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I dont want to say good-bye...
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My sponsor Mary died saturday afternoon in Cleveland where she got sober 20 yrs ago. I am not ready to say good-bye to her and I cannot let her go. I know she is not suffering anymore and I also know that God is taking very good care of her. I pray I never, ever forget anything that she has taught me. She was a...
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happycamper
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Meaning of Life
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Does anyone have any advice for someone who is in early recovery and trying to find meaning in their life? I wake up every morning and think I have 40 plus years of emptiness to go. I feel so empty towards my HP and other people. I have run off from life so long that I don't know how to live. I have 21 months of so...
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To newcomers.
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I have observed many new people come to the board recently. First of all I want to welcome you. We are a fellowship of people who have lost the ability to control our drinking. Please read the Alcoholics Anonymous book so that you can diagnose yourself properly. Once you have done that then you can embar...
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gonee
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Help...
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Hey... I am new to AA. I know I belong here 'coz I am so happy to have amazing people around me. But I am still drinking after meetings. I am so scared to reach out... I am so overwhelmed with what I have to deal with. I know I want to stop. But that other part of my brain just guides to the next liquor store after a...
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WanderingSoul
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What to do?
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Hi all. I have a question and thought I could get some feedback here. Will discuss with my homegroup also, but can use all feedback I can get right now. Last week I decided that I could manage my alcoholism/addiction, as I have been sober for a little bit. As you can imagine, it did not go too well. I lied t...
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Daily Reflections ~ Conforming to the A.A. Way & 24hrs a Day
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We obey A.A.'s Steps & Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform. Such is our our process of growth in unity & function. Such is the evidence of God's grace & love among us. A.A. Comes of Ag...
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In the beginning, Tradition One
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Ok guys,don't hold back1) Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.1) Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfa...
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gezepe
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God Calling ~ No self-reproach
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"The eternal arms shelter you. "Underneath are the Everlasting Arms." This promise is to those who rise above the earth-life and seek to soar higher, to the kingdom of heaven. You must not feel the burden of your failure. Go on in faith, the clouds will clear, and the way will light...
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gladlee
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4 choices
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Everyday we have the option to choose, Jails, Institutions, Death or the best for last Sobriety. Today a friend chose Death. What are you going to choose ?
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Halfwolf
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24 hour solution.
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We alcoholics in AA are very fortunate to have a book that gives very plain but clearcut instructions. The very 1st instruction given to me on my daily program is this statement on Pg 86 of the book: "On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead." That takes all the stress and w...
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gonee
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Holly Molly - What a scare
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Hi All my Friends, I really wass not feel well for about two weeks, weaker by the day so I went in to have my blood work done and that was done. My Doc said well your sodium looks too low but I'll gt a clearer reading tomorrow...she calls me at 8 00 am and says you Must get to the ER stat....so my friend drove me t...
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Just Toni
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God Calling ~ Do not Rush
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"Learn in the little daily things of life to delay action until you get My guidance. So many lives lack poise. For in the momentous decisions and the big things of life, they ask My help, but into the small things they rush alone. By what you do in the small things, those around you are most often ant...
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gladlee
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The Traditions were born under a cloud of conflict
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. Concerning the Big Book, Clarence S. told his wife Grace about a weekend trip Bill Wilson made toAkron,Ohio, to visit Dr. Bob sh...
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gezepe
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First drink optional? -- err no.
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OK, I know that we can't harbour resentment, but sometimes I get a little pissed off with folks who think that they've come up with a really clever new AA slogan, and keep repeating it in the rooms, while it actually is totally wrong in AA terms and potentially misleading. What's got my goat is some yo-yo...
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SteveP
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Another Year
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I just watched the charming little movie "Another Year" and decided to share about it here because while it wasn't directly related to alcoholism (although that is touched on in the film), what it's about is reaping the rewards of living a life of humility, usefulness, and selflessness,...
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TwelveSteps
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white tailed or sea eagle
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that's it guys. I've seen one up close and personal. God can take me any time He wants now!
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bikerbill
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God Calling ~ God's Friendship
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"I am your friend. The companion of the dreary ways of life. I rob those ways of their grayness and horror. I transform them. Have you ever realized the wonder of the friendship you can have with Me? Have you ever thought what it means to be able to summon at will the God of the world? To My subject...
