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A man should never be ashamed to own he was in the wrong.—Jonathan Swift— In the past, we felt a mistake was a crisis. We thought we had a to be perfect. Our old ways was to try to hide our mistakes. We were ashamed. We thought making mistakes meant we were bad. Mistakes are […]
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Am I willing to be bored sometimes at meetings? Am I willing to listen to much repetition of A.A. principles? Am I willing to hear the same thing over and over again? Am I willing to listen to a long blow by blow personal story, because it might help some new member? Am I willing […]
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We have our brush and colors—paint Paradise and in we go. —Nikos Kazantzakis— We find in our experiences and in our daily reveries just what we anticipate. If we greet the day wearing a smile, confident that we are needed and able to make a contribution, We’ll discover that the day holds great promise. What […]
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When all of the remedies and all of the rhetorical armor have been dropped, the absence of love in our lives is what makes them seem raw and unfinished. —Ingrid Bengis— Love soothes, encourages, inspires. It enhances our wholeness, both when we give it and when we receive it. Without the expression of love we […]
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A SPIRITUAL AXIOM It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. 12 & 12, p. 90 I never truly understood the Tenth Step’s spiritual axiom until I had the following experience. I was sitting in my bedroom, reading into the wee […]
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The great creative power is everything. If you leave out one whole chunk of it, by making God only masculine, you have to redress the balance. —Martha Boesing— What a blessing, to be part of God! For many of us, invoking God with a male pronoun put an obstacle in the path of our spiritual […]
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There is such a thing as being too loyal to any one group. Do I feel put out when another group starts and some members of my group leave it and branch out into new territory? Or do I send them out with my blessing? Do I visit that new offshoot group and help it […]
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Just Say No. —Nancy Reagan— We addicts were great at saying no. Our spouse asked us to help around the house and we said no and went drinking. Friends tried to care, but we said, “No, mind your own business!” Our parents or our kids begged us to stop drinking, but we said no. We […]
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With nothing to do but expect the hour of setting off, the afternoon was long… —Jane Austen— The most important single determinant of how we feel at any given time is our attitude. If we live in the moment, use the moment to the full, we will never be bored and seldom depressed. The surest […]
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DAILY INVENTORY . . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships had begun to be repaired. Life was exciting, and I even began to […]