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Today's Gift - 5/25
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Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. --LongfellowEvery day for us is a period of spiritual growth. Restful sleep prepares us for fruitful days. As each day begins, a new adventure in growth lies ahead. We se...
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The Story You Won't See In The Big Book
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Because it contains a Truth the fellowship doesn't want you to know or hear about. I can tell you about how the "Woodstock/Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice/Easy Rider generation" gave me a big green light to "join the herd" by partaking in all sorts of substances...includ...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseThere will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land. Deuteronomy 15:11Weekly QuoteWe cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love. Mother TeresaWeekly Thought...
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You Can't Make Me Angry Dr. Paul O.'s book (his story is in 3rd Ed. of BB)
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You Can't Make Me Angry by Dr. Paul O. (I was researching on the internet last week trying to find a AA related book which deals with anger issues as I posted I was having a rough time of it. I did find a book which I am confident will help me deal with people, places and things better. Dr. Paul was a popular spe...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/25
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If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain.Maya Angelou
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Today's Gift - 5/24
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Relaxing when things don't go as you planned.So, the boyfriend calls, says he's going hiking with his buddies for a week, cancels his date with you and says he hopes you won't be mad.Or the bank calls and says you're overdrawn, and you don't know how that can be. You've been trying to carefully watch you...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/24
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Nothing happens but first a dream.Carl Sandburg
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Sunrise Quote - 5/23
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I just wanted to apologize to those of you who look forward to these daily posts ... for some reason, unknown to me, they stopped coming to me ... they're back, so here goes: The last of ones freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.Viktor Frankl
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Moving on
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Well the new job is going well. All my criminal court is behind me no jail time. I found a apartment I'm interested in yesterday and have first dibs. It just kind of fell in my lap, thanks GOD. Trying to hash out with the wife about who gets what and who's responsible for what. She agreed to let me have some th...
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Collateral damage
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Ever have one of those ah-ha moments when you realize that things have changed and you didn't recognize it til this moment? Just had one of those. I have recently shared some e-mails with a couple of local folks in AA and the things shared were, in my opinion, some high quality spiritual snippets. I w...
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SATURDAY
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EASY DOES ITKEEP IT SIMPLEHOW IMPORTANT IS ITLIVE AND LET LIVELET GO AND LET GODDONT OVER ANALYZEDONT THINK THINK THINKLEARN TO RELAXLIGHTEN UPGET OFF THE TRAINIF ITS FIXED DONT FIX ITSTAY OUT OF THE DRAMATHE ONLY ONE YOU CAN CONTROL IS YOUDONT SWEAT THE PETTY STUFFACCEPT THE THINGS YOU CANNOT CHANG...
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Um am I being stupid to have a friend?
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So I have a new male friend. I'm not dating I only have 6 months and honestly I'm doing what is suggested of me. This person I really really like. He has an amazing story. He is two years younger than me and has 13 years sober. We have gone to coffee and dinner and I have now had him to my house for dinner. We bare...
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Fear
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This Matter of Fear By Bill W. As the AA Book says, "Fear is an evil, corroding thread; the fabric of our lives is shot through with it." Fear is surely a bar to reason, and to love, and of course it invariably powers anger, vainglory and aggression. It underlies maudlin guilt and paralyzing d...
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Today's Gift - 5/23
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To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.--Evelyn ScottWe need to know that we matter in this life. We need evidence that others are aware of our presence. And thus, we can be certain that others need the same att...
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Flooding My Mind With AA
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I have been a victim of my own self-defeating thoughts for most all of my life. I bought into my flawed belief system in that when a thought entered my mind, I believed it. No matter how ridiculous, absurd, unfair, unkind, negative, and especially how untrue it was--it was "true" to me becau...
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Don't Cry Over Spilt (or Spilled) Milk
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The other night right before a meeting, I was reaching into the fridge to get a can of water. When I did this, I knocked out a glass of milk (we use glasses for creamers for our coffee sometimes when I'm too lazy to wash the creamer). The glass hit the floor and milk went everywhere--under the fridge, front...
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Dry Drunk
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What is a dry drunk, and the dry drunk syndrome as it is sometimes called? It can best be described as someone who fits one of two conditions. The first is someone who has given up drinking and drugging and not made any internal or emotional changes, they stay the same but the substance is gone. Or in the se...
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Grapevine
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May 22"Over the years I've gone to different types of groups to meet different needs in my life or to share experience, strength, and hope about a particular problem I was struggling with. Some days I've been part of the solution for another suffering alcoholic; other days I've been the one who w...
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Today's Gift - 5/22
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Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.--Saint Francis De SalesOne night Sandra was having trouble putting a puzzle together. Angrily, she pushed all the pieces into a huge pile."I can't do this," she said. She got up and walked over to the couch and plopped dow...
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Graepvine
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May 23 "The word 'alcoholic' does not turn me off anymore; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me."
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Quick ? About Amends
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Example: Having coffee with another AA'er and my bf. (This person does not have a sponsor, has not worked the steps and is several years sober.) I have overlooked his joking comments about me in the past however decided to take up for myself last night (I was busy yesterday  ) and gave it back...
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My personal recovery.
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The great thing about AA recovery, is the freedom to chose. It's in this environment that I best see the recovery of the individual, from alcoholism. When I came into AA in 1988, I made an investment in my recovery. I bought all the literature that was available at that time, sought the best sponsorshi...
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Step 11..
