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Spiritual Things I remind Myself Today
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An Act is the blossom of thought....Joy and suffering are its fruits If one endure in purity of thought .....joy The mind.... either cultivate or neglect.. I'm also reminded of the ingrown person...a product of fear....24 hr book Nov 5th. "That certainly is not God's Will for me "My sob...
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Resistance has proven futile
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I am 31 years old and am finally ready to surrender. I'm not entirely sure where to begin. I have not lost everything as a result of my drinking yet, but I have lost enough to finally realize that all of it has a root in my drinking behaviors. I have had a huge internal struggle with spirituality and the c...
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Pen pals
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Hello I am new to this.... I am wondering if anybody would be interested in having a sober pen pal. Alexandraholland1987@hotmail.com
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Grapevine
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November 5 "Growing pains are never to be feared, provided I am willing to learn the truth about myself from them."
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Sobriety Coin Question for Friend's Anniversary/Birthday
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Hi, a friend of mine is approaching her 5 year sobriety anniversary, and I'm making a display box for her sobriety coins. However, as the coins I ordered have not yet arrived, I can't finish the display. I'm wondering if someone here can give me the dimensions of these coins in inches and/or mm. From wha...
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Today's Gift - 11/4
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Enjoying realityCloud Nine does not compare to the joys and beauty of a clean life. In fact, Cloud Nine is opposed to our new way of life. It's a fantasy, a trip, a high - like that first drink, fix, or pill.Now we are dealing with reality - a real and beautiful place instead of a fanciful dream. Each day can...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 3, 2014Quote of the Week"The difference between my will and God's will is that my will starts out easy and gets hard, and God's will starts out hard and gets easy." A perfect example of this quote is the program itself. My will told me it was much easier to keep using and doing what...
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Grapevine
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November 3 "No self-pity, no anger, no jealousy, no hate. What had this program done to me?"
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Sunrise Quote - 11/3
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All glory comes from daring to begin.~ Eugene F. Ware
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Today's Gift - 11/3
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All things pass... Patience attains all that it strives for. -- St. Teresa of AvilaSome days, it seems like our struggles will never end. The pain, the loss, the heartaches, the failures we can recount them all. Where is the strength to go on?What if we began our day by acknowledging that all things pas...
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Starting fresh
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I had a year sober last year and then had a glass of wine at a family gathering. I despise wine, so the resulting headache made me realize that I can;t drink wine. But, because "I" had been so good for over a year, I decided I could have a beer or 2 occasionally and "I" could stay in co...
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Sunrise Quote - 11/2
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.~ Sir James M. Barrie
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Spiritual Things i remind myself today
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature and your life. This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow, When looking back on your life you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failure followed by wreckage were the incidents...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly Quote The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress. Billy Graham Weekly Thought Its not that hard to take a wrong turn in life. Doing the wrong thing, if were honest, has an allure. Its called temptation. When we look around, its common to spot someone who has gone astrayw...
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argumentative vs guilt
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At a meeting the other day, the topic was how we have improved in AA. It was kind of a gratitude subject and I truly enjoyed it. Of course I over analyze everything, and I begin to think, OK, the pink cloud has passed, how have I not improved in AA? What comes to mind is the feeling of guilt I get from the progra...
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Sunrise Quote 11/1
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.~ Ernest Hemingway
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Today's Gift - 11/1
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Defining good in my life is up to me. We've heard, "Life is as good as we make it," but this sounds far too simplistic. We look at friends, family, and co-workers and often see much unhappiness. If it's up to us to make life good, why do so few take advantage of the opportunity? It's not that we do...
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Today's Gift - 10/31
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It's good for your heart."I know I've got some emotions up, just brewing right beneath the surface," Jake said one day. "I'm edgy, irritable, and definitely not centered. But I don't want to look. I don't want to go into the emotions. I don't like feelings. Whenever I give into them, I...
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Grapevine
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October 31 "How life looks to me depends on how I look at it. While this sounds simple, just like everything else in Alcoholics Anonymous, it requires continual practice in order to get good at it. I get better at it as each year passes. I am grateful that Alcoholics Anonymous is teaching me how to...
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Kissing a person who's just had a drink when you're a recovering alcoholic?
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Hi there guys, so I'm not actually an alcoholic myself, but I hope it's still ok for me to post here and that my question isn't completely inappropriate or ignorant, but I'm really curious. I just watched an episode of a TV series about a recovering alcoholic (sober some 6 months) and she kissed a guy who...
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Grapevine
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October 30 "Thelma told me that, no matter how much I feared making bad decisions, I could not learn how to make good decisions except by making decisions. 'You'll make mistakes,' she said, 'We all do. You will make some bad decisions before you learn how to make good ones. But what is true about...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/30
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.~ John Updike
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Today's Gift - 10/30
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You really need to take care of yourself because you won't be good for anyone else unless you take care of yourself. -- Harry BartholomewDo we merely assume we are taking good care of ourselves? It's perhaps a good idea to list all the ways we think this is true. Do we get enough exercise? What is enough, a...
