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Truth
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) March 17, 2009 Truth I began with little faith, but found proof that the truth is that it works.I started to believe others after hearing how they suffered from their alcoholism, because I could see them enjoying sobriety through AA.That truth was...
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Only God Is Unchanging
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As Bill Sees It p. 76 Only God Is Unchanging "Change is the characteristic of all growth. From drinking to society, from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from hate to love, from childish independence to adult responsibilityall this and infinitely more represent change for t...
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Language of letting go:
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Empowering You can think. You can feel. You can solve your problems. You can take care of yourself. Those words have often benefited me more than the most profound and elaborate advice. How easy it is to fall into the trap o...
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progress
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hi folks.....finally making some progress in a certain relationship.....up to now i could recite forward, backward, and inside out the slogans....yet somehow internalizing them was a different tune...in my head i had em down pat.....in my heart....where i needed to apply them the most....that...
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Hello
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Hey everyone. So I am 21-years-old and I have probably been an alcoholic for three years. Anyways, my family and friends convinced me that I have to go to rehab and I am leaving Wednesday. I am not reall sure what to expect. I know I have to go though. I just feel like I am kind of in limbo right now. I have been...
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Daily Reflections ~ As We Understand Him
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My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . Why dont you choose your own conception of God? That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 16th March 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day Before we decide to quit drinking, most of us have to come up against a blank wall. We see that we're licked, that we have to quit. But we don't know which way to turn for help. There seems to be no door in that blank wall. A.A. opens the door that leads to sobriety. By encouraging us to...
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Language of letting go: BE POSITIVE "young Grasshopper!!!"
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Monday, March 16, 2009 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Positive Energy It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other peopl...
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The Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 16, 2009 Quote of the Week "The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice." By the end of my drinking and using, I was all alone. Unlike some of the stories I hear about people drinking in bars, I preferred to drink alone in my home, and after months of listening to my own bes...
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"As We See It"
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"As We See It"March 16 Thanks to Susan for today's AWSI: When I got sober my sponsor told me that I had to be willing to change everything about my life...everything. I wore blue jeans and switched to slacks. I wore western shirts and switched to T-shirts. But, the one thing I just wouldn't g...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 15, 2009InsanityI had no idea how truly insane my drinking behavior was, and could not bear to face it when it was suggested that I was in fact mentally ill. However, I could not deny it when I realized that my destructive alco...
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Congrats to Dodsworth on 1 month!
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Good going Dodsworth, I know it wasn't easy moving and all. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 15:34, 2009-03-12
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Emotional Sobriety
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 16, 2009Emotional SobrietyIf I examine every disturbance I have, great or small, I will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. With God's help, I will continually surrender these hobbling liabil...
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Losing Financial Fears
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As Bill Sees It p. 75 Losing Financial Fears When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right independence upon God, we were the victims of unreasonable fears...
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I few days back I had worte asking if any of you had people close in your lives that 'just don't get it.' I've heard over and over that unless you have the disease you will never be able to understand. But if someone is going to be in your life, don't they need to at least agree with the facts? I've been datin...
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Breach The Walls Of Ego
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As Bill Sees It Breach The Walls Of Ego, p. 74 People who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities. Newcomers of this sort scarcely need comforting. The problem is to help them discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason ca...
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Fear
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) March 14, 2009 Fear I had been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether I sat on the shore of life drinking myself into forgetfulnessor plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond my depth and ability. The result was the same -- I had ne...
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Daily Reflections ~ The God Idea
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When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52 Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I slowly groped my way to the Third Step. Havi...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 15th March 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day We alcoholics were on a merry go-round, going round and round, and we couldn't get off. That merry go round is a kind of hell on earth. In A.A. I got off that merry go-round by learning to stay sober. I pray to my Higher Power every morning to help me to keep sober. And I get the strengt...
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Two-Way Tolerance
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 73 Two-Way Tolerance "Your point of view was once mine. Fortunately, A.A. is constructed so that we need not debate the existence of God; but for best results, most of us must depend upon a Higher Power. You say the group is your Higher Power, and no right minded A.A. would chal...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Pocket SponsorIt doesn't pay to argue with "slippers" about the proper way of getting sober. Why should people who are still drinking and drugging tell those who are sober why it can't be done! We learn not to get in a pissing contest with a skunk. (or should we say drunk!) The only thing I ne...
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As We See It
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"As We See It"March 13 I am not one of those people that wakes up with blue skies, white clouds, and chirpring birds and says, "Gee, I feel so good today, I think I'll work those 12 steps!" My experience has been that the s%$# hits the fan, all hell breaks loose, my back is against th...
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Dependence--Unhealthy or Healthy
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As Bill Sees It Dependence--Unhealthy or Healthy, p. 72 "Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped-for protectors final...
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Hope
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 13, 2009HopeHope is the true gift of the program.I have hope that things will get better in my life as long as I stay sober.I have hope that I can get through any difficulty sober,with the hope that you people give to me. - Anonymous Thought to Ponder ....
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Pocket Sponsor
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Don't let the therapeutically "correct" way to run a group hijack your meeting. Leaders are reluctant to cut a newcomer off for fear of shaming their inner child, rejecting them, or appearing to be mean. We are not therapy and we can't share with them if they can't listen. I do not let the n...
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"Six Months"!!!
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Congratulation cramcj01 (Crystal)!!!!! -- Edited by Jane05 at 10:58, 2009-03-11
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OK, I guess someone had to do it.