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Prayer is the language of the heart to talk to God. We may use words to express it. Meditation is the listening of the heart to God's word. We may use our ears to listen. AA's step 11: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only f...
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Today's Gift - 5/19
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"You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time."--Johann R. WyssThe story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...
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Relapse
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Twelve Steps of a Relapse 1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life. 2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and anyone who says differently is insane. 3. I made a decision to remove my will and my life from God, who didn't...
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Dropping in to say hi
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Hi all! It's been some time since I've posted here. That's not to say I don't periodically check in to read up on the board- it's great to see so many new faces. This board and it's members helped me out quite a bit back when I was a new newbie ... I'm still a newbie in my eyes, but not as new to recovery as I once w...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/17
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 19, 2014Quote of the Week"I have to change what I want to get what I want." When I was new in the program, my sponsor suggested that I make a list of all the things I wanted and hoped I'd get from being sober. That was easy because I had a long list. I went ahead and made my list - items that wou...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/20
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.Zig Ziglar
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Sunrise Quote - 5/19
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu
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Today's Gift - 5/21
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"The secret, kid," said the seal, bending toward him and speaking behind his flipper, "is to have a good compass and a following wind." --Will Watkins Sid Seal, HousemanThe secret, for us, is to never let our recovery become "dead in the water." We keep a good compas...
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Today's Gift - 5/20
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He has served who now and then Has helped along his fellowmen. --Edgar A. GuestIt's hard to be interested in something that seems too remote. Sure, we're sorry for starving people in faraway places. And the TV news story about whole villages disappearing in an earthquake makes us feel terrible - unti...
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Drama
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There are some people who thrive on high drama. They like to create it. They feel most comfortable when theyre surrounded by it. Constant drama is not only a lot of work for the individual who is creating it but it is also very draining for those who are around them. It usually doesnt take long to recogniz...
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Proof of meeting attendance
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Is there anything set up to send proof of attendance to meetings for my probation officer? sent a note to the posted email on website and it was returned undeliverable. Looking forward to my first meeting tonight.
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Grapevine
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May 21 "I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole. That's the time for me to back off and trust that God's will is far better than mine."
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Step Eleven
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Prayers in the Big Book Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying ONLY for knowledge for His will for us and the power to carry that out. The Eleventh Step starts at the bottom of page 85 and extends through page 88. It's a goo...
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Grapevine
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May 20 "Through Step Five, God has removed my shame about being an alcoholic."
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Addiction to Facebook bad for sobriety?
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Anyone else have this problem. I seem to be going through withdrawls and keep wanting to post stuff and be liked with a thumbs up and all my drinking friends are on there so I'm not on there now well anymore. I got sick of being invited out to bars even thought they know I don't drink anymore and seeing there...
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12 Months Hairy AA
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After the week I had last week and this week seems to be starting out about the same, I decided to do some research to see how to cope with it better. I have heard that getting close to a year gets a little rough for AA members. So I researched the following..... "12 Months Hairy AA" ....and the se...
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Step 10
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Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong PROMPTLY admitted it. Notice that the Tenth Step says that when we were wrong we promptly ADMIT it. It doesn't say that when we were wrong we promptly JUSTIFY it. The first three Steps are designed to bring us to the point where we beco...
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Can you see me down here?
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It seems ironic to me the cyclic nature of life once I got into recovery. So much of what I did in the past, I have adopted once again. My behavior looks similar, but it is for entirely different reasons. I once put myself last, because I believed I wasn't good enough. Then I risked believing that I was...
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Therapists Don't Walk on Water
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I wanted to share this.... Just some more shi@ about me which had so much to do with leading up to where I am now. It is pretty long-winded so there is a back arrow in the upper left hand corner of your computer for your convenience if you start to get bored. About six years ago, I went to a therapist for marita...
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Grapevine
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May 19 "Each day I feel myself growing in recovery. I can honestly say I'm happier now than ever before in my adult life."
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Instinct to Protect
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This am when we were having our morning coffee, a baby bird flew up to our porch and landed in the empty planter inches from my face. We talked gently to him and he didn't appear to be frightened because he sat there for a short while. I was surprised because I don't remember a bird choosing to stay that clos...
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A Road Map
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I have found, that as I grow, I move from: Unconscious self-centeredness to Conscious self-centeredness to Conscious other centeredness to Unconscious other centeredness
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Haven't shared in a while
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It was a very busy week. Started a new job worked 76hrs. Had two court appearances on seperate days which is finally hopefully behind me. Also getting to as many meetings as I could this week. I'm drained obviously and have the next two days off. My plans are to relax, take it easy slow down and recooperat...
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Today's Gift - 5/18
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. . . we have some unfinished business between us.When we respond to the small signals that something is amiss, we prevent bigger problems. When we feel fear in our relationship, it signals that we have some unfinished business between us. When we ask the questions we have been avoiding, we create new...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/18
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.Jonathon Swift
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Have any of you attended AA's International Convention?
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Just read that it is on July 2-5, 2015....(what happened to this year??? Do they not have one every year?) Anyway, the one in 2015 is in Atlanta, GA. Have any of you been to one of these? Would love to hear shares if so. Is this something for mainly people who have been in the program a long time, or do you thi...
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Finding out who I am not.
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I love the program of AA. I learn everyday something about life, living and serenity rather it be challenges or blessings. Something I have realized in my fourth step is I am not the person I thought I was. Incomprehensible demoralization ruled my life and self perception until doing my forth step. Wh...
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