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Sober Quote for the Day
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I kept waiting for something bigger, something more profound, something that I could hitch myself to and be carried away once and for all to the heaven-on-earth that I deserved. I kept struggling for control, which was really a demand for everything I wanted--peace, happiness, love, perfection--...
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Self Pity
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The Doors To An AA Meeting
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I remember someone knocking on our door years ago. It was a man who my dad used to refer to as "one of the town drunks". I remember him being very loud and obnoxious and my dad's voice steadily growing from calm to angry. Then I heard a door slam and the man was left staring at a closed door. My dad c...
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Grapevine
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March 20 "If you haven't been to a meeting for a while, come, and add to the mix ... we need you. Come for yourself, come for the Fellowship, come to celebrate sobriety, and come for the alcoholic who still suffers."
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Today's Gift - 3/20
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Communicating...armed to deal with whatever comesOne couple never told each other anything negative if they could avoid it. They always protected each other from bad news. Their neighbors, however, were not that careful about what they said. They had a positive attitude but they believed that re...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/19
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The will to win the will to achieve goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.Vince Lombardi
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Attitude
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New Road
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I am new to this group and the road to sobriety in general-this is day 1. I have been trying on my own and have failed so I am starting to reach out. I am not ready to go to a local meeting yet. I am a 37 year old single mom of 3 wonderful children. I have been in a serious relationship with a great man for the pa...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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Sunrise Quote - 3/18
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Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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Sobriety Quote for the Day
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"Sober up and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before." Sammy Davis, Jr. BTY
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The IDEA!!
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"Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol--cunning, baffling, powerful!" Pg 58 AA book. "The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of...
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Today's Gift - 3/19 (this one made me think of BTY)
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Moving Forward Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to change as well. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to grow, even thou...
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Grapevine
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March 19 "New people are the lifeblood of AA. I am eternally grateful to them. By extension I am, therefore, grateful to Tradition Three for making it possible for all who want what we have to come to AA."
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Grapevine
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March 18 "Pain is one of our greatest teachers. Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can, if I try hard, give thanks for present pain nevertheless."
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To Tell Or Not To Tell
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I have been dating a wonderful man for almost 10 months. He knows that, when I drink, I drink too much and can't remember anything. He also knows that I make poor decisions when I drink and wants me to stop. The thing that he does not know is that I cannot stop alone and that I went to my first AA meeting tod...
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Today's Gift - 3/18
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I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me. --Frances Newton Fear of the unknown, often referred to as free-floating anxiety, catches up to us on occasion. But it needn't. The program offers us strength whenever we need it, and faith diminishes all fear. It is said that fear canno...
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It's Snowing Here Again! What a Crazzzzy March!
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We got a mixture of sleet and rain last night. Went out to take a smoke break a bit ago, and the snow was pouring down. I have never seen snowflakes this big! They are almost like "clusters" of many snowflakes mixed together with some being 2" or more long! I tried to catch one to take a pict...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here are a Couple of Funnies for You!
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(I am finding adding a couple of jokes to my day helps me not take myself so seriously and get as blahhhh as I sometimes do! I hope everyone has a great, safe and sober St. Patrick's Day!) BTYMums Meagan and Caitlin were bragging about their Irish sons accomplishments.Meagan says, My son Franci...
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RARELY HAVE we seen a person fail...
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"RARELY HAVE we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfo...
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Well...Ill Be Damned!!
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Or...Almost Was!! 365 days ago..this morning? This Kid was in pretty rough shape... Had 2 king cans of beer to keep the body from vibrating..and poured the other 4 down the drain... Went into my first AA meeting in over 6 years...Knew everyone there...and the weird part about it? They didn't recogniz...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/17
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No road is long with good company.Turkish Proverb
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Today's Gift - 3/17
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Our teachers surround us.When we were young, our parents and siblings served as our teachers, but they weren't always good ones. We may have learned habits that haunt us still. Shame and guilt may still trouble us because of the messages our parents and siblings gave us. We can't undo the past teachin...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"At 62 I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect." Ted Nugent (Sounds like sobriety is nature's Viagra for hair.) BTY
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 17, 2014Quote of the WeekThere are some days when I say, "What program?" "God who?" Last week my business website was hacked, my site was taken down, and my account was suspended. For hours, while I lost revenue and customers, I pleaded, begged and threatened my hosti...
