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HAPPY NEW YEAR
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HAPPY NEW YEAR. ALL THE BEST ROB PS thanks for all the support.
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Putting Back Into AA!
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Hi everyone,
Last week I received a 'phone call from a member of AA that I know well. She was on 'phone service and asked me to get in touch with a lady who lives my area who had contacted the helpline. I called her, but she didn't want to talk. I gave her my mobile 'phone number and left it at that.
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Trust
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I just wanted to share with you. I have had an afternoon nap and woke up, went to the kitchen to make a cuppa and there was a bottle of plonk, my girlfriend has had a glass, no worries for me taking any or anything, aint that wonderful?
I have no desire to drink the content, and she knows it.
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Taking Ourselves Too Seriously
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It is clear the future holds opportunities - it also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to seize the opportunities, avoid the pitfalls, and get back home by 6:00. -- Woody Allen
Sometimes we take ourselves far too seriously. We draw our lives in the absolutes of black and white, with no shadings o...
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Daily Reflections Jan 2
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FIRST, THE FOUNDATION Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. As Bill Sees It, p. 8 Practicing the A.A. program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, was the...
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Turbulent beginnings
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I got hungry tonight, went to digging around in the deep freezer. I just made the last payment on this damned thing, 400 total. (Freezer coils wrap all the way around. It's big enough to live in. It rocks.) And the only thing of mine in it was ground beef and two corn dogs. For months, I got plenty of satisfa...
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Welcoming a New Day and New Year
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A friend in recovery just gave this to me. Thought it would be
a great way to start the New Year and Day for All
Please enjoy and have a Wonderful New Year!!
This is from a daily affirmation book:
Today I have a fresh start. I choose to begin a new letting go of un...
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Last Post For 2006....Wishing each of you, another sober 24...and thanks for being here..
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And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be...
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Daily Reflections Jan 1
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Happy New Year!
January 1, 2007
Daily Reflections
"I AM A MIRACLE" The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could n...
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A New Beginning
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The new is but the old come true; each sunrise sees a New Year Born. -- Helen Hunt Jackson We know that a totally new life can begin on any day of a year, at any hour of the day, or at any moment of an hour. That new life began the moment we decided to surrender and admit to powerlessness over a substance or an imp...
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Tonight is an ending; tonight is a beginning
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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky; The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Past New Year's Eves may have meant times of excessive chemical use. We may have embarrassed ourselves in many ways. We may have...
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Harmony
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Living in harmony
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."
-- Unknown Source
Angeles Arrien says that life will be simple if we follow the four-fold way counselled by indigenous peoples:
1. Show up, being present with all four mental, emotional, p...
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YUP....
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You see things that are and say 'Why?'
But I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
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one day at a time...
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really having to try hard to live one day at a time right now... everything is up in the air... I don't have an exact date on when I'm moving... I tentatively plan on Jan 13th leaving town, but it all depends on weather between here and Nebraska, so I can't set an exact date. Plus my friend I'm moving in with m...
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ASAP
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Ever wonder about the abbreviation A.S.A.P.? Generally we think of it in terms of even more hurry and stress in our lives. Maybe if we think of this abbreviation in a different manner, we will begin to find a new way to deal with those rough days along the way. ********...
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Dec 31 Meditation
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Today is December 31, 2006 A Great Day for Recovery!
CHANGE
"It is not necessary to get away from human nature but to alter its inner attitude of heart and mind." -- J. F. Newton An understanding of sobriety and serenity that has proved helpful to me is that we are not only changing bu...
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Daily Reflections Dec 31
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Daily Resolutions The idea of "twenty-four-hour" living applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. As Bill Sees It, p. 284 A New year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes--a time to consid...
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How to Stop and Listen
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I have almost 90days clean and sober and I have a big problem. I seem not to be okay with truly listening to what someone has to say. I am a head strong New Yorker, which is self-explanatory in itself. I hear what someone says and if it is important to my recovery. Most of the ti...
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Amen!
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THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS A true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took hold of the rope, and started up the face of th...
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Moving On
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The Language of Letting Go.
Learn the art of acceptance. It's a lot of grief.
Sometimes, as part of taking care of ourselves, it becomes time to end certain relationships. Sometimes, it comes time to change the parameters of a particular relationship.
This is true in love, in friends...
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Responsible Contributions
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The world we live in depends on the responsible contributions each of us mak...
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Morning all
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Hope all has went well for those whom had Santa come and visit.
Had enough turkey yet?
Just wanted to say hi, and things are going well one day at a time. Haven't been to a meetin for a bit, guess it's high time to kick myself the ass and get to one. Been checkin the board and well be...
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Daily Reflections Dec 30
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ANONYMITY Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 564 Tradition Twelve became important early in my sobriety and, along with the Twelve Steps, it continues to be a must in my recovery. I became...
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The Start Of A New Year
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Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
At the start of this new year, we look back at what has been and we look forward to the future. Our path has been filled with healing and hope. Rewards have come to us each day. Now, looking t...
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Hi....Critiqueing.......
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My spouse (now sober) loves to critique restaurants, fried chicken. It's always, "This is the best chicken I've ever had." Five weeks later, it will be someone elses that's the best. This chicken isn't so good, doesn't measure up to Joe's place. On and on, it...
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Daily Awareness-Hope and Disappointment
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It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life."
-- Max Frisch
"Don’t get your hopes up!"
Were you warned of this as a child? What does this say? It says that life is bound to disappoint you. It says, don’t aim high be...
