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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. —Albert Einstein— None of us know anything for sure about the future. We don’t know if we’ll be sober tomorrow. But we can be sure of this moment. We get sober by moments. Our sober moments then stretch into hours, day, and years Our program […]
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Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. —Step Seven— In Step Six, we got ready to give up our shortcomings. In Step Seven, we ask God to remove them. There is one catch. We humbly as God to remove them. Being humble means we remember who we are: human beings who need God’s help. Being […]
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If you don’t know where you are going, You’ll probably end up somewhere else. —Lawrence J. Peter— The Twelve Steps are our plan of living. We must have a plan. Without one, we waste our energy. We react instead of think. This is what we did as an addict. We lived our lives as out-of-control […]
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I don’t believe in the life afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. —-Woody Allen— Most of us have many questions about a Higher Power. Sometimes we have more questions than answers. No matter how much we believe about God, there are always questions. Why do bad things happen if God is good? […]
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. —Stanley J. Randall— Trying to be perfect get us into trouble. Trying to be perfect means we’re trying to control things. We may be trying to cover up something. Maybe we aren’t facing our pain. Maybe we’ve hurt […]
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Hell is not to love anymore. —Geogre Bernanos— Someone in an AA group said, “From the first day I started this program, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven.” This person had walked into a room full of love. In recovery, we are spiritual people because we believe in love. We have […]
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.—Albert Camus— Sometimes we said, we’re getting our lives together. Together with what? With our selves. The Twelve Steps help us clean up the mess we’ve made. We’re fixing our mistakes. We’re looking at ourselves closely—at what we believe, what […]
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. —Louis Nizer— It’s so easy to blame others. Others are always making mistakes we can hide behind. That’s what blame is—hiding. When we blame others for our mistakes, we’re trying to hide our character […]
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Beauty is gift of God. —Aristotle— In our addiction, we often went after what was ugly in life. Maybe we hung out in bad places. Maybe we saw people’s defects instead of their beauty. Addiction is ugly, painful disease. The worst part of addiction is how it doesn’t let us see beauty in the world. […]
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Words are sacred, we must use them wisely. . . . They are a gift from God. Burton Pretty-On-Top We use words to bring peace to others. We can use words to tell God and others how much we care. Or we can use words to hurt others. We can curse them and scare them […]