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Today's Gift - 10/29
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. --Hada Bejar Nothing is more attractive than sharing with others. No trait will be admired as much as generosity. There is no surer way to gain the respect of friends and neighbors than to show by what we give that we care about others.We can giv...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/29
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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too young
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Hello, I'm reaching out in hope that I can find some support. I'm a 25 year old alcoholic riddled with mental health issues. It's become exceedingly tough for me to abstain from drinking (it feels like I need it to get by). I've been to a few AA meetings but it seems that my addiction is more serious than I t...
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Grapevine
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October 29 "We now know that we shall always practice these principles: first because we must, then because we ought to, and finally because the majority of us will deeply want to do just that."
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Grapevine
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October 28 "I don't foresee outgrowing my need for help."
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Sunrise Quote - 10/28
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.~ Helen Keller
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Today's Gift - 10/28
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Reflection for the Day So many of us suffer from despair. Yet we don't realize that despair is purely the absence of faith. As long as we're willing to turn to God for help in our difficulties, we cannot despair. When we're troubled and can't see a way out, it's only because we imagine that all solutions d...
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Don't Feel Old??? - Watch This!!!
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An AA bother from years ago sent this to me from Florida ... we were in the same 'home group' for years, in Georgia ... If you can identify or relate to more than 3 or four of the items in this video clip, then you're just plain 'old', ... LOL ... http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu -- Edited by Pythonpap...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 27, 2014Quote of the Week"God can't give you anything new until you let go of the old." I hate change. For some reason I'm convinced that things will get worse if they change, and even if things aren't so good now I'd rather they stay the same rather than risk a change. When I came into...
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Today's Gift - 10/27
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Satchel PaigeWhen children are tired they make their feelings very clear. They just sit down and start to cry. As adults, we may sometimes feel like...
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Fortunate for resourses...
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Aloha No MIP Ohana...Hello MIP Family. I was inspired this morning before going to work by the awesome spiritual input which comes from those who came before us and the fortune to now have their words in print so I can hear them again with my eyes. How much of a AA literature library do you have. How o...
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Alcoholism and mental health issues
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I have been trying for three years to have a pamphlet or other AA literature that would give hope to the alcoholic who also has mental illness. There is a story in a few AA publications about Bill W's having overcome his depression. The two Emotional Sobriety books contain the story as well as The Best o...
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Hey
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Hey, My name is Joe. I'd like to stop drinking. I've been doing it for awhile and can't seem to quite completely. I can quit for a couple of days but it seems like I always seem to drink. Guess I'm looking for support.
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Sunrise Quote - 10/26
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin
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Today's Gift - 10/26
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Anger helps straighten out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers. --Susan MarcotteSome of us have temper tantrums. Like black clouds, we threaten an outburst at any moment. Other people learn to check us out for storm warnings. They want time to clear out or at least to put on a prote...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/25
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I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.~ Jimmy Dean
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Today's Gift - 10/25
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I never realized how often I used the words "just" and "only." --Mary Pat K.Adult children [of alcoholics] often live within a framework of shame. One symptom of this is we minimize our achievements, feelings, needs, or opinions. Behind that is our feeling that we aren't and c...
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Welcome 'puggyb'
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Welcome to MIP puggyb, ... ... ... Glad to have an 'old timer' around ... check'n us out ... please share some of your ESH with us ,,, Love ya and God Bless, Pappy
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PHOTOS from Ecuador trip!
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Hi all, As promised, here are a few photos from my recent trip through the Andes in Ecuador. I started in Quito and then traveled south by bus and train, visiting several small towns along the way, and eventually ended up in Cuenca. Then a short flight to return to Quito for a couple of days before returni...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/24
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.~ Arthur Rubenstein
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Grapevine
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October 24 "Through the years, I have read thousands of books and pamphlets, but the Big Book is still the superstar. The love flowing from its pages encourages me to keep the blade of my sobriety ever sharp and gleaming, to cut through all the ignorance and terror that surround still-sufferi...
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Today's Gift - 10/24
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. --Margaret FullerWe can see the potential for growth in friends we love, a reality that often lies hidden to them. Through our encouragement and our commitment to them, we can help them tackle the barriers to success...
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Liverpool Meetings List
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If anyone would like an up to date list of meetings in my home town of Liverpool, U.K. please feel free to pm me with your email address & I shall pop one over to you asap, Danielle x
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Welcome to MIP John B
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Welcome to MIP John from East Sussex .. glad to have you! ...
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Grapevine
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October 23 "One old-timer explained it this way to me: 'Don't let your mind rattle on at meetings. Then all you'll hear from someone else is something that gets you thinking about what you have to say. Listen to everything the person talking has to say, as if your life depended on it -- because it...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/23
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.~ Zig Ziglar
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Today's Gift - 10/23
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ClarityI know better than to not trust God. But sometimes, I forget that.When we are in the midst of an experience, it is easy to forget that there is a Plan. Sometimes, all we can see is today.If we were to watch a weaver sewing a tapestry for only a few moments, and focused on only a small piece of the work,...
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