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Today's Gift - 7/20
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Trying to pray is praying. --Anonymous"Oh, God, help me! If you get me out of this mess, I'll never screw up again." This was our favorite prayer before we entered the Program. We were always bargaining with God. We have learned new prayers and a new way to talk and listen to our Higher Power....
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Today's Gift - 7/19
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Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.--Hugh PratherThe familiarity of isolation is both haunting and inviting. In our separateness we contemplate the joys of shared hours with others w...
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Sunrise Quote - 7/19
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.~ Zig Ziglar
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A free man
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Well had one last criminal court date today and avoided jail once again thanks be to God. Now with the divorce also final I can get on with the next journey in my life and start looking for a apartment. Also was fearless today and had courage from my HP he had really been watching over me anyone who knows me h...
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How to discover your Higher Power
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1) Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the middle, top to bottom. 2) On the left side list all you were taught, or all you believe what God is.... If you have no idea, then write down the word "Nothing." 3) On the right side list what you want God to be for you, (best friend, loving. trus...
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Just wanted to check in...
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Today marks 41 days sober. :) I've noticed the last couple of days I've been having thoughts about drinking. It's like I get a bit of happiness in my life..... and then its as if I have a self-destruct switch that I want to flip.But I'm talking about it and being honest. I went to a women's step study last ni...
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Sunrise Quote - 7/18
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When you were made a leader you werent given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.~ Jack Welch
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Sunrise Quote - 7/17
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Whether you think you can, or you think you cant, youre right.~ Henry Ford
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Today's Gift - 7/18
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How will you dream if you don't sleep? How will you hear yourself? --Michael DorrisSleep is a wonderful gift in our lives. For eight hours, we rest our bodies. We let the thoughts, feelings, and events of our lives tumble through our sleeping minds as they sort themselves through our dreams. But dream...
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Today's Gift - 7/17
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Reflection for the DayWhen I came to The Program, I found people who knew exactly what I meant when I spoke finally of my fears. They had been where I had been; they understood. I've since learned that many of my fears have to do with projection. It's normal, for example, to have a tiny "back-burner...
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Grapevine
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July 18 "Isn't a donation of my time and services just as important as my donation of cash? What if my home group had money for coffee, rent, and literature, but no one to open the meeting room and make the coffee?"
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Grapevine
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July 17 "Self-centeredness is a poison to my emotional system. It frustrates my every effort toward a comfortable and happy existence. A terrible chain reaction begins. Fear sets in. Anger, resentment, and self-pity become my guiding forces. My only escape is to put this awful selfishnes...
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a bit familiar
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well almost look for th similarities
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Are you feeling completely hopeless right now? Like alcohol has got you beat?
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I see a lot of "guests" on this site. A lot more so than members. If you are reading this and that's how you feel...Why not register and talk about it with some people that have been where you are...And found a way out. What's it going to cost you?.....It could cost you a lot more than you think.
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July 16 "Mere change is not necessarily progress."
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Today's Gift - 7/16
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No tap dancing around problems Our program calls for a "searching and fearless" moral inventory, not only in the beginning, but as we continue to follow our new way of life.What this means is complete honesty about who and what we really are. We should not tap dance around our problems in or...
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Today's Gift - 7/15
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Somebody's boring me - I think it's me. --Dylan Thomas Sobriety and recovery are supposed to be fun. Otherwise no one would do it. If we're bored or stagnant, it's because we're not doing recovery right.Recovery is a wonderful adventure filled with new faces, growth, love, acceptance, laughs, peac...
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Had to fire a sponcer.
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So my sponcer told a guy I had a week long crush on about it. the crush had long been over which makes it even worse. The guy face booked me a hello message the night she told him. I just ignored it And sent a smiley face back. The reason I fired het was because she flipped out that i told her a half hour before th...
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Today's Gift - 7/14
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Life has lessons to teach. We can remember them and share them with others, or we can forget them and have to learn them again.--Jan PishokWhat we are destined to learn in this life will keep presenting itself until "contact" has been made. Each experience is a minute part of the big picture...
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Grapevine
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July 15 "We cannot grow very much unless we constantly try to envision what the eternal spiritual values are."
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Grapevine
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July 14 "By our Twelve Steps we have recovered, by our Twelve Traditions we have unified, and through our Third Legacy -- Service -- we shall carry the AA message down through the corridors of time to come."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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July 14, 2014Quote of the Week"There are only two times when you should go to a meeting - when you feel like going, and when you don't feel like going." It's hard living with a disease that tells me I don't have it. When I'm in between meetings and life is busy, it's easy for me to think of going...
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Today's Gift - 7/13
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They are able because they think they are able. --Virgil For most of us, addiction was full of doubt. We stopped believing in ourselves. Our thoughts had turned to "stinkin' thinkin'." We didn't believe in much of anything. We didn't take risks. We always looked for the easier, softer way...
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Today's Gift - 7/12
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Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread re-made all the time, made new. --Ursula K. Le Guin We love to be loved; we love to be held; we love to be caressed. A show of appreciation we love too. And we love to know we've been heard. The friends, the spouses, the children in our li...
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Sunrise Quote - 7/12
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You get the best efforts from others not by LIGHTING a fire beneath them, but by BUILDING a fire within?Bob Nelson
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Back from Campout and Visit to Dr. Bob's and other AA related sites in Akron
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Violet and I truly enjoyed our camp out, just south of Canton, which is only about 30 minutes from Akron. Our time spent visiting all the AA related historical sites was a great experience. Jim, Akron's intergroup archivists was the speaker at the meeting we happened to find, after going to three on t...
