Calling - Share Everything
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"Share your love, your joy, your happiness, your time, your food, gladly with all. Such wonders will unfold. You see it all but in bud now - the glory of the open flower is beyond all your telling. Give out love and all you can with a glad, free heart and hand. Use all you can for others, and back wi...
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almost had a slip, but got relieved a different way...
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I was just feeling really bad about how things are going in my life and the thought of drinking came to my mind, I was having a bad day and I was remembering how good i used to feel getting drunk, I remmebered how much it would calm me down, how much I loved it...I wanted to drink and feel good so bad that I got 2 t...
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God has great plans for us.
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"For I know the plans I have for you, " declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah29 "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed." Prov 16 What is it about these scriptures? First of all...
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Trust reenforcing Faith!
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Another day of life and I am truly grateful! Just For Today, WE can work toward not allowing anyone or anything to "Steal our Joy". If you are here, able to read this ,then you have been blessed with your Higher Power's GRACE AND MERCY. Relying on that Power, loving and caring and greater tha...
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Diabetes and alcoholism.
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About just over a year ago I was diagnosed type 2 diabetic. My doctor prescribed a tablet called Metformin, which I take twice a day. It keeps my blood sugar under control and is very effective and I am grateful. I do not meet with other diabetics to share my ESH. But every now and again I get somebody who te...
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Empowerment~
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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell
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stnatina
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God Calling - Secret of Healing
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"Love the busy life. It is a joy-filled life. I love you and bid you be of good cheer. Live outside whenever possible. Sun and air are My great healing forces. Never forget that real healing of body, mind, and spirit comes from within, from, the close, loving contact of your spirit with My spiri...
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Stop telling God...
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how big your fears are.. and start telling your fears how BIG your God is! 
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Back on Track
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Emotional Enemies
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The four emotional enemies that I have battled are resentment, guilt, anger, regret and fear. These emotions are triggers which have not only initiated drinking binge but are encountered during drinking binge. It is a continual event releasing will to the Lord.
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The good morning good night thread
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Good morning everyone, it's nice and cool here in south florida today, a high in the upper 60's.
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The Addiction Club
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God Calling - Nothing Can Hurt
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"The way is plain. You do not need to see far ahead. Just one step at a time with Me. Only self can cast a shadow on the way. Be more afraid of spirit-unrest, of soul-disturbance, than of earthquake or fire. When you feel the absolute calm has been broken - away alone with Me until your heart sings a...
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Spiritual Question.
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Ive got a question about the AA program and Im wondering if anyone here knows how to answer it. I was reading the stuff on the wikipedia about alcoholics anonymous and it says the programs beginnings sprung from a christian movement in the 1920s and 30s called the oxford group. Im really wondering wh...
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About what happened
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Hi Well still not drinking yea!!. I guess I should say a bit about what happened to me. i had just gone through a life saving operation and needed 8 months to recover. all was well. No drinking not smoking cigs no more and feeling alot better about myself and where i was going.. Then came Oct 23.11. I was vis...
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Ways you tried to quit drinking
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As I examine my thoughts, they are often quite laughable in regards to quitting drinking. The illusion that somehow someday I will be able to control and enjoy my drinking is indeed astonishing! So I was thinking about that passage that talks about all the ways we tried to stop or moderate, at the end...
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Still sober ~15 days
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Just checking in. Day 15 - ~10 meetings I've tried out some discussion groups, some open groups and a women's group. So far, I enjoy the discussion groups the most and the one women's meeting resulted in me getting pretty honest with myself for the first time. I'm not really enjoying the open meetings w...
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Senior member scared.
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I'm a senior member? WO! Cool! I feel so honored, but, how did I become one??? LOL And should I not be a Senorita???  Driving home tonight, on the slushy/snowy Wisconsin roads, I had a moment of sheer horror at all the awful things that I've done. My drinking days were loooong and plentiful. But...
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123 Days may not SEEM like much...
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But it's my longest HONEST stretch of sobriety in 32 years, the last 4 of which were in The Program. Thank You. All of You. You are blessings for which I am grateful. Best - Rob
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God Calling - Claim Your Rights
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"In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God." But do not beg. Rather come as a business manager bringing to the owner the needs, checks to be signed, and so on, and knowing that to lay the matter before him means immediate supply. I long to supply, but t...
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Eyes
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I read along time ago that the eyes are the window to the soul. -- Edited by chester on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 08:33:46 AM
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I drank. Yes I did. And I proved something to myself.
