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Freefly
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 Posted - 05/19/2010 : 1:14:45 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 19, 2010
Communication
From the beginning, communication in AA has been no ordinary
transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes.
It has been unusual and sometimes unique. Because of our kinship in suffering,
and because our common means of deliverance
are effective only when carried to others,
our channels of contact have always been charged with
the language of the heart.
- The Language of the Heart, p. 243
Thought to Ponder . . .
We need to share our problems to find our solutions.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Experience, Strength and Hope.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 05:36:01 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20, 2010
Inner Security
Anonymity is leading me to a fully human life.
The long form of the Twelfth Tradition describes
the end to which the Steps are leading me.
They put me in my place by setting forth a genuine humility --
not a self-hating groveling, but rather an honest and loving
relationship with a God who loves me. Once this is established,
I am free to relate to other people out of the love and inner security
that renders my overinflated ego superfluous.
- Thank You For Sharing, p. 112
Thought to Ponder . . .
Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Adventurers Anonymous.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 05:38:23 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20, 2010
Inner Security
Anonymity is leading me to a fully human life.
The long form of the Twelfth Tradition describes
the end to which the Steps are leading me.
They put me in my place by setting forth a genuine humility --
not a self-hating groveling, but rather an honest and loving
relationship with a God who loves me. Once this is established,
I am free to relate to other people out of the love and inner security
that renders my overinflated ego superfluous.
- Thank You For Sharing, p. 112
Thought to Ponder . . .
Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Adventurers Anonymous.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 7:41:34 PM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20, 2010
We alcoholics are sensitive people. It takes some of us a long time
to outgrow that serious handicap.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 125
Above all, take it one day at a time.
As bill sees it, p. 11
If we are painstaking about this phase of our
development, we will be amazed before we are
half way through. We are going to know a new
freedom and a new happiness.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 83
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/21/2010 : 04:12:24 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 21, 2010
Asking For Help
I am responsible.
When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help,
I want the hand of AA always to be there.
And for that: I am responsible.
- Alcoholics Anonymous Pledge
Thought to Ponder . . .
Simply asking for help seems to be a help in itself.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Hope, Encouragement, Love, Patience.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 05/22/2010 : 07:38:32 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 22, 2010
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship
and colorful imagination.
It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is 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.
They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments
of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we
once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of
control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt -
and one more failure.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 151
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/23/2010 : 08:54:35 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 23, 2010
Stopping Problem
I remember telling a friend years ago that I didn't have a drinking problem,
I had a stopping problem. We laughed.
It was true, but there was something else going on,
something that never occurred to me until I came to AA.
I had a starting problem too.
No matter how often I stopped, or for how long,
I always started drinking again.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 372-373
Thought to Ponder . . .
If we want to quit drinking, we are going to have to quit drinking.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
One Day At A Time.
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/24/2010 : 09:12:23 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 24, 2010
Boomerang!
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others,
or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship,
but never getting it . . . There was always that mysterious barrier . . .
It was if we were actors on a stage, suddenly realizing that we did not know
a single line of our parts. That's one reason we loved alcohol too well. . .
But even Bacchus boomeranged on us;
we were finally struck down and left in terrified loneliness.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 57
Thought to Ponder . . .
Alcohol gave me wings to fly, then it took away the sky.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
You Are Not Alone.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 05/24/2010 : 11:36:20 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 24, 2010
"When you own your part, you own your power."
When I was new to the program, I dreaded doing my fourth step inventory. What possible good could it do me to list all my resentments I wondered? When my sponsor told me there was an invisible category called "my part", I was sure this was going to be a useless exercise. I mean, I didn't have a part in choosing my parents, or my siblings, or what happened to me at school and on and on. Just thinking about it made me resentful!
After months of painful and exhaustive writing, I finally finished the first draft of my inventory. I remember reading it to my sponsor and becoming more and more irritated each time he asked me about my part. "But I'm talking about what he, she, or it did to me," I complained. "Yes, but yours is the only part you can change," he said. And that's when I began to understand.
I had spent a lifetime blaming other people, places and things for the misery in my life and all that did was make me a perpetual victim. Once I learned to focus on my part, however, I began to see the role my own behavior played in the destructive patterns in my life. And that's when I discovered I had the power to change them.
You see I learned that when you own your part, you own your power.
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/25/2010 : 08:37:54 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 25, 2010
Receptiveness
He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness,
peace of mind, and love, of which he had thought himself quite incapable.
What he has received is a free gift, and yet usually, at least in some small part,
he has made himself ready to receive it.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 107
Thought to Ponder . . .
I asked from the heart, and I received.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness.
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 05/26/2010 : 08:50:28 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 26, 2010
"God doesn't care what you think about Him, only that you think about Him."
I've spend a lot of my life struggling with the concept of God. For many years my God was on a throne judging my thoughts and actions, and I did my best to keep on His good side. When I sinned, I'd try doubly hard to be good again and all the while I was trying to keep track of my good/bad ledger. "If I die tonight, where will I end up?" I thought regularly before going to sleep. By the time I got sober, I was pretty sure where I was going...
In early recovery I was terrified of the thought of turning my will and my life over to the care of God as I understood Him. I was sure God didn't care much for me, and I was afraid that if I abandoned myself to Him then he would exact His just reward. I secretly resented God, and when I finally admitted this to my sponsor, he gave me the solution.
"Talk to God and tell Him exactly how you feel," he suggested. "But I'm really pissed off about a lot of things, and He's not going to like it," I warned him. "Believe me, He's big enough to take whatever you've got," he said. When I finally began an open and honest dialogue with God - telling Him of my anger, resentments, fears and disappointments in Him - that's when my connection and faith in a Higher Power began. And that's when my real recovery began as well.
Today I've learned that God doesn't care what you think about Him, only that you think about Him.
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/26/2010 : 09:04:19 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 26, 2010
Newcomer
Like most people new to the program I set out to find an easier, softer way.
As the Big Book suggests, I could not. When I couldn't find an easier, softer way,
I looked for the person with the magic wand,
the one person in AA who could make me all better, right now.
This was a frustrating task, and I finally realized that if I wanted this life,
I was going to have to do what the others had done.
This program is for people who want it, not people who need it.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 315
Thought to Ponder . . .
While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Nothing Else Worked.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Freefly
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Posted - 05/27/2010 : 07:34:44 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27, 2010
Kinship
But we soon discovered that,
while we weren't alone any more in a social sense,
we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts,
and had listened to someone else do the same thing,
we still didn't belong.
Step Five was the answer.
It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 228
Thought to Ponder . . .
While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Tears,
Laughter,
Caring.
Day by Day is the only way.... |
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Pamela7030
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Posted - 05/27/2010 : 07:55:28 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27, 2010
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations
with his children. Their young minds were impressionable while he
was drinking. Without saying so, they may cordially hate him for
what he has done to them and to their mother. The children are
sometimes dominated by a pathetic hardness and cynicism. They cannot
seem to forgive and forget. This may hang on for months, long after
their mother has accepted dad's new way of living and thinking.
In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they
will let him know it.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 134
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Posted - 05/28/2010 : 06:13:10 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 28, 2010
No Reservation
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:
"Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." . . .
If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind,
nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 33
Thought to Ponder . . .
Alcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful!
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Absolute Abstinence.
only way.... |
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