Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-30-2017, 05:55 AM
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October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING...
October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING CONTROVERSY
All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder
because they were designed for, or tempted into,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-26-2017, 06:36 AM
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October 30
Daily Reflections
LIVE AND...
October 30
Daily Reflections
LIVE AND LET LIVE
Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial
issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-26-2017, 06:35 AM
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October 29
Daily Reflections
OUR...
October 29
Daily Reflections
OUR SURVIVAL
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full
strength our means of survival.
TWELVE STEPS AND...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-26-2017, 06:35 AM
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October 28
Daily Reflections
AN...
October 28
Daily Reflections
AN UNBROKEN TRADITION
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far
greater importance than the weight we could...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-26-2017, 06:32 AM
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October 27
Daily Reflections
GLOBAL...
October 27
Daily Reflections
GLOBAL SHARING
The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety.
These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-25-2017, 08:19 AM
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October 26
Daily Reflections
ONE...
October 26
Daily Reflections
ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may
express Himself in our group conscience.
TWELVE STEPS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-24-2017, 07:10 AM
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October 25
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s...
October 25
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s HEARTBEAT
Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125
Without unity I would be unable to recover in A.A. on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-23-2017, 05:13 AM
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October 24
Daily Reflections
"BY FAITH...
October 24
Daily Reflections
"BY FAITH AND BY WORKS"
On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. . . . Thus has
it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-19-2017, 06:16 AM
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October 23
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE...
October 23
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE KNOW BEST
"Shoemaker, stick to thy last!" . . . better do one thing supremely well than many badly.
That is the central theme of this Tradition [Five]....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-19-2017, 06:16 AM
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October 22
Daily Reflections
TRUE...
October 22
Daily Reflections
TRUE TOLERANCE
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent
emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-19-2017, 06:15 AM
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October 21
Daily Reflections
NOTHING...
October 21
Daily Reflections
NOTHING GROWS IN THE DARK
We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10
With the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-19-2017, 06:15 AM
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October 20
Daily Reflections
SOLACE FOR...
October 20
Daily Reflections
SOLACE FOR CONFUSION
Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He
thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-18-2017, 06:13 AM
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October 19
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S...
October 19
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S "MAIN TAPROOT"
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat
is the main taproot from which our whole...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-17-2017, 06:09 AM
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October 18
Daily Reflections
AN OPEN...
October 18
Daily Reflections
AN OPEN MIND
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
My alcoholic thinking led me to believe that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-16-2017, 06:05 AM
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October 17
Daily Reflections
A DAILY...
October 17
Daily Reflections
A DAILY TUNE-UP
Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will
into all of our activities.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-12-2017, 05:31 AM
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October 16
Daily Reflections
THROUGHOUT...
October 16
Daily Reflections
THROUGHOUT EACH DAY
This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
During my early years in A.A. I saw...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-12-2017, 05:30 AM
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October 15
Daily Reflections
MY...
October 15
Daily Reflections
MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its
satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-12-2017, 05:30 AM
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October 14
Daily Reflections
A PROGRAM...
October 14
Daily Reflections
A PROGRAM FOR LIVING
When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think
about the twenty-four hours ahead. . . Before we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-12-2017, 05:29 AM
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October 13
Daily Reflections
...
October 13
Daily Reflections
UNREMITTING INVENTORIES
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment,
and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove
them. We discuss...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-11-2017, 07:07 AM
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October 12
Daily Reflections
CURBING...
October 12
Daily Reflections
CURBING RASHNESS
When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant
evaporates on the spot.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-10-2017, 08:25 AM
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October 11
Daily Reflections
...
October 11
Daily Reflections
SELF--RESTRAINT
Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91
My drive to work provides me with an...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-09-2017, 05:33 AM
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October 10
Daily Reflections
FIXING ME,...
October 10
Daily Reflections
FIXING ME, NOT YOU
If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90
What a freedom I felt when this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-05-2017, 07:18 AM
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October 9
Daily Reflections
A SPIRITUAL...
October 9
Daily Reflections
A SPIRITUAL AXIOM
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is
something wrong with us.
12 & 12, p. 90
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-05-2017, 07:18 AM
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October 8
Daily Reflections
DAILY...
October 8
Daily Reflections
DAILY INVENTORY
. . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59
I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-05-2017, 07:17 AM
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October 7
Daily Reflections
DAILY...
October 7
Daily Reflections
DAILY MONITORING
Continued to take personal inventory. . . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88
The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step--
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-05-2017, 07:16 AM
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October 6
Daily Reflections
FACING...
October 6
Daily Reflections
FACING OURSELVES
. . . . and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49
How often I avoided a task in my drinking days,
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-04-2017, 05:58 AM
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October 5
Daily Reflections
YESTERDAY'S...
October 5
Daily Reflections
YESTERDAY'S BAGGAGE
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching
becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-03-2017, 05:00 AM
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October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY...
October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY PRUNING
. . . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come
before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-02-2017, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY...
October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY AFTER THE STORM
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that
pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily
we A.A.'s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
09-28-2017, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID...
October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID TEST
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for
the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten
we commence to put our A.A....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
09-28-2017, 06:33 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - October
October 1
Daily Reflections
LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest
on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol
is a...
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