Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-31-2017, 07:25 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 31
Character...
AA Thought for the Day
May 31
Character
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every
dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-30-2017, 06:18 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Inventory...
AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Inventory
We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us.
We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-29-2017, 06:18 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 29
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 29
Conditions
We thought “conditions” drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these
conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-28-2017, 04:14 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 28
Laughter ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 28
Laughter
So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes shocked
when we bust into merriment over a seemingly tragic...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-27-2017, 06:30 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 27
Spiritually Sick
This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick.
Though we did not like their symptoms and the way...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-26-2017, 06:53 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 26
A...
AA Thought for the Day
May 26
A Reminder
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right
thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-25-2017, 06:27 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 25
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AA Thought for the Day
May 25
Fellowship
Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch
loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-24-2017, 06:56 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Humility ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Humility
On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:
"Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-23-2017, 07:40 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 23
A Power ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 23
A Power
We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and
express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves,
we commenced...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-22-2017, 08:28 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 22
All...
AA Thought for the Day
May 22
All Inclusive
We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.
To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-21-2017, 06:05 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Recovered...
AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Recovered
You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking.
Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-20-2017, 07:21 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Trust and...
AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Trust and Reliance
Perhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis;
the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-19-2017, 06:28 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 19
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 19
Self-Knowledge
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception,
will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-
knowledge. This...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-18-2017, 06:06 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 18
An...
AA Thought for the Day
May 18
An Understanding
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed
with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-17-2017, 01:53 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 17
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 17
Dependence
The minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our
assistance rather than upon God. He clamors for this or that,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-16-2017, 07:04 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 16
Readiness...
AA Thought for the Day
May 16
Readiness
We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready
to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-15-2017, 07:49 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 15
Half...
AA Thought for the Day
May 15
Half Measures
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now!
Half measures availed us nothing....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-14-2017, 06:26 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 14
As We...
AA Thought for the Day
May 14
As We Understood Him
Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's conception of God.
Our own conception, however inadequate, was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-13-2017, 06:27 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 13
...
AA Thought for the Day
May 13
Intelligence
We are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and
guarantee us success in the world we live in. ...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-12-2017, 07:09 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 12
A Firm...
AA Thought for the Day
May 12
A Firm Foundation
Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps.
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-11-2017, 03:56 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Insanity ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Insanity
He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily
pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-10-2017, 07:16 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 10
Self
So...
AA Thought for the Day
May 10
Self
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 riot,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-09-2017, 07:12 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 9
We Meet...
AA Thought for the Day
May 9
We Meet Frequently
There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been
overcome among us. In one western city and its environs there are
one...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-08-2017, 06:53 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Blessings ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Blessings
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him
and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-07-2017, 06:59 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Tradition...
AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Tradition One
Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small
part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will
surely die. Hence our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-06-2017, 06:40 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 6
Tools ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 6
Tools
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in
the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-05-2017, 06:33 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 5
Control ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 5
Control
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great
obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-04-2017, 06:27 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Psychic...
AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Psychic Change
On the other hand—and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand—once
a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-03-2017, 07:02 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 3
An...
AA Thought for the Day
May 3
An Effective Defense
Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink.
Except in a few cases, neither he nor any...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-02-2017, 07:07 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Pause
As...
AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Pause
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought
or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-01-2017, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,497
AA Thoughts For Today - May
AA Thought for the Day
May 1
Cunning, Baffling, Powerful!
Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all...
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