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Freefly
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 Posted - 03/08/2010 : 06:35:34 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 8, 2010
Fantasizing
Above all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality.
The more I drank, the more I fantasized everything.
I imagined getting even for hurts and rejections.
In my mind's eye I played and replayed scenes in which I was plucked magically
from the bar where I stood nursing a drink
and was instantly exalted to some position of power and prestige.
I lived in a dream world. AA led me gently from this fantasizing
to embrace reality with open arms.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 559
Thought to Ponder . . .
I stood in the sunlight at last.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Always Aware.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/09/2010 : 05:13:55 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 9, 2010
Higher Power
We had new Employer. Being all powerful,
He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him
and performed His work well.
- As Bill Sees It, p.104
Thought to Ponder . . .
We will suffer a great poverty until we know that God lives in us
and we can see Him there.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Good Orderly Direction.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/09/2010 : 07:22:40 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 9, 2K10
"I'll never be happy as long as I keep comparing my insides with someone else's outsides."
I don't know about you, but it is very easy for me to feel less than. I'm constantly comparing myself to other people and asking why I don't have a newer car, a bigger house or more money. I'm convinced that most people are happier than I am, know something I don't, or are having a better life. While I've always felt something was wrong with me, it wasn't until I entered recovery that I found out what it was.
I remember having this discussion with my sponsor and him telling me that alcoholism is a disease of perception. He told me there are three beliefs most alcoholics have that will forever prevent them from being happy. First he said that we believe that what we don't have is almost certainly better than what we do have. Second is that no matter how much we have of something, we're sure that having more of it would be better. And the third belief is that when we finally get what we want, then we'll be happy.
Now, I don't know how he read my mind, but that sure described me! When I asked him what I was supposed to do next, he told me that God could and would restore me to sanity if I was willing to work the steps. I was. It's taken years, but today I have an attitude of gratitude, I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I have a peace and serenity that no car or amount of money could ever give me.
And best of all, I'm truly happy because I no longer feel the need to compare my insides with someone else's outsides.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
a.That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives
b.That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
c.That God could and would if He were sought.
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 5:57:24 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 10, 2K10
My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing all day and
almost every night. The remonstrances of my friends terminated in a
row and I became a lone wolf.
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 3
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 7:49:24 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 10, 2010
Reminders
What I hear in meetings has a short shelf life,
and so I must attend meetings regularly.
I rarely hear something I do not know, but what I hear often reminds me
of something I had forgotten.
Living sober is harder than being a practicing alcoholic,
because it demands more of me.
But it is better. I recommend it.
- AA Grapevine, March 2010, p. 18
Thought to Ponder . . .
The ankle-biters of everyday struggles will eat away at me
unless I go to meetings and share.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/11/2010 : 04:09:50 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 11, 2010
Big Payoff
The big payoff is in having right now;
it's being alive and bursting with possibility (if not prosperity)
when, without AA, I would likely be dead.
That's the end -- today, right now, one more day sober, one day at a time.
The means is the grace of God and has always been available to me.
All I've needed is to be willing to receive it -- and to be grateful.
- AA Grapevine, March 2010, p. 23
Thought to Ponder . . .
What have I been given today?
Am I willing to reach out and grasp it?
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Stay In Today.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/11/2010 : 4:33:29 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 11, 2K10
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter
you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start,
this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our
first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. Afterward, we
found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of
reach. That was growth, but if we wished to grow we had to begin
somewhere. So we used our own conception, however limited it was.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p, 47
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/12/2010 : 12:02:16 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 12, 2010
Belief
Remember that we deal with alcohol --
cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power -- that One is God.
May you find Him now!
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp.58-59
Thought to Ponder . . .
I came; I came to; I came to believe.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Acceptance, Belief, Change.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/12/2010 : 12:02:54 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 12, 2010
Belief
Remember that we deal with alcohol --
cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power -- that One is God.
May you find Him now!
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp.58-59
Thought to Ponder . . .
I came; I came to; I came to believe.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Acceptance, Belief, Change.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/14/2010 : 2:38:11 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 14, 2K10
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered
a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree,
and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This
is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from
alcoholism.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p, 17
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 05:30:38 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
Attitude
Life is about perspective, and AA has given me a new pair of glasses.
I may not be able to change how others act or what they do,
but I can change my attitude toward it.
- AA Grapevine, March 2010, p. 37
Thought to Ponder . . .
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Attitude Adjustment.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 07:49:59 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 17, 2K10
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . .
“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 a last. It was only a
matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater
than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make
my beginning.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12
Someone once remarked that pain is the touchstone of
spiritual progress. How heartily we AA’s can agree with
him, for we know that the pains of alcoholism had to come
before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
Twelve and Twelve, PP. 93-94
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Freefly
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Posted - 03/19/2010 : 05:55:30 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 19, 2010
Change
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,
Courage to change the things we can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , p. 125
Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to change, change to learn.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Acceptance, Belief, Change.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/19/2010 : 07:35:36 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 19, 2K10
“Real Independence”
The more we become willing to depend upon a
Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are.
Twelve and Twelve, p. 36
Through my willingness to depend upon my Higher
Power, all my needs are provided for by Someone
Who knows me better than I know myself – even the
needs I may not realize, as well as the ones yet
to come. Only Someone Who knows me that well could
bring me to be myself and to help me fill the need
in someone else that only I am meant to fill. There
never will be another exactly like me. And that is
real independence.
Daily Reflections, p. 86
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 03/20/2010 : 11:11:30 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 20, 2K10
"It's the first drink that gets you drunk."
For years this saying made no sense to me. It wasn't the first drink, I argued, but rather the seventh or tenth drink that got me drunk. I'd been able to control my drinking for a long time, and with a lot of will power I'd been able to limit my drinking to a few glasses. Towards the end though, I'd inevitably have that sixth or seventh or more drink and end up roaring drunk. If only I could regain control, I thought, and when I entered the program, I secretly hoped I'd learn how.
I remember sharing with my sponsor my desire to once again control and enjoy my drinking. He said, "Heck, when I controlled my drinking, I didn't enjoy it, and when I enjoyed it, I couldn't control it." Boy did that make sense. He then told me that for him one drink was too much and a thousand was never enough because once he started, he could no longer stop. And that's when I began to understand.
Today I know very well that if I began drinking again, even one drink, it would soon enough lead to ten, and I'd be drunk. I don't know when I crossed the line into full blown alcoholism, but I did. I now know there is no going back. The good news is that I no longer fantasize about being able to control it again, because I know that it's the first drink that will get will get me drunk.
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