Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-31-2019, 05:59 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 31
Faith
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AA Thought for the Day
May 31
Faith
Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was
so unsatisfactory. They show how the change came over
them. When many hundreds of people are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-30-2019, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Our...
AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Our Families
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we
now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-29-2019, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 29
The...
AA Thought for the Day
May 29
The Alcoholic Illness
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes
annihilation of all the things worth while in life. It engulfs
all whose...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-28-2019, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 28
Prayer...
AA Thought for the Day
May 28
Prayer and Meditation
We liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles.
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-27-2019, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27
Temptation
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to
shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the alcoholic
tries...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-26-2019, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 26
Checking...
AA Thought for the Day
May 26
Checking Our Motives
But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what
our true motives were. There are cases where our ancient enemy,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-25-2019, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 25
Faith...
AA Thought for the Day
May 25
Faith Without Works
Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic!
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-24-2019, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Happy,...
AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Happy, Joyous and Free
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears,
though it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-23-2019, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 23
Morning...
AA Thought for the Day
May 23
Morning Meditation
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes
select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize
the principles we have been...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-22-2019, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 22
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 22
Alcoholics Anonymous
We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word.
There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-21-2019, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Anger
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AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Anger
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They maybe the dubious luxury of normal men,
but for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-20-2019, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Step...
AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Step Eight
Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make amends to them all.
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-19-2019, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 19
Ceased...
AA Thought for the Day
May 19
Ceased Fighting
That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding
temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-18-2019, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 18
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 18
Self-Deception
Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are
not going to believe they are in that class. By every form
of self-deception and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-17-2019, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 17
Reliance ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 17
Reliance
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon
the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.
Our ideas did...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-16-2019, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 16
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 16
Meditation
Meditation is something which can always be further developed.
It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such
instruction and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-15-2019, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 15
Action
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AA Thought for the Day
May 15
Action
The program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic.
It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-14-2019, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 14
Twisted...
AA Thought for the Day
May 14
Twisted Relations
But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends,
and society at large that many of us have suffered the most.
We have been...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-13-2019, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 13
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 13
Foundation of Willingness
Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build
what I saw in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I would!
Thus was I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-12-2019, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 12
Amends
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AA Thought for the Day
May 12
Amends
We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing
worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him
what...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-11-2019, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Assets
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AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Assets
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of
character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done,
a genuine...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-10-2019, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 10
Building...
AA Thought for the Day
May 10
Building of Character
If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions.
But in no case does He render us white as snow
and keep us that way without our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-09-2019, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 9
Quick...
AA Thought for the Day
May 9
Quick Inventory
The quick inventory is aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those
where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-08-2019, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Guidance...
AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Guidance For Our Lives
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about
the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us
on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-07-2019, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,898
AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Success
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AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Success
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of
our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to
exercise special...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-06-2019, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 6
Spiritual...
AA Thought for the Day
May 6
Spiritual Matters
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters
as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-05-2019, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 5
Bondage of...
AA Thought for the Day
May 5
Bondage of Self
We were now at Step Three. Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him:
"God, I offer myself to Thee—to build with me and to do with me...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-04-2019, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Building...
AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Building an Arch
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have
omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which
we shall walk a free...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-03-2019, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,898
AA Thought for the Day
May 3
Pocket Our...
AA Thought for the Day
May 3
Pocket Our Pride
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character,
every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-02-2019, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,898
AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Step Five ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Step Five
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
This is perhaps difficult—especially discussing our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-01-2019, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,898
AA Thoughts For Today - May
AA Thought for the Day
May 1
Tradition One
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."
Eventually, of course, we cooperate because we really wish...
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