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Happy Birthday To me. I just got back from laying on the beach, now I'm going to lay down, watch a movie and take a nap. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 17:02, 2009-03-08
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Daily Reflections ~ A Day's Plan
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On awakening let us think of the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 Every day I ask God to kindle within me...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 12th March 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day The Prodigal Son "took his journey into a far country and wasted his substance with riotous living." That's what we alcoholics do. We waste our substance with riotous living. "When he came to himself, he said, 'I will arise and go to my father.'" That's w...
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Fighting the CRAVING
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The most difficult part in life is fighting craving. We could have stopped drinking, all is well, we are going about our business etc trying to behave all is normal like an non-alcoholic person lives his life , but then there is something deep down lays a very dangerous feeling , which can change a pe...
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As We See It
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"As We See It"March 12Thanks to Doug G. for today's AWSI: I used to run around carefully filming everything 'you did to me' with my 'resentment recording machine.' Then I would go home and replay it . . . in living color . . . with the sound turned up . .. fully enhanced . . . while nursing a drink (...
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How Can You Roll With A Punch?
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As Bill Sees It "How Can You Roll With A Punch?", p. 71 On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our country, a great friend of A.A. was walking along a St. Louis street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic, but he had been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in hi...
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Tolerance
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 12, 2009ToleranceWhen I am honest with myself and others I will get sober, but it is tolerance that keeps me that way. When I fully realize that I can't get well alone, I will somehow find a way to get well and stay wellin the company of others. I...
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Timing
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If we could untangle the mysteries of life and unravel the energies which run through the world; if we could evaluate correctly the significance of passing events; if we could measure the struggles, dilemmas, and aspirations of mankind, we could find that nothing is born out of time. Everything com...
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AA Thought for the Day & a Share
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)~ Scroll down for share ~March 11, 2009FreedomThe Big Book promises that I am going to know a new freedomand a new happiness, that I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it, and that I will comprehend the word serenity and wi...
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Daily Reflections ~ Good Orderly Direction
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It is when we try to make our will conform with Gods that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with Gods intention for u...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 11th March 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day By having quiet times each morning, we come to depend on God's help during the day, especially if we should be tempted to take a drink. And we can honestly thank Him each night for the strength He has given us. So our faith is strengthened by these quiet times of prayer. By listenin...
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Things are really good, at least for today.
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I just wanted to post a positive thread, maybe try and balance out my thread history :) I haven't had a drink in 28 days, and I feel great. Well, great might be a little much, but I feel soo much better today than I have in a loooong time. Everything fell into place this morning. I got a new guitar student, I c...
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As We See It
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"As We See It"March 11 Thanks to Walt for this morning's AWSI: For me insanity was not just doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results . . . . My experience with insanity is that I did the same things over and over again, KNOWING I was going to get the same result! Toda...
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Truth, the Liberator
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As Bill Sees It Truth, the Liberator, p. 70 How truth makes us free is something that we A.A.'s can well understand. It cut the shackles that once bound us to alcohol. It continues to release us from conflicts and miseries beyond reckoning; it banishes fear and isolation. The unity of our Fellowship, t...
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Letting Go of Confusion
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Sometimes, the way is not clear.
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Meditation courses?
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Have any of you heard of this place, or taken any of their classes? http://www.bkwsu.com If so, I'm curious as to how you find them. They have a location where I live. I've done the introductory (meditation) course and will continue on with the intermediate and advanced. scott
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Daily Reflections ~ Today, It's My Choice
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. . . we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.62 With the realization and acceptance that I had played a part in the way my life had turned out came a dramatic change in my outlook. It was at th...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 10th March 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day We also strengthen our faith by working with other alcoholics and finding that we can do nothing ourselves to help them, except to tell them our own story of how we found the way out. If the other person is helped, it's by the grace of God and not by what we do or say. Our own faith is st...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Pocket Sponsor QuoteOne way to tell how well you are practicing the principles in all your affairs is to notice how you treat people who can be of no service to you. I go out of my way to be kind to the very next person I encounter, regardless of what they can or cannot do for me.
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I'm really confused.
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I posted to the other board by mistake. I'm having a really difficult time. I want to get through this but I really need a friend. I've lost most of my friends due to the addiction. I feel like it's taken my personality from me, like it's taken almost everything from me. I'm 28 and I can't hold down a job. I am...
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Giving Without Demand
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As Bill Sees It Giving Without Demand, p. 69 Watch any A.A. of six months working with a Twelfth Step prospect. If the newcomer says, "To the devil with you," the twelfth-stepper only smiles and finds another alcoholic to help. He doesn't feel frustrated or rejected. If his next drunk resp...
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Keys to Sobriety
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)March 10, 2009Keys to SobrietyThe Twelve Steps as a way of life,daily prayer, and continuing work with new peopleare the keys to sobriety.I have observed over the yearsthat a lot of people can come in and stay sober for a year or two,and then they go away...
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Living with Families
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I was forty-six years old before I finally admitted to myself and someone else that my grandfather always managed to make me feel guilty, angry, and controlled. -- Anonymous
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looking for a member to email and share with me
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i am 20 months sober and just finished my 4th step for the second time. i was sober 13 years ago for 6 years and went back out. i am looking for someone who has longer sobriety to help me through all this. i am in north cyprus right now and i am moving to the virgin islands at the end of the month. i really am looki...
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