Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 06:21 AM
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August 25
Recovery Is a Process,
Not an...
August 25
Recovery Is a Process,
Not an Event
I write and talk about how recovery is an ongoing process because it really is worth repeating. Take away the fact that our lives are complicated...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 06:19 AM
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August 25
As it all unfolds
You’d like...
August 25
As it all unfolds
You’d like to find out how the story ends. But if you simply skip to the end, you miss the heart of that story.
It’s good to have matters resolved. Yet it takes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 05:54 AM
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August 23
I have never for one instant seen...
August 23
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
~Maurice Maeterlinck
We have been given the job of getting to know...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 04:59 AM
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August 23
Good thoughts
An intuition is...
August 23
Good thoughts
An intuition is nothing particularly mysterious. It’s a thought that has more depth than you’re able to recognize.
Much of your thinking is explicit and intentional....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-22-2024, 06:22 AM
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August 22
Skill to do comes of doing.
...
August 22
Skill to do comes of doing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, we just want to sit and do nothing. And why not? We go to meetings, work the Twelve Steps, read, make new friends. All this...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-21-2024, 06:19 AM
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August 21: When you feel lost and not yourself,...
August 21: When you feel lost and not yourself, be assured that this is a transitional phase. I am still the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and I hold you in the hollow of My hand. Nothing in...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-20-2024, 09:21 AM
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Having This
As this progresses inside of all us things will become increasingly unbearable to the point where all of us will wish to no longer be alive anymore. When we reach that place it has nothing to do with...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-20-2024, 05:58 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2024, 05:45 AM
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August 20
AA Thought for the Day
We who...
August 20
AA Thought for the Day
We who have learned to put our drinking problem in God's hands can help others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an alcoholic's need and God's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2024, 05:34 AM
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August 20
Ask more of yourself
Lead...
August 20
Ask more of yourself
Lead yourself into activities that challenge you, intellectually, physically, socially, philosophically, spiritually. Spend time in ways that stimulate the whole...
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-19-2024, 07:21 PM
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-19-2024, 06:05 PM
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-19-2024, 07:00 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2024, 06:42 AM
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August 19
Until you make peace with who you...
August 19
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
~Doris Mortman
Marketers call us consumers. Ads suggest that a new car will make us happy or that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2024, 06:32 AM
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August 19
Appreciate what’s good
There...
August 19
Appreciate what’s good
There are worse places you could be. There are worse times you could live in.
This day has challenges, this world has problems. Value and appreciate it all...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-18-2024, 06:10 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-18-2024, 05:30 AM
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August 18
Establishing goals and following...
August 18
Establishing goals and following through on them help women build self-confidence.
~Sharon Walters
Alcohol and other drugs created the illusion of confidence for many of us before...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-17-2024, 06:00 AM
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August 17: Breakthrough for you will come as a...
August 17: Breakthrough for you will come as a trickling stream instead of a roaring river. Your proverbial mantra will be: slow and steady, slow and steady. Take life as it comes; you cannot rush...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-17-2024, 05:39 AM
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August 18
Ideal day
It would be nice to...
August 18
Ideal day
It would be nice to live your ideal day, but that’s probably not the one you have right now. What you have is the day that’s here.
And although today may fall short of...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-16-2024, 10:38 AM
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Paying The Price
For so long now all of us have wanted to be the exceptions to the rule. We've all longed for that badly needed break that never comes our way to any of us. This is because there is no escaping paying...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-16-2024, 10:33 AM
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August 16: When you are worn out with fear and...
August 16: When you are worn out with fear and worry, remember that I am with you to show you the way out of the darkness into My glorious light. Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-15-2024, 06:44 AM
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August 15: Be patient and remain diligent. The...
August 15: Be patient and remain diligent. The issues you have been dealing with seem to have no resolution, but you are making progress. Do not give up or lose hope, but rather keep your faith...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-15-2024, 06:26 AM
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August 15
I never found the companion that...
August 15
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
~Henry David Thoreau
There will be times when we find ourselves alone, despite our best efforts to reach out....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-15-2024, 06:23 AM
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August 15
Perfect outcome
You study,...
August 15
Perfect outcome
You study, plan, organize and prepare so it will all be perfect. But it won’t be completely perfect.
It will unfold the way it unfolds, which will never be as...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-14-2024, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 23
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2024, 06:55 AM
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Views: 13,599
August 24
Daily Reflections
A RIDDLE...
August 24
Daily Reflections
A RIDDLE THAT WORKS
It may be possible to find explanations of spiritual experiences
such as ours, but I have often tried to explain my own and have
succeeded...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2024, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,599
August 23
Daily Reflections
BRINGING...
August 23
Daily Reflections
BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME
Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our
sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?
TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2024, 06:52 AM
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August 22
Daily Reflections
SEEKING...
August 22
Daily Reflections
SEEKING EMOTIONAL STABILITY, p.243
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible
source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2024, 06:45 AM
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August 14
God, grant me the serenity
To...
August 14
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change...
~The Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer starts by having us ask our Higher Power to grant serenity that leads...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2024, 06:33 AM
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August 14
Smart choice
It’s tempting to...
August 14
Smart choice
It’s tempting to do the popular thing, the showy thing, the dramatic thing. What’s always better is to do the smart thing.
The thrills, fashions and adulations of the...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-13-2024, 05:26 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-13-2024, 05:20 AM
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August 13
I may not be there yet, but I'm...
August 13
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
~Susie McD.
Many adult children, for very understandable reasons, feel unworthy, guilty, and ashamed much of the time....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-13-2024, 05:18 AM
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August 13
Putting forth the effort
...
August 13
Putting forth the effort
Steadily, calmly, with purpose and integrity, achieve. Envision a desired endpoint and devote yourself to reaching it.
There’s no need for a lot of hype or...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-12-2024, 06:05 AM
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August 12: Many of you, My people, are still...
August 12: Many of you, My people, are still nursing wounds from the past. And, I tell you honestly that those wounds are healing. It will not be long before you can put the pain behind you and rise...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-11-2024, 08:15 AM
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August 11: I speak to those who have a tendency...
August 11: I speak to those who have a tendency to judge and criticize people around you. Be aware that if you are critical you will be criticized. It is a product of the spiritual law of sowing and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2024, 07:42 AM
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Views: 13,599
August 21
Daily Reflections
WE JUST...
August 21
Daily Reflections
WE JUST TRY, p.242
My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that
I receive.
The Best Of Bill, pp. 46-47
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2024, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,599
August 20
Daily Reflections
TOWARD...
August 20
Daily Reflections
TOWARD EMOTIONAL FREEDOM
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always
been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2024, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,599
August 19
Daily Reflections
A FRAME OF...
August 19
Daily Reflections
A FRAME OF REFERENCE
Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the
wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2024, 07:35 AM
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Views: 13,599
August 18
Daily Reflections
GETTING...
August 18
Daily Reflections
GETTING WELL, p.239
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional
conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.
12 & 12, pp. 79-80
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2024, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 23
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August 11
In that case, what is the...
August 11
In that case, what is the question?
~Gertrude Stein
Sometimes, we're thrown off balance by another person's questions - or by the confidence of his or her assumptions. Our...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-10-2024, 05:00 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,836
August 10: The things you have been concerned...
August 10: The things you have been concerned about will begin to slowly but surely be resolved. Do not expect overnight success, however. Be strong and take an even strain. You will need to exercise...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2024, 04:47 AM
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Views: 9,326
August 10
We are empowered to decide exactly...
August 10
We are empowered to decide exactly what kind of day we will have, every day.
So many times throughout the day we are inclined toward anger, frustration, criticism, or perhaps all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2024, 04:43 AM
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August 11
All the good you do
Your ego...
August 11
All the good you do
Your ego will never be satisfied. Whenever you manage to obtain what it desires, it reacts by wanting more.
That’s an empty, frustrating road you don’t have to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2024, 04:42 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 9,018
August 10
Reach, reach, reach
Somewhere...
August 10
Reach, reach, reach
Somewhere beyond you is your highest possibility. Reach for it.
If you attain that possibility, you win. And even if you fall short of the mark, you still win....
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-09-2024, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 0
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Get Right With Ourselves
It's not them, like we would all like to think that it is, it's us, we are our biggest problem. This is true for all of us, and until we all realize this there is nothing any of us can do that will...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-09-2024, 04:55 AM
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Views: 9,836
August 9: It seems like you have been through a...
August 9: It seems like you have been through a rough patch, and actually things have been more complicated and difficult, but you are coming through by the direction and power of My Spirit. Do not...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-08-2024, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,836
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-08-2024, 04:24 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,326
August 8
Pulling Others Off the Battlefield ...
August 8
Pulling Others Off the Battlefield
When I was in the Marine Corps, it was pounded into your head that you never leave a buddy behind; you never leave a fellow Marine behind. You don't...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-08-2024, 04:21 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 9,018
August 8
Pushing ahead
You are on your...
August 8
Pushing ahead
You are on your way forward. Keep going.
You are doing many things well. Continue with the good work, and add to it.
You’ve learned what works and what doesn’t....
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-07-2024, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,836
August 7: Refuse to allow past failures and...
August 7: Refuse to allow past failures and regrets to create a state of condemnation and self-loathing. Today is a new day and a new opportunity to move forward and do the best you can right here...
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