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Daily Reflections ~ Willingness to Grow & 24hrs a Day
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If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 8 Sobriety fills the painful "hole in the soul" that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my work is done. However, joy is not just the absence of pain; it is the gift of continued spi...
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My report card
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Okay folks, so one of the things I am doing now is making up for not finishing my entire Ph.D in clinical psychology and taking the 3 classes I need to get licensed as a mental health counselor. I bitched and moaned about this and drank over it for 13 years...."woe is me...I had to drop out of grad sch...
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God Calling ~ Breathe My Name
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"Just breathe My name. It is like the pressure of a child's hand that calls forth an answering pressure, which strengthens the child's confidence and banishes fear." God Calling
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Just Toni II
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Hey All, Did anyone hear from Just Toni? I have been very busy this summer and have been neglecting this forum, and I am hoping someone has good news on Miss Toni's health. Thanks, Tom
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God Calling ~ Continuous service
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Service is the law of heaven. My angels do always obey. "They serve Him continually" can be said of all who love Me. With love there is continuous service in every action, and also even in rest. Take this not as the end but as the beginning of a new life consecrated to My service. A life of power...
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Daily Reflections ~ Lightening The Burden & 24hrs a Day
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Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worthwhile to us now . . . the dark past is . . . the key to life & happiness for others. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 124 Since I have been sober, I have been healed of many pains: deceiving my partner, deserting my be...
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Mahalo, I'm grateful
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For your responses and support; all of them because the energy and strength is in a spiritual level, one of the levels where this disease has eroded. In clearer listening with my eyes and with whatever hearing I stilll have I have been able to recognize God - Akua - HP as I underestand HP. The first Offi...
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Would any of you....?
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Would any of you date someone that still lived with their ex and paid for all of their ex's entire living expenses? I am just wondering if I am crazy. I am also nurturing a fat ass resentment that is all riddled with icky hate and jealousy. This has truly been the bane of my existence the last 6 months. S...
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God Calling ~ Accept trials
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"Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My will, and that will you have said is your will. Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the kingdom I have prepared for you. The sunlight of My prese...
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Almost there
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Morning everyone,and blessings of this day! We were all packed,reservations made for hotels,plans lined up to see realators and events planned for our 10 day vacation to Florida(Deerfield Beach) where we go every year and probably moving to next July. BAM!!!! Irene(the nemisis wind storm)butto...
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Hurricane
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Hi I hope all of You who live in or near this storm are prepared and have plenty of supplies to see you through. We all hope to see you back on as soon as possible, safe and sound. God, Your Higher Power and any other Loved Ones plus All of Us Here at MIP can help you with Thoughts and Prayers. Stay Safe and do no...
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Overachieving may be symptomatic
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Overachieving may be symptomatic. Suffering from low self-esteem is common. Some of it may be blamed on growing up in families affected by alcohol or other drugs. Perhaps the criticism heaped on us at school or in a bad marriage triggered it. We may have thousands of...
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Daily Reflections ~ Centering Our Thoughts & 24hrs a Day
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When WWII broke out, our A.A. dependence on a Higher Power had its first major test. A.A.'s entered the services & were scattered all over the world. Would they be able to take the discipline, stand up under fire, & endure...? As Bill Sees It, p. 200 I will center my thoughts on a Higher Power. I w...
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Having trouble understanding meditation
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Hi everyone. I hope all is well. I'm hoping someone can help me. I hear people in AA meetings talk about how they meditate in the morning and evening. I've tried looking online but am still confused. What type of meditation is common with AA? I know everyone has a different higher power and mine is Go...
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More Gifts of Sobriety
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I hope people don't mind the positive posts (positive people used to drive me nuts when I was struggling!!) but I experienced another gift of recovery this week. It's absolutely a 180-degree turnaround from how I would have approached things 5 years ago. This week, I didn't get a really interesting j...
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HOPE THIS WORKS THIS TIME....WHY I DO NOT DRINK ANYMORE X
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Daily Reflections ~ Giving It Away & 24hrs a Day
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Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.159 These words, for me, refer to a transference of power, through which God, as I unde...
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Group birthday.
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My group is celebrating 29 years of existence. Small membership but very good members who really care & share. Just thought I would extend an invitation to our fellowship. Group: Greenwoodpark Group. Date: 29 October 2011. Thursday 20:00hrs Venue: Firwood Road Library Hall Firwood Road Effi...
