Alcoholics Anonymous

wagon · wagon

for years ,some of my let call them friends for now .play cards in the winter and fall months in a pool hall here in town. they have been calling me to come and play again .this has been fun but had involed lots of drinking.they know im clean now but still want me to play cards with them .i dont know if i should a...

Dave Harm · Dave Harm

As a writer, I get emails from people around the world - usually from spouses or parents of alcoholics - wondering how they can help - or asking questions which at times, is quite a challenge. Tonight, I emailed this person and said I would try to get some "expert" advice for them. This persons child...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 12 First we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done... Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.77 As a traveler on a fresh and exciting A.A. journey of recovery, I experience...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 13 ...and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with evey human being we know. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions&...

OldPro · OldPro

Life is busy and the world is complex. Give yourself time to take it all in. Events come at you quickly, and keep coming all the time. Regularly give yourself the time and space to make sense of it all. When you get too caught up in your efforts, you can lose track of why you're making them. Take the time, aga...

nancyjo59 · nancyjo59

Hey All, Going to a party today!!!! A little nervous about alchol being there. Its actually my first gathering around a-lot of people partying Cancelled the last party invited to. I know it way too soon to be going around all the alchol, just going to stay strong...and re...

Phil · Phil

Overcoming Resentment

Rick · Rick

In AA the only mistake you can make is not coming back. Gratitude is the streetcar to a better attitude. The catch-22 of recovery: You've got to change your thinking to change your drinking. But to change your thinking, you've got to change your drinking. AA: Absolute Abstinence.

Phil · Phil

Dealing with the Guilt. Guilt. It's a word that can invoke in us the deepest, most terrible feelings of loss, horror, anger, and helplessness. Why did I do what I did? Why couldn't I have done more? Did I not do enough? Did I do too much? ...

Nic · Nic

A drunk man in a beat up Ford. They said he ran the light That caused the six-car pileup On the 109 that night. When broken bodies lay about And blood was everywhere, sirens screamed out eulogies, For death was in the air. A mother, trapped inside her car, Was heard above the noise; Her plain...

nancyjo59 · nancyjo59

Hey guys, Its finally happening, Going to my first meeting. It sounds like an excuse...Having a vehicle to do some running around is a mayor hassle. Not to mention the poor thing isnt running too good. Going to kill lots of "birds with one stone".:ju...

WTksBlondie104 · WTksBlondie104

Hello, I have never been to an AA meeting, nor received counseling for alcoholism. I don't know what the 12 step program is, but I have heard about it. I am not so much interested in that, as I am just getting a little advice. MY girlfriend and I have started this great new diet, and it is working to lose we...

Phil · Phil

Even when we know what is right, our conscious mind can use our fears, doubts and insecurities to convince us to do something different. ---- Most of the emotional pain in our lives is caused by our fears, doubts, and insecurities. Our emotional pain is self inflicted, and we must learn fro...

Phil · Phil

Drinking Guide" SYMPTOM: Feet cold and wet. FAULT: Glass being held at incorrect angle. ACTION: Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling. SYMPTOM: Beer unusually pale and tasteless. FAULT: Glass empty. ACTION: Get someone to buy you another be...

Phil · Phil

"Im still hoping yesterday will get better" :) DOH!!

Rick · Rick

The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin First you crawled, then you learned to walk, and the world grew a little bigger. You learned to ride a bike, and it grew even more. Then you learned to drive a car and bought a plane ticket. Suddenly, the horizons were limitless....

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is August 12, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! LIFE "The tragedy of life is what dies in man while he lives." -- Albert Schweitzer Addiction progressively takes away the vitality of life. It robs life of meaning. Addiction isolates; it kills by atrophy. People, places and thi...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Step 1_ "We admitted we were powerless over humor, that our lives had become more manageable." 2. Came to believe that a smile greater than ourselves could restore us to laughter.Step 3e A Decision To Turn Our Lives Over To The Care Of Humor,as We Understood It. Step 4: Made a searching and fearl...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 11 The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damage that occured to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits. As Bi...

Phil · Phil

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank We don't find the rewards of today by searching through our misfortunes. Pausing to seek out something good for everything we find bad is a step in the right direction. We may find the good outweighs the bad. But ho...

Bobby Dean · Bobby Dean

Some Days its Like.............

Phil · Phil

When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well in today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterdays and sometimes todays excesses of nega...

Bobby Dean · Bobby Dean

A version of the Serenity Prayer I use a lot. God Grant me the Serenity to Accept the Person I cannot Change Courage to Change the Person I Can and theWisdom To know that Person is Me Keeps me honest!

