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All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. —William L. O’Neill— Unfortunately, life does not come with a money back guarantee. Going after what we want, especially if we’re up against established interests, is likely to demand the commitment of our best energies with no certainty of getting it. Oddly […]
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SURRENDERING SELF-WILL Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34 No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can one turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever […]
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You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. —Irish Proverb— Each of us has been given recovery. Now it’s up to each of us what we do with it. At times, we’ll work hard to grow quickly. At other times, our growth will be slower. This is okay. We’re […]
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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from experience. —Bill W.— As our disease grew, we often felt like any decision we made was wrong. We felt like wrong people. We lost self-respect, because deep inside we […]
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We must go to A.A. meetings regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must reeducate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate with God by spending at least as much time and energy on the A.A. program as we did […]
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To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— A sense of spiritual well-being warms us when we are selfless, when we […]
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“… you never get over bein’ a child long’s you have a mother to go to.” —Sarah Orne Jewett— For most of us, our mothers were the first love, and the quality of our relationships throughout life is influenced by that earliest one. A mark of real maturity is the ability to see our mothers […]
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus… Reflecting on the past reveals that indeed we do find the strength and the ability to cope with whatever experiences ripple our calm. Moreover, we have come to accept that the tides of turmoil wash in new awarenesses, […]
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THE KEY IS WILLINGNESS Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35 The willingness to give up my pride and self-will to a Power greater than myself […]
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. –Anne Frank— We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day. The temptation to blame others may be ever present. And much […]