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I love being sober!
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I just wanted to make a short post to say how GREAT it is to be sober! I love not waking up with a hangover, feeling queezy and woozy all day, headaches, palpitations, sore lungs from smoking my brains out, and the self-loathing. I think that's the worst...worse than all the physical sympt...
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Hello
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Discovered this board a while ago, I have been posting on the Alanon board for a while but not this one, so I thought I'd say hello. I am a sober member of AA, and also active in Alanon.
I was thinking about my last drink (so far!) and how at the time, I had no idea it was my last drink. I had never attempted t...
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Greenville, SC?
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Good afternoon... my name is James and I am an alcoholic. I am making my first trip any significant distance from home next week since getting sober. I'm heading to Greenville, Sc. and staying at the Hilton. Can anyone tell me what meetings are close? I will be available to go to meetings after about 6pm...
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Panic
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The Language of Letting Go.
Don't panic!
If panic strikes, we do not have to allow it to control our behaviors. Behaviors controlled by panic tend to be self-defeating. No matter what the situation or circumstance, panic is usually not a good foundation. No matter what the situation or circumst...
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Working Today
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As we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.
Am I ensuring a fruitful future by working wit...
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Pain free?
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It's just about midnight here and I'm feeling SO alive! Many of you here are aware of the problem I have had with the thoracic area of my spine from previous injuries which caused me to become "disabled" as far as my employability is concerned. This has been a major reason for my taking heavily to the bott...
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Upward And Forward
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The Language of Letting Go.
I know you're tired. I know you feel overwhelmed. You may feel as though this crisis, this problem, this hard time will last forever.
It won't. You are almost through.
You don't just think it has been hard; it has been hard. You have been tested, tried, and retested on w...
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Words to Consider
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Although all men share a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his personal salvation for himself. We can help each other find the meaning of life, but in the last analysis, each is responsible for finding himself. -- Thomas Merton
One of the great spiritual truths is that each pe...
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Becoming a Better Person (well, we're trying, right?)
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At some point in our lives, many of us find ourselves overcome with the desire to become better people. While we are all uniquely capable of navigating this world, we may nonetheless feel driven to grow, expand, and change. This innate need for personal expansion can...
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The Way It used To Be....(Long One)
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Those veils and masks I put on to hide and conceal the real me. The cover up and disguises I habitually use; the excuses, delaying tactics, addictions and control. All the deceptions, in part or in whole, that camouflage and conceal my real self. When considered as a whole, their multiplicity represe...
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lazteuQ yadhtriB yppaH
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I hope you make it a glorious day! Happy birthday my friend...Tim
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Dec 27 Daily Reflections
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PROBLEM SOLVING "Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 42 Through the recovery process described in the Big Book, I have come to realize that the same instructions that work on my alcoholism, work on much more. Whenev...
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Shares For a New Book
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To My Fellows;
Children, Parents, Families of addicts and alcoholics.
I am requesting stories in the following categories. I am seeking those shares for a book called: “Please Understand.” The reason for I am writing this book those in our lives that don’t...
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to wish everybody on MIP a very wonder filled, peaceful and sober Christmas.
Have a great day.
Carol
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Decisions
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Decisions are like Jello molds. They only turn out firm when the right amount of water is added. -- Roy Palm
A big decision is like a mountain built on a million small rocks. When we find ourselves stuck and feeling paralyzed about making a big decision, perhaps it is because we didn't pay attenti...
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UM.......
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If anyone here, sees a guy in a red suit, and sleigh...still flying through the skies..somewhere....could you yell up at Him? and tell Him..."Thanks for the new car eh"?
The only problem was....He musta been gettin pretty tired..cause He left it in the wrong driveway....
I could'nt find the key...
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Haunting memories of Christmas past
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Hi Everyone –
I hope (and pray) that this post doesn’t damper your Christmas spirit – but at times I need to write. Whether it is poetry, stories, or articles for my websites, books, or my newspaper column – it seems to be a great form of “self-therapy.”
Christmas brings mixed emotions for me. F...
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A Christmas Gift for Everyone!
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For all members of Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums, I and Rose designed a small Christmas web page for you to view. It has music on it, so turn your speakers on or off, whichever you prefer as you view it.
http://www.12stepforums.net/christmas/index.html
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Beginning Again
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Namaste each and everyone!
Please allow me to share a meditation with you:
"Creation is ongoing. The world begins anew each day. This is the miracle that makes not a sound but which changes everything, if we can be quiet enough to feel it happen. When we can participate in this, we begin anew each da...
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Honor Yourself
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"I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat."
-- Joan Mills
Take a moment to stop and think about what you give to the people and life arou...
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Gratitude
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We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. -- Philip S. Bernstein
All of us have reasons to be grateful. Usually, the word implies we have received something. We often think of gratitude as that warm feelin...
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Daily Reflections Dec 25
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AT PEACE WITH LIFE Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. "How can I best serve Thee - Thy will (not mine) be done." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 I read this passage each morning, to start off my day, because it is a continual reminder to "practice these prin...
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angels
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i have so much emotional pain at this time of the year...i swear i can feel angels close to me to keep me safe. from my first sober christmas to this one. those angels have their hands full with the likes of us! love u guys.
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Step 12 at 27 days??
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I met a newcomer on his first day Wednesday. He had the stench of alcohol seeping through his pores. After the meeting I introduced myself, got his number, talked and then called him at home a few times (3) including this morning.
He's been in and out of the program in LA. He...
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