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LIVING OUR AMENDS “Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent, ill.” ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 122 It is important for me to realize that, as an alcoholic, I not only hurt myself, but also those around me. Making amends to […]
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In A.A. we have to reeducate our minds. We have to learn to think differently. We have to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. We have to look through the glass to what lies beyond it. We have to look through the night before to the morning after. No matter […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--061325-->
Everyday . . . life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly. —Dr. Ann Faraday— Facing the day straight on is occasionally difficult to do. There are those days we feel like crawling under the covers and staying there, certain that we can’t handle whatever […]
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Memories, like olives, are an acquired taste. — Max Beerbohm— We’ve all learned to like different things as we’ve grown; different flavors, different colors, different music. There’s no such thing as naturally liking hockey or jazz; even if we’re barely aware of doing so, we had to discipline ourselves to find the pattern of reward […]
Keep it Simple <!--061225-->
The lust for power is not rooted in strength, but to weakness. We believed Alcohol or other drugs could help us control our happiness. But now we’re learning to rely on faith for our happiness. Faith is about leaving things to our Higher Power’s control. Instead of wanting the control ourselves, we trust our Higher […]
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet. —Mary Catherwood— Conversation does not always assure, or even imply, self-revelation. Trading words is easily, frequently,and safely done; however, it doesn’t introduce us to one-another that resides within. Knowing one another can only be fostered by soul-baring. Each of us […]
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FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. […]
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If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. —Catherine Ponder— Feeling joy may not come naturally to us […]
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When we came into A.A., we made a tremendous discovery. We found that we were sick persons rather than moral lepers. We were not such odd ducks as we thought we were. We found other people who had the same illness that we had, who had been through the same experiences that we had been […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--061125-->
We alcoholics have to believe in some Power greater than ourselves. Yes, we have to believe in God. Not to believe in a Higher Power drives us to atheism. Atheism, it has been said before, is blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. That’s practically […]