Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-31-2014, 07:48 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 31
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AA Thought for the Day
October 31
Perfection
Perfection would limit me; imperfection offers me the freedom of a million potentials.
All the excitement and interest and adventure are mine to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2014, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 30
Fear ...
AA Thought for the Day
October 30
Fear
Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more faith.
There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart,
just when I'm experiencing feelings of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2014, 09:27 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 29
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AA Thought for the Day
October 29
Choice
Before I learned of the AA program, I was a slave to the behavior patterns of alcoholism.
I was chained to negativity, with no hope of cutting loose....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-28-2014, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 28
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AA Thought for the Day
October 28
Living Sober
Somewhat to our surprise, staying sober turns out not to be the grim, wet-blanket experience we had expected!
While we were drinking, a life...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2014, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 27
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AA Thought for the Day
October 27
Spirituality
I woke up the Saturday morning following the beginners meeting with the answer absolutely clear:
Religion was something taught me,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2014, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 26
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AA Thought for the Day
October 26
Into Action
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience,
we ask that we be given strength and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-25-2014, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 25
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AA Thought for the Day
October 25
Laughter
I began to see the miracles that happen only in AA.
People who would nearly crawl in the doors, sick and broken,
and who in a few weeks of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2014, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 24
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AA Thought for the Day
October 24
Self-will
I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole.
That's the time for me to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2014, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 23
Pride...
AA Thought for the Day
October 23
Pride
We alcoholics return to drink far more often because of petty difficulties than because of life's serious setbacks and
tragedies.
The big problems...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2014, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 22
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AA Thought for the Day
October 22
Happy, Joyous, and Free
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-21-2014, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 21
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AA Thought for the Day
October 21
A New Meaning
Life will take on new meaning.
To watch people recover, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2014, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 20
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AA Thought for the Day
October 20
Willingness
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"
That statement hit me hard....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2014, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 19
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AA Thought for the Day
October 19
A Prayer for All Seasons
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
Courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2014, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 18
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AA Thought for the Day
October 18
Hangovers
When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today.
But there is another kind of hangover...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2014, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 17
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AA Thought for the Day
October 17
Burdens
But how often do we begin to fill our newly emptied backpacks anew under fresh loads.
It is as if we had to become accustomed to carrying all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2014, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 16
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AA Thought for the Day
October 16
Emotional Roller Coaster
Sobriety is nothing like I thought it would be.
At first it was one big emotional roller coaster, full of sharp highs and deep lows....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2014, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 15
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AA Thought for the Day
October 15
AA Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each
other
that they may...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2014, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 14
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AA Thought for the Day
October 14
True Love
The spiritual growth we enjoy in AA is a product of the never-ending school for living which our Fellowship provides.
The subject in that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2014, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 13
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AA Thought for the Day
October 13
Prayer
How can anybody expect God to acquiesce in the half-baked prayers that a lot of us send up to Him.
He would have the world in a worse chaos than it is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2014, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 12
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AA Thought for the Day
October 12
Vulnerable
Mistakes are made in any form of human endeavor. Some of them are grievous or catastrophic.
Alcoholism can be arrested -- not cured. . . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2014, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 11
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AA Thought for the Day
October 11
The Gift
By accepting this sobriety gratefully, as a gift, and using it willingly,
I have become aware of other gifts available to me as a human being....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2014, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 10
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AA Thought for the Day
October 10
Communication
From the beginning, communication in AA has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes.
It has been unusual and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2014, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 9
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AA Thought for the Day
October 9
Inventory
When evening comes, perhaps before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
This is a good place to remember that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2014, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 8
The...
AA Thought for the Day
October 8
The Actor
Most people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show;
is forever trying to arrange the lights,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2014, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 7
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AA Thought for the Day
October 7
Anger
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
If somebody hurts us and we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2014, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 6
The...
AA Thought for the Day
October 6
The Ladder
No one who drank as I did wakes up on the edge of the abyss one morning and says:
Things look pretty scary; I think I'd better stop drinking before...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2014, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 5
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AA Thought for the Day
October 5
Sharing
When I talk with a newcomer to AA, my past looks me straight in the face.
I see the pain in those hopeful eyes, I extend my hand, and then the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2014, 09:15 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 4
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AA Thought for the Day
October 4
Emotional Sobriety
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance
-- urges quite appropriate to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2014, 05:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 3
Circus...
AA Thought for the Day
October 3
Circus Act
I realized I'd been living outside myself for so long I'd almost become a walking vacancy.
In my prized AA sobriety, I was still running a kind of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2014, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought for the Day
October 2
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AA Thought for the Day
October 2
Obsession
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to AA, and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation.
Then, and only then, do we become...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2014, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,856
AA Thought For Today - October
AA Thought for the Day
October 1
The Program
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution.
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree,...
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