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Freefly
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 Posted - 11/27/2009 : 08:34:18 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
November 27, 2009
Improvement
My self-esteem improved dramatically,
and I knew happiness and serenity as I had never known it before.
I started to see the beauty and usefulness in my own existence,
and tried to express my gratitude through helping others
in whatever ways I could.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 287-288
Thought to Ponder . . .
Self-esteem doesn't need an audience.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Altered Attitudes.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 11/28/2009 : 07:33:23 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
November 28, 2009
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the sudden rage were not for us. Anger is the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us alcoholics it is poison.
Big Book, Page 66
As Bill Sees It, P. 5
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Freefly
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Posted - 11/28/2009 : 11:00:18 AM
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AA Thought for the Day**
November 28, 2009
Blessings
The rewards of sobriety are bountiful and as progressive
as the disease they counteract. . .
the realization that participation in the AA way of life is a blessing
and a privilege beyond estimate -- a blessing to live a life free from the pain
and degradation of drinking and filled with the joy of useful, sober living,
and a privilege to grow in sobriety one day at a time.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 451
Thought to Ponder . . .
Sobriety is a gift.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
One Day At A Time.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 11/29/2009 : 10:35:44 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
November 29, 2009
“Then came AA. Here we learned that trouble was really a fact of life for everybody – a fact that had to be understood and dealt with. Surprisingly, we found that our troubles could, under God’s grace, be converted into unimagined blessings”
As Bill Sees It, P. 110
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 06:17:03 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
November 30, 2009
Although some of us were lone drinkers, it can hardly be said that we completely lacked companionship during our drinking days. People were all around us. We saw, heard, and touched them. But most of our important dialogues were entirely interior, held with ourselves. We were sure nobody else would understand. Besides, considering our opinion of ourselves, we were not sure that we wanted anybody to understand.
No wonder, then, that when we first listen to recovered alcoholics in AA talking freely and honestly about themselves, we are stunned. Their tales of their own drinking escapades, of their own secret fears and loneliness, jar us like a thunderbolt.
We discover – but can hardly dare to believe right at first – that we are not alone. We are not totally unlike everybody, after all.
Living Sober, P. 34
"Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see."
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Freefly
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 08:44:55 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
November 30, 2009
Sanity
AA taught me that willingness to believe was enough for a beginning.
It's been true in my case, nor could I quarrel with "restore us to sanity,"
for my actions, drunk or sober, before AA, were not those of a sane person.
My desire to be honest with myself made it necessary for me to realize
that my thinking was irrational.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 550
Thought to Ponder . . .
I saw, I felt, I believed.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Acceptance, Belief, Change.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 12/01/2009 : 07:07:56 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 1, 2009
Dr. Bob did not need me for his spiritual instruction. He had already had more of that than I. What he did need, when we first met, was the deflation at depth and the understanding that only one drunk can give to another. What I needed was the humility of self-forgetfulness and the kinship with another human being of my own kind.
As Bill Sees It, P. 212
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Freefly
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Posted - 12/01/2009 : 08:02:05 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
Growth
None of us can ever fathom the glories and
the uncharted regions of the universe.
But we can live on earth and love one another.
We can let in the beginnings of concern, compassion, consideration,
and watch ourselves grow.
-- Came To Believe . . ., p. 120
Thought to Ponder . . .
Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Each Day.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 12/02/2009 : 07:35:08 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 2, 2009
Promises
"We are going to know a new freedom
and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past
nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity
and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone,
we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity
will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things
and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity
will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle
situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us
what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us --
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4
Thought to Ponder. . .
The Promises are a result not a right.
AA-related 'Alconym
People Relying On God Relay A Message
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 12/03/2009 : 05:00:24 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 3, 2009
Service
Life will take on new meaning.
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish,
to see a fellowship grow up around you,
to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 89
Thought to Ponder . . .
Into service out of self.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Helping Othere People Every day.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 12/03/2009 : 06:52:21 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 3, 2009
For most normal folks, drinking means release from care, boredom, and worry. It means joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.
But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking delusion that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt – and one more failure.
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We are sure God would like to see us happy, joyous, and free. Hence, we cannot subscribe to the belief that this life necessarily has to be a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it became clear that most of the time we had made our on misery.
Alcoholics Anonymous
1. P. 151
2. P. 152
As Bill Sees It, P. 218
Happy, When We’re Free
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 12/04/2009 : 06:27:59 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 4, 2009
Daily Reprieve
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
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We of AA obey spiritual principles, at first because we must, then because we ought to, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings. Great suffering and great love are AA’s disciplinarians; we need no others.
1. Alcoholics Anonymous, P. 85
2. Twelve and Twelve, P. 174
As Bill Sees It, P. 27
One Day At A Time...
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Freefly
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Posted - 12/04/2009 : 07:58:23 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 4, 2009
Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
Alcoholism, is deadly, ugly, and rough.
It is also cunning, baffling, and powerful.
It wants me to regard only myself . . . It wants me to try to fix myself . . .
It wants me to believe that self-indulgence is fine,
as long as I call it self-forgiveness. . .
It wants me to forget that it is a snake in the brain, hoping, watching, waiting.
The gritty pain of alcoholism is the traction of recovery.
-- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 3], p. 165
Thought to Ponder . . .
Every recovery from alcoholism began with one sober hour.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
One Day At A Time.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 12/05/2009 : 06:07:39 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 5, 2009
Belonging
For the first time, I felt that I really belonged.
I knew that I was loved and could love in return.
I thanked my God, who had given me a glimpse of His absolute self.
Even though a pilgrim upon an uncertain highway, I need be concerned no more,
for I had glimpsed the great beyond.
- 'Pass It On' .. The story of Bill Wilson and how the AA message reached the world, p. 121
Thought to Ponder . . .
Alcoholics Anonymous is the only place in the world
where you can walk into a room full of total strangers and reminisce.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 12/05/2009 : 08:28:42 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
December 5, 2009
But my friend sat before me, and he made the point-blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself. His human will had failed. Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
Had this power originated in him? Obviously it had not. There had been no more power in him than there was in me at that minute; and this was none at all.
That floored me. It began to look as though religious people were right after all. Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible. My ideas about miracles were drastically revised right then. Never mind the musty past; here sat a miracle directly across the kitchen table. He shouted great tidings.
My friend then suggested what then seemed a novel idea, he said, “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?”
That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last.
Alcoholic Anonymous, Pages, 11 & 12
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