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God Calling ~ Exhaustion
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We seek Thee as Thou has told us. And seeking you shall find. None ever sought My presence in vain. None ever sought My help in vain. A breath of desire and My spirit is there - to replenish and renew. Sometimes weariness and exhaustion are not signs of lack of spirit but of the guiding of the spirit. Man...
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Earthshaking
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My daughter and her fiance felt the quake in Virginia, stuff falling off the walls etc. Nobody/nothing hurt. Bonus for me---a nice conversation with her, mostly about her upcoming wedding, to which I am not only invited, but am fully involved in!!! Talk about healing and gratitude and living amends...
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Well Hello
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Hi THERE AA Board Its been a while since my last post, and all is doing well. I'm still getting out to a few meetings, and been doing a big book study with my sponser and a couple of great ladys. I've just recently celebrated 8 years in AA. And I'm sooooo greatful to find a new existing way to live life this w...
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READ MORE
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I DRANK TO MAKE CONVERSATION AND GOT TO WHERE NO ONE WANTED TO LISTEN.I DRANK TO FORGET AND BECAME HAUNTED.I DRANK FOR FREEDOM AND BECAME A SLAVE.I DRANK FOR POWER AND BECAME POWERLESS.I DRANK TO ERASE PROBLEMS AND SAW THEM MULTIPLY.I DRANK TO COPE WITH LIFE AND INVITED DEATH.....WHY DID I DRINK?
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WHY I DO NOT DRINK
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I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY I DRANK...I SUPPOSE IF WE KNEW THAT WE WOULD NOT DRINK! I HEARD THIS THIS THE OTHER DAY AND IT BROUGHT A LUMP TO MY THROAT AND TEARS TO MY EYES.PLEASE READ ATTACHMENT XOX ANGELINA
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WHY I DO NOT DRINK
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God Calling ~ Sublime Heights
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"I am your deliverer. Trust in Me absolutely. I will do the very best for you. Know that with Me all things are possible. Say many times, "All things are possible with my Master, my Lord, my friend." This truth, accepted and firmly believed in, is the ladder up which a soul can climb fr...
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Difficult times
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At the moment I am finding things very difficult. My aunt was diagnosed with cancer again last week and am upset about same. My sponsor is in pieces after one of her sponsees took her own life a few days ago. She was a lady about my own age, though I did not know her, I feel badly for my sponsor and feel vulnera...
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They are such unfortunates.
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2 of us walked into AA. He was 12 stepped, & I came in by accident. He died yesterday of multiple organ failure after being told of AA 23 years ago. The man that called us relapsed. I stayed & earnestly worked the 12 steps, & despite myself I got well. God is faithful to us alcoholics if we are w...
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So after the beer was used as drano...
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my day got increasingly interesting and I had to bring out big program tools. I decided to go do some back yard tweaking which included cutting down part of a very unrulely hedge. This was going to be a bit earthshaking for me as that hedge separates me from a back neighbor who I think needs a sit down wit...
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God Calling ~ The summit
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"See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the purpose and plan to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place as you ascend, how weary and profitless your climb! But if you think of each step as leading to the summit o...
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Wow!! nobody's looking....
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So I poured it out and noticed the difference since the last time I was in this situation. I'm managing my neighbors house while he lives in the Conus and he just agreed to a 1 month rental and needed me to go hide some stuff and secure some stuff and take some stuff and the stuff I had to take was in the refri...
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Self-esteem comes from doing esteemable acts.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Self-esteem comes from doing esteemable acts. I once had a beautiful plant. It sat on my dining room table for three weeks as I waited for it to blossom. Each week, I waited for something to happen. By week three, instead of a luscious blooming bush, what revealed itse...
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Daughters wedding and best friend....
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This Saturday my oldest daughter Erin is getting married. I am sooooo grateful to be sober and to be there for her. When I was in the madness I always feared what the whole thing would be. Now I cherish our time together as we have planned this. There have been some tense times but nothing that I havent...
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Biker bill on tour again...........
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............but this time it's a work tour. Leave for aberdeen via dunfermline, cowdenbeath, cardenden, kirkcaldy, crail and st.andrews at dawn on Monday 9don't you just love scottish settlement names) Tuesday it's aberdeen andd balgownie wednesday it's granite hill and mormond hill with a si...
