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Heard @ Meetings
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Was He For all you Guys , Stateside . BUT . This could apply to any one of US. I heard this in my first couple of days of sobriety . YES , I Wrote it down . Was He . Christopher Columbus IS the only man on record . WHO , did not know where he was going , when he set sail . WHERE he was When he got ther...
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Stepping Stones Support Needed
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(Reposted from the AAHistoryLovers forum. I'm sure they wouldn't mind.) If the continued unencumbered access to Bill and Lois Wilson's historic home is important to you, please write to the Bedford NY Board of Town as suggested below. Almost all of AA's developing principles and theories were wri...
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so heres my story
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Recently moved to liverpool about a year ago now to start fresh from all my bad habbits and to clear my head after a attemptd suicide fail after breaking up with my ex .. i have always told my self i can stop drinking where ever i like but its clear i cant .. i work shifts so on my four days off work i will isolate...
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Today's Gift - 2/3
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Attitudes and Limitations"My greatest limitations," a member said, "are in my mind. Until I came to this group, I wasn't even aware that many of the negative circumstances in my life were the direct result of my distorted attitudes."I brought myself a lot of unnecessary mise...
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Medical Update!
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Blood Transfusion Alert ( if its not too late ) MEDICAL UPDATE Remember this the next time you have major surgery and need a blood transfusion! This is good to know. MEDICAL ALERT: Australian Medical Association researchers have found that patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from re...
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A Hui Ho Carson...
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Was messaged by Tom your brother that you had passed beyond our physical barriers and was saddened to hear it. You and Bonnie are great recovery family and so many of us enjoyed your Experience, Strength and Hope; your recovery when you lived amongst us and then left. Actually you have never left b...
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Trying to get the courage to go to a meeting
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Hello, I have never been to an AA meeting, and have never posted on any board. Honestly, I scared as H*** to post here. I know that I abuse alcohol and I know that it is because I was raped and am trying not to deal with it. I know it is hurting many people in my life, but I cannot seem to stop it. I'm very afraid th...
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Welcome Yally
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Welcome to MIP Yally ... tell us a little about yourself ... God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift - 2/1
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To be alive is to be hungry.Our appetite for life is good. It keeps us reaching, growing, enjoying, and yearning to fulfill our potential. When our basic needs are satisfied, our hunger propels us to search for more elaborate gratification.Here is where we often run into trouble. Instead of progres...
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Today's Gift - 1/31
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Reflection for the DaySince I came to The Program, I've become increasingly aware of the Serenity Prayer. I see it on literature covers, the walls of meeting rooms, and in the homes of new-found friends. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the th...
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This 'Day and Age' is Here!
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Sent by an AA brother ... "I had a power outage at my house this morning and my PC, Laptop, TV, DVD, IPad, and my new surround sound music system were all shut down. Then I discovered that my iPhone battery was flat. To top it off, it was raining so I couldn't go for a walk, bike or run. The garage door...
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Sunrise Quote
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.~ Mother Teresa
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Grapevine
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January 30 "I recalled the part of chapter five that says 'no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.' And that God could and would, if he were sought. This became my answer."I sent God into those dark places within my subconscious. It was there I seemed to store painful memories, t...
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Today's Gift - 1/30
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.We pray for "courage to change the things we can.'' Change requires giving up familiar old ways to try something new. Even though the old ways brought us pain, they were known. Changing them for new ones feels risky; it could lead to pleasure . . . or to even more p...
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Sunrise Quote
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.~ George Bernard Shaw
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Grapevine
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January 29 "Our personal ambitions will have to be set aside every time they conflict with the safety or the effectiveness of our Fellowship ... We must sometimes love our Society more than ourselves."
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Today's Gift - 1/29
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Nothing is so bad that relapse won't make it worse. --AnonymousThe stories we hear in meetings often shock us. It seems hard to believe that some members could have harmed themselves in such ways. We hear about arrests, bankruptcies, loss of family and home, lost jobs, violence, jail, physical inju...
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Spiritual Things I Remind Myself Today
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Amigo.. you frequent that awful restaurant called "The Past"...The only thing they serve there are thick slices of resentment..with a side order of self pity..topped with sweet and sour ego sauce... You ALWAYS wind up with a case of spiritual diarrhea..and you "should" a...
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Today's Gift - 1/28
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When a, man leaves off believing in imaginary property, then only will he make use of his true property. --Leo TolstoyThe original meaning of property is "belonging to the self." In this sense, land, houses, money, paintings, jewels, cars cannot be our property; they are all things, and...
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Grapevine
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January 28 "Anger in all its forms is ugly. I see the absence of anger as one form of grace."
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Welcome Rayray
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Welcome to MIP Rayray, ... Glad you found us ... I hope you will make time for some AA meetings ... these forums are great, but noth'n is quite like going to a meeting and seeing others that are or were in your same condition ... "Together, we help each other recover to enjoy life, not tolerate it ......
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Today's Gift - 1/27
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Where is God?AA members have always had a difficult time explaining the "God business." We didn't want to be considered religious, but at the same time we've always believed some contact with a Higher Power is necessary for real personal growth. There's nothing wrong for our purposes in...
