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Post by BW on Jul 25, 2011 12:04:24 GMT -5
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One hour at a time leads to one day at a time in our recovery program. Each hour is one of 24 building blocks of each day of our sobriety and clean time. My current building block is to radiate love for this hour.
Help me center my emotions and radiate love for this hour.
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Post by caressa on Jul 25, 2011 12:09:31 GMT -5
My sponsor for many years had narcolepsy, and would have mini-seizures. She would fall asleep at a drop of a hat, it didn't look like a seizure, and people would just leave her. She would get on a bus and end up at the end of the route. She use to say, "All I have is 3 seconds." She is the one who taught me to stay in the moment, live in the moment, in the hour in the day.
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Post by BW on Jul 26, 2011 13:22:57 GMT -5
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Frequently, throughout the day we hear the Babbler, a silent running dialogue in our head ready to put us down at any opportunity, 'You're stupid; they're stupid; who wants sobriety; boy, is this dumb.' Babbler is not the voice of our Higher Power. It is the voice of addiction putting us down.
May the Babbler's words fall on deaf ears. I am sober, worthy, and this program is where I belong.
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Post by BW on Jul 27, 2011 12:44:38 GMT -5
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Mind is the path. Flesh is the vehicle. We must establish a new mind through the creative power of thought using the 12 steps. We must establish a new body, protecting it from drugs. Only then do we become an aspirant of a whole life.
I ask my Creator to make me WHOLE in body, mind, and spirit.
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Post by BW on Jul 28, 2011 11:29:44 GMT -5
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We are the inheritors of those who have gone before us, the originators of the 12 step and other recovery programs. Their blood, sweat, tears, and persistence is a gift to us today. Their sheer tenacity in educating the public, the government, the medical profession, and most of all themselves is our great legacy.
God, as I understand You, may I carry out the legacy one principle at a time, one day at a time, one hour at a time.
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Post by BW on Jul 29, 2011 11:44:55 GMT -5
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Abstinence, honesty, and the willingness 'to turn it over' are the only ways to fight the Four Horsemen of mind-affecting chemicals: Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair.
Let me understand that the battle is no longer mine if I practice the Third Step to the best of my ability.
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Post by caressa on Jul 29, 2011 22:44:01 GMT -5
Practiced this today and each and ever day that I was in the hospital. Found a couple of my 'control' issues popping up, and had to let go and let God. I asked the nurse to contact my doctor. I didn't trust her to do her job and asked her if she had placed the call.
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Post by BW on Jul 30, 2011 12:48:37 GMT -5
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Whatever upset you right now, whether a feeling of terror, someone is frustrating you, you are angry or bored--try living in the solution, not the problem. Pick up your program book, close your eyes and leaf through. Run your finger down the page and where ever you stop, read the next three paragraphs. It's a random solution but often guided by Divine Presence.
May a Divinely Inspired solution find me now.
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Post by BW on Aug 2, 2011 12:54:46 GMT -5
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We hear so much about spiritual principles. What are they? A spiritual principle is a standard of conduct by which we remain right with the world. Some of these are: honesty, integrity, kindness, accountability, service to others, and good humor.
May I pick one of the spiritual principles and apply it to my conduct in this next hour.
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Post by BW on Aug 3, 2011 3:26:25 GMT -5
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We have many worries: economic, marital, parental, employment, religious, and legal. Some ill-trained people may try to pick one or two of these areas and act as if working on that will 'cure' us. We mustn't see our recovery as connected to a good marriage, job, or socialization. We know it isn't true.
I want to know that my recovery is connected to principle--not people places or things!
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Post by BW on Aug 5, 2011 13:52:27 GMT -5
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Occasionally we get a glimpse of how others have truly seen us. It is a dreadful experience and if it weren't for the loving attitude of our fellowship, we sometimes could not bear it. But the growth process is worth the pain as we slowly transform into the people we have always pretended to be.
Thank You, for the love of the fellowship to see me through my painful growth forward.
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Post by BW on Aug 6, 2011 6:56:38 GMT -5
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Learning to let go does not mean to stop caring. It means that you cannot do it for someone else. Nor can they do it for you. Only you can listen, go to meetings, follow steps--your parents, friends, or partner can't do it for you.
Help me understand that for those I love to let go of me, means they are giving me a chance to get well.
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Post by BW on Aug 7, 2011 13:39:55 GMT -5
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There are no magic wands or burning bushes in our program. Just footwork and faith.
My footwork right now is to not use any mind-affecting chemical and go to a meeting today.
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Post by BW on Aug 8, 2011 10:04:57 GMT -5
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Now is the time for action with our welcoming. As people come to their first meetings, shaking, scared, and confused, we give them our phone numbers, take them to meetings, and teach them what we have already learned. We use each day at the end of our first month as a forum to help others, not just with words now but with action.
Higher Power, as I understand You, show me on my 28th day how to help one other person in their recovery.
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Post by BW on Aug 9, 2011 3:29:51 GMT -5
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When our minds clear (as the drugs of alcohol, cocaine, pot, crystal, and heroin work out of our system), our betrayals become clear. It is painful knowing we betrayed the trust of our parents, our lovers, our children, our employers and our friends. Most of all we betrayed ourselves. Our steps are the steps out of the betrayal.
Higher Power, as I understand You, help me face my betrayals with courage, knowing that each step will contribute to healing the betrayals.
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Post by BW on Aug 10, 2011 4:22:33 GMT -5
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When people stop and find excuses for not going to 90 meetings in 90 days, 'I can't find enough time.', then they really aren't ready to let go of their disease. Is it more important of us to watch TV, talk on the phone, and complain then take that hour for our sobriety?
My Spiritual Source helps me value what will save my life and sanity.
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Post by BW on Aug 11, 2011 2:32:07 GMT -5
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Recovery is an attribute of two personalities which bear a relationship one to the other. This is our self and our higher self or God-self. There are two of us: self and God-self. We do not walk this path alone. It used to be self and drug-self. Now it is self and God-self.
Let me know that I do not walk this road alone but I am always with my higher self who holds my best interests in mind.
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Post by BW on Aug 12, 2011 16:59:34 GMT -5
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The slogans may sometimes annoy us in their simplicity. But repetition is an important learning tool. Think of the repetition that alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and depressants bring. Now you can understand the necessity of slogans to counteract the repetition of addiction.
As I go into this next hour of a clean and sober day, may I welcome the repetitions of recovery.
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Post by BW on Aug 13, 2011 6:54:53 GMT -5
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Just for Today. Day by Day. 24-hour program. Don't use today, forget about yesterday and tomorrow. Only 24 hours at a time. One day at a time. Take a daily inventory. All of these sayings are trying to enforce the idea that our program is a NOW program. The sooner you live in the now, the sooner you will find freedom.
Grant me the patience to live in this hour by the principles that are growing in my heart.
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Post by BW on Aug 14, 2011 12:04:35 GMT -5
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Our new life-style calls for a new self-responsibility. Is there something we are committed to do this afternoon? Go to a group, go to a meeting, call a friend, pray? We begin the process of being responsible by being on time, keeping promises, doing what our sponsor says.
Give me the persistence to meet my obligations this afternoon.
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