Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-31-2016, 04:02 AM
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December 31
Recovery for me has been almost...
December 31
Recovery for me has been almost a rebirth. I'm born again as the curious, trusting, honest child I was so long ago - the child I thought I'd lost forever.
-- Paul D.
For many of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-30-2016, 05:40 AM
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December 29
Proving ourselves
Long...
December 29
Proving ourselves
Long after a bitter failure, some of us still cling to the hope that we can erase the defeat in some spectacular way. One dream is to "prove ourselves" to those...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-29-2016, 05:24 AM
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December 29
The Hares and the Frogs
One...
December 29
The Hares and the Frogs
One day the hares were discussing how they could hardly ever relax because of their fear of other animals.
Just then they felt the earth tremble and saw a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-28-2016, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 28
Intuition is a spiritual faculty...
December 28
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
--Florence Scovel Shinn
Should we make this move? Should we change jobs? Should we talk to others...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-27-2016, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 27
May you live all the days of...
December 27
May you live all the days of your life.
--Jonathan Swift
Indeed life is much like a game - both a deadly serious one and one that demands laughter, relaxation, and the ability to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-26-2016, 02:51 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 26
Believe more deeply. Hold your...
December 26
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.
-- Bill W.
At times, we'll go through pain and hardship. At times, we'll have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-25-2016, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 25
To him, it was not the gift that...
December 25
To him, it was not the gift that mattered, but the giver.
--Walter de La Mare
In our material world today, we often get off track. We forget that what we really need in our lives...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-24-2016, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 24
That life is a fragile shell on...
December 24
That life is a fragile shell on the beach I have thought of before. This Christmas I am thinking big basic wonders as if I were just born.
--Naomi Shihab Nye
The big basic wonders...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-23-2016, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 23
If you would be loved, love and...
December 23
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
--Benjamin Franklin
We all desire to be loved. Our common human characteristic is our need to count in someone else's life. At least one...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-22-2016, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 22
All our loves are first loves. ...
December 22
All our loves are first loves.
--Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
When we fall in love with someone, it is a unique thing that comes from deep within us. Any relationship is the creation...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-21-2016, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 21
Fine friendship requires...
December 21
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
--Aristotle
Once we have embarked upon this program, we find spiritual recovery through relationships more than any...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-20-2016, 04:20 AM
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December 20
Made a searching and fearless...
December 20
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
--Step Four of Alcoholic Anonymous
We avoid the Fourth Step. We put it off. We're scared of what we will find inside of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-19-2016, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 19
The readiness is all. ...
December 19
The readiness is all.
--William Shakespeare
Newcomer
I went to two different Step meetings this week, in different parts of town, and both of them were on the Fourth Step. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-18-2016, 04:58 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 18
"I can't help it" . . . that's...
December 18
"I can't help it" . . . that's what we all say when we don't want to exert ourselves.
--Eva Lathbury
Irresponsible behavior is not unfamiliar to us. Passivity is equally familiar....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-17-2016, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 17
Inches make champions. -- Vince...
December 17
Inches make champions. -- Vince Lombardi
What's the difference between success and failure? Ideal conditions? Half again as much effort? Twice the talent? Ten times "the breaks"?...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-16-2016, 04:32 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 16
It is the act of forgiveness...
December 16
It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all.
-- Father Desmond Wilson
Today is full of endless possibilities and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-15-2016, 03:42 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 15
We are giving birth to...
December 15
We are giving birth to ourselves. Let's be midwives to one another through this difficult, yet exhilarating, process.
--Dudley Martineau
Helping each other survive the traumas of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-14-2016, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 14
Only when we humbly ask for help...
December 14
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-13-2016, 05:28 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 13
Reflection for the Day
"It...
December 13
Reflection for the Day
"It is the privilege of wisdom to listen," Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote. If I try as hard as I can to cultivate the art of listening - uncritically and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-12-2016, 05:20 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 12
Inventory
The first time I...
December 12
Inventory
The first time I took an inventory of myself, it was because I had to. I was in a treatment program. A judge had sentenced me there "for as long as it takes." The...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-11-2016, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 11
A.A. Thought for the Day
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December 11
A.A. Thought for the Day
When people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the temptation is strong to say nothing about it. No other A.A. member should force them to declare...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-10-2016, 03:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 10
It is more profitable to turn...
December 10
It is more profitable to turn away thine eyes from such things as displease thee than to be a slave to contention.
--Thomas A. Kempis
Focusing our attention incessantly on matters...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-09-2016, 04:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 9
I left because there was no room...
December 9
I left because there was no room for me. But you could tell me not to go. Say it to me. Tell me not to go.
--Stephen Sondheim
Sunday in the Park with George
To leave someone we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-08-2016, 02:44 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-07-2016, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 7
I can stand what I know. It's...
December 7
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
--Frances Newton
Fear of the unknown, often referred to as free-floating anxiety, catches up to us on occasion....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-06-2016, 03:34 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 6
I was acting out my patterns when...
December 6
I was acting out my patterns when I denied that I had any patterns.
--Julie F.
Even when we are most out of control, there is always logic operating in our lives. B follows A, and D...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-05-2016, 03:20 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 5
More is not necessarily the...
December 5
More is not necessarily the answer.
We often think that if a little is good, more will be better, or that if we are not happy, it must be because we don't have enough of something.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-04-2016, 05:31 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 4
In analysis, as I have known it,...
December 4
In analysis, as I have known it, you are confronted by your qualities and cannot disown them, though you may try to.
--Florida Scott Maxwell
We aren't all in formal analysis, but...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-03-2016, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 3
Serenity = Reality = Inner peace...
December 3
Serenity = Reality = Inner peace and strength.
--Anonymous
Most of us chased an elusive thing called serenity for years. We thought our journeys outside reality brought us peace and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-02-2016, 05:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,827
December 2
Letting go to save our lives
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December 2
Letting go to save our lives
I crouched in the doorway of the airplane next to my skydiving coach. I held on to the doorway with my right hand for balance. With my left hand, I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-01-2016, 04:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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Today's Thought - December
December 1
Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here;
Thou art without form, butI worship you in these forms;
Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these
prayers and salutations.
--Hindu...
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