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Post by BW on Mar 5, 2011 15:51:46 GMT -5
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The first few months are the hardest task we'll ever have to complete. Anyone who tells us how 'wonderful' it is, has lost touch with the pain and agony of beginning recovery. Although it is not wonderful in these first hours, first weeks, we can say, IT WILL BE WORTH IT.
I sometimes feel this sucks, but grant me the ability to go clean and sober into the next hour.
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Post by BW on Mar 6, 2011 13:42:36 GMT -5
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Even in the confusion and chaos of beginning sobriety, a place exists for spiritual promise and character. Freud once remarked, gazing on a crystal, that the place where that crystal is broken is the very place where we can see its structure. The place where you are broken is the very place that reveals your character.
I use my broken places to show what I am made of--integrity, courage, and determination.
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Post by BW on Mar 7, 2011 18:18:04 GMT -5
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Right now, whatever is bothering you, set it aside. Turn to the next person you see and smile. Tell them hi and wish them well for the moment. That is the first step to getting out of self.
When I am tempted to obsess on myself, please show me the way to be kind to someone else.
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Post by BW on Mar 8, 2011 12:46:57 GMT -5
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'Living life on life's terms,' just what does this mean to us? It doesn't mean we will get a brownie button for every day we stay abstinent. It simply means life can be tough and we can still stay sober if we chose to live by principle.
Help me live life on life's terms by accepting the good along with bad realizing that 'realities' are not good excuses to use mind-affecting chemicals.
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Post by BW on Mar 9, 2011 21:53:06 GMT -5
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Now is the time to get into action and into the solution and stop being a part of your problem! Do this by remembering your last high, your last run, your last hopeless desperation. Then share that story with the next person you see and tell them how it led you to this new path of sobriety.
Show me the next person I am to share my story with.
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Post by BW on Mar 10, 2011 11:04:20 GMT -5
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Where you're at and where you're going are up to you. But if you want some peace in your spirit and freedom from the obsession to use, you are in the right place to begin.
I know that there are no guarantees, but thank You for bringing me this far.
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Post by BW on Mar 11, 2011 12:56:32 GMT -5
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'Stick with the winners and hang with the gods' and you'll see the light at the end of the tunnel. Sticking with the winners means to only associate with clean and sober people in the program and going to meetings is hanging with the gods.
Grant me the good sense to go to a meeting every day for 90 days and socialize with people on the path of recovery.
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Post by BW on Mar 12, 2011 12:59:38 GMT -5
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Nothing comes easy for us right now. A lot of energy goes into just staying put and accepting this new way of life. We say that when the going gets tough, we hang tough! We know that it will pass, we make that promise to you. But it will be in God's time, not yours.
Guide my faith, in this program and in You, my Spiritual Source.
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Post by BW on Mar 13, 2011 13:05:26 GMT -5
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Some people's missionary zeal in helping us is quite annoying. They tell us what to do, know what's best for us, get preachy. We, however, can be charitable as we know: they preach best what THEY most need to learn!
My Spiritual Source helps me tolerate the 'preachers' of the program, as one day I may act like that too!
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Post by caressa on Mar 13, 2011 17:53:43 GMT -5
A polite way of saying "Bleeding Deacons!"
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Post by BW on Mar 15, 2011 12:16:36 GMT -5
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It is easy to 'beat ourselves up' when we are lonely, scared, and feeling rejected by those we love. But if we go to meetings every day, find a sponsor and use him/her, read our literature, and follow the suggestions being give to us now, we really don't have much time to dwell on 'lonely, scared, and rejected.'
Show me right now what I need to do to live this hour through, clean and sober.
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Post by BW on Mar 16, 2011 11:40:33 GMT -5
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We always wanted our image to be so good, yet we always seemed to come off bad. No amount of mind-affecting chemicals ever made us come off good, either. They just made us think we were OK. But there is nothing so bad right now, that a fix, pill, drink, smoke, or snort won't make it worse.
May I clearly see that drugs only provided an illusion of good time, not the real thing.
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Post by caressa on Mar 16, 2011 17:27:22 GMT -5
How true! I remember that feeling of needing more because I didn't think I was functioning well on what I was taking.
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Post by BW on Mar 17, 2011 11:27:12 GMT -5
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You have a monumental task ahead to set your world in order at the same moment that it has completely changed. Setting your world in order does not mean to "fix" everybody around you and take care of their affairs. It means to improve and tend to yourself and your affairs. Do not confuse "setting things in order" with controlling the world around you.
I do not attempt to control what is clearly beyond my sphere. I let my Higher Power tend to the world around me. I affect change from within.
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Post by BW on Mar 18, 2011 14:08:06 GMT -5
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At times we get sudden feelings of fear and apprehension. They seem to spring from nowhere. This is a common reaction to the chemicals leaving our body--it often is purely biological and nothing to be concerned with. Simply call a clean and sober friend.
Let me know that not all fear and apprehension come from deep-seated traumas. Some are simply physical reactions to withdrawal.
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Post by caressa on Mar 18, 2011 15:01:33 GMT -5
In early recovery, I got a lot of body memories. Not as many as some of my friends, and yet I think a lot of things in my life are rooted in past experiences.
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Post by BW on Mar 19, 2011 11:19:45 GMT -5
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Nothing comes easy for us right now. A lot of energy goes into just staying put and accepting this new way of life. We say that when the going gets tough, we hang tough! We know that it will pass, we make that promise to you. But it will be in God's time, not yours.
Let me believe in myself, in this program, and in You, my Spiritual Source.
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Post by BW on Mar 21, 2011 4:09:52 GMT -5
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It seems insane that we have to be brought to our knees before we seek help, but for most of us that's the way it is. Whatever crisis got us here, we will eventually see as a blessing in disguise.
Thank You Higher Power, of my understanding, for the crisis--the one that brought me to my knees, because it also bought me this hour of clean and sober time.
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Post by BW on Mar 23, 2011 3:28:33 GMT -5
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Reliance for our recovery must be placed upon spiritual faculties and not objective things. People, places, and things are transitory, flitting through our lives at different speeds. We can trust no person, no place, and often not even our own best intentions. We can only trust our spiritual foundation.
I know that staying clean and sober is a gift based on the spiritual foundation I lay hour to hour, one day at a time.
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Post by BW on Mar 24, 2011 13:47:53 GMT -5
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Do you sometimes feel like fate made a fool of you with this disease? This is a normal reaction to any chronic disease just like diabetes, lupus, or others. We are the fortunate ones because we can arrest this disease with a simple behavior change, many others can't.
God, as I understand You, grant me the willingness to be grateful for a way out of this devastating disease of addiction.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.