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Daily Reflections 8/14/14
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I have to start posting these again. My homegroup reads from this every morning. This being the eighth month....They talk about step eight. REPAIRING THE DAMAGE We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven't th...
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a bit of Gratitude
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don't need to say much on this one. It speaks for itself.
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The Me, Me, Me in Social Media
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I have long been a big user of social media. I signed up for Facebook when it debuted in 2005 and have been using it pretty much ever since. I have Instagram, Twitter, and used to stay in touch with friends almost exclusively through AOL Instant Messenger. In a strange change of pace, I haven't been using...
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Grapevine
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August 14 "Let all of us AAs, whether we be trustees, editors, secretaries, janitors, or cooks -- or just members -- ever recall the unimportance of wealth and authority as compared with the vast import of our brotherhood, love, and service."
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Robin Williams
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RIP dearest friend of Bill W.
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Sunrise Quote - 8/13
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View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it. ~ Denis Waitley
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Grapevine
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August 12 "Our sobriety should be founded on 'unselfish selfishness' ... It's not sound, we have been told, to try to stay dry for the sake of a wife or a sweetheart or someone else dear to us."
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Grapevine
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August 11 "The question arises of just what constitutes an amend. Many of us find that the old rationalization, 'If I stay sober, that's amends enough to those I have hurt,' just doesn't work. We have to be willing to go further."
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pity potty
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I think I've seen this one on here b4 . Just a reminder Yep , must b time to Get Off th Pity Potty
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Today's Gift - 8/11
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We honor the spirit in other people when we listen to them.God's messages surround us. The 24 hours before us are special, never to be repeated. The people we share the day with carry our lessons within their words and actions. Let's be vigilant in our attempts to listen. We have so much to learn, and tha...
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Grapevine
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August 13 "If we fail to 'repair,' we can only impair."
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Sunrise Quote
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.~ Vernon Howard
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Moving on
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Well it's been a busy last week and weekend. Worked extra hours to recooperate the money I put down on apt. Moved into the new apt. Saturday. Spent All day Sunday unpacking and picking up odds and ends. The only think left is the dishes. Wife #1 is giving me some silver ware. Got to several meetings also. I...
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Today's Gift
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God creates. People rearrange. --Joseph CaseyBeing alive is our invitation to act in fresh, inventive ways. All it takes is concentrating on our inner vision in combination with external reality. The components for accomplishing any task are at our fingertips, awaiting discovery. Our burdens a...
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Time flys
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At this time 0630 east coast Aussie time . 28 yrs ago I was driving myself to work . At 0645 I made th decision to go back to th psych hospital & get help . BUT this time I was going to stay there until I was well . At 0700 I made THE Biggest decision in my life . To stop drinking & give AA a try . My Friends Tha...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/11
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.~ Henry David Thoreau
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Today's Gift - 8/10
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ChangingThe old saying is true: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. It's the same with addiction and recovery. People can take away our drugs and put us in treatment, but no one can make us clean and sober. When it hurts enough, when we're scared enough, when we're sick and tired enou...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 11, 2014Quote of the Week"Instead of telling God how big your fears are, start telling your fears how big your God is." Before recovery, we were driven by a hundred forms of self-centered fear. During steps 6 and 7, we began to release some of these character defects, but some hab...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/9
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.~ Albert Schweitzer
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How anonymous to be?
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I've been going to meetings almost fervently for the past three weeks and really making an effort to get to know people in a way I haven't before. I've been going early and introducing myself to people, and am now being greeted by name and recognized on a regular basis. And I love it. The one issue that I'm...
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Finding a God who likes you
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One of the issues I have faced throughout my life, and am facing now in early sobriety, is thinking of God in a way that does not depict him as frightening and vindictive. I *know* that this image of God is residual from my childhood and is ultimately offensive - God has heaped blessings on me all my life, a...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/10
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No one has ever become poor by giving.~ Anne Frank
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Today's Gift - 8/9
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All experience is an arch to build on. -- Henry Brooks AdamsWe can learn something from any experience, even one that is painful. In fact, we often learn more from painful experiences than from pleasant ones. When we say or do something foolish or hurtful that causes us embarrassment or guilt, pain gi...
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I took all of your guys adivce!
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Hey man, i went to the friday night with friends meetting out in Mission. Man those guys welcomed me greatly and even got me a sponsor, bill. i told bill everythng i told you folks. not like you guys he did not blink, had the same deals as me. hes has me reading the book, doing it right now. hes doin good, sobe...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/6
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Isnt it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?~ L. M. Montgomery
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Fear
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Sometimes it feels to me like my brain, as an alcoholic, is wired to be a total sonofabitch. When I am not immersed in AA meetings or generally distracted by something, my brain seems to get off on driving me nuts. I worry, I fear, and I dwell on worst case scenarios. Thank God AA exists, because it serves a...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/7
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly?~ Stephen R. Covey
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Today's Gift - 8/8
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Loving others begins with respect. So many books have been written on how to love that many of us assume we don't know how and maybe will never learn. We can simplify the process, however, by focusing on the Golden Rule. For starters, we can treat others as respectfully as we'd like to be treated. Peopl...
