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🌷Good Morning Great and Wonderful Sister!!!…👭💖…God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves…✨👼…Sometimes we can get stuck in fear, anger, depression and guilt…😵😭🤬😳…and we can try to stay hidden in the darkest alley in our minds, with no true direction… 🌃👣…But we have a PROGRAM that reminds us of our Direction…↗🌞💯…And that […]

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Tightly Bunched Bouquet Of Fall Flowers

In A.A. we often hear the slogan “Easy Does It.” Alcoholics always do everything to excess. They drink too much. They worry too much. They have too many resentments. They hurt themselves physically and mentally by too much of everything. So when they come into A.A., they have to learn to take it easy. None […]

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ––Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us want to be happy. We just don’t know how. We aren’t sure what happiness is. We’ve learned the hard way that some things we wanted didn’t make us happy. We’re learning that happiness comes when we live the way our Higher […]

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Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery. —Matthew Arnold— How confusing the issues in our lives can be when we try to accommodate all the views of the persons in our midst, persons who share few opinions in common. Agreeing with first one and then another is dizzying, […]

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Pretty Purple Flowers

One must be leery of words because they turn into cages. —Viola Spolin— We Defeat ourselves with labels. We hem ourselves in; we shorten our vision; we cut off opportunities in the making. We influence how others think of us, too. Someone wise said that we teach others how to teach us. Are we teaching […]

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Butterfly On A Pink Flower

LIGHTING THE DARK PAST 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 can avert death and misery for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 124 No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference […]

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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. —Step Five— Step Five can be scary. we’re to take the wrongs we listed in our Fourth Step and share them with God, ourselves, and another person. We may look for an easier, softer way. But Step Five stops […]

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Butterfly On A Pink Flower

HEALING HEART AND MIND Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. […]

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The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. —Meridel Le Sueur— The beautiful correspondences that structure the world—from the five pointed star in the core of the apple to the snail-shell spiral of our inner ear—can be a source of great comfort to us. When we feel […]

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Pretty Purple Flowers

Insight is cheap.  —Martha Roth— For years we kept ourselves in a split condition: With one part of our minds we looked at ourselves and said, “I do some self-destructive things because I don’t believe I deserve love.” When we became involved with unsuitable people or abused our bodies, we said, “I am punishing myself–I […]