Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-31-2014, 08:39 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 31
The...
AA Thought for the Day
May 31
The Journey
My circumstances have steadily improved as my spiritual life grows and matures.
Words cannot begin to describe the feelings in my heart
as I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-30-2014, 09:28 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Attitudes...
AA Thought for the Day
May 30
Attitudes
Our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.
Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-29-2014, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 29
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AA Thought for the Day
May 29
Foundation Stones
One thing I've learned in AA is not to be an alarmist.
Still, around the groups I attend, it does seem
that we AA's sometimes get a little...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-28-2014, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 28
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AA Thought for the Day
May 28
Resentments
If you have a resentment you want to be free of,
if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free.
If you will ask in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-27-2014, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27
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AA Thought for the Day
May 27
Inspiration
In thinking about our day we may face indecision.
We may not be able to determine which course to take.
Here we ask God for inspiration, an...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-26-2014, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 26
Self-will...
AA Thought for the Day
May 26
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 back off...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-25-2014, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 25
Honesty ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 25
Honesty
Only God can fully know what absolute honesty is.
Therefore, each of us has to achieve what this great ideal may be -- to the best of our ability.
- As...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-24-2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Our Third...
AA Thought for the Day
May 24
Our Third Legacy: Service
All I thought about as I was making the coffee was making the coffee
and how people could enjoy it.
At my sponsor's suggestion, I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-23-2014, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 23
One Day...
AA Thought for the Day
May 23
One Day At A Time
I was a very good student of alcoholism. I studied for twenty-four years.
My habit patterns became totally based on how to continue drinking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-22-2014, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 22
The Book ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 22
The Book
By 1937, some of us realized that AA needed a standard literature.
There would have to be a book. . .
Well, we did quarrel violently over the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-21-2014, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Anger ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 21
Anger
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-20-2014, 09:02 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Change ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 20
Change
I tried to change the time and place and amount of my drinking.
I tried to change my environment, my place of living -- like most of us
who at one time...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-19-2014, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 19
Prayer ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 19
Prayer
Prayer has become a habit with me. Anytime is the time for prayer:
in the street, in the factory, sitting still, walking about, or actively engaged upon...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-18-2014, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 18
Act of...
AA Thought for the Day
May 18
Act of Providence
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds
into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-17-2014, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 17
Blessings...
AA Thought for the Day
May 17
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-16-2014, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 16
The...
AA Thought for the Day
May 16
The Answer
It finally became obvious to me that the God I thought had judged and damned me
had done nothing of the sort.
He had been listening, and in His own...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-15-2014, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 15
An Open...
AA Thought for the Day
May 15
An Open Mind
Reluctantly, I opened my mind to the fact that maybe, just maybe,
there was something to this spiritual lifestyle.
Slowly, but surely, I realized...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-14-2014, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 14
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AA Thought for the Day
May 14
Challenges
Like most people, we have found we can take our big lumps as they come.
But also like others we often discover a greater challenge
in the lesser and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-13-2014, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 13
Grace ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 13
Grace
I'm still mystified by how I got sober, and the only answer that makes sense
is that I stopped drinking through the grace of God.
I was thinking about the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-12-2014, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 12
Absolute...
AA Thought for the Day
May 12
Absolute Certainty
The central part of our lives today
is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives
in a way which is indeed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-11-2014, 09:12 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Steps...
AA Thought for the Day
May 11
Steps Four and Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers,
and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-10-2014, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 10
New...
AA Thought for the Day
May 10
New Habits
Our drinking was connected with many habits -- big and little.
Some of them were thinking habits, or things we felt inside ourselves.
Others were...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-09-2014, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 9
Surrender ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 9
Surrender
On the face of it, surrendering certainly doesn't sound like winning.
But it is in AA. . .
We must, and we do, surrender to win.
- Experience,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-08-2014, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Time
And...
AA Thought for the Day
May 8
Time
And what is time to me now? It is a most precious asset.
I have the luxury of being able to cherish the memory of yesterday,
to live today with serenity,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-07-2014, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Pass It On...
AA Thought for the Day
May 7
Pass It On
I'll never forget the first time I met Bill Wilson.
I was a couple of months sober and so excited,
so thrilled to actually meet the co-founder that I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-06-2014, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 6
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AA Thought for the Day
May 6
Communication
Because of our kinship in suffering,
and because our common means of deliverance are effective for ourselves
only when constantly carried to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-05-2014, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 15,561
AA Thought for the Day
May 5
Anger
It...
AA Thought for the Day
May 5
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 are sore,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-04-2014, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Choice ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 4
Choice
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure,
have lost the power of choice in drink.
Our so-called willpower becomes practically...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-03-2014, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
May 3
Amends ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 3
Amends
Making amends to my family, and to the families of alcoholics still suffering, will always be important.
Understanding the havoc I created and trying to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-02-2014, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 15,561
AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Secrets ...
AA Thought for the Day
May 2
Secrets
I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get in the way.
It's the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me.
I must be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-01-2014, 08:09 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 15,561
AA Thought For Today - May
AA Thought for the Day
May 1
Willfulness
My willfulness is still very much a part of me
and may always be a stumbling block to progress in my life.
So I will have to stay very close to AA,...
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