Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 05:15 AM
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December 3
Learning new ways
Once we...
December 3
Learning new ways
Once we make a connection with our Higher Power, the ongoing problem is to hold on to it. Repeatedly we slip into our old ways of thinking and behaving. If not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 05:08 AM
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December 3
Discretionary time
After...
December 3
Discretionary time
After fulfilling the necessary tasks and obligations, consider how you’re making use of your discretionary time. Look for activities and priorities that enhance...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 06:47 AM
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December 2
There is no method or discipline...
December 2
There is no method or discipline or system of any kind that can ever command the spirit to be present.
~Tom Sampon
A man in the process of growth and recovery asks the question,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-01-2024, 12:18 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-01-2024, 09:57 AM
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Happy December the 1st my dear friend.
God...
Happy December the 1st my dear friend.
God bless you and your family on this
First day of Advent. Tammy we never
Met personally, but you have been part
Of my life for over ten years. Wow.
God...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-30-2024, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 30
The power of a man's virtue...
November 30
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
~Blaise Pascal
The airplane kit is on the table in front of us. We have the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-30-2024, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 3
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Daily Motivator - December
December 1
Giving all you can
Here is your opportunity for a day of richness and fulfillment. Seize the opportunity by giving the best of yourself.
Look beyond the empty, contrived...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-30-2024, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 30
Engage with vigor
Today you...
November 30
Engage with vigor
Today you are surrounded by unrealized opportunities. What will you do with them?
You’re filled with energy, purpose, ability, and wisdom. In what unique way...
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Forum: Daily Gratitude
11-29-2024, 02:27 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-29-2024, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 29
AA Thought for the Day
If...
November 29
AA Thought for the Day
If alcoholism were just a physical allergy, like asthma or hay fever, it would be easy for us, by taking a skin test with alcohol, to find out whether or not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-29-2024, 04:57 AM
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Replies: 35
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November 29
Intentional time
Make time...
November 29
Intentional time
Make time to focus on what carries substance and meaning. Carve out significant periods that you can spend doing what matters, what’s fulfilling, and making...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-29-2024, 04:57 AM
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Replies: 35
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-28-2024, 11:47 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-28-2024, 06:06 AM
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November 28
Celebrate your life and hear...
November 28
Celebrate your life and hear your spirit sing.
~Elisabeth L.
"What’s to celebrate?" some people ask. We all get our fill of the cynics. Their negativity can weigh down our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-28-2024, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 28
More gratitude
Gratitude...
November 28
More gratitude
Gratitude never gets old. Indeed, it becomes even more beneficial with age.
Every moment of gratitude strengthens your connection to abundance. It sharpens your...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-27-2024, 10:35 AM
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The Guiding Force
We'll all need them to begin our recovery, and this is true for all of us and these will become our foundation that we'll all need to learn how to live by and more importantly for all of who suffer...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-25-2024, 06:03 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 25
Children have never been very...
November 25
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~James Baldwin
There may be times when the shame and fear of the past...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-25-2024, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 25
Greet the day
Start early...
November 25
Greet the day
Start early to set a positive direction for the day. Lock yourself solidly onto a purposeful track and make it nearly impossible for anything to knock you off that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-24-2024, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 24
When hope can't be found, seek...
November 24
When hope can't be found, seek out a friend and borrow theirs.
~Anonymous
Often we find ourselves feeling down or wondering what it’s all about. We may feel sorry for ourselves...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-23-2024, 07:45 PM
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Replies: 10
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December 3
Daily Reflections
IN ALL OUR...
December 3
Daily Reflections
IN ALL OUR AFFAIRS
. . . . we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-23-2024, 07:45 PM
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December 2
Daily Reflections
SERENITY ...
December 2
Daily Reflections
SERENITY
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106
As I continued to go to meetings and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-23-2024, 07:44 PM
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Daily Recovery Readings - December
December 1
Daily Reflections
"SUGGESTED" STEPS
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing
all the Steps, we have each found something called a
spiritual awakening. . . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-23-2024, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 24
Mental environment
Are your...
November 24
Mental environment
Are your thoughts in a gloomy, unproductive place? You have the ability to quickly carry them somewhere else.
Would you prefer to be on a beach in Fiji or a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-22-2024, 03:22 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 22
Hanging on to Old Relationships ...
November 22
Hanging on to Old Relationships
We want to travel baggage-free on this journey. It makes the trip easier. Some of the baggage we can let go of is lingering feelings and unfinished...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-22-2024, 03:21 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 22
Beyond yourself
Existence...
November 22
Beyond yourself
Existence is what you know, but only a fraction of a fraction of existence is about you. You intensely experience climbing the mountain, nevertheless the mountain...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-21-2024, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 21
I learn that safety is where we...
