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May 17, 2011

Optimism Heals

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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. --Doug Larson "An optimistic outlook gives us energy to handle t...
March 31, 2009

Travel with God's Eyes

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"Travelling - seeing new sights, hearing new music, and meeting new people - is exciting and exhilarating. But when we have no home to ...

To Watch Loneliness Vanish

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"Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, near...
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February 26, 2009

No Ordinary Success Story

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A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. AS ...

Focus on a Higher Power

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"'The Great Spirit is the one that's looking after us.' --Jimmy Jackson, Ojibway "The only place our minds can find pe...
January 30, 2009

Drinking Cuts, Recovery Heals

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"A drinking life isn't a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking i...
January 28, 2009

We Pause ... And Ask

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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful and ask for the right thought or action. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 Today I hu...
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The 12 Steps We Arrived With

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1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing - that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone who would allow us. 2. We came ...
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January 14, 2009

Step Worksheets

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First Step Worksheets, lead you through the First Step. Adobe PDF format Rich Text format Fourth Step Worksheets, lead you through the Four...

Accepting Anger

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Anger is one of the many profound effects life has on us. It's one of our emotions. And we're going to feel it when it comes our way...
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January 12, 2009

The Spiritual Work of Gratitude

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To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives-the good as well as the bad, th...
January 08, 2009

At a Turning Point

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Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked for God's protection and care with complete abandon. -ALCOHO...
December 03, 2008

Check in with God

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"'The smarter a man is the more he needs God to protect him from thinking he knows everything.' --George Webb, PIMA 'A spir...

Open to Possibilities

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"'Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life.' Basic Text p. 34 'In our addiction, our vision of ourselves...
November 22, 2008

Let Me Be Intimate

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"'It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you here...
November 14, 2008

So Much Depends on My Attitude

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"Our...happiness...[is] not necessarily determined by what happens to us in our lives, but how we perceive what happens to us. Life hap...
November 13, 2008

Circle of Self-Examination, Prayer & Meditation

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"There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and ...
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Surrender Leads to Acceptance

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"'We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.' --Basic Text p. 26 "Surrender and acceptance...
November 10, 2008

Maintain Contact with the Memory of the Pain

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"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes pr...

Pupils in the Great School of Life

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"I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and trans...
August 25, 2008

Ready to Serve

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"God is making use of you - you should be grateful He's found a use for you." --Mathew King, LAKOTA The Creator can only creat...
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