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gladlee
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24hrs a Day
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A.A. Thought for the Day One of the most encouraging facts of life is that your weakness can become your greatest asset. Kites and airplanes rise against the wind. In climbing up a high mountain, we need the stony crags and rough places to aid us in our climb. So your weakness can become an asset if you wil...
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God Calling ~ When Guidance Tarries
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"As I prompt you - act. When you have no clear guidance, then go forward quietly along the path of duty I have set before you. No fear, no panic, quietly doing your daily duty. This attitude of faith will receive its reward, as surely as the acting upon My direct guidance. Rejoice in the sense of se...
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gladlee
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God Calling ~ Your Red Sea
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"Go forward fearlessly. Do not think about the Red Sea that lies ahead. Be very sure that when you come to it, the waters will part and you will pass over to your promised land of freedom." 365 One-Minute Meditations of God Calling
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gladlee
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Daily Reflections ~ Fear and Faith & 24hrs a Day
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The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other condition of insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom...
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God Calling ~ Cling to Me
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"Cling to Me until the life from Me, the divine life, by that very contact, flows into your being and revives your fainting spirit. Become recharged. When weary, do as I did on earth - sit by the well. Rest. Rest and gain power and strength, and the work, too, will come to you as it came to Me. Rest t...
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gladlee
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Daily Reflections ~ Today, I'm Free & 24hrs a Day
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This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal powerthat if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same admission with respect to much else. I would have to be still and know that He, not I...
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an epiphany? A spiritual awakening? A change anyway
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you tell me. I've been and I'm still on a long promisee, long planned eagerly awaited trip. I finally realised if not now, then when? The gets laid plans and all that, the trip was planned within an inch of it's life. Plans were abandoned on day two. To date I've seen more buzzards to thepoint they have bec...
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i am back
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hey everyone . its been ages since i posted internet access been a prob in my neck of the woods but thank god i am up and running again :) life is good for me i am so grateful to be sober. im a 2 yrs living in my new town and i am well settled now in my aa groups made lots of friends and feel part of again! please god i c...
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Past Friends....
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I was told from the beginning of my recovery that you cant hang with your old friends. I thought ok.....makes sence that you wouldnt want to hang with the people you were with while self destructing. I have 2 friends who have stuck by me and love me for who I am. They still drink, how much? Not sure. On...
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Did life get better?
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After 15 months, I went back out. I post this reluctantly, and admittedly, still intoxicated. And I am sitting in my basement, asking myself, did life get better. It's been a week, not crazy, just drunk, for a week, every night. Only nights, not days or mornings like before. But finding old behav...
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ferrisdp
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Holiday time! (That's vacation time to my colonial cousins!)
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well now, three days working in Newcstle upon tyne, achieved far more than I estimated, then a productive targets and objectives setting meeting today in Birmingham, a meeting every night this week, an unexpected pay rise and an unexpected bonus payment. Management have agreed that I can self mana...
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bikerbill
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Daily Reflections ~ Release From Fear & 24hrs a Day
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The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61 Most of my decisions were based on fear. Alcoho...
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Do not feel unworthy of your HP.
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I have a friend that is struggling. I am not his sponsor as he is a long distance buddy and is in NA. From what I can gather, his HP has laid down a red carpet of welcome, but for some reason, he is missing the signs. It really seems like he feels unworthy or even afraid of accepting the help. Its almost lik...
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Daily Reflections ~ A.A. Regeneration & 24hrs a Day
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Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of ones old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to con...
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Time to head for the hills
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My Buddy + our Prayers = Result!
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Gypsy Steve is over the worst and has been released from in patient to out patient tonight. Still not out of the woods, undergoing chemo at the moment, but things look a little promising. He really had one foot in the grave a couple of weeks ago. Thanks people. Sorry got that wrong. It's not chemo it's som...
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bikerbill
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High School Reunion
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After some thought and prayer, I have decided to go to my high school reunion (30+ years) and since I've never been to one before, I'm a little nervous. I am traveling in with friends, and they are social drinkers (they can take it or leave it) and there will probably be some drinking going on. I've been a...
