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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...
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"One Drink Killed Philip Seymour"
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That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.
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Been Watch'n Some Golf, ... ergo ... 50 Shades of Golf
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I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...
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Today's Gift
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To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...
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Sunrise Quote
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Knowledge is like climbing a mountain. The higher you reach the more you can see and appreciate.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Insanity - an alcoholic going into a bar for a drink . Daniel , Did NOT Go back into the lion's den to get his hat . Think , Think , Think We GET sober for Our drinking . We STAY sober for our Thinking.
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An honor
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My sponsor is a 71 year old single man with his only family really being an 82 year old brother that lives in Chicago. He asked me to be his health care surrogate after a meeting last night. This is not the kind of thing I think should prop my ego up, but I couldn't even be bothered to go to someone's funeral...
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Today's Gift
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Failure is impossible.--Susan B. AnthonyFailure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.An attitude of failure often comes from making mista...
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Sunrise Quote
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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying I will try again tomorrow.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Ask - aka - ass Saving kit. Alcoholics - aka - A Life Centered on Helping Others LIVE in Complete SOBRIETY. Anonymous - aka - Actions , Not Our Names , Yield Maintenance of Unity & Service & ASAP - ALLWAYS Say A Prayer
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that minefild called life
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Yes it's a minefield out there. There are bombs bumps and traps everywhere.
So this morning all is as it should be, isn't it.
not as I want it to be but as it should be.
all I have to do with it is to fit myself around it.
the automatic heat came on as it should.
the alarm woke me for the first time in days
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It's one of the days.....
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I wana smoke I wana drink I wana do drugs today. I wana pig out to deal with my wants. I can't do any of it (if I have too I'll eat but I don't want to give to bad behaviors and self distrucktion or the auto correct spelling on my phone). I got busy stupid busy. I say stupid because I s...
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IF I COULD ASK ONE QUESTION
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If I could Ask One Question.. The disease of Alcoholism is deadly It kills.. sometimes very quickly sometimes slowly. I have learned that recovery is One day at a time.. I learned to simply to ask God each morning to help me stay sober just for today. I learned regardless of what happensgood thi...
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Grapevine
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February 7 "Be willing to be willing to follow directions and you will find your life changing in all areas."
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Today's Gift
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose. --Benjamin Disraeli In Twelve Step meetings, we don't talk about counseling, treatment centers, or non-program reading. Many of us have been helped in these ways, but we shouldn't confuse them with Twelve Step programs. We must keep our Twelve Step pr...
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Sunrise Quote
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Those who are touched by an inspirational idea and allow it to take charge and dominate their thoughts find new vistas open to them.Unknown
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Patience
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Today I might have broke two toes. It hurts so stinkin much! I found that I was pretty angry for no apparent reason for a while after. I guess pain has always triggered anger in me, and I suppose it's pent up anger that I haven't released appropriately. I'm just guessing here... but this has been on go...
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Long but excellent read
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http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/
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A power greater than me.
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I just drifted back to the keyboard, after emerging sort of dazed from my shower. Just prior, I read a PM regarding a positive decision someone was making for themselves. The very mind blowing thing about it was, I had been praying for this very decision to come about almost word for word as it came abo...
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Calling out Pinky
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Hey Mark - make me laugh! It's been a while! You must have some funny crazy camp story you can shed some of your wickedly awesome twisted humor onto! C'mon - I'm getting bored over here!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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Helping Canadians
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We have assisted many people who have the same difficulties as you receive up to $40,000 in tax refunds from the Canadian government. We may be able to assist you receive a refund as well. You can call us at 1-888-298-2721 for a free consultation or feel free to visit our website for more information ww...
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Today's Gift
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How the I pervades all things! --William Ellery Channing If we could extract the "I" from our thoughts, some of us would lose our focus. We have a tendency to think only of our comfort, our convenience, our point of view, our feelings, and our happiness. What if we made a conscious effort ev...
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Today's Gift - 2/6
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.-- Thomas FullerOften we're afraid to forgive others who've hurt us because we believe that, in doing so, we are permitting what they've done. This is not true. When we forgive, we are...
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Sunrise Quote
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Hope, like the gleaming tapers light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.Oliver Goldsmith
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Grapevine
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February 5 "What matters is what works, not my opinion of what works."
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Adapted from the 12 steps book.
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The 3 basic instincts of human beings: 1. Sex- for reproduction and continuation of the species. 2. Security- both emotional and material security- to earn money, construct shelter, and care for our family. 3. Social- to have fellowship with others and care and share and love one another. These 3 in...
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How I Drove 200 Miles To Deliver A Box Of Tissues.
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Hi gang; I'd like to share something important and personal that happened to me about 14 years ago. It was one of the many great blessings in my life of sobriety. I'll try to give you the short version. I was getting ready to leave town to go on a 3 day retreat at a Trappist monastery for a more thorough wri...
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The earth lost a dear person today and Heaven gained another angel
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My ex and I have been keeping in touch by email since I left him in 2008. We have a daughter and unlike what happens in some breakups where neither partner has anything to do with the other, we still "talk". God Bless the man, because after the way I treated him, he's amazing. None of his other f...