November 21
I learn that safety is where we make it
~Ekua Omosupe
We each have different images of safety. Some associate safety with having a secure job, enough money (however we define...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-21-2024, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 21
Fill the voids
Because of...
November 21
Fill the voids
Because of silence, sound has an environment in which to exist. When emptiness abounds, fulfillment becomes possible.
Any time you sense emptiness in your world,...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-20-2024, 11:04 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 753
Finding Success
Finding the program of recovery by whatever means all of us have is a success for all of us who are new, but very few of us that are new will think this way. Having this program of recovery will be a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-20-2024, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 30
Daily Reflections
...
November 30
Daily Reflections
PROTECTION FOR ALL
At the personal level, anonymity provides protection for
all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard
often of special...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-20-2024, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 29
Daily Reflections
ACTIVE...
November 29
Daily Reflections
ACTIVE GUARDIANS
To us, however, it represents far more than a sound
public relations policy. It is more than a denial of
self-seeking. This Tradition is a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-20-2024, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 28
Daily Reflections
...
November 28
Daily Reflections
ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION
Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived
at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many
ways of usual...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2024, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 19
Reflection for the Day
The...
November 19
Reflection for the Day
The Twelve Steps teach us that, as faith grows, so does security. The terrifying fear of nothingness begins to subside. As we work the program, we find that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 19
Rise up to reality
You are...
November 19
Rise up to reality
You are stronger than you were. And in large part, the disappointments have prompted that added strength.
When life is going well, it’s easy to get complacent....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-18-2024, 04:09 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 18
Addiction Is Cunning, Baffling,...
November 18
Addiction Is Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful
I never said no to anything in the service, but alcohol was my primary drug of choice. I got deployed to Afghanistan in 2002. That’s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-18-2024, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 18
Treasures in difficult places
...
November 18
Treasures in difficult places
Go where you face the possibility of failure. That’s where you learn, where you improve, where you grow stronger.
Go where you feel a little bit of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 27
Daily Reflections
THE...
November 27
Daily Reflections
THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT
In the beginning, the press could not understand our
refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely
baffled by our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 26
Daily Reflections
THE...
November 26
Daily Reflections
THE HAZARDS OF PUBLICITY
People who symbolize causes and ideas fill a deep human
need. We of A.A. do not question that. But we do have to
soberly face the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 25
Daily Reflections
A...
November 25
Daily Reflections
A POWERFUL TRADITION
In the years before the publication of the book "Alcoholics
Anonymous," we had no name. . .by a narrow majority the verdict
was for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 24
Daily Reflections
A...
November 24
Daily Reflections
A UNIVERSAL SEARCH
Be quick to see where religious people are right.
Make use of what they offer.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 17
Enjoying reality
Cloud Nine...
November 17
Enjoying reality
Cloud Nine does not compare to the joys and beauty of a clean life. In fact, Cloud Nine is opposed to our new way of life. It's a fantasy, a trip, a high - like...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-16-2024, 03:05 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 17
Time to begin
You know you...
November 17
Time to begin
You know you can be better, you know you can give more. Challenge yourself to do so.
It’s easy to complain, to blame, to dream up excuses, to feel sorry for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-16-2024, 02:49 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 16
Actually doing
Intentions...
November 16
Actually doing
Intentions arise in your heart and in your head. But if that’s as far as they go, they’ll eventually fade away to nothing.
Don’t keep those intentions trapped...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-15-2024, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 15
Self-importance is our greatest...
November 15
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-15-2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,480
November 15
Do not relent
This is...
November 15
Do not relent
This is possible, this can be done. Go to work, do not relent.
Now is your starting point. Stretching out in front of you is your opportunity.
Utilize what you...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-14-2024, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 14
SERVICE - A beautiful word...
November 14
SERVICE - A beautiful word fallen upon bad days.
~Claude McKay
Service is really a beautiful word. Service means respect. When we serve others, we're part of the human race. We...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-13-2024, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 978
A Friend
It is said in recovery that we've all become our own worst enemy, very few of us when new to recovery can see how we have. This is because all of us have become so accustomed to doing all the things...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 23
Daily Reflections
HOLD YOUR...
November 23
Daily Reflections
HOLD YOUR FACE TO THE LIGHT
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the
Light, even though for the moment you do not see.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 22
Daily Reflections
ONLY TWO...
November 22
Daily Reflections
ONLY TWO SINS
. . . . there are only two sins; the first is to
interfere with the growth of another human being,
and the second is to interfere with one's own...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,327
November 21
Daily Reflections
A CLASSIC...
November 21
Daily Reflections
A CLASSIC PRAYER
Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where
there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there
is wrong. I may bring the spirit of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,588
November 13
A person's best ally is someone...
November 13
A person's best ally is someone who takes care of herself.
~Susan Clarke
It was hard to learn how to walk if she couldn't fall down, but the girl was too little to be able to...
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