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Today's Gift 3/23
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Embracing virtues and new attitudesBecause of our addiction, our actions (and inaction) have fostered cynicism, futility, and distrust. How could we ever have hoped to succeed with attitudes like that? Now we are cultivating the virtues of understanding, love, and patience. It is often slow and...
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Wiling to go to ANY length
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Thinking back, I did some outrageous things to drink. I hid my drinking, hid bottles of booze, lied about money spent on booze, got in trouble at work, made excuses or created situations where drinking would be acceptable. I was ashamed of myself. I didn't like myself at all.
Getting sober (with he...
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Sunrise Quote
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It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sunrise Quote
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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.~ Anonymous
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Gratitude
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Gratitude is...
Being sober, just for today!
Sitting here on the floor of an empty trailer with my cat, and realizing the trailer is my temporary home...and it's so full of love it isn't empty at all!
Gratitude is walking away from a lavish life with nothing and finding I have more than I ever had...
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Today's Gift 3/21
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Even if you understand and follow all of the rules for more effectively engaging manipulators, life with them is not likely to be easy. --George K. Simon Jr.Sometimes they want something. Sometimes they want someone to give them something or to feel a particular way. They want power in some way, shap...
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Time for a Funny!!!
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Don't talk to the parrot Wanda's dishwasher quit working so she called in a repairman. Since she had to go to work the next day, she told the repairman, "I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check. Oh, by the way don't worry about my...
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New online member, not new to recovery
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Hello,
My name is Jerricka and I'm an alcoholic. I'm here with an attitude of gratitude...so thankful to have found AA recovery/fellowship, through my phone, of all things! I live in a one-horse town that doesn't even have one horse...and a meeting only once a week. I finally made it to the meeting l...
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Spiritual Lessons That I Remind Myself Today
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There is no vindication in hatred. Besides we are ALL PRODUCTS OF OUR OWN DEVILS. Hate kills the spirit. Don't waste your time on vengence. Vengence is depressing...Better to forget your enemies than to invite madness. Humor feeds the soul. If the soul is starved, so does the conscience and your cons...
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Today's Gift 3/20
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.~ Leonardo DaVinci
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Today's Gift 3/20
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F.I.N.E.[I'm] Frustrated, Insecure, Neurotic, EmotionalF.E.A.R. Face Everything And RecoverN.U.T.S. Not Using The StepsE.G.O. Edging God Out.D.E.N.I.A.L. Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.H.A.L.T.[Don't get too] Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired.H.O.P.E. Happy Our Pro...
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Grieving
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I haven't been on the board for quite some time, but decided to come on and check in. I've been going through a grieving process since late November when my sponsor passed away unexpectedly. I've certainly been here before, since I have had three sponsors in the 29 years I've been in A.A., and each of t...
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Support and Hope
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Well, the struggles of my teens(2) drug use has worn me down. I removed my daughter from my house on 1/1/2015. For sons(16) use progressed to a daily basis. The symptoms are all there: lying, isolating, anger and his world getting smaller. He can't wait for me to go to a meeting or leave the house so he ca...
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Pot shop approved near AA chapter
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Interesting development. Interesting issues.http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20150317/NEWS01/150319611/Marijuana-shop-approved-to-open-near-AA-chapter-
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Sunrise Quote
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.~ Brian Tracy
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I've developed feelings for my sponsor
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This is my second time around getting sober. After my relapse I decided to get a new sponsor. Sometime after doing my 5th step I noticed a shift in the way I saw my sponsor. I have worked the 12 step and continue to work them with her. She has an amazing insight of recover and I've grown tremendously fro...
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Today's Gift 3/19
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It's an esteemable act to stop and smell the roses.For years I diligently and faithfully read my daily meditations. I worked them into my routine activities, just as I shower, brush my teeth, and press my clothes. After each reading, I'd stop and digest the material, allowing myself to mentally inte...
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Grapevine
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March 19 "Through uncovering and admitting my character defects, I realized that I was no different than the people I was so afraid of. I understood that we were all suffering and that I didn't need to disguise my authentic self."
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New to board. My story
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I am a 33 year old woman with a beautiful daughter and wonderful husband but I really have a problem with alcohol . Today is day 2 of being sober and I feel miserable not because of not having alcohol but because I am depressed from what alcohol makes me do. so here I go , I am one of those peoples that gets ho...
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New territory
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Looks like I'm going to be a single dad. Well last piece of the puzzle the house is being foreclosed on the 23rd. The ex still has no job income or place to go which is not my problem but the children are. I planned for this day 8months ago. I'm anxious sometimes knowing I'll have full time parenting respons...
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Grapevine
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March 18 "Most of the important and astounding things that have happened to me in the last eighteen years of sobriety in AA have been slow in coming and impossible to recognize or appreciate until long after they took place."
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Grapevine
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March 17 "The expression of true humility is the willingness to serve others without expectation of reward, prestige or recognition for our services to them. It should be done in a spirit of cheerfulness and joy."
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St. Patrick's Day
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Today's Gift 3/17
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. --Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 16, 2015Quote of the Week"When fear knocks on the door, and faith answers, no one is home." When I was new to the program, I was taught that I could not be in fear and in faith at the same time. I was either living in fear, or I was living in faith. What recovery has taught me is that today I h...