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4th step
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I just finished my fourth step. I agonized for a month about doing it. I must say once I got it on paper it wasn't so bad. It was easy for me to identify my fears and resentments. Step five will be hard for me. I'm done things in my life I'm not proud of. I swore to myself I would never speak of any of it to anyone....
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Sunrise Quote - 8/5
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is not the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.~ Herman Cain
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Supporting girlfriend in recovery
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Hello, I have been dating a girl for 1 year and half that is alcoholic . We recently broke up. She told me when we first started dating about her issue with alcohol. I asked if she could handle the social situation with friends that were social drinkers, she said yes. So I trusted her. Well I have never date...
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Grapevine
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August 7 "The ideal of AA, however short we may be of it personally, is a thing of beauty and perfection. It is a Power greater than ourselves which has lifted us out of the quicksand and set us safe on shore."
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Today's Gift - 8/7
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. --Vicki BaumWe must move forward with confidence, trusting that the strength we need will be given us, having faith in our visions to guide us. Problems need not daunt us. Rather, they can spur us on to more creative activity. They challenge...
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Baffling.
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I went to a meeting today...And as usual....Nobody was busting out with a topic. So I brought up....The book. Let's talk about the Big Book. I asked with a show of hands....How may people have read it? Would you believe 6 out of the 24 people there had even read it?I mean if you open the book to the forewar...
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Newbie
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I'm an alcoholic.. a Bad one, I don't hurt the people I meat, but I blow hundreds of dollars a month, and I make the family I have sad, I hate this.
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Today's Gift - 8/6
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. --Mark TwainThunder demands our attention. From the ear-splitting boom overhead to the faint rumble in the distance, it is an impressive part of nature. Yet, it is the lightning that discharges electricity from one...
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Grapevine
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August 6 "Each night I pray that when the alarm clock goes off in the morning, I'll have a spiritual awakening."
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Kind of a rough weekend.
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I've been struggling a lot with my resentments for my ex, and my resentments for myself regarding that relationship. Also a lot of fear around what/who the future will bring. I have this thought that I'm not a whole person if I'm not in a relationship. That there's something wrong with me. I've been vis...
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HP has got my back!
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Well anyone who knows me it's been a tough 3 months. Avoiding jail twice, a divorce, and uprooted to my brothers house. I've been looking for a place to live for the past couple of weeks and my brother has been on my ass to move. I suspect more like his wife maybe in the shadows. It came to the point I felt unwe...
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Today's Gift - 8/5
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When they take your smile away they might just as well shoot you. --Violet HensleyViolet is one big smile. And it's not the result of having an easy life. On the contrary, she has worked doubly hard all her life to support her family. However, she has a joyful attitude, and it has made the difference in he...
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If I am explaining something, If I am defending something - I am wrong
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Before time, I shared that there is one person, who I miss really much and who helped me a lot with recovery (alcoholic, too). In time he stopped writing me and I was really not okay with this, but I had to accept that there is time, when people came in my life and after that they can disappear and sometime...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 4, 2014Quote of the Week"Our neighbor's window looks much cleaner if we first wash our own." Now that it's hot again, I've begun sleeping with the windows open to let some of the cooler evening air in. My neighbor must have the same idea because her window is open as well, and the sou...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/4
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.~ Winston Churchill
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Today's Gift - 8/4
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. --Bernard BaruchIt's usually very difficult for us to bring balance into our lives. We may find it hard not to put in overtime at work. We may be obsessed about housework or yard work to the extent that we work long hours at it. Whatever we do, whatever we...
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Grapevine
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August 5 "What has happened in the past is just that -- the past! What I should have done about certain issues no longer matters. What I do now is of greatest concern."
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Grapevine
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August 4 "I am grateful to AA that I have learned some humility, so when offered help, I can now say, 'Yes, I can use your assistance.'"
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choices- take the positive ones or negative ones?
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as some of ya's know, I was diagnosed stage 3 metastatic melanoma back in 2006, 13 months into recovery. I went through a lot foor the next 3 1/2 years9ish) fighting it and it even went stage 4. over the last few years its been nothing more than PET scans, Ct,scans, MRI's, and blood draws and was up to every...
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Today's Gift - 8/3
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The most important move is to begin.We begin weaving by stringing vertical threads on a loom to form the foundation of a new cloth. Then horizontal threads are interlaced back and forth, and we create a fabric. As the cloth begins to form, new possibilities open before us. After we weave in the first co...
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Uniquely Genuine
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Deep down, the things we all really want most are love and acceptance. Thats it. Strangely, its practically universal. We want others to care about our existence. We want people to think: Hey, theyre not so bad. To gain this love and acceptance, we all want to be unique. After all, we think, if someone j...
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Step 8 & 9.
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"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through." The words, painstaking, development and amazed were words that caught my attention in early recovery. They spoke of growth. AA is all about growth and I realised that if I sincere...
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