Bobby Dean

Nic · Nic

Just thought I'd say G'day and let you know I'm glad you're back. How's the road on your side of the world? Am pulling the horse out for the day tomorrow, taking my mate and my munchkins over to a regional town for a shopping spree. They are taking off next week for a Rock Eis...

nancyjo59 · nancyjo59

Hi All, I went thru a phase that was refered as the "Pink Cloud" at Meetings a few years back. Hopefully I have the correct name for it. Any help would be appreciated. "Have A Great Day" Nancy Jo

wantneeda · wantneeda

http://www.beaubaldwin.com/pictures...t_to_drink.html

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is August 11, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! INDIVIDUALITY "The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual." -- Charles Towne The spiritual program that involves a "love of self" has made me get in touch with my individuality. Al...

Rick · Rick

Man said: If I lie I have to face a lie detector. Woman said: You mean a Polygraph test? Man answered: No, my sponsor! Drunk classic for sober people: There was an alcoholic woman in my home town who, in the course of her drinking, married four times: a millionaire, a magician, a minister, a...

Phil · Phil

"God, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" ------...

OldPro · OldPro

"Came the day when I realized that I couldn't keep dragging myself off to work in the morning and spending half the energy of every day concealing the fact that I was a barely functioning drunk" -from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, pg 392. Hi all. Nic got my curiou...

Rick · Rick

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. --Will Rogers We may have learned rage at a very early age from an alcoholic parent. We may have found we could manipulate people and distance them by taking off at them like a rocket. We found they had no choice but to take cover or speedil...

wagon · wagon

hi all things are good here. just thinking back to the first months .how close i came to giving up.i glad with everyones help i made it through it boy that was tough.now sober for some months i got a handle on my life again and ready to take a few chances in life again . thinking about investing in the r...

GammyRose · GammyRose

Just a quick check in....I guess I'm doing okay. Still packin', how does one accumulate soooooo much stuff. I am the queen of stuff, but I'm tossing out a lot, giving alot to charity, will have a garage sale. Last week-end my son send home some furniture because he moved to a different apartment so I have...

OldPro · OldPro

Angels appear in the Bible from the beginning to the end, from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelation. The Bible is our best source of knowledge about angels - for example, Psalms 91:11, Matthew 18:10 and Acts 12:15 indicate humans have guardian angels. Angels announce the birth of Jesus to the s...

OldPro · OldPro

Hi all. Well, now I'm just curiousas to whether this message board is approved, endorsed or affiliated with AA. The homepage does ask that 2 traditions be observed, they are anonymity and topics. I could not find anywhere that it stated "AA aproved" , etc. Did I miss it? If s...

Bobby Dean · Bobby Dean

Hi Friends, I haven't taken the the time to say Thanks ya'll, for the hard work that I believe it has taken to get this site where it is today. I have tried a few other online recovery groups, and was sadly disapointed by the bickering amongst the members, so so sad. but the Big Book tells me there's o...

Phil · Phil

What other people think of us affects us all, but all what other people think of us really affects is our fragile ego. We have to rise above our own ego. We have to believe what we know to be true, not what someone else thinks of us. If we do not do this we are compromising ourselves to satisfy someone else. ...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 10 To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77 As I continue to grow in sob...

wantneeda · wantneeda

we'll see if it sticks anyways..

ok another day in the life of Wendy i planned to sit on the computer for just a little while..drat...5 hours later i made myself go do something else. Got a good rain here today which was nice after all the really hot weather we/ve had. Made some phone call...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Letting Go of Perfection As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joyous,...

Phil · Phil

Letting Go of Perfection As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joy...

Rick · Rick

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him. "I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?" "All women cry for no reason," was all his dad c...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is August 9, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! ACCEPTANCE "The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every creature the same reverence for life that he gives to his own." -- Albert Schweitzer Today I accept people. Even the people with who I do not agree...

Nic · Nic

You just gotta let go...

Nic · Nic

Just a reminder

Phil · Phil

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart. -------------- We must accept that fate sometimes seems cruel, and let go. We must be confident that time will heal if necessary. Even when we are scared, and our emotions overtake us we must trust that fate is right...

Rick · Rick

My relationship with nature and plants is almost like religion with me. --Monty Cralley Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves is important to our perception of life. And being alive assures us of many new situations. Maybe it's a move to a smaller residence or our recove...