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Weekly Thought --- (warning religious content)
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Weekly VerseIn all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy. Philippians 1:4Weekly QuoteJoy is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ. William Van der HovenWeekly ThoughtPaul's letter to the Philippians is considered the book of joy in the New Testament. Written from a pris...
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Grapevine
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February 4 "While I've never been sober today before, I count on my Higher Power to keep me sober as he has done on all those other days before."
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Humility
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I came here with my first glimpse of humility because for years I could not admit that there was a thing wrong with me, let alone admit that I might have 'a disease!'. My fear kept me locked behind the door of help - and with denial, I thought I was safer. It convinced me of this. What my life represented, was...
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Hey John, Pinkchip, Moderators! We're Being Invaded by Strange Posts (besides mine)
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Thanks guys!
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Addiction - kills
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Demi Lovato wrote the following expanded tweet: "I wish more people would lose the stigma and treat addiction as the deadly and serious DISEASE that it is. Drugs are not something to glamorize in pop music or film to portray as harmless recreational fun. It's not cute, "cool" or admi...
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"People Who Come Into Our Lives Have Expiration Dates"
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I heard the other day this quotation. At first I thought it was a rather crude way the person had of describing human beings. She explained that people come into our lives for a reason and to serve a purpose and once that purpose is served, then relationships are ended. I have had quite a few abrupt relati...
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Today's Gift
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Differences . . . with no hidden cutting edge. The respect and dignity a couple show each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their lives. Any feeling can be expressed in respectful or disrespectful ways. Anger is one of the most difficult to express respectfu...
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New Joke ... (well, ... for me anyway)
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Murphy, a furniture dealer from Dublin , decided to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find. After arriving in Paris , he visited with some manufacturers and selected a line that he thought would sell well back home. To celebrate the n...
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Incredible home group meeting....
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I know that you all have experienced this in your recovery if you have any long recovery time and I want to share about it for me. It seems to me on this journey into and thru recovery that my Higher Power has supported and worked with me and thru me "in spite of me" a demonstration of HP's will...
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Attempt to Keep BTY Smiling!!! ... You can feel free to Smile too !!!
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Subject: DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS Two guys were discussing popular family trends on sex, marriage, and family values. Stu said, 'I didn't sleep with my wife before we got married, did you?' Leroy replied, 'I'm not sure, what was her maiden name?' ----------------------------------...
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Still trying to keep BTY occupied!!!
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A husband walks into Victoria 's Secret to purchase a sheer negligee for his wife. He is shown several possibilities that range from $250 to $500 in price -- the more sheer, the higher the price. Naturally, he opts for the most sheer item, pays the $500 and takes it home. He presents it to his wife and...
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Sunrise Quote
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Values are critical guides for making decisions. When in doubt, they cut through the fog like a beacon in the night.Robert Townsend
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Thanks PC (Mark)
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Thanks for cleaning the garbage up ... love ya man ... Pappy
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Grandma and Grandpa were babysitting
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Grandma and Grandpa were baby sitting at their kids place overnight. When Grandpa found a bottle of Viagra in his son's medicine cabinet, he asked his son about using one of the pills.The son said, "I don't think you should take one Dad; they're very strong and very expensive". "H...
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Can't hep it ... just 1 more ...
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SEX AT 73I just took a leaflet out of my mailbox, informing me that I can have sex at 73.I'm so happy, because I live at number 71. So it's not too far to walk home afterwards. And it's the same side of the street. I don't even have to cross the road!~~~~~Answering machine message, "I am not avail...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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February 3, 2013 Quote of the Week "If you're looking for an easier, softer way,there are no directions." Before recovery there was only one way to do things - my way. I was convinced I had the answers, knew the way, and thought that life would be easy, and that I would be happy, if I just got...
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Question- Sharing
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...... -- Edited by GoingToTry on Sunday 9th of February 2014 10:25:04 PM
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Grapevine
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February 3 "Nearly all of us, when we think about it, agree that we are a long, long way from being anywhere near grown up, from almost any point of view. We can clearly see that our job as individuals and as a Fellowship is to keep right on growing by the constant use of our Twelve Steps."
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Today's Gift
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Goodwill Looking at other people with jealousy, envy, and mean and bitter thoughts isn't new to our world. The concept of giving other people the evil eye has been around for a long time. It's mentioned in almost every religion and culture in the world. Sometimes we're not conscious of the darker thou...
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Sunrise Quote
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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.Jess Lair
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Yearly Dementia Test
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Your Yearly Dementia Test (only 4 questions) Yep, it's that time of year again for us to take our annual senior citizen test. Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's importantto keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it! Here is a ver...
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One of the Reasons I Left Georgia - LOL
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The Quality of Government Care ... ... ... (they had a day and a half warning to prepare for this and did 'NOTHING') (kids had to sleep overnite in the schools and thousands stranded in cars overnite in sub-freezing temps, many running out of gas with no food, heat, or water) ... ... ... nice ... (of cours...
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