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Blessings and prayers to alcoholhater... wherever you are.
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Peace and love friend. Xxxxoxo
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Sunrise Quote
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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.~ G. Randolf
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Spiritual Things I remind Myself Today
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The way to truth is through the spirit. In the outer world is turmoil, chaos and unhapiness. You think with the mortal mind, with the mind that is part of substance of earth. You should think with your inner mind; you should approach problems through the inner self, through intuition. the very word exp...
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This Life is a test
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Hello I hope everyone is doing well I wanted to share an interesting story that happened to me recently. I've been sober now for somewhere around 2 years, one of the main reasons I became sober was from the support from my wife, how she encouraged me to sober up. At first I found not drinking hard, then no...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 26, 2015Quote of the Week"Keep doing the things that got it good, not the things that got good." I was in a meeting the other day when a guy took a newcomer chip for seven days sober. Before he sat down, he shared that he had twelve years but had gone out. He said it took almost five yea...
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Sharing My Sobriety.
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My names Brian and Im an Alcoholic. I just wanted to stop by the board to share my journey, and hopefully shine a light into anyone, or as many people, at meetings or wherever as I can.If you haven't quit fully. Pour it out now. Its amazing how quick we start getting better mindsets out of WANTING to be S...
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Sunrise Quote
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You dont have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. ~ Les Brown
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Today's Gift - 1/26
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Accepting Every Task Dear God,Help me find the strength to be effective and accept responsibility. I am asking you for the strength I need each day. You have proven in countless lives that for every day I live, You will give me that necessary power.I must face every challenge that comes to me during the...
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Grapevine
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January 26 "Putting my ego aside to ask others for help still doesn't come naturally, so I've made it a part of my Tenth Step inventory, asking, 'Have I failed to ask for help when I needed it today?'"
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Day one?
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Today like so many other days over the last few years I start out the day full of hope that I'll get through it without having a drink. Unfortunately on almost every one of those occasions I have failed. Slowly but surely during the course of each day my mind starts to talk itself around and once 5pm-6pm co...
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Sunrise Quote
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.~ Richard Wagner
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Today's Gift - 1/25
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In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing. - St. John of the CrossExpectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a basic right to be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean life will always go our way. The twists and turns of life often carry us...
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Another 'funny' to break the monotony! ... Don't be afraid to laugh!
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I haven't verified this on Snopes, but it sounds legitimate. A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight livelonger than the men who mention it.
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Pythonpappy
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I don't know how you do it but you seem like an amazing person that gives us all hope. I just wanted to let you know as I've been reading these posts and see your words of encouragement it makes me feel like someone cares. So thank you for being there for us alcoholic's and making us feel comfortable in shari...
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Sunrise Quote
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork, and determination, a person can overcome anything.~ B. Dodge
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Today's Gift - 1/24
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First Things First - OrderBusy people often declare, with some exasperation, that they cannot do everything at once. People with emotional problems, a group that includes many alcoholics, often feel that they are trying to do everything at once. Quite often, this pressure means that we waste our...
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Welcome Rambling Wreck
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Welcome to MIP Rambling Wreck, ... glad you found us ... Tell us a little about yourself and if we can help ya in any area of sobriety ... We 'been there, done that' and have the bruises to prove it ... Today we learned, again, that we would die without a drink ... Love ya bro and God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift - 1/23
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Moving ForwardTime past is gone forever, and we can never go back to it. Even our disease progresses forward. We cannot expect to control it by a return to measures which may have worked for a time in the past. Those methods eventually failed, and trying them again will only bring us to the same point of f...
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Grapevine
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January 23 "Change happens in sobriety and, big or small, I try to see where God wants me to fit in each day."
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How 'bout some Old Style Humor?
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The Wit of Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. A smile is a cu...
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Sunrise Quote
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Your dream. See it. Seize it. Keep it alive.~ Unknown
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Today's Gift - 1/22
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Letting go is a decision.The obsession to pressure other people to see things our way keeps us agitated. In contrast, the wisdom to understand that every person's view has validity, at least for that person, is a gift we receive from working the Twelve Steps. Our daily assignment, then, is to be patie...
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Grapevine
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January 22 "Today it is no longer about who cares for me, it is about learning to love others."
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So much for rigorous honesty
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I was applying for a life insurance policy and they ask all sorts of questions including ones about alcohol/drugs. I told the truth because they said "do you drink?" and then "have you ever...?" So, even after 6 plus years sober, they come back to me with that they want me to pay...
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Sunrise Quote
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.~ Diana, Princess of Wales
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Today's Gift - 1/21
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Make yourself at home.It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure. It was too cold to stay in my tent; I had rented a cabin near the drop zone. Now I'd come back to hang out for a while, before retiring for the night. One of the skydivers I'd met recently was sitting in a lawn chair,...
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Grapevine
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January 21 "Sobriety for me was the complete life change that occurred after I fully invested myself in the AA program."
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Spiritual Things I Remind Myself Today
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Jesus was quoted as saying...."The Kingdom of God is here on Earth...Yet men do not see it" Keep Your Eyes Open Amigo. My Sobriety is Contingent on my Spiritual Well Being Just for Today
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