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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. —Faith Baldwin— We are learning as we go, and the experiences shed light on our own plans for proceeding. The steps we are taking, in unison as well as on separate but parallel paths, enhance the particular movements of us all. We often expect perfection from ourselves, forgetting […]
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Rest is the guardian of health. —Melba Colgrave— Now that we are sober, we’re feeling better than we have in years. We’re busy too. We attend meetings and visit friends. We have work, school, families, and homes to keep up with. It’s easy to forget to rest. We forgot that our bodies and minds need […]
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Since I’ve been in A.A., have I made a start toward becoming more loving to my family and friends? Do I visit my parents? Am I more appreciative of my spouse than I was before? Am I grateful to my family for having put up with me? Have I found real understanding with my children? […]
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CHARACTER BUILDING Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion…. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 44 When I uncovered my need for approval in the Fourth Step, I didn’t think it should rank as a character defect. I wanted to think of it more […]
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. —Amelia Earhart— We have learned from experience that a wave of peacefulness washes over us after we have successfully finished a task that was difficult to face. Courage has its reward. However, from time to time, and from task to task, we find we need […]
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We must assist natural process that serve the function of reunification. —Joseph G. Hancock— Some families in mild climates have begun to experiment with unified living: recycling wastes, growing food, and using only renewable sources like the sun and wind for power. Seen from the twelfth floor of an apartment building, in sub-zero weather, this […]
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To know all things is not permitted. —Horace— In recovery, we give up trying to be perfect. We give up trying to know everything. We work at coming to know and accept our short-comings. In Step Four and Five, we look at our good points and our bad points. In Step Six, we become ready […]
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Since I’ve been in A.A., have I made a start toward becoming more honest? Do I no longer have to lie to my loved ones? Do I try to have meals on time, and do I try to earn what I make at work? Am I trying to be honest? Have I faced myself as […]
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. —Step Four of Alcoholics Anonymous— We avoid the Fourth Step. We put it off. We’re scared of what we will find inside of us. We may find out we’re mean, angry, selfish, afraid. We might see how badly we’ve acted to others, to ourselves. We have […]
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To be wildly enthusiastic, or deadly serious–both are wrong. Both pass. One must keep ever present a sense of humor. —Katherine Mansfield— How familiar wild enthusiasm and deadly seriousness are to most of us. We experience life within the extremes. The thrill of wild enthusiasm we try to trap, to control. We are exhilarated and […]