Phil · Phil

What is without periods of rest will not endure. --Ovid When we are tired, we need to stop and give ourselves time to rest. Sometimes we think we can't spare the time. But without rest, all our activity soon becomes a burden and there is no joy in it. Animals know it is necessary to take time to rest. Th...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 9 ...and became willing to make amends to them all. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77 One of the key words in the Eight Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. It is a list of all persons I have harmed. I can see immediately th...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed... Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions p.77 When I approached the Eighth Step, I wondered how I could list all the things that I have done to other people since there were so many people, and some of them weren't alive a...

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	what do u think (Preview) for years ,some of my let call them friends for now .play cards in the winter and fall months in a pool hall here in town. they have been calling me to come and play again .this has been fun but had involed lots of drinking.they know im clean now but still want me to play cards with them .i dont know if i should a...	wagon	6	733	Aug 14, 2005 by wagon
	Need some help - please (Preview) As a writer, I get emails from people around the world - usually from spouses or parents of alcoholics - wondering how they can help - or asking questions which at times, is quite a challenge. Tonight, I emailed this person and said I would try to get some "expert" advice for them. This persons child...	Dave Harm	5	1515	Aug 14, 2005 by Bobby Dean
	"A Look Back" (Preview) August 12 First we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done... Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.77 As a traveler on a fresh and exciting A.A. journey of recovery, I experience...	GammyRose	1	1156	Aug 14, 2005 by Phil
	" A Clean Sweep" (Preview) August 13 ...and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with evey human being we know. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions&...	GammyRose	1	1111	Aug 14, 2005 by Phil
	A Solid Foundation (Preview) Life is busy and the world is complex. Give yourself time to take it all in. Events come at you quickly, and keep coming all the time. Regularly give yourself the time and space to make sense of it all. When you get too caught up in your efforts, you can lose track of why you're making them. Take the time, aga...	OldPro	2	748	Aug 13, 2005 by OldPro
	Going To A Party (Preview) *Hey All,* *Going to a party today!!!!* *A little nervous about alchol being there. Its actually my first gathering* *around a-lot of people partying Cancelled the last party invited to.* *I know it way too soon to be going around all the alchol, just going to* *stay strong...and re...*	nancyjo59	6	761	Aug 13, 2005 by OldPro
	Overcomming Resentment (Preview) Overcoming Resentment	Phil	7	935	Aug 13, 2005 by BarryH
	only mistake you can make (Preview) In AA the only mistake you can make is not coming back. Gratitude is the streetcar to a better attitude. The catch-22 of recovery: You've got to change your thinking to change your drinking. But to change your thinking, you've got to change your drinking. AA: Absolute Abstinence.	Rick	1	772	Aug 13, 2005 by cheri
	Dealing With GUILT (Preview) Dealing with the Guilt. Guilt. It's a word that can invoke in us the deepest, most terrible feelings of loss, horror, anger, and helplessness. Why did I do what I did? Why couldn't I have done more? Did I not do enough? Did I do too much? ...	Phil	3	713	Aug 13, 2005 by BarryH
	Angel beat (Preview) A drunk man in a beat up Ford. They said he ran the light That caused the six-car pileup On the 109 that night. When broken bodies lay about And blood was everywhere, sirens screamed out eulogies, For death was in the air. A mother, trapped inside her car, Was heard above the noise; Her plain...	Nic	5	851	Aug 13, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	My First Meeting (Preview) *Hey guys,* *Its finally happening, Going to my first meeting.* *It sounds like an excuse...Having a vehicle to do some running around is a mayor hassle. Not to mention the poor thing isnt running too good.* *Going to kill lots of "birds with one stone".:ju...*	nancyjo59	6	772	Aug 13, 2005 by nancyjo59
	This is my first attempt ever (Preview) Hello, I have never been to an AA meeting, nor received counseling for alcoholism. I don't know what the 12 step program is, but I have heard about it. I am not so much interested in that, as I am just getting a little advice. MY girlfriend and I have started this great new diet, and it is working to lose we...	WTksBlondie104	5	748	Aug 13, 2005 by BarryH
	Tonights Thoughts (Preview) Even when we know what is right, our conscious mind can use our fears, doubts and insecurities to convince us to do something different. ---- Most of the emotional pain in our lives is caused by our fears, doubts, and insecurities. Our emotional pain is self inflicted, and we must learn fro...	Phil	0	732	Aug 12, 2005 by Phil
