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Today's Gift - 12/4
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Even though I can't solve your problems, I will be there as your sounding board whenever you need me. --Sandra K. LambersonThe prize we each have been given is our ability to offer full and interested attention to people seeking our counsel. And seldom does a day pass that we aren't given the opportuni...
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Recovery Meditation Live Casting
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Grapevine
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December 3 "The whole world became mine when I had nowhere else to go."
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Sunrise Quote
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Its not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.~ Mother Teresa
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Grapevine
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December 2 "What unites all members on the program is a common sincerity. We are all seeking the truth; we are trying for honesty. In practice, any useful conception of God must relate to this idea of truth. Some people would say that God is truth -- no more and no less."
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Today's Gift - 12/2
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God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. --Reinhold NiebuhrSome things I cannot change: my age, who my relatives are, my eye color, my height, my childhood experiences, my inborn talents, my nature, s...
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I wrote this in early Sobriety
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I wrote this , then put it onto timber. I Am Still inspired by this to this day . I hope others find "Hope" & Inspiration in it. -- Edited by Zoomtopz on Sunday 30th of November 2014 03:44:20 AM
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 1, 2014Quote of the Week"Expectations are premeditated resentments." Oh how I still like to try to control people, places and things. Even though the first step teaches me about my powerlessness, and the third step gives me the tools to dealing with life, I still find myself re...
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need some help regarding Cross Talk
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if anyone is out there, my internet has been down all day, just got it back, does anyone have any advice regarding cross talk, we have a problem in our meeting with cross talk and i want to address it, is there anything in the big book that can help me? thanks sorry for the short notice, life in the islands ok...
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Sunrise Quote 12/1
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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.~ Anthony Robbins
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Grapevine
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December 1 "There are many kinds of spiritual experience. Some are like the conversions of the great religious leaders of the past; others seem purely psychological. Some are sudden or instantaneous; others are a gradual learning experience. But all of them, whatever form they take, have...
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Today's Gift - 12/01
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. --Dodie SmithWhen we change our lives, we give up old patterns. Some of these old patterns, as harmful as they may have been, were like our best friends. We could turn to them for comfort and escape. After giving them up, and after the first ela...
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paralyzed
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I've been looking at my computer screen for 10 minutes before writting anything, because I am so afraid to face my drinking problem. However, it is time to change. I am a 45 year-old woman who has been binged drinking and blacking out since I was 15. I'm tired of being an alcoholic; I'm depressed, sc...
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Today's Gift - 11/30
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An inspiring book, a caring friend, a moment of silence - all can offer the guidance we seek.We are learning to seek guidance on how to handle the serious circumstances of our lives. We used to feel we had to figure out everything for ourselves. What a gift it is to seek suggestions from friends we can tru...
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falling off the wagon....
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JK. I'm a year and a half sober now! thanks y'all. I check into this board from time to time to remind me of where I came from. I'm doing great, still doing my art, I'm shocked to think its only been a year and a half. I don't even remember what it is like to drink, I still keep away from social setting that are i...
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Sunrise Quote - 11/29
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.~ Count Leo Tolstoy
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Today's Gift - 11/29
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Fill up your life.One of the good things about the blues is their power to make me feel better. No matter how bad it gets in my little world, I can be pretty sure that B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, or Stevie Ray Vaughn has seen worse. Sometimes, it just feels good to vocalize all those bad feelings.Bad things...
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Fearful
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I'm 30 years old and here I am again... Same story since I was 12... Hungover, shaking & embarrassed as all hell. The guilt & shame seems unbearable. I haven't worked a program since I was 18. I don't want to live like this forever. I feel so alone. But most of all... There is this fear. Fear of Fail...
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Today's Gift - 11/28
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. --Mother TeresaOur spiritual nature must be nurtured. Prayer and meditation lovingly kindle the flame that guides us from within. Because we're human, we often let the flame flicker and perhaps go out. And then we sense the dreaded aloneness....
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7 days...
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Without a cigarette! Next month is my 56th birthday, my 25th sober anniversary, and the holidays... what better gift could I give myself than stop smoking which has been reducing my quality of life for the past few years? Keep me in your prayers as this is so very important I do at this time. Just 7 day...
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Happy Thanksgiving To All
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To all the regulars, to all the infrequent posters, to all the visitors, to all the missing, to all who have left freely, to all who have been booted, to all the newcomers, to all the oldtimers, to all the gurus, to all the neophytes, to all to those who have drifted away from recovery, to those across the U...
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Welcome Dobby
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Welcome to MIP Dobby from 'down under' ... glad to have you with us ...
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Need a Laugh ???
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Okay, ... home alone sickish ... can't give this crap to my son ... sooooo ... my mind is up to no good, LOL ... have a chuckle on me!!! ... -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:36:04 PM
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The Silent Meeting
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THE SILENT MEETINGA member of a certain AA group, who previously had been attending meetings regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, another group member decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening.. The group member found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guess...
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Coffee, it's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
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Caffeine Is My ShepherdCaffeine is my shepherd; With it besides me, I shall not doze.It maketh me to wake in green pastures:It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.It restoreth my buzz:It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shado...
