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Post by BW on Aug 28, 2010 13:04:21 GMT -5
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[sometimes one day at a time is too much..so let's break it down into smaller increments]
Positive clean thoughts of ourselves are a must. It is important to 'picture' ourselves speaking at meetings, 12th stepping newcomers, laughing, cleaned up and well groomed, and holding our heads high. These clean and sober thoughts help counter years of drunk and dirty thoughts.
I see myself laughing and sharing with others.
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Post by caressa on Aug 28, 2010 14:34:09 GMT -5
Like how we say the same thing, even if we do use different words. There is always that basic truth.
My sponsor use to say, suit up and show up for each day and the rest will follows.
Told me to clean up my act, my mouth, my thouhgts and my habits.
As said earlier in the week, lately it has been one night at a time. Whatever part of a day or night you are up and about, it is all one second, one minute, one hour, at a time. The program works 24 hours a day. A day can start any time and be start over if it doesn't have the promise of a good day.
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Post by BW on Aug 28, 2010 18:27:38 GMT -5
This is from a book and I'll try to make this a daily post
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Post by BW on Aug 29, 2010 8:38:09 GMT -5
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You never have to be alone again. Where ever you are, the Fellowship is close by and always, always where ever you are, your Higher Power is too!
Hi God!
I may not have a clear conception of You -- I may not truly believe. However, I've come this far and right now I just want to say 'Hi.'
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Post by caressa on Aug 29, 2010 12:58:58 GMT -5
Love it! I always said, "The shortest prayer we can make is "Help" and now I have a new one!
I need to make that daily "Hi" to acknowledge Him. He is no longer a nodding acquaintance, but my best Friend, Counselor, Healer, etc....
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Post by BW on Aug 30, 2010 9:45:51 GMT -5
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Our ideal right now must be to remain clean and sober. Other ideals can be built upon later, but right now the act of cleansing our bodies, minds, and spirits must prevail.
I clean my body by staying off all mind-affecting chemicals. I clean my mind by going to meetings. I clean my spirit by working steps
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Post by BW on Aug 31, 2010 10:38:03 GMT -5
You never have to be alone again. Where ever you are, the Fellowship is close by and always, always where ever you are, your Higher Power is too!
Hi God!
I may not have a clear conception of You -- I may not truly believe. However, I've come this far and right now I just want to say 'Hi.'
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Post by caressa on Aug 31, 2010 11:45:39 GMT -5
Always said, "I don't want to know WHO God was, if I knew who He was, I just might stop looking for Him. God is as He reveals Himself to me today.
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Post by BW on Sept 1, 2010 13:32:26 GMT -5
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Because our body chemistry is so damaged by our disease of addiction, it is important to pay attention to our body's nourishment needs. Are you eating regular balanced meals? It's often more important then we realize and we should never allow ourselves to be hungry or nutrient starved.
Give me the foresight to feed my body the nourishment that my disease robbed it of in the past.
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Post by caressa on Sept 1, 2010 14:20:17 GMT -5
Love these quotes. So true, I was a caretaker of others but sure didn't know how to apply it to myself. Even in today, I know the words and can tell others, often when I am in "it" I don't recognize it so readily. Self-care is so necessary for my own health and well being.
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Post by BW on Sept 2, 2010 10:57:49 GMT -5
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At this time many people will get on our nerves. This is normal during early recovery. How we see others is often a mirror of our feelings--thus we are not so much upset by the actions of others as we are upset with ourselves.
Help me see that my feelings are often displaced and projected into anothers behavior when it may really come from within me.
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Post by BW on Sept 4, 2010 15:55:03 GMT -5
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We mustn't make a decision about staying sober with insufficient data. To collect data on what staying sober is like, we have to stay that way 12 months or more. Therefore, we should not make a final decision about this new life until we have a year of clean time.
May I know that experience and contact with sober people is the only way to collect data on sobriety.
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Post by BW on Sept 5, 2010 13:31:00 GMT -5
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'Let Go and Let Go' is a simple phrase that helps us realize that we are not in charge of the world. Our need to control and manage all things in our life will soon be replaced as we allow our Spiritual Source to operate.
Let this phrase gently lead me to practice Step three each time I hear it in a meeting or see it written on the walls of our meetings.
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Post by caressa on Sept 5, 2010 14:56:49 GMT -5
What I need is a reminder in my home and I need to take the Steps out of the meeting, into my home and the community. It is a 24 hour not a 2-4 hour a day program.
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dan
Newest Family Member
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Post by dan on Sept 5, 2010 23:32:54 GMT -5
By the Yard Life is Hard
But by the Inch, It's a Sinch
On any given day there is nothing more important to me than 2 things. And they are both tied togeather. Breathing and not drinking alcohol ( saying NO to the first drink One Day at a Time (or one second if need be ).. To maintain the attitude that to drink is to die... Every thing else can be worked at and worked through..
I am not the man I would like to be, nor the man I ought to be, not even the man I could be.I never will become the man you or I thinks I should be.But thanks to God and AA I am definately not the man I use to be...Before I was a pig a bum and a bar fly...Now I am a reasonably responsable member of society.
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Post by BW on Sept 6, 2010 10:02:22 GMT -5
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Your Divine Source will always answer your prayers. Sometimes the answer is 'no' but we say, 'My Creator didn't give me what I wanted so my Creator doesn't listen to me.''The Divine listens, maybe you don't.
As I learn more about Divine will, help me not to interpret internal conflict as a God who doesn't care.
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Post by caressa on Sept 6, 2010 11:05:08 GMT -5
Once heard that God answers prayer three ways, "Yes!" "No!" and "You got to be kidding!"
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Post by BW on Sept 7, 2010 11:55:11 GMT -5
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Whether serious and conservative or eager and flighty, newcomers often feel no necessity for embracing recovery. REMEMBER, millions have gone before you. You don't have to embrace the 12 steps but embrace something that works for recovery.
I embrace a program of recovery, not my self will, but a program I trust with clean and people that I can see!
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Post by BW on Sept 8, 2010 12:39:25 GMT -5
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We can't always choose where or what we are in life, but we can choose how to view it. Adversity can be seen as an opportunity to work our spiritual program of life. And always when one door is closed to us, another one opens.
Give me the courage to face every adversity with the spiritual tools I am given in this program.
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Post by BW on Sept 9, 2010 11:42:23 GMT -5
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Do you have a phone list of clean and sober people in the program? If yes, call one person right now and share a clean and sober morning greeting. If not, take this book and begin a sober list in the back. Collect names and numbers at the meeting you go to today.
People say, 'Call me anytime.' Let me know that as long as I am clean and sober, they mean it!
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.