Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 05:57 AM
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October 20
Our behavior won't be irrational...
October 20
Our behavior won't be irrational if we pause and think before acting.
Reacting to another person’s craziness makes us a bit crazy too. However, someone else's anger, even if directed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 06:31 AM
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October 20
Focus and curiosity
Use your...
October 20
Focus and curiosity
Use your curiosity to gather knowledge and experiences. Employ your focus to weave together, expand upon, and make purposeful sense of what curiosity brings to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2024, 05:47 AM
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October 18
Accepting Help
When I was in...
October 18
Accepting Help
When I was in the military in the early 2000s, alcoholism and drug addiction were the kiss of death. If you liked what you were doing and wanted to keep on doing it,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2024, 05:44 AM
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October 18
Embrace your feelings
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October 18
Embrace your feelings
Welcome the way you feel, for there is authentic life in your feeling. Treasure the feelings as they change from one day to the next, in this situation and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2024, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 20
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October 17
Whatever the outcome
Work to...
October 17
Whatever the outcome
Work to create your desired outcomes. Commit to those outcomes, focus on the specific efforts they demand, and persist in those efforts.
But stop short of...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-16-2024, 08:03 AM
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New To All Of Us
When all of us come into recovery it's all new to all of us as it should be because none of us even know where to begin or what the things are that we could all do that would make our life's better...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 04:53 AM
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October 16
The Next Right Thing
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October 16
The Next Right Thing
Sometimes I get stuck. When I'm in the middle of a mess or a crisis, I often get or feel paralyzed and can't seem to make a decision or take action. It might not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 04:49 AM
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October 16
You’ve got this
Don’t get...
October 16
You’ve got this
Don’t get angry. Get to work.
Don’t let frustration cause you to throw in the towel. Plow your energy into efforts that have proven to make a difference, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2024, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 19
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October 15
When angry, count four; when very...
October 15
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain
Feelings of anger are a knotty problem for many men. Some of us as children were injured or so frightened by an angry...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2024, 06:15 AM
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October 15
Cherish the opportunities
...
October 15
Cherish the opportunities
When you’re interested, you’re effective. You find a way.
When you’re invested, you get results. You know the details, and you figure out how to best...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2024, 05:25 AM
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October 14
In my friend, I find a second...
October 14
In my friend, I find a second self.
~Isabel Norton
We are all part of each other. We are part of others. When we can't see ourselves, maybe we need to look at others in our group....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2024, 01:29 AM
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October 14
Give life to excellence
...
October 14
Give life to excellence
Nothing equals the satisfaction of a job well done. Create some of that satisfaction in your own life today.
When you’re engaging in effort, proactively...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2024, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 20
Daily Reflections
SOLACE FOR...
October 20
Daily Reflections
SOLACE FOR CONFUSION
Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He
thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2024, 07:01 AM
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October 13
Listen to your feelings. They...
October 13
Listen to your feelings. They tell you when you need to take care of yourself, like finding a friend if you feel lonely, crying if you feel sad, singing and smiling if you feel happy,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2024, 04:09 AM
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Replies: 19
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October 12
AA Thought for the Day
Some...
October 12
AA Thought for the Day
Some people find it hard to believe in a Power greater than themselves. But not to believe in such a Power forces us to atheism. It has been said that atheism...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2024, 04:03 AM
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October 13
Power of transformation
Even...
October 13
Power of transformation
Even when the world feels like it’s falling apart, you can marvel at its beauty and wonder. Even when chaos and tumult are all around, you can carry peace in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2024, 04:02 AM
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October 12
Worth the trouble
It will be...
October 12
Worth the trouble
It will be okay. Take one breath, then another.
Life continues, the world keeps going. All that you love, you still love.
As each new moment arrives, more...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2024, 04:33 AM
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October 11
Go confidently in the direction...
October 11
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
To have a dream takes courage and a bit of hope. A dream guides us, even if we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2024, 04:22 AM
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October 11
Formula for improvement
You...
October 11
Formula for improvement
You only need to notice once that something is wrong. After that, invest all your thoughts and actions in doing what’s necessary to correct it or render it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2024, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 19
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October 10
All sorrows can be borne if you...
October 10
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~Isak Dinesen
Sharing our experience, strength, and hope with others in this program helps to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2024, 06:01 AM
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October 10
Pushing you in a positive...
October 10
Pushing you in a positive direction
Let fear inform you, motivate you. But don’t let it control you.
The object of your fear does not align with your interests. Know it well,...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-09-2024, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 789
Living With This Disease
I have this disease which will kill me sooner or later — if I don't change my thinking and acting and I am powerless over me having this disease. I can admit that I have it and surrender to the fact...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 19
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S...
