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April 4
Look objectively
What if you...
April 4
Look objectively
What if you decided to welcome the problems instead of dread them? Would that make any difference in the way you felt, in your level of anxiety from day to day, moment...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-02-2025, 05:02 AM
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April 2
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,...
April 2
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume.
~Walt Whitman
Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-02-2025, 04:54 AM
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April 2
Diligent efforts
This world and...
April 2
Diligent efforts
This world and the people in it are not perfect, and never will be. Your challenge is to live a good and fulfilling life in situations that are less than ideal.
That...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-01-2025, 05:41 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-01-2025, 12:46 PM
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God bless you Tammy, happy April the 1st, ...
God bless you Tammy, happy April the 1st,
thanking God for getting through the
month March, one day at a time.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Here a great song to start Our month off.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-01-2025, 07:23 AM
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Today's Thought - April
April 1
AA Thought for the Day
In the story of the Good Samaritan, the wayfarer fell among robbers and was left lying in the gutter, half dead. And a priest and a Levite both passed by on the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-01-2025, 07:19 AM
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Daily Motivator - April
April 1
Being useful
Being useful is particularly useful to you. Making a difference for others can give an immense boost to your confidence and positivity.
Feeling useful will make...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
03-30-2025, 09:43 AM
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Pushing The Reset Button
Relapsing back to where any of us may have once been is not at all that unusual after coming into recovery. Sometimes this will happen right away other times it can take awhile before it does...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2025, 07:21 AM
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April 4
Daily Reflections
CRYING FOR...
April 4
Daily Reflections
CRYING FOR THE MOON
"This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish
sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2025, 07:20 AM
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April 3
Daily Reflections
ACCEPTING OUR...
April 3
Daily Reflections
ACCEPTING OUR HUMANNESS
We finally saw that the inventory should be ours, not
the other man's. So we admitted our wrongs honestly and
became willing to set these...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2025, 05:38 AM
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March 26
It is better to begin in the...
March 26
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
~English Proverb
At times, we addicts feel bad that we lost years to our illness. We've wasted time, money, and energy on our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2025, 01:16 PM
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Thank you Tammy, like I
Said we have been...
Thank you Tammy, like I
Said we have been together
By God grace a nice little while
God bless, I will never forget when
Your cat went missing, your heart
was broken, I remember praying
For his...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2025, 06:20 AM
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March 25
As long as habit and routine...
March 25
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~Henry Van Dyke
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
One reason people...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2025, 06:11 AM
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Thank you willbe. I appreciate your help and...
Thank you willbe. I appreciate your help and support. I first came online in AA in December 1997 in an AA chatroom. I started out with the username blukiti (blue kitty) because of how my life was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 04:12 PM
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Views: 3,627
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 03:53 PM
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Views: 3,627
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 09:27 AM
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Views: 5,818
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 06:00 AM
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Views: 5,818
March 24
Wants and Needs
Part of taking...
March 24
Wants and Needs
Part of taking responsibility for ourselves means taking responsibility for what we want and need, and knowing that's okay to do.
Learning to tune-in to ourselves,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 05:42 AM
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March 24
Your best response
Sometimes...
March 24
Your best response
Sometimes you can get mad at the world and latch onto a bad attitude as a form of punishment. But the main person who gets punished is you.
It’s true that life is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2025, 05:42 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 07:42 PM
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Hey sister Tammy, I sent this message
To you...
Hey sister Tammy, I sent this message
To you last year with no response.
This message was sent 4/2024.
Hey my sister Tammy, it occur to me
as I was doing my reading today that
we have known...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 06:54 AM
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April 2
Daily Reflections
CHARACTER...
April 2
Daily Reflections
CHARACTER BUILDING
Demands made upon other people for too much attention,
protection, and love can only invite domination or
revulsion....
TWELVE STEPS AND...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 06:53 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - April
April 1
Daily Reflections
LOOKING WITHIN
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42
Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 06:49 AM
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Views: 11,503
March 31
Daily Reflections
NO ONE...
March 31
Daily Reflections
NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE
On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two . . . . A newcomer appeared at
one of these groups . . . . He soon proved that his was a desperate...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 06:48 AM
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Views: 11,503
March 30
Daily Reflections
OUR GROUP...
March 30
Daily Reflections
OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE
". . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best."
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 101
I think these words apply to every area of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2025, 06:37 AM
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Views: 5,818
March 23
When we meet someone, we say,...
March 23
When we meet someone, we say, "Hello, cousin," or "Hello, Grandfather." And this is not merely symbolic, but a reminder that we have a family.
