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Keep It Simple We’re part of the fellowship we call “the program.” Let’s also remember that we’re part of a larger fellowship called ” the human race.” We all hurt the same. We all love the same. We all need understanding and care. Yet, in other ways, we are not all the same. Let’s remember […]
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THE TREASURE OF THE PAST Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you […]
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Each Day a New Beginning I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. –Billie Jean King Champions are made. How lucky we are to have the Steps to guide us to become champions. The program promises us self-awareness, but we have to put forth the effort. And the process isn’t […]
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Thought For The Day What a load hangovers put on your shoulders! What terrible physical punishment we’ve all been through. The pounding headaches and jumpy nerves, the shakes and the jitters, the hot and cold sweats! When you come into A.A. and stop drinking, that terrible load of hangovers falls off your shoulders. What a […]
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I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field— It’s not mere chance that we gravitate toward those who become our friends. Nor is it only happenstance that we are piqued by others. We are, […]
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They is no they, only us. —Bumper sticker— For most of us, addiction was full of doubt. We stopped believing in ourselves. Our thoughts had turned to “stinking thinking.” We didn’t believe in much of anything. We didn’t take risk. We always looked for the easier, softer way. In recovery, we start to believe again. […]
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An alcoholic carries an awful load around with them. What a load lying puts on your shoulders! Drinking makes liars out of all of us alcoholics. In order to get all the liquor we want, we have to lie all the time. We have to lie about where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. […]
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FREEDOM FROM GUILT Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word “blame” from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the trouble in my life can be an ego trip […]
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As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. Our dependence […]
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You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, Then people gonna treat you better. You’re gonna find, yes, you will, That you’re beautiful as you feel. —Carole King— “Act as if.” There’s magic in behaving the way we want to […]