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God Calling ~ Broken voices
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Clipped wings can grow again. Broken voices regain a strength and beauty unknown before. Your power to help other lives will soon bring its delight, even when, at first, the help to yourselves may seem too late to bring you joy. Worn-out and tired as you may seem, and pain-weary, I say unto you, "...
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Say a Prayer for Bikerbill's Aprillia
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A little off topic, but BikerBill's motorcyle is extremely ill with some serious electrical problems, and stranded him out of town. Those that believe that motorcycles have a soul, please pray for his bike's now. -- Edited by StPeteDean on Thursday 11th of August 2011 06:17:31 PM
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The conversation this morning was...
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about trusting God and I was having it with a culturally similar fellow after this mornings AA at the Bay home group. It was a special Saturday morning meeting. The Sunday version of course is tomorrow. Two of our members, both women were celebrating anniversaries; one of 10 years (I remember when...
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Oh Bugger, I keep getting my feelings back
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Just when things were going so well an' all. one of them little fluffy bunnies has crawled out from under the bed and kicked me in the emotional balls. Stuff i'm handling OK so far? Changes to work procedures, losing the business needs car, buying a car, broken down bike, divorce stuff, big brother not w...
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Do I really know how to be grateful?
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As soon as anything new comes into my life, whether positive or negative, I become attached to it. If its bad feelings, they seem like they are gonna last forever and its never gonna get better. If its good feelings, I expect they won't last long so I stay on guard. Now positve stuff is happening in my life...
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Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. --Shakespeare Look for the Good Life is an interpretive experience. What happens is less important than how we respond to our circumstances. An intense stimulus that some people report as pain others report as pleasu...
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God, help me relax enough to stop, calm down, and heal.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Stopping, calming, and resting are preconditions for healing. When animals in the forest are wounded they find a place to lie down and rest completely for many days . . . They just rest and get the healing they need. --Thich Nhat Hanh We hurt. We suffer. We wrong our lov...
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Staying Sober in my Dreams??
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Hi All, Just wanted to share this funny experience - Lately, I keep DREAMING that I am drinking. The first dream, I was getting pretty loaded and realized that I was supposed to stay sober, and I said "F it". The second dream was last night, where I was drinking a glass of wine and about halfway...
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William James also said...
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"Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply & vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' & when you have found that attitude, follow it." William James (1842-1910) Any others as well as our famous quote f...
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23 years today. 19 Aug 1988 DOS.
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This 23 years of sobriety is dedicated to all my AA friends from all over the world. You have been my strength and support. Even if you were 1 hour sober, you have left a mark in my life. The love of AA and alcoholics for one another, is one of the most powerful things I have ever experienced in my life. It is ab...
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Service...
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I was taught is the foundation of recovery and I have come to understand that as true from practice. Service keeps me involved in the whole program, every part of it and there is excitement and satisfaction as a natural part of being involved. Yesterday was a huge service day as I participated in a Loca...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Frame of Reference & 24hrs a Day
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Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking & frightened? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 67 There is a wonderful freedom in not needing constant approval...
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Congrats Carl on 4 years Sober!
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To my dear beautiful Sobervibers, it's my partner's Soberversay today. He is 4 years clean & sober today. He loves our Fellowship & is celebrating with a main share on Step 7 at our homegroup. If we have a Newcomer we will do Step 1. He wrote this for our Share magazine (our meeting between meeti...
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One Day Convention ~ LIVERPOOL, U.K.
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Alcoholics Anonymous are holding a One Day Convention with Al Anon participation here in Liverpool, U.K. on Sunday 21st August 2011 with a Disco Dance in the evening. You will be able to purchase tickets on the door! Liverpool Adelphi Hotel in the City Centre Registration 9.30am finishing 4.30pm Da...
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Daily Reflections ~ Getting Well & 24hrs a Day
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Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, pp. 79-80Only through positive action can I remove the remains of guilt & shame brought on by alcohol. Throughout my misadventures when I dra...
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Happy 3 years on SobrietySpell!!!
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Back atcha! Happy anniversary Daniella! You've been an inspiration to me and constant reminder of how I will grow more positive, peaceful, and serene as long as I stay sober and work this program. I want to thank you for reaching out to me and all those that you help on here. I remember stating month...
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Happy Anniversary Sobrietyspell
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Congrats on 4 years Danielle! Thanks for being you and all that you do.
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