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My Prayer
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One of the things my sponsor taught me was a very important concept of prayer. He said to me the hallmark of every good recovery is gratitude. As I learnt to pray, my prayer turned from one of petition to total gratitude to God. I now find more of my prayer is for others than myself. I get such tremendous ful...
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gonee
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God Calling ~ Wait
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"The world has always seen service for Me to be activity. Only those near to Me have seen that a life of prayer may, and does so often, accomplish more than all the service man can offer Me. If man lived apart with Me and only went out to serve at My direct command, My spirit could operate more and acc...
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. -- Sir Henry Taylor We are no longer in doubt about the right actions to take toward others. The program's Steps clarify what is appropriate behavior. Thus we know that doing any injury - physical...
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Possible Surgery Looming
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Hi My regular Doctor and Physical Therapist somewhat agree that I may need to have the Knee surgery done. Will not know for sure until I see the Ortho on July 8th. More tests need to be done, x-rays and another MRI, plus more intense therapy. So no some ways I have been in a downer mood. It is the not knowing...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Fellowship of Freedom & 24hrs a ay
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. . . if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50 When I no longer live under the dictates of another or of alcohol, I live in a new freedom. When I release the past and all the ex...
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A new vision.
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We are on pension street working on our ministries that God has given [AA & Alanon]. No stress, no fuss. For the 1st time all our cares are for those we sponsor & teach. We are not overwhelmed by their problems but exalted by God to see what a challenge He has placed before us. Our ministry does not...
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gonee
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A small thing that can cause tremendous damage
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Today in my interactions with others I will remember that like a small bit that can turn a 2000 lb horse and a small rudder that can turn an enormous ship ,so too the tongue ,a small part of the body can cause enormous damge.I will remember my tongue relects whats in my heart, I will work to ensure this po...
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Twenty Four Hours A Day
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Friday, June 17, 2011You are reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours)A.A. Thought for the Day We in A.A. have the privilege of living two lives in one lifetime. One life of drunkenness, failure, and defeat. Then, through A.A., another life of sobriety, peace of mind, and use...
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Peace...
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Often I will use an online searchable Big Book and look up a word. I will read what it says and use it as a point of mediation throughout the day. Today I searched for the word "Peace", and this is one of the places it is used in the Big Book. Chapter 4 Pg 50 Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indee...
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John
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Daily Reflections ~ Deep Down Within Us
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We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found . . . search diligently within yourself . . . With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 55 It was out of the depths of loneline...
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sobriety celabrations
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Just a quick questions. A lady was refused a 32 yr medalion because she had missed 3 business meetings in a row. Would like some feedback on this. And is it a general practice to always provide a medalion on a persons sobriety date when birthday begins with year one.? What other ways are sobriety bir...
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Acceptance as a way of life.
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"..the serenity to accept.." That was our AA meeting theme tonight. We don't need strength, to accept the things we cannot change, but serenity from God. He will give us the peace that surpasses all understanding. Dr Bob says that our heavenly Father will never let us down.
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gonee
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Thanks to God.
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I enjoyed a wonderful day of fellowship & fun with my children & their friends. We had so much laughter & fun with kids in their 20's. No drugs, no alcohol, just pure joy of being together & sharing. The fruits of the program is now materializing in my children. God has done a great work i...
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gonee
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ALREADY tired of feeling like I need to make OTHERS FEEL OK ABOUT MY SOBRIETY
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It's only day 3 and I'm already tired of feeling like I need to smooth over the idea of my sobriety to everyone else (friends and family). It isn't a big deal for me, why is it a big deal for them? Yes I get cravings but I am going to meetings and even only on the 3rd day it has been way ea...
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ChelseaOT
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Daily Reflections ~ Openmindedness & 24hrs a Day
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We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 7 Open-mindedness to concepts of a Higher Power can open d...
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God Calling ~ Glory, Glory Dawneth
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"I am planning for you. Wonderful are My ways beyond your knowledge. Realize My bounty and My goodness more and more. The wonder of being led by Me! The beauty of a guided life! You are overcoming. You are counting all things but loss if you can win Me. And the promises to him who overcomes are...
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