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Checking In
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I last posted here in September... but there's a lot missing from my recent fun. Fast forward catching up. Just before Halloween of 2012, my pulse started racing for no particular reason and nothing I did would bring it back down. Emergency room with atrial fibrillation. More meds, including bl...
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Just found this online today, sad...
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688239/Father-40-died-downing-litre-Jim-Beam-bourbon-having-bucket-ice-thrown-head-deadly-drinking-game.html
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Re: Pappy
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If anyone has his phone number and is willing to give him a call and insure that he is alright, I'd appreciate it. Been eight days since he's been logged in. I don't need to know details, but I would like to know he's okay.
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Three years ago today...
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I woke up in a detox bed in rehab.....Broken, beaten and hopeless. I was intoduced to AA in my few weeks there and I completely gave myself to this program. For the first time in many years of a battered life I had hope. One thing someone told me when I started....Which holds just as true today....as an...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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July 7, 2014Quote of the Week"We must learn from the mistakes of others because we won't live long enough to make them all ourselves." Before recovery, I was very judgmental. I especially liked pointing out other people's mistakes and making fun of how stupid they could be. When I made...
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Drunk off fake beer?
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I was a friends house they are muslim so they don't drink at all, he offered me a cold fake beer, it was muslim brand, I haven't had a beer in forever and it was a nice night, I've been sober now for about year or so now. The oddest thing was I had weird feeling of drunkess, noting major but the feeling your brai...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseCall to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3Weekly QuoteSurrender your mind to the Lord at the beginning of each day. Warren WiersbeWeekly ThoughtA Classic Devotional from Dr. Pardington Waiting upon God is necessary in or...
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Grapevine
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July 10 "My spiritual awakening has involved three major leaps: Save Me, Help Me, and Use Me."
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Sunrise Quote - 7/11
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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.Julia Child
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Grapevine
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July 9 "I saw that fear was a character defect, so I modified my Seventh Step Prayer. After 'remove every single defect of character,' I added, 'and every unreasonable fear.'"
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Today's Gift - 7/11
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --Antoine de St. ExuperyA tuning fork is a small tool that is used to tune musical instruments. It is tapped softly and then set down. As it vibrates, it gives off a musical tone. When its vibrations perfectly ma...
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Just for today
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JUST FOR TODAY Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for 12 hours that would appal me if I felt I had to keep it up for a lifetime. JUST FOR TODAY Just for today I will be happy. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to b...
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Incidentally...
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The staff at the hotel we stayed in for our wedding were great though the complained about this horrible couple staying next to us. They broke lots of stuff in the room and locked themselves out a few times. As we were laughing and just returning to our room after the reception, the couple comes down the...
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2 Years Already?
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Coming up on 2 years! July 31. Wow, time flies. Life is good. I have a few questions for the more experienced. I have been going to less meetings lately because I was really busy with work. Now I have the summer off and find I just don't wanna go. I feel good. I still don't connect with anyone but my spo...
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Change is worth it
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I'm new to this forum. Please to meet everyone of you. I was one of those person who thought whenever you're dealing with problem alcohol will be a good source of escape. Until it became an habit and drove me to misery. But I met someone who gave me hope to change and save my life. She's a caring, loving and s...
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Prayers
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Hi Everyone, Been awhile since I've 'spoke' on this site. Alcoholism as many of you know struck my life like lightning not once but four times very closely. Most recently, it robbed the mind, soul, and eventually the body, of the life of the man I'd vowed my love for years ago. The man I had ca...
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AA Poker Chips
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Hi everyone. I give out Poker Chips for early birthdays in sobriety at my home group. Some of the slogans I use are; If you have given up the fight u can pick up a white, if you are doing the things you are supposed to u will be seeing blue skies ahead and if you aren't you might see blue lights flashing behind y...
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30 days today!
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Something to be proud of. :) Met with my sponsor tonight a had a great chat and did a bit of step work.
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My sponsor died
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I lost my sponsor, Sue D., over the weekend while out of town. She had only recently gone into Hospice and I was fortunate enough to have visited her before i left. She had 29 years of sobriety. She died with grace and dignity, surrounded by people in the fellowship. She was referred to as the "D...
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My prayer for you.
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.To all my AA, Alanon, Alateen, AACA, NA, Naranon family, I say a special prayer for you. That you may be blessed by the Father of Heaven. That He keeps you safe and no harm come to you. That you remain in the fellowship of the brothers and not stray outside. That nothing will happen today that you and I cann...
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Today's meeting
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Well tonite was a tradition meeting on tradition 1. Heard a lot of ego tonite and self centeredness from two individuals who were fighting. Well they walked out of the meeting. I couldn't help think but for the grace of God there go I, some are sicker than others. I was very grateful for what I have today....
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The "we" of program
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I always think I'm "the exception" to the rule. I love that now that I'm in program, I get proven wrong every time I talk to another person in AA.
I was sharing my struggle with depression in sobriety with another member. She said she had gone through the exact same thing at the beginning of s...
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23 Days Sober
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I'm doing okay... My emotions seem to be evening out a little bit. I'm struggling with this 180 degree turn in my life though. I know it's going to be a learning process, bc right now I feel like I don't know who I am without alcohol. But let's be honest, I didn't really know who I was WITH alcohol, it was just...
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No opinions please!
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What AA literature contains the format on how a table is to be ran.
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