Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-30-2014, 08:09 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
September 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 30
Perfection
I have never been and never can be perfect. As that realization became a part of me -- and it took time --
it brought me one of the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2014, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 29
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AA Thought for the Day
September 29
One Day At A Time
The 24-hour plan is very flexible. We can start it afresh at any time, wherever we are.
At home, at work, in a bar or in a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2014, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 28
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AA Thought for the Day
September 28
Fear
For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear can be the starting point for better things.
Fear can be a stepping-stone to prudence...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-27-2014, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 27
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AA Thought for the Day
September 27
Home Group
This is where the AA member begins to learn about the how of Alcoholics Anonymous.
By selecting a home group, the newcomer begins to feel...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2014, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 26
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AA Thought for the Day
September 26
Different
I cannot consider myself "different" in AA; if I do I isolate myself from others and from contact with my Higher Power.
If I feel isolated in AA,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2014, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 25
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AA Thought for the Day
September 25
Let Go
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.
If you have decided you want what we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2014, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 24
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AA Thought for the Day
September 24
"Dry Drunk"
A dry drunk is a period of temporary insanity for the sober alcoholic.
Step Two says: "Came to believe that a Power greater than...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2014, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 23
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AA Thought for the Day
September 23
Surrender
When alcohol influenced every facet of my life,
when bottles became the symbol of all my self-indulgence and permissiveness,
when I came to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2014, 08:26 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 22
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AA Thought for the Day
September 22
Right Living
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help,
the knowledge that at home or in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2014, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 21
No...
AA Thought for the Day
September 21
No Regrets
The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. . .
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2014, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 20
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AA Thought for the Day
September 20
Confusion
I began to question my new beliefs too much -- I began to panic. I began to read beyond AA's literature for answers. . .
before I had read...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2014, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 19
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AA Thought for the Day
September 19
Emotional Sobriety
Tying our sobriety to someone we are emotionally involved with proves flatly disastrous.
"I'll stay sober if so-and-so does this or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2014, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 18
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AA Thought for the Day
September 18
Truth
As I began to look more closely, I noticed serious flaws: I was an alcoholic; I was neurotic;
I was brimful of character defects.
But these...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2014, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 17
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AA Thought for the Day
September 17
Turning Point
Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point.
We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2014, 08:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 16
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AA Thought for the Day
September 16
Fellowship
I began to develop a sense of trust in the AA group
and in the ideals of the Fellowship as a manifestation of a Power greater than myself....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2014, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 15
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AA Thought for the Day
September 15
Fact
Somehow our bodies had reached the point where we could no longer absorb alcohol in our systems.
The why is not important, the fact is that one...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2014, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 14
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AA Thought for the Day
September 14
Step Four
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-13-2014, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 13
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AA Thought for the Day
September 13
Growth
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,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2014, 08:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 12
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AA Thought for the Day
September 12
Serenity
I came into my apartment and I suddenly collapsed on the floor.
I lay there breathing kind of heavily and I said to myself, "Oh, to hell with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-11-2014, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 11
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AA Thought for the Day
September 11
Peace
Peace is possible for me only when I let go of expectations.
When I'm trapped in thoughts about what I want and what should be coming to me,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-10-2014, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 10
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AA Thought for the Day
September 10
Control
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures,
we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-09-2014, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 9
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AA Thought for the Day
September 9
Acceptance
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation -- some...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-08-2014, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 8
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AA Thought for the Day
September 8
Fudge
I was brought up in a little Yankee town of about fifty houses, East Dorset, Vermont.
I was born under the shadow of a mountain there called...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2014, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 7
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AA Thought for the Day
September 7
Faith
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color,
are the children...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-06-2014, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
September 6
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AA Thought for the Day
September 6
Habits
Our drinking was connected with many habits -- big and little.
Some of them were thinking habits, or things we felt inside ourselves.
Others...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-05-2014, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 5
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AA Thought for the Day
September 5
The Haven
Hopelessness has been replaced by abundant hope and sincere faith.
The people of AA have provided a haven where, if I remain aware and keep...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-04-2014, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 4
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AA Thought for the Day
September 4
Twelve Steps
Only Twelve Steps. In a day when we are exposed to fantastic statistics, a mere dozen doesn't seem to rate much.
But what is involved in the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-03-2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 3
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AA Thought for the Day
September 3
Willingness
A beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed.
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-02-2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought for the Day
September 2
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AA Thought for the Day
September 2
Relief
At first it was a shock to realize I was an alcoholic, but the realization that there was hope made it easier.
The baffling problem of getting...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-01-2014, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,085
AA Thought For Today - September
AA Thought for the Day
September 1
Isolation
Isolation creeps up on us. We can mask it with familiar props that are not in themselves bad.
We can isolate ourselves in an attempt to clean up...
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