October 19
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S "MAIN TAPROOT"
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat
is the main taproot from which our whole...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2024, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 29
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October 18
Daily Reflections
AN OPEN...
October 18
Daily Reflections
AN OPEN MIND
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
My alcoholic thinking led me to believe that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2024, 06:43 AM
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October 17
Daily Reflections
A DAILY...
October 17
Daily Reflections
A DAILY TUNE-UP
Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will
into all of our activities.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2024, 06:30 AM
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October 9
Guilt and Worry
With the...
October 9
Guilt and Worry
With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future as future. I live now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We discover a truth about the past and future in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2024, 06:29 AM
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October 9
Do what you can do
You don’t...
October 9
Do what you can do
You don’t have all the answers. Nonetheless, there’s something good you can do.
You’re short on time and resources. Yet you have plenty of ways to make a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2024, 06:12 AM
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October 8
The worst loneliness is to not be...
October 8
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
~Mark Twain
It's not that we want God to change everything about us or remake us to perfection. (OK, maybe we do.) It's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2024, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 20
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October 8
High hopes
Your hopes may be...
October 8
High hopes
Your hopes may be high, but hopes alone will not bring results. Hold on to those high hopes, and act on them.
Expect the best, and do the work that those expectations...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2024, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,500
October 7
A single grateful thought toward...
October 7
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thank you is one of the most important things we can say to anyone. Thank you packs a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2024, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,890
October 7
Flow of inspiration
Embrace...
October 7
Flow of inspiration
Embrace opportunities to be inspired. Then pass along that goodness by putting forth the effort to be inspiring.
Live so that inspiration flows through you. Tap...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 16
Daily Reflections
THROUGHOUT...
October 16
Daily Reflections
THROUGHOUT EACH DAY
This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
During my early years in A.A. I saw...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 15
Daily Reflections
MY...
October 15
Daily Reflections
MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its
satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 14
Daily Reflections
A PROGRAM...
October 14
Daily Reflections
A PROGRAM FOR LIVING
When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think
about the twenty-four hours ahead. . . Before we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 13
Daily Reflections
...
October 13
Daily Reflections
UNREMITTING INVENTORIES
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment,
and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove
them. We discuss...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 19
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October 6
Came to believe that a Power...
October 6
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
~Step Two of Alcoholics Anonymous
Having admitted powerlessness in the First Step, we now begin to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,500
October 5
Receiving
Here is an...
October 5
Receiving
Here is an exercise:
Today, let someone give to you. Let someone do something nice for you. Let someone give you a compliment or tell you something good about yourself....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,890
October 6
Make new meaning
Meaning in...
October 6
Make new meaning
Meaning in life is not something you find by stumbling across it or searching for it or having it handed to you. The meaning in your life is the meaning you actively...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 20
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October 5
How you respond
The results...
October 5
How you respond
The results you achieve do not come from the situation. Your results are determined by how you respond to the situation.
From identical circumstances, two different...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2024, 04:29 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,500
October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent...
October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent of all the atoms in your body are replaced completely. This includes even the DNA, which holds memories of millions of years of evolutionary time. . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2024, 04:25 AM
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October 4
Challenges you choose
There...
October 4
Challenges you choose
There is no overwhelming need or financial incentive for people to climb mountains. Yet plenty of people do so, and often pay handsomely for the opportunity.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,500
October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help...
October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help are we ready to receive it.
On occasion, our problems seem overwhelming, and we don't know where to turn. Our job is stressful. Our health is failing....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,890
October 3
Going through the motions
...
October 3
Going through the motions
Going through the motions is not a good habit when you’re trying to avoid the work. Yet it can be very useful when you are learning to do the work.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 12
Daily Reflections
CURBING...
October 12
Daily Reflections
CURBING RASHNESS
When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant
evaporates on the spot.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 11
Daily Reflections
...
October 11
Daily Reflections
SELF--RESTRAINT
Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91
My drive to work provides me with an...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 16,789
October 10
Daily Reflections
FIXING ME,...
October 10
Daily Reflections
FIXING ME, NOT YOU
If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90
What a freedom I felt when this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,500
October 2
Reflection for the Day
When...
October 2
Reflection for the Day
When we first stopped drinking, using, overeating, or gambling, it was an enormous relief to find that the people we met in the program seemed quite different...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:08 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,890
October 2
Ability to imagine
...
October 2
Ability to imagine
Imagination is not a trivial thing. Give it the seriousness it deserves.
When you imagine, put time and effort into it. Imagine in specific detail, with feeling,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 20
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 06:40 AM
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Today's Thought - October
October 1
Sponsorship Saves
For years, I used to think that acceptance meant I had to like something to accept it.
Oh, no, I don't have to like it. I just need to accept it. To let it go....
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