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Grapevine
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March 17 "Surrender has nothing to do with giving up. It means to stop fighting."
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A Sober St. Patrick's Day
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Although this online article is from 2012, I came across it and loved it and wanted to share. I think it certainly bears repeating and it gives me a special kind of feeling inside knowing that someone did something to ensure that this holiday, which has been made into a drunk fest, be celebrated in a sobe...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there. Bucky Sinister BTY
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sound familiar
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Found this on a friends fb post . I don't know if he is 'one of us'
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseTo the One who remembered us in our low estate His love endures forever. and freed us from our enemies, His love endures forever. Psalm 136:23-24Weekly QuoteEach of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journe...
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The Boards Kind of Slow Today........Hey Pappy, I'm Watching a Lassie Movie
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Pappy posted a picture of Timmy and Lassie on another posting. I haven't come across any Lassie shows in ages, and just now found one on Turner Classic Movies. "Hills of Home", 1948 with Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Janet Leigh (Gone With the Wind). I didn't realize Lassie was that old. :lau...
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Today's Gift - 3/16
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. --George Bernard ShawIn order to get well, we have to admit that we alone are powerless over our disease. We need other people to help us. This is hard for us to do. We aren't used to needing anyone or asking for help. We all pushed people away....
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Sunrise Quote - 3/16
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Choice not chance, determines human destiny.Robert W. Ellis
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Today's Gift - 3/14
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Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth. --Francoise Giroud Sometimes we think we need to try and be something we're not. Maybe we feel pressure from friends to behave or dress like someone else. All we need to do is remember when we were younger and dressed in our parents' clothes and shoe...
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Some Saturday Funnies For You
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Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them, would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure? When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs? What was the best thing before sliced bread? When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away? Why...
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Big Changes
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I caught a bad vibe at work. The owner fired his next 2 high up executives. Then I noticed program size dwindling. All along there have been some company culture issues I didn't like. Mainly that we beg people to stay in treatment when they are toxic for the environment and if they don't want recover...
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill ("Keep coming back." If you stop drinking and weaken don't look at yourself as having failed and let that thought keep you from getting sober again, please. I did that out of em...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/15
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better be alone than in bad company.Booker T. Washington
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Today's Gift - 3/15
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I believe that everyone needs a mentor.--Harry BartholomewWe have all had mentors - many of them, in fact. We might not have labeled them as such, but throughout our lives we have been picking up ideas and mannerisms from many people. From some, we sought to learn specific skills, perhaps on the job or...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/14
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Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.George Adams
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Sober Quote for the Day on a Different Note
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"You, Mr Churchill, are drunk." "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." (I heard this quotation years ago. I came across it this a.m. and read about Winston Churchill and his drinking. It sounds like he was such a heavy drinker, he probably never real...
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A piece of plastic made me feel bad this morning
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(....and it is not a charge card either...I don't own any of those anymore because of how "bad" and broke they made me feel.) I shared about my cleaning up around here and getting rid of the shot glasses only to find one that I had boxed up to get out of here back in the cabinets. I took it out of the...
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Sigh...................
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God help me and save me. I am done.
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Grapevine
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March 14 "My heart sings with each new day."
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Stay Stong Because Recovery is Possible" (unknown) (I had given up on myself and I didn't think I would ever stop drinking. I feel so much stronger and happier now that I don't drink. It is possible.) BTY
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Today's Gift - 3/13
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The most important thing we are doing right now is thinking nice thoughts. --Jim and Marie Burns Just thinking nice thoughts sounds so simplistic, doesn't it! Surely there is more in life to contemplate than that. But the power of nice thoughts, the impact just such a simple decision can have on our li...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/13
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The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.Hudson Taylor
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Who are we?
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Dealing With Negative People???
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Subject: Dealing with Negatives This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade. So remember this story the next time . A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband.. She mentioned the trip to...
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Resentment for the Day
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Just wanted to get this off my chest... Was having a rough day yesterday....turned out all is well with Mom and what Pappy and others say about worrying and worrying about things that never happened is true especially in my case. Went out on the back porch to smoke my cig and looked down and there was shee...
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