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Drinking sucks. Please take me back everyone... I can do this right. I know I can do this! I proved a very important thing to myself. AA is right for me. Drinking is very very wrong for me, and I don't even like it anymore! After being sober for a month and a half, it was pure misery to feel how I did on V-day and...
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Family History
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Hi everyone, I don't really know why I'm sharing this here, but it really means a lot to me so here I am. As many of you know I ran away from home at the age of 12 years old and didn't have any contact with family for over 20 years. When I reunited with family for the first time as a part of my recovery process, I d...
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AA Meeting
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I was going to attend my first meeting today at noon but I chickened out! My town is very small and I dont know what to expect from these meetings or if they expect me to say anything!
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Can we keep a "member" out?
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Weve had a guy coming to our meetings for years now who continually tells us that we are stuck with him. He tells people that the steps will get them drunk, no need to look at the past. He shares how he believes in willpower and positive thinking. He takes anti-depressants and sleeping medication. He nev...
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How/When/Why do I select a Home Group ?
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Hi All - I'm at 17 days sober and have attended meetings almost daily. I've been to 7 different groups so far and am liking some better than others. There is one group that I would not consider missing. It is a smaller, closed discussion group that meets once a week. I really like it - although I've only att...
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God Calling - Endure
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"Meet all your difficulties with love and laughter. I am with you. Do not fail Me. I cannot fail you. How many of the world's prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for themselves, that I was not g...
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Hello newbie
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Hey all. I am new to the board. Never knew it exsisted. So glad I found it. I am not new to AA. Been in and out of the Rooms since 2010. My new sobriety date is 2-10-12. Currently I am in IOP. (Instense Out Patient) treatment. I am learning indeed that this disease is progressive. Keep me in your prayers! Gla...
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God Calling - Let Me do it
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"Never miss these times. It is not what I reveal to you so much as the linking up of your frail natures with the limitless divine powers. Already, forces are set in motion. Only My will is coming to pass. And now God is blessing you very richly. You think that there is much to "do" in a c...
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New here....
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I don't know if this is even appropriate to post here, either it's gonna be totally frowned upon, or you guys will "get" it. I am not sober. I want to be, yet I am not...yet. So, Somehow I sort of always knew. (Sorry if that sounds totally cliche.) I mean even as a child, I think I knew what I would t...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Paths Are Our Own & 24hrs a Day
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there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: courageously; completely;...
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Please pray for me
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I am dealing with constant sounds in my head. They go on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I also have disturbing dreams and horrible instrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts are terrible things/visions you see in your mind or words that just pop into your head. I have never thought these things before...
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YoooHooo....
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Just popping in to say hello..... logging on from library as I just moved and internet not hooked up at home yet.... so glad I remembered login info!! LOL Talk to you all soon, gotta run for now.... :)
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Site is down....
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Our web site, 12stepforums.net is down for the time being, not long, but a short while. I am working diligently to get it back up and running asap. John
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Daily Reflections ~ Taking Action & 24hrs a Day
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Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among ussometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze, is the ability to...
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God Calling - In My Presence
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"You do not realize that you would have broken down under the weight of your cares but for the renewing time with Me. It is not what I say; it is I Myself. It is not the hearing Me so much as the being in My presence. Gradually you will be transformed, physically, mentally, spiritually. All who see...
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God Calling - Inspiration, Not Aspiration
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"The world does not need supermen, but supernatural men. Men who will persistently turn the self out of their lives and let divine power work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. I have always plenty of work to be done and always pay My workpeople well, as you will see, as...
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God Calling - Never Ruffled
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"Be still. Be calm. Wait before Me. Learn of patience, humility, peace. When will you be absolutely unruffled whatever happens? You are slow to learn your lesson. In the rush and work and worry, the very seeking a silence must help. In bustle so little is accomplished. You must learn to t...
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Second meeting today!
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Again everyone was very welcoming! One guy tried to invite me to the big table (I was sitting on the out skirts of the room) I told him maybe next week. lol. One of the ladies came and sat with me and asked me if I had the big book, I told her I didn't so she went and got one for me and told me that her and another wan...
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The Iron Lady
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Saw this movie the other days. It was pretty good. Interesting subject matter and Streep just doesn't do average performances. Anyway at one point Maggie was explaining her personal philosophy: Watch your thoughts because they become your words. Watch your words because they become your actions...
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