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AN UNBROKEN TRADITION We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 How much it means to me that an unbroken tradition of more than half a century is […]
Keep it Simple <!--102824-->
I wish you the courage to be warm when the world would prefer you to be cool. —Robert A. Ward— Our program and the Steps have warmed us from the inside out. Just as a bonfire warms those who stand around it, the Steps take away the chill we have felt for so long. At […]
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πRise and Shine Wonderful Gift to this world βπππΒ Are We Really holding Ourselves accountable and taking responsibility for the ACTION NEEDED in Our PROGRAMS β…π¬π―π¬…Or are we just doing enough to barely get by, π€¨π… For left to our own ideals and thoughts… ππ€ͺ… We could be in isolation, taking HOSTAGES, or getting caught […]
Promise of a new Day <!--102824-->
…my work was so long so little appreciated that I learned not to care a scrap for either blame or praise. —James Murray— It’s instructive to look at important figures of the past.So many have fallen into utter obscurity, and people who were quite obscure are now seen as important. Who remembers news columnists or […]
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An excuse is worst and more terrible than a lie.—Alexander Pope— Excuses. Theyβre lies. We use excuses to hide from ourselves. Maybe we donβt want to be honest about our anger. So we say someone else made us angry. Maybe we donβt want to admit how mean we can be. So we pretend we have […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--102724-->
Seventh, I can help other alcoholics. I am of some use in the world. I have a purpose in life. I am worth something at last. My life has a direction and a meaning. All that feeling of futility is gone. I can do something worthwhile. God has given me a new lease on life […]
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GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today […]
Promise of a new Day <!--102724-->
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning… —Zora Neale Hurston— Details bog us down. when we count the trees, we never breathe in the forest. Keeping our focus close means escaping the wider ranges of our perception and […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--102724-->
Problems have only the size and the power that you give them.Β –S. H.— We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it’s our vision of circumstances that gives them their […]
My Thought for the Day <!--102724-->
πΊ Good Morning to you, Beautiful Woman of this Worldβ…ππ… We are Miracles to be clean and Sober this wonderful morning…π€ππ…We have been given a GIFT and we have to give it away keep it…ππΌ…0ur Higher Power is here for the asking, waiting to shut down the Committee when it starts its session in our […]