~Gene Thin Elk
In our need and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2025, 04:38 AM
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March 23
Courage to say yes
Today...
March 23
Courage to say yes
Today you’ll come across opportunities to speak and act with genuine love and kindness. Embrace those opportunities, make the most of them as often as you can.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2025, 06:43 AM
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Views: 5,818
March 21
Reflection for the Day
If I am...
March 21
Reflection for the Day
If I am troubled, worried, exasperated, or frustrated, do I tend to rationalize the situation and lay the blame on someone else? When I am in such a state, is my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2025, 06:30 AM
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Views: 3,627
March 21
The latest thing
The next big...
March 21
The latest thing
The next big thing is exciting, compelling. But by its very nature it will too soon be forgotten and replaced.
You furiously chase the leading edge trend. Yet...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2025, 11:45 AM
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
03-20-2025, 10:31 AM
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Understanding That Power
The thing about recovery that's unique to it that none of us will find anywhere else is that we're all allowed to have our own understanding of that power that's greater than all of us, and at the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2025, 05:51 AM
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Views: 5,818
March 20
Dead, in their roots all flowers...
March 20
Dead, in their roots all flowers keep the light.
~Theodore Roethke
All flowers begin with the potential to grow and blossom. Yet in winter, perennial flowers are buried under the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2025, 05:47 AM
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March 20
Worthwhile choices
Is it real...
March 20
Worthwhile choices
Is it real or is it a distraction? Is it something that brings meaning and fulfillment to your life or is it just cheap filler?
Does it nourish your spirit or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2025, 06:40 AM
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March 29
Daily Reflections
TRUSTED...
March 29
Daily Reflections
TRUSTED SERVANTS
They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless
privilege of doing the group's chores.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2025, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 28
Daily Reflections
EQUALITY
...
March 28
Daily Reflections
EQUALITY
Our membership ought to include all who suffer from
alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover.
Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2025, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 27
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s...
March 27
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s FREEDOMS
We trust that we already know what our several freedoms
truly are; that no future generation of AAs will ever
feel compelled to limit them. Our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2025, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 5,818
March 19
Being kind
Saying an unkind...
March 19
Being kind
Saying an unkind word to another may not inflict a lifelong hurt on that person, but what does it do to us? It separates us from our spiritual fellowship, which we cannot...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2025, 06:27 AM
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Views: 3,627
March 19
Improve on the improvements
No...
March 19
Improve on the improvements
No matter how good an idea is, it’s not the answer to everything. Even with the most useful tool, you’re certain to need other tools.
The most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2025, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,627
March 18
Possibilities exist
Today’s...
March 18
Possibilities exist
Today’s possibilities stretch out in all directions. Open yourself to a few of the best and bring them to fruition.
Problems do not necessarily have to continue...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2025, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 26
Daily Reflections
THE TEACHING...
March 26
Daily Reflections
THE TEACHING IS NEVER OVER
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your
faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the
wreckage of your past....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2025, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 25
Daily Reflections
A FULL AND...
March 25
Daily Reflections
A FULL AND THANKFUL HEART
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and
thankful heart cannot entertain certain conceits. When
brimming with gratitude,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2025, 04:55 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2025, 04:54 AM
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March 23
Daily Reflections
. . . AND NO...
March 23
Daily Reflections
. . . AND NO MORE RESERVATIONS
We have seen the truth again and again: "Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.". . . If we are
planning to stop drinking, there...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2025, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 5,818
March 15
AA Thought for the Day
After I...
March 15
AA Thought for the Day
After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2025, 06:28 AM
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Views: 3,627
March 15
Intellectual humility
...
March 15
Intellectual humility
Contradictions abound. Not everything makes sense all the time.
Reason and logic confer powerful advantages and can produce beneficial results. That doesn’t...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
03-12-2025, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 0
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Getting The Power
Knowing powerlessness is something we're all familiar with even though none of us usually use that term to describe what we all do know without anyone having to tell us all about having what we all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2025, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2025, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 21
Daily Reflections
MATERIAL AND...
March 21
Daily Reflections
MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING
Fear... of economic insecurity will leave us.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
Having fear reduced or eliminated and having...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2025, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,503
March 20
Daily Reflections
LOVE AND...
March 20
Daily Reflections
LOVE AND TOLERANCE
Love and tolerance of others in our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
I have found that I have to forgive others in all
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2025, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 5,818
March 12
Forgiveness is the key to action...
March 12
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
~Hannah Arendt
Resentments keep us in the past, a past that can never be relived. Resentments keep a stranglehold on our mind. They...
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