Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-30-2015, 07:51 AM
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May 31
Daily Reflections
READINESS TO...
May 31
Daily Reflections
READINESS TO SERVE OTHERS
. . . our Society has concluded that it has but one high mission--to
carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-28-2015, 11:43 AM
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May 30
Daily Reflections
OUR PRIMARY...
May 30
Daily Reflections
OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE
The more A.A. sticks to its primary purpose, the greater will be its helpful influence everywhere.
A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 109
It is with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-28-2015, 09:07 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-27-2015, 08:24 AM
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May 28
Daily Reflections
EQUAL RIGHTS ...
May 28
Daily Reflections
EQUAL RIGHTS
At one time or another most A.A. groups go on rule making
benders. . . . After a time fear and intolerance subside.
[and we realize] We do not wish to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-26-2015, 09:54 AM
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May 27
Daily Reflections
NO MAUDLIN...
May 27
Daily Reflections
NO MAUDLIN GUILT
Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection. So we
need not be consumed by maudlin guilt...
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 15
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-25-2015, 09:22 AM
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May 26
Daily Reflections
TURNING...
May 26
Daily Reflections
TURNING NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE
Our spiritual and emotional growth in A.A. does not depend
so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and
setbacks. If you...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-24-2015, 09:58 AM
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May 25
Daily Reflections
PROGRESSIVE...
May 25
Daily Reflections
PROGRESSIVE GRATITUDE
Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 29
I am very grateful that my Higher Power has given me a second...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-23-2015, 09:39 AM
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May 24
Daily Reflections
"HAPPY, JOYOUS...
May 24
Daily Reflections
"HAPPY, JOYOUS AND FREE"
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot
subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-22-2015, 09:05 AM
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May 23
Daily Reflections
SPIRITUAL...
May 23
Daily Reflections
SPIRITUAL HEALTH
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out
mentally and physically.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 64
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-21-2015, 10:02 AM
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May 22
Daily Reflections
STEP ONE
...
May 22
Daily Reflections
STEP ONE
WE . . . (The first word of the First Step)
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21
When I was drinking all I could ever think about was "I, I, I,"
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-20-2015, 09:20 AM
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May 21
Daily Reflections
A LIST OF...
May 21
Daily Reflections
A LIST OF BLESSINGS
One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my
blessings. . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-19-2015, 08:45 AM
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May 20
Daily Reflections
ONE DAY AT A...
May 20
Daily Reflections
ONE DAY AT A TIME
Above all, take it one day at a time.
AS BILL SEES IT, p.11
Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day,
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-18-2015, 08:33 AM
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May 19
Daily Reflections
GIVING WITHOUT...
May 19
Daily Reflections
GIVING WITHOUT STRINGS
And he well knows that his own life has been made richer, as an extra
dividend of giving to another without any demand for a return.
AS BILL...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-17-2015, 09:59 AM
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May 18
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM TO BE...
May 18
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM TO BE ME
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development,
we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are
going to know a new freedom...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-16-2015, 10:08 AM
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May 17
Daily Reflections
. . . . AND...
May 17
Daily Reflections
. . . . AND FORGIVE
Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again,
to forgive others--also myself.
AS BILL SEE IT p. 268
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-15-2015, 08:39 AM
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May 16
Daily Reflections
WE FORGIVE. ....
May 16
Daily Reflections
WE FORGIVE. . . .
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors
or spiritual adviser that we first felt truly able to
forgive others, no matter how...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-14-2015, 09:09 AM
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May 15
Daily Reflections
KNOW GOD; KNOW...
May 15
Daily Reflections
KNOW GOD; KNOW PEACE
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads
only to futility and unhappiness. . . . But with the alcoholic,
whose hope is the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-13-2015, 06:52 AM
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May 14
Daily Reflections
IT'S OKAY TO...
May 14
Daily Reflections
IT'S OKAY TO BE ME
Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain
facts about their lives. . . . they have turned to easier methods. . . .
But...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-12-2015, 10:02 AM
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May 13
Daily Reflections
THE EASIER,...
May 13
Daily Reflections
THE EASIER, SOFTER WAY
If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72
I certainly didn't leap at the opportunity to face...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-11-2015, 10:07 AM
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May 12
Daily Reflections
THE PAST IS...
May 12
Daily Reflections
THE PAST IS OVER
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing
problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If
. . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-10-2015, 09:51 AM
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May 11
Daily Reflections
A NEW SENSE OF...
May 11
Daily Reflections
A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had
listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-09-2015, 07:32 AM
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May 10
Daily Reflections
FREE AT LAST ...
May 10
Daily Reflections
FREE AT LAST
Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects
to another human being is humility - a word often
misunderstood. . . . it amounts to a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-08-2015, 10:01 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-07-2015, 10:44 AM
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May 8
Daily Reflections
A RESTING PLACE...
May 8
Daily Reflections
A RESTING PLACE
All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural
desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego
deflation, few Steps...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-06-2015, 10:42 AM
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May 7
Daily Reflections
RESPECT FOR...
May 7
Daily Reflections
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be
unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on our self, but always...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-05-2015, 08:21 AM
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May 6
Daily Reflections
"HOLD BACK...
May 6
Daily Reflections
"HOLD BACK NOTHING"
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to
confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you
you share your first...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-04-2015, 09:24 AM
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May 5
Daily Reflections
THE FOREST AND...
May 5
Daily Reflections
THE FOREST AND THE TREES
. . . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own
rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking
to another person is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-03-2015, 10:57 AM
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May 4
Daily Reflections
"ENTIRELY...
May 4
Daily Reflections
"ENTIRELY HONEST"
We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or
happily in this world.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 73-74
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-02-2015, 10:11 AM
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May 3
Daily Reflections
CLEANING HOUSE ...
May 3
Daily Reflections
CLEANING HOUSE
Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing
as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down
and talk aloud about what we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
05-01-2015, 09:21 AM
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May 2
Daily Reflections
LIGHTING THE...
May 2
Daily Reflections
LIGHTING THE DARK PAST
Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past
is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and
happiness for others. With...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
04-30-2015, 08:41 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - May
May 1
Daily Reflections
HEALING HEART AND MIND
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55
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