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Today's Gift 3/16
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Say when it's time to do that difficult thing.Sometimes, true windows of opportunity open in our lives. We get a chance to make that amend. The perfect time to end or resolve that relationship arises. It's like a gift from God when that window opens up. All we need to do is gently step through. But someti...
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Sunrise Quote
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Your future depends on many things, but mostly yourself.~ Frank Tyger
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My almighty thought for the day...
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When I first came into AA, I thought I was like joining a AARP club with all the grey haired, false teeth, bifocal wearing old folks in it... Today I am just grateful that I stuck around long enough to have grey hair, false teeth and reading glasses, and to qualify for that other AA... RP program too!! LOL
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Something other than a drunk
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yet the symptoms are recklessly similar. I rely on the program and my large recovering family too stay sober and to support me as we all do thru problems other than booze. I have been blessed beyond my wildest imagination as a lifetime member of AA. Outside of our program we have other maladies as o...
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Sunrise Quote
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Love is the beauty of the soul.~ St. Augustine
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Today's Gift 3/15
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What we lack are not scientists but poets and people to reveal to the heart what the heart is ready to receive. --Joseph CampbellA short time ago, a friend handed me the following credo. It read:This is the artist's dream:To receive the inspiration to create,To share that creation with others,And to...
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Today's Gift 3/12
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When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. --AnonymousAt times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with God, then I can control the outcome that God alone seems to determine.We cannot make deals with God - not because God is so hard-no...
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Today's Gift 3/14
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You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. -- Job 11:16Many of us have painful memories we carry with us like pictures in a wallet. We keep these memories alive through feelings generated by those moments. Why are we so attached to unpleasant memories?It's dif...
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Grapevine
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March 11 "In AA I learned to take the risk of being real."
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Welcome Onzello
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Welcome to MIP Onzello, ... glad to have you here AND thanks for sharing your story with us ... I'm happy to know you've found a home in AA and pray for you to continue to have the strength and desire to stay this time ... Like you, I tried AA about 1995, but I didn't come to stay until '08, it saved me from my dy...
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Sunrise Quote
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How to deal with slips?
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Hello everyone, I am very new around here. I started about two months ago attending a local AA group as a periodical alcoholic. I still haven't found a sponsor. I seek alcohol and cannot stop and binge when I experience difficult emotions, especially those concerning my relationship with my partne...
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Sunrise Quote
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.~ Henry David Thoreau
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I'm baaack
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Hey everyone. It's me again. So here we go. I didn't drink for 2 weeks then my boyfriend takes me out and asks if I'm ready to drink....Well let's start from the beginning, he wanted me to quit, told me I needed AA. Well I stopped for 2 weeks and then he asks if I'm ready for a drink. In my head I feel, of course I...
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Today's Gift 3/13
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. --Charles SchulzLiving one day at a time is a big project. Most of us have just enough faith, patience, and courage to last 24 hours. We all seem to be in need of a daily refueling.Living in today helps keep our lives balanced and simple. At f...
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Grapevine
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March 13 "I must learn to open my mind as well as my eyes."
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Today's Gift 3/11
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -- W. B. YeatsIt's a bitter pill to swallow, but our intelligence only gets in the way when we're dealing with things that really count -- our feelings and how we express them. Love is the be all and e...
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I Am Reminded We Are Indeed Connected With All life
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I was empting the "honey bucket" off the aft deck before boarding my dinghy on a hot sunny beautiful morning...A big turtle about 2 feet long emerged to the surface as if he saw a Carl's Junior Roadside Sign for a hungry lunchtime 12:30 PM pit stop...He enthusiastically imbibed..and how...
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Happy Belated 7th Anniversary Pappy!
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Amazing! A good word for you because they way you reach out here consistently to others and keep giving back is amazing. Even in spite of health issues....I bet you don't even realize how many folks you have helped. You have also been the "rock" of this board for at least the last year. Go...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Celebrates 75 years in Philadelphia
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Alcoholics Anonymous marks 75 years in Philadelphia, cheering successesAlfred Lubrano, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: Saturday, March 7, 2015 People cheered the man who was 50 years sober, but they stood and screamed wildly for the guy who hadn't had a drink in a day. "That's for you, Mr. On...
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Today's Gift 3/10
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Accepting LoveMany of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate.To compensate for the other person's unavailability, we worked too hard. We may have done all or most of...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 9, 2015Quote of the Week"It is the mosquitoes that will chase me out of the woods, not the bears!" It's amazing how I intuitively know how to handle the big things. A few weeks ago my brother and his wife - who live right around the corner from me - came home from vacation to find their h...
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Today's Gift 3/9
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Reflection for the DayWhen I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't always rosy; some days are a lot better than others. I tend to accept the bad days more easily on an intellectual level than I do emotionally, or at gut-l...
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Today's Gift 3/8
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Some of the experiences we go through are hard. We get heavy at times. "I'm drowning in my grief," I told a friend after my son died. "It feels like I'm swimming across an ocean, and I'm getting tired." When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.Action:What's more irritati...
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confused
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my first time on here. Am looking for support.
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