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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-30-2017, 05:52 AM
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September 30 Boundaries Fences are...

September 30

Boundaries

Fences are built to keep valuable things safe--to keep children and pets from escaping or running headlong into danger. Roadways have painted lines to keep cars in their...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-29-2017, 05:38 AM
Replies: 29
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September 29 At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack...

September 29

At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.
--Albert Camus

What is time for? How often we say, "I don't...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-28-2017, 05:49 AM
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September 28 Look, the wind vane fluttering...

September 28

Look, the wind vane fluttering in the autumn breeze
Takes hold of certain things that cannot be held.
--Feng Chih

When we think we are losing our grip, we have good reason to...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-27-2017, 06:04 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 27 Praise God! We did not...

September 27

Praise God!

We did not create this program on our own, and we did not achieve abstinence by ourselves. Our recovery is a gift, just as life is a gift. Light, the natural world, our...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-26-2017, 05:37 AM
Replies: 29
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 26 Zip It Not every thought...

September 26

Zip It

Not every thought needs to become a spoken word. Not every feeling needs to become an action. Sometimes I need to just keep quiet. If my words will seem harsh—if they will...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-25-2017, 05:12 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 25 Today I Will Trust Today,...

September 25

Today I Will Trust

Today, I will stop straining to know what I don't know.
To see what I can't see.
To understand what I don't yet understand.
I will trust that being is...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-24-2017, 06:42 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 24 Sharing our experiences...

September 24

Sharing our experiences heightens our joy and lessens out pain.

Not letting other people know what's troubling us causes the problem to trouble us even more. "Secrets keep us...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-23-2017, 05:19 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 23 No Place to Go Love is...

September 23

No Place to Go

Love is supposed to flit about, here and there. Happily. And lightly. It's also supposed to have a place to land. Love is supposed to reach out and check in: How's...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-22-2017, 05:34 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 22 Listening and Sharing Let...

September 22

Listening and Sharing

Let us review what others have said about listening and sharing:

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
--Churton Collins
...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-21-2017, 05:35 AM
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Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 21 Seeking growth We are...

September 21

Seeking growth

We are where we are for a reason. As long as that reason remains, we remain where we are. If we aren't where we think we should be, working the program will help us...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-20-2017, 05:55 AM
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Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 20 Un-abling It is not...

September 20

Un-abling

It is not helping my child if I do things for him that he can (and should) do for himself. Instead, by diminishing expectations, I diminish his capabilities. I am...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-19-2017, 05:13 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 19 One deceit needs many others,...

September 19

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come crashing down.
-- Baltasar Gracian

If we are honest about our addiction, we know how it...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-18-2017, 05:26 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
September 18 Give us to go blithely on our...

September 18

Give us to go blithely on our business this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
--Robert Louis Stevenson...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-17-2017, 04:53 AM
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Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 17 Flowers, Not Weeds When...

September 17

Flowers, Not Weeds

When addiction took hold of my son, it grew and spread like a thick, thorny vine, twisting and turning and choking him tight. But it didn't stop there. It kept...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-16-2017, 06:00 AM
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Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 16 Inspiration starts in the home....

September 16

Inspiration starts in the home.
--Alpha English

What does being inspired really mean? Alpha would say it means having the faith to tackle difficult tasks. She surely had it. In a...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-15-2017, 05:16 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 15 The evolution of human growth...

September 15

The evolution of human growth is an evolution from an absolute need to be loved towards a full readiness to give love.
--Dr. Karl Stern

As children, we looked to our parents for...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-14-2017, 05:35 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 14 History books begin and end,...

September 14

History books begin and end, but the events they describe do not.
--R. G. Collingwood

Each day we turn a new page in our recovery, and we grow more settled in our new life. As we...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-13-2017, 05:40 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 13 I Did Not Cause It I did...

September 13

I Did Not Cause It

I did not cause my child to become an addict. As a parent, I don't possess that power.

When my children were little, I imagined I had all kinds of power. I...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-12-2017, 05:25 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 12 Reflection for the Day ...

September 12

Reflection for the Day

Even with a growing understanding of The Program and its Twelve Steps, we sometimes might find it difficult to believe that our new way of life leads to...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-11-2017, 06:18 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 11 Keeping my mind active through...

September 11

Keeping my mind active through good, intellectual discussions is important to me. Talking over golf scores doesn't take us very far.
--Louise Jerome

Small talk is what engages us...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-10-2017, 05:41 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 10 Real love pours itself out upon...

September 10

Real love pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without demanding any return.
--Florence Scovel Shinn

Loving another wholly, purely, with no strings attached promises...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-09-2017, 05:06 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 9 Letting Go of the Silence ...

September 9

Letting Go of the Silence

Addiction's best friends are shame and silence--without them, addiction couldn't survive. They play together so nicely, hanging out deep in the shadows. A...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-08-2017, 04:31 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 8 How important is it? The...

September 8

How important is it?

The young man in the meeting was very angry and upset. His lawnmower had broken down. He was having a cookout in his back yard that evening, the yard "looked...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-07-2017, 04:37 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 7 Reflection for the Day One...

September 7

Reflection for the Day

One of the most constructive things I can do is to learn to listen to myself and get in touch with my true feelings. For years, I tuned myself out, going...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-06-2017, 06:19 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 6 To Love an Addict When I...

September 6

To Love an Addict

When I held my baby in my arms for the very first time, I rubbed my cheek on his fuzzy head and whispered, "I will love and protect you for as long as I live." I...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-05-2017, 03:27 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 5 There is no happiness; there are...

September 5

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
-- Spanish proverb

How happy we are right now may hinge on dinnertime - whether it is just before or just after. It may...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-04-2017, 04:42 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 4 Because I have been athirst I...

September 4

Because I have been athirst I will dig a well that others may drink.
--Arabian proverb

Most of us do as we please. When we want to go we go; when we want to stay, we stay. We're...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-03-2017, 06:44 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 3 Happiness is a by product of an...

September 3

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
--Gretta Brooker Palmer

Self-centeredness aggravates the natural flow of circumstances surrounding us; too much...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-02-2017, 06:23 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
September 2 Gratitude Sometimes in...

September 2

Gratitude

Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 09-01-2017, 05:35 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,645
Posted By bluidkiti
Today's Thought - September

September 1

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
--Meridel Le Sueur

The beautiful correspondences that structure the world - from the five...
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