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Morn'n Coffee - (Humor)
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Checking in and struggling!!!
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Have not checked in in a while and thought I would do so. Complete honesty here........I have had a couple of relapses over the last year and am really struggling with what to do about things. I am still maintaining contact with my sponsors on a daily basis, attending meetings, keeping a job, but I am sic...
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Today's Gift - 11/2
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The Wolf and the CraneA wolf had been eating when a bone became stuck in his throat. Soon, the pain became excruciating. He rushed to a pond, thinking water would loosen the bone. But he could not swallow. Frantic, he looked around and saw a crane watching him. "I would give anything," he ras...
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Grapevine
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November 26 "If we expend even five percent of the time on Step Eleven that we habitually (and rightly) lavish on Step Twelve, the results can be wonderfully far-reaching."
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If You're Struggling with the Belief in a Higher Power, Maybe This Can Help!
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I'm going to be brave and go out on the limb here. I am NOT an old timer. I am no religious expert, nor even religious at all. But, the miracles I have received from learning how to incorporate having a Higher Power/God in my life, as a result of learning the steps from my sponsor, I wanted to share these br...
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Sunrise Quote
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There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. ~ Ralph H. Blum -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Thursday 27th of November 2014 08:39:26 AM
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Sunrise Quote
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.~ Peter F. Drucker
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Today's Gift - 11/27
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Count Your Blessings Count your many blessings, name them one by one, Count your many blessings, see what God has done! --from Count Your Blessings by Johnson Oatman Jr.
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Today's Gift - 11/26
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You start preparing when you're thirty for the person you'll be at eighty. --Janice ClarkWe can't get away from ourselves, at least not entirely. Who we were at ten and twenty and forty and fifty remain as threads in our tapestries. Many of us shudder because some details of our personal panorama were...
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Today's Gift - 11/25
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(For those of you who like these, sorry, I been very ill ... trying to get back on my feet!) I always have two lists: things I'm happy about and things I'm not. It's my choice which list I focus on. --Anne ArthurWhy do we all too eagerly see the glass as half empty rather than as half full? It need not be a habi...
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I treat the World
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Through the steps of AA and progress toward that "Psychic Change", I must always remember and practice something I have found very important. That is, I must look at the world as if I treat the world a certain way vs the way the world treats me. This is the difference between serenity and an...
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November 25 "Good public relations are AA lifelines reaching out to the alcoholic who still does not know us."
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Betterthanyesterday52 are you there? Are you out doing more research?
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You can come back anytime you know. I've done it lots :) Thinking of you and wishing you well.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 24, 2014Quote of the Week"Develop an 'Attitude of Gratitude'." I have a secret weapon in my recovery tool bag - the Gratitude List. Oh I know, you've heard all about gratitude lists, but when was the last time you made one? Whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed, stressed or in fear,...
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November 24 "In this moment, regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"
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Sunrise Quote - 11/24
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Tell a person they are brave, and you help them become so.~ Thomas Carlyle
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Today's Gift - 11/24
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. --Oscar WildeThe mature person eventually forgives his parents. Any adult can look back and see childhood wrongs and unfairness. Many of us were disappointed by our parents, even neglected or...
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Today's Gift - 11/23
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There is no total answer.Studying and reading are traditional methods of spiritual growth. With a lifelong routine of study each day, a person or couple grows under the guidance of the sages. Civilization exists because each generation builds upon the progress of the past. We do not have to reinven...
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YooHoo Tipsy..Where did you go, another long vacation ??????
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Hi There,
Just wondering how you are doing.
Let us know, okey dokey, you are MISSED !!
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Today's Gift - 11/22
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The program has given me the best days I've ever had. But thinking about all that lost time can still bring me down. --Jane S.Telling the difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow may be easy for most people, but it isn't for many of us. Our past tends to overshadow both the present and the fut...
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Why AA's 12 Steps Worked For Me But Sometimes Not for Others
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Why AA's Twelve Step Program Worked For MeBut Sometimes Not for Others I learned the hard way that suppressed, unhealed pain and fear is the underlying cause of addictive behaviors (drinking or drugging, overeating, over-working, over-shopping, gambling, habitually seeking sex/love rela...
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Spiritual Lessons that I Remind Myself Today
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KARMA is unlearned lessons... The lessons have to be learned in a calm spirit. PATIENCE really means confidence in God My Sobriety is contingent on my spiritual well being just for today
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Grapevine
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November 21 "'Historians may one day point to Alcoholics Anonymous as a society which did far more than achieve a considerable measure of success with alcoholism and its stigma; they may recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instr...
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Today's Gift - 11/21
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Love involves a willingness to suffer and to be inconvenienced. --Lewis F. PresnallThe act of loving another broadens our understanding of the human condition and often pinches our egos. Indeed, one of the greatest gifts, though not necessarily cherished, which is granted through loving anothe...
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Grapevine
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November 20 "I don't know the music, but there is sound -- sometimes rushing and furious, sometimes gentle and caressing. But always there's the sound of a master pianist at play, conducting some mad orchestra of life. I don't know what or why or how, but I know I'm here. And the best I can do is to fi...
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