Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2017, 05:04 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 31
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AA Thought for the Day
March 31
Suddenly Realized
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had
collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking
again. He...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-30-2017, 06:12 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 30
Anger ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 30
Anger
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the sudden rage were not for us.
Anger is the dubious luxury of normal men,
but for us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-29-2017, 06:47 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 29
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AA Thought for the Day
March 29
Spiritual Growth
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth,
to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-28-2017, 06:35 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 28
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AA Thought for the Day
March 28
Dividends
. . . he has struck something better than gold. . . .
He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless
lode which will pay dividends...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2017, 06:43 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 27
Believe...
AA Thought for the Day
March 27
Believe
We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe,
or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?"
As...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2017, 06:35 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 26
Curious...
AA Thought for the Day
March 26
Curious
Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert opinion to the
contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2017, 06:07 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 25
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AA Thought for the Day
March 25
Solution
There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our
pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2017, 06:49 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 24
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AA Thought for the Day
March 24
Destruction
Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant
destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things
to the Father of Light who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2017, 06:52 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 23
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AA Thought for the Day
March 23
Selfishness
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves,
and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2017, 07:35 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 22
Prayer...
AA Thought for the Day
March 22
Prayer and Meditation
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans
for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2017, 06:56 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 21
Turn It...
AA Thought for the Day
March 21
Turn It Over
Any of us can handle just one day;
all each of us has to try at is our own job, our own family life.
We don't have to try fixing up the whole...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2017, 07:40 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 20
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AA Thought for the Day
March 20
Fellowship
Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that.
It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will
find release from care,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2017, 06:33 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 19
God ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 19
God
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up,
just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to
search...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2017, 07:04 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 18
Pain ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 18
Pain
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain
was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s
can agree with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-17-2017, 03:20 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 17
Watch ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 17
Watch
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When
these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2017, 07:01 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 16
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AA Thought for the Day
March 16
Immunity
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure
immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
It works when other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2017, 07:41 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 15
One...
AA Thought for the Day
March 15
One More Failure
Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to
enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2017, 07:11 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 14
Fears ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 14
Fears
We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We put them on paper, even though we had
no resentment in connection with them. We asked ourselves why we had them....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-13-2017, 06:44 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 13
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AA Thought for the Day
March 13
Demonstrations of Faith
Our basic troubles are the same as everyone else’s, but when an honest
effort is made “to practice these principles in all our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2017, 07:23 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 12
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AA Thought for the Day
March 12
Directions
Further on, clear-cut directions are given showing how we recovered.
These are followed by forty-two personal experiences.
- Alcoholics Anonymous,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-11-2017, 06:14 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 11
Without...
AA Thought for the Day
March 11
Without Defense
We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with
sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-10-2017, 06:43 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 10
Change ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 10
Change
In one form or another, many of my character defects appear daily: self-condemnation,
anger, running away, being prideful, wanting to get even, or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-09-2017, 06:53 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 9
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AA Thought for the Day
March 9
Discovery
“Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.
I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-08-2017, 06:03 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 8
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AA Thought for the Day
March 8
Willingness
When I am willing to do the right thing,
I am rewarded with an inner peace no amount of liquor could ever provide.
When I am unwilling to do the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-07-2017, 06:55 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 7
No...
AA Thought for the Day
March 7
No Reservation
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:
"Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic."
Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-06-2017, 06:51 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 6
Ceased...
AA Thought for the Day
March 6
Ceased Fighting
And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time
sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-05-2017, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 6,740
AA Thought for the Day
March 5
Ambition...
AA Thought for the Day
March 5
Ambition
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the deep
desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
- 12 & 12, p....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-04-2017, 07:01 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 4
The...
AA Thought for the Day
March 4
The Greatest Possession
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life
seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-03-2017, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 6,740
AA Thought for the Day
March 3
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AA Thought for the Day
March 3
Enjoyment
But we aren’t a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence,.
they wouldn’t want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life.
-...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-02-2017, 06:24 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
March 2
Answers ...
AA Thought for the Day
March 2
Answers
We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us.
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-01-2017, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 6,740
AA Thoughts For Today - March
AA Thought for the Day
March 1
Pass It On
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly
armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence
of...
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