	Drinking guide for social drinkers? (Preview) Drinking Guide" SYMPTOM: Feet cold and wet. FAULT: Glass being held at incorrect angle. ACTION: Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling. SYMPTOM: Beer unusually pale and tasteless. FAULT: Glass empty. ACTION: Get someone to buy you another be...	Phil	4	974	Aug 12, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	A quote from Charlie Brown (Preview) "Im still hoping yesterday will get better" :) DOH!!	Phil	1	773	Aug 12, 2005 by Phil
	comfortable ? (Preview) *The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin* First you crawled, then you learned to walk, and the world grew a little bigger. You learned to ride a bike, and it grew even more. Then you learned to drive a car and bought a plane ticket. Suddenly, the horizons were limitless....	Rick	3	692	Aug 12, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	a great day for recovery-Aug 12 (Preview) Today is August 12, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! LIFE "The tragedy of life is what dies in man while he lives." -- Albert Schweitzer Addiction progressively takes away the vitality of life. It robs life of meaning. Addiction isolates; it kills by atrophy. People, places and thi...	wantneeda	4	1401	Aug 12, 2005 by Phil
	smilin' 12 steps...:) (Preview) Step 1_ "We admitted we were powerless over humor, that our lives had become more manageable." 2. Came to believe that a smile greater than ourselves could restore us to laughter.Step 3e A Decision To Turn Our Lives Over To The Care Of Humor,as We Understood It. Step 4: Made a searching and fearl...	wantneeda	7	783	Aug 12, 2005 by wantneeda
	Removing "The Ground Glass" (Preview) August 11 The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damage that occured to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits. As Bi...	GammyRose	1	1264	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	Misfortunes (Preview) *I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank* We don't find the rewards of today by searching through our misfortunes. Pausing to seek out something good for everything we find bad is a step in the right direction. We may find the good outweighs the bad. But ho...	Phil	2	864	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	its real (Preview) Some Days its Like.............	Bobby Dean	1	753	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	Emotional Hangovers Step 10 (Preview) When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well in today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterdays and sometimes todays excesses of nega...	Phil	3	5544	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	Serenity Prayer (Preview) A version of the Serenity Prayer I use a lot. God Grant me the Serenity to Accept the Person I cannot Change Courage to Change the Person I Can and theWisdom To know that Person is Me Keeps me honest! Bobby Dean	Bobby Dean	3	782	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	Hey Rick (Preview) Just thought I'd say G'day and let you know I'm glad you're back. How's the road on your side of the world? Am pulling the horse out for the day tomorrow, taking my mate and my munchkins over to a regional town for a shopping spree. They are taking off next week for a Rock Eis...	Nic	3	750	Aug 12, 2005 by Rick
	Pink Cloud Phase (Preview) *Hi All,* *I went thru a phase that was refered as the "Pink Cloud" at Meetings a few years back.* *Hopefully I have the correct name for it.* *Any help would be appreciated.* *"Have A Great Day"* *Nancy Jo*	nancyjo59	10	1155	Aug 11, 2005 by Bobby Dean
	more reasons not to drink today... (Preview) http://www.beaubaldwin.com/pictures...t_to_drink.html	wantneeda	7	818	Aug 11, 2005 by Nic
	A great day for recovery-Aug 11 (Preview) Today is August 11, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! INDIVIDUALITY "The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual." -- Charles Towne The spiritual program that involves a "love of self" has made me get in touch with my individuality. Al...	wantneeda	0	654	Aug 11, 2005 by wantneeda
	Sober fact: (Preview) Man said: If I lie I have to face a lie detector. Woman said: You mean a Polygraph test? Man answered: No, my sponsor! Drunk classic for sober people: There was an alcoholic woman in my home town who, in the course of her drinking, married four times: a millionaire, a magician, a minister, a...	Rick	10	736	Aug 11, 2005 by cheri
	step prayers and promises (Preview) "God, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" ------...	Phil	4	2121	Aug 11, 2005 by nancyjo59
	Functioning drunk (Preview) "Came the day when I realized that I couldn't keep dragging myself off to work in the morning and spending half the energy of every day concealing the fact that I was a barely functioning drunk" -from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, pg 392. Hi all. Nic got my curiou...	OldPro	7	1267	Aug 11, 2005 by OldPro
	TODAYS GIFT (Preview) *People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. --Will Rogers* We may have learned rage at a very early age from an alcoholic parent. We may have found we could manipulate people and distance them by taking off at them like a rocket. We found they had no choice but to take cover or speedil...	Rick	5	932	Aug 10, 2005 by sarahginco
	life (Preview) hi all things are good here. just thinking back to the first months .how close i came to giving up.i glad with everyones help i made it through it boy that was tough.now sober for some months i got a handle on my life again and ready to take a few chances in life again . thinking about investing in the r...	wagon	4	666	Aug 10, 2005 by Nic
