Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-31-2017, 04:15 AM
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August 31
Miracles are instantaneous. They...
August 31
Miracles are instantaneous. They cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments to those who least expect them.
-- Katherine Anne Porter
Nobody can force us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-30-2017, 05:48 AM
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August 30
Courage and Patience
There...
August 30
Courage and Patience
There are times when the "poor me" mood strikes us all. We complain that things are not better. We bemoan our sorry lot in life. We condemn ourselves and others...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-29-2017, 05:03 AM
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August 29
WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to...
August 29
WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.
--Anonymous
One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-28-2017, 04:40 AM
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August 28
I wonder why love is so often...
August 28
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again.
--Florida...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-27-2017, 04:50 AM
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August 27
Reflection for the Day
Not in...
August 27
Reflection for the Day
Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the rewards that would be mine when I first contemplated turning my life and will over to the care of God, as I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-26-2017, 04:56 AM
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August 26
I have to laugh at the times I’ve...
August 26
I have to laugh at the times I’ve knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through.
--Robert Franklin Leslie
We receive messages...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-25-2017, 05:13 AM
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August 25
Believe that life is worth living...
August 25
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the act.
--William James
Step Two speaks of believing. For many years, we had given up believing in ourselves, in a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-24-2017, 05:17 AM
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August 24
Reflection for the Day
In a...
August 24
Reflection for the Day
In a very real sense, we are imprisoned by our inability or unwillingness to reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves. But in time, we pray to be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-23-2017, 03:56 AM
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August 23
You had better live your best and...
August 23
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
--Harriet Martineau
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-22-2017, 06:16 AM
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August 22
. . . (the king) can deprive them...
August 22
. . . (the king) can deprive them of the benefit of sun and rain, . . . and they are at the same time pelted from above with great stones, . . . while the roofs of their houses are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-21-2017, 04:41 AM
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August 21
Love, and love alone, is capable...
August 21
Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
We are making a response to life's every waking moment; our attitudes formulate the tenor of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2017, 04:41 AM
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August 20
Our main business is not to see...
August 20
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle
"Five years down the road," says Jack, "I want to have a new...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2017, 06:04 AM
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August 19
All We Have Is Now
We can...
August 19
All We Have Is Now
We can only live now, this moment. We cannot erase the mistakes we made yesterday or bring back the good times we had. We cannot know what tomorrow will require of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-18-2017, 05:20 AM
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August 18
Disappointment and Frustration
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August 18
Disappointment and Frustration
How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-17-2017, 04:55 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-16-2017, 04:14 AM
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August 16
I am determined to maintain the...
August 16
I am determined to maintain the perpendicular position.
--Lucy Stone
Perpendicular lines make right angles; they make possible extensions of both height and breadth. Right angles are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-15-2017, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 15
Friendship and Love
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August 15
Friendship and Love
Friendships or marriages based on "dire need" or physical security are doomed to fail if each person in the relationship does not grow beyond his or her limited...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2017, 04:26 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 14
Reflection for the Day
It...
August 14
Reflection for the Day
It was far easier for me to accept my powerlessness over my addiction than it was for me to accept the notion that some sort of Higher Power could accomplish...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-13-2017, 04:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 13
The block of granite which was an...
August 13
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. That block of granite is often nothing more than a decision....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-12-2017, 07:07 AM
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August 12
Accepting the past
Noted...
August 12
Accepting the past
Noted psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "If one can accept one's sin, one can live with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable consequences."...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2017, 03:31 AM
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August 11
God give[s] us a mind that can or...
August 11
God give[s] us a mind that can or can't believe, but not even God can make us believe.... You have to believe first before you can pray.
--Harriet Arnow
Sometimes it's difficult to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2017, 02:43 AM
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August 10
It is a long baptism into the seas...
August 10
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
--Tillie Olsen
We have each had days when we preferred hiding under the covers,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-09-2017, 03:59 AM
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August 9
The crow that mimics a cormorant...
August 9
The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.
--Japanese proverb
When we are young we are vulnerable to the images of success that surround us - in sports, in politics, and in our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-08-2017, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,431
August 8
When a child loves you for a long,...
August 8
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real.
--Margery Wilson
Intimacy with another is a necessary risk if we're to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-07-2017, 04:03 AM
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August 7
Aloneness and Quality Time
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August 7
Aloneness and Quality Time
There are many ways to be good to ourselves. Here are just a few:
At the beginning of each day, we can think about what we'd like to accomplish. This can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-06-2017, 04:23 AM
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August 6
"Stomp, Scram, Spit, Cry," a friend...
August 6
"Stomp, Scram, Spit, Cry," a friend said. "Just don't go numb again. Maybe what you're really angry about is that you've been dead longer than Abe Lincoln, and now you're finally coming...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-05-2017, 04:51 AM
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August 5
Having loosened our grip on the...
August 5
Having loosened our grip on the past, we are free to reach for the future.
--Ann D. Clark
Everyday of our lives we think of some situation we wish we had handled differently. Perhaps...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-04-2017, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 4
All music is what awakes from you...
August 4
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
--Walt Whitman
A small group of friends sat in a room around a record player. It was a heavy old thing,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-03-2017, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 3
The Four Absolutes
by the Oxford...
August 3
The Four Absolutes
by the Oxford Group, used by early AAs before the Twelve Steps were written
Absolute Honesty
Both with ourselves and with others, in word, deed, and thought.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-02-2017, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 2
Courage is very important. Like a...
August 2
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
--Ruth Gordon
All of us fear the unfamiliar at times; and it's nothing to be ashamed of to occasionally feel...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-01-2017, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,431
Today's Thought - August
August 1
Saving the World
Today may my prayers help me realize
I cannot control everything.
To put the world in order,
We must first put the nation in order;
To put the nation in order,
We...
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