Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-31-2018, 06:11 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
January 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 31
Choice
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not
postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-30-2018, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 30
Every...
AA Thought for the Day
January 30
Every Imaginable Remedy
We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there
has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2018, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 29
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AA Thought for the Day
January 29
Humility
It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility.
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2018, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 28
Faith...
AA Thought for the Day
January 28
Faith Without Works
Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic!
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-27-2018, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 27
Inner...
AA Thought for the Day
January 27
Inner Resource
What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished
by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2018, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 26
Three...
AA Thought for the Day
January 26
Three Pertinent Ideas
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our
personal adventures before and after make clear three...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-25-2018, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 25
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AA Thought for the Day
January 25
Self-appraisal
In actual practice, we usually find a solitary self-appraisal insufficient.
Many of us thought it necessary to go much further. We will be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2018, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 24
Step...
AA Thought for the Day
January 24
Step Twelve
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2018, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 23
The...
AA Thought for the Day
January 23
The First Milestone
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol,
we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2018, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 22
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AA Thought for the Day
January 22
Alcoholic Mind
They had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way
before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2018, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 21
This...
AA Thought for the Day
January 21
This Solution
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution,
who is properly armed with facts about himself,
can generally win the entire...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-20-2018, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 20
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AA Thought for the Day
January 20
Laughter
So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes
shocked when we bust into merriment over a seemingly tragic...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2018, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 19
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AA Thought for the Day
January 19
Consciousness
Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory.
They show how the change came over them. When many hundreds of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-18-2018, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 18
Blind...
AA Thought for the Day
January 18
Blind
For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God.
There had been a humble willingness to have Him with me—and He came.
But soon the sense of His...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2018, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 17
No...
AA Thought for the Day
January 17
No Reservation
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:
"Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic."
Commencing to drink after a period of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2018, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
Possible Existence
As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2018, 05:13 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
Miraculous
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty
that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way
which is indeed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2018, 06:09 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
Willingness
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door
ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2018, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 13
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AA Thought for the Day
January 13
Absolutely Unable
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception,
will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2018, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 12
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AA Thought for the Day
January 12
Helpful
We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way.
If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2018, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 11
Not...
AA Thought for the Day
January 11
Not Cured
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 subtle foe....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-10-2018, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 10
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AA Thought for the Day
January 10
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,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-09-2018, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 9
The...
AA Thought for the Day
January 9
The Solution
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution.
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree,
and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2018, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 8
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AA Thought for the Day
January 8
Experience
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure
immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
It works when other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2018, 06:04 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 7
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AA Thought for the Day
January 7
Promises
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do
for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are
being...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2018, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 6
Dear...
AA Thought for the Day
January 6
Dear Reader, I am sorry for the lateness of your Daily Thought today.
Apparently there was a small glitch and it did not send out at the time it was suppose...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2018, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 5
Our...
AA Thought for the Day
January 5
Our Work
This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing
consciousness of the power of God in our lives. We have come...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-04-2018, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 4
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AA Thought for the Day
January 4
Recovered
He accepted the plan outlined in this book. One year later he called to see me,
and I experienced a very strange sensation. I knew the man by name,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-03-2018, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 3
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AA Thought for the Day
January 3
Paradox
Such is the paradox of AA regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness,
the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-02-2018, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,594
AA Thought for the Day
January 2
Lost...
AA Thought for the Day
January 2
Lost Faith
"The here and now was good enough for us. The will to win would carry us through.
But then alcohol began to have its way with us.
Finally,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-01-2018, 12:37 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,594
AA Thoughts For Today - January
AA Thought for the Day
January 1
An Answer
Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly.
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found
no answer may...
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