	Hey everyone... (Preview) Just a quick check in....I guess I'm doing okay. Still packin', how does one accumulate soooooo much stuff. I am the queen of stuff, but I'm tossing out a lot, giving alot to charity, will have a garage sale. Last week-end my son send home some furniture because he moved to a different apartment so I have...	GammyRose	3	829	Aug 10, 2005 by Nic
	Angels (Preview) Angels appear in the Bible from the beginning to the end, from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelation. The Bible is our best source of knowledge about angels - for example, Psalms 91:11, Matthew 18:10 and Acts 12:15 indicate humans have guardian angels. Angels announce the birth of Jesus to the s...	OldPro	5	823	Aug 10, 2005 by nancyjo59
	Now I'm curious (Preview) Hi all. Well, now I'm just curiousas to whether this message board is approved, endorsed or affiliated with AA. The homepage does ask that 2 traditions be observed, they are anonymity and topics. I could not find anywhere that it stated "AA aproved" , etc. Did I miss it? If s...	OldPro	7	725	Aug 10, 2005 by nancyjo59
	Thanks to my friends (Preview) Hi Friends, I haven't taken the the time to say Thanks ya'll, for the hard work that I believe it has taken to get this site where it is today. I have tried a few other online recovery groups, and was sadly disapointed by the bickering amongst the members, so so sad. but the Big Book tells me there's o...	Bobby Dean	4	686	Aug 10, 2005 by nancyjo59
	Thoughts For Tonight (Preview) What other people think of us affects us all, but all what other people think of us really affects is our fragile ego. We have to rise above our own ego. We have to believe what we know to be true, not what someone else thinks of us. If we do not do this we are compromising ourselves to satisfy someone else. ...	Phil	0	783	Aug 10, 2005 by Phil
	" Redoubling Our Efforts" (Preview) August 10 To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77 As I continue to grow in sob...	GammyRose	0	676	Aug 10, 2005 by GammyRose
	really? i can post a thread?? get out! (Preview) we'll see if it sticks anyways.. ok another day in the life of Wendy i planned to sit on the computer for just a little while..drat...5 hours later i made myself go do something else. Got a good rain here today which was nice after all the really hot weather we/ve had. Made some phone call...	wantneeda	6	777	Aug 10, 2005 by wantneeda
	another great day for recovery:) (Preview) Letting Go of Perfection As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joyous,...	wantneeda	1	1050	Aug 10, 2005 by wantneeda
	ooooo yaaaa eh? (Preview) Letting Go of Perfection As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joy...	Phil	3	742	Aug 10, 2005 by Phil
	FOR THE WOMEN (Preview) A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him. "I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?" "All women cry for no reason," was all his dad c...	Rick	1	701	Aug 10, 2005 by OldPro
	Aug 9- a great day for recovery (Preview) Today is August 9, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! ACCEPTANCE "The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every creature the same reverence for life that he gives to his own." -- Albert Schweitzer Today I accept people. Even the people with who I do not agree...	wantneeda	4	722	Aug 10, 2005 by Bobby Dean
	Sometimes... (Preview) You just gotta let go...	Nic	4	762	Aug 10, 2005 by Rick
	Looking Good (Preview) Just a reminder	Nic	1	666	Aug 10, 2005 by Rick
	Thoughts for tonight (Preview) There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart. -------------- We must accept that fate sometimes seems cruel, and let go. We must be confident that time will heal if necessary. Even when we are scared, and our emotions overtake us we must trust that fate is right...	Phil	4	714	Aug 10, 2005 by Rick
	TODAY'S GIFT (Preview) *My relationship with nature and plants is almost like religion with me. --Monty Cralley* Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves is important to our perception of life. And being alive assures us of many new situations. Maybe it's a move to a smaller residence or our recove...	Rick	3	727	Aug 9, 2005 by cheri
	Today (Preview) *What is without periods of rest will not endure. --Ovid* When we are tired, we need to stop and give ourselves time to rest. Sometimes we think we can't spare the time. But without rest, all our activity soon becomes a burden and there is no joy in it. Animals know it is necessary to take time to rest. Th...	Phil	5	828	Aug 9, 2005 by cheri
	"... Of All Persons We Had Harmed" (Preview) August 9 ...and became willing to make amends to them all. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77 One of the key words in the Eight Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. It is a list of all persons I have harmed. I can see immediately th...	GammyRose	2	1003	Aug 9, 2005 by Rick
	"Made A List..." (Preview) August 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed... Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions p.77 When I approached the Eighth Step, I wondered how I could list all the things that I have done to other people since there were so many people, and some of them weren't alive a...	GammyRose	1	1037	Aug 9, 2005 by Bobby Dean
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