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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-31-2017, 04:15 AM
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August 31 Miracles are instantaneous. They...

August 31

Miracles are instantaneous. They cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments to those who least expect them.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

Nobody can force us...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-30-2017, 05:48 AM
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August 30 Courage and Patience There...

August 30

Courage and Patience

There are times when the "poor me" mood strikes us all. We complain that things are not better. We bemoan our sorry lot in life. We condemn ourselves and others...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-29-2017, 05:03 AM
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August 29 WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to...

August 29

WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.
--Anonymous

One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-28-2017, 04:40 AM
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August 28 I wonder why love is so often...

August 28

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again.
--Florida...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-27-2017, 04:50 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 27 Reflection for the Day Not in...

August 27

Reflection for the Day

Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the rewards that would be mine when I first contemplated turning my life and will over to the care of God, as I...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-26-2017, 04:56 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 26 I have to laugh at the times I’ve...

August 26

I have to laugh at the times I’ve knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through.
--Robert Franklin Leslie

We receive messages...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-25-2017, 05:13 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 25 Believe that life is worth living...

August 25

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the act.
--William James

Step Two speaks of believing. For many years, we had given up believing in ourselves, in a...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-24-2017, 05:17 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 24 Reflection for the Day In a...

August 24

Reflection for the Day

In a very real sense, we are imprisoned by our inability or unwillingness to reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves. But in time, we pray to be...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-23-2017, 03:56 AM
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August 23 You had better live your best and...

August 23

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
--Harriet Martineau
...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-22-2017, 06:16 AM
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August 22 . . . (the king) can deprive them...

August 22

. . . (the king) can deprive them of the benefit of sun and rain, . . . and they are at the same time pelted from above with great stones, . . . while the roofs of their houses are...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-21-2017, 04:41 AM
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August 21 Love, and love alone, is capable...

August 21

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven

We are making a response to life's every waking moment; our attitudes formulate the tenor of...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-20-2017, 04:41 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 20 Our main business is not to see...

August 20

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle

"Five years down the road," says Jack, "I want to have a new...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-19-2017, 06:04 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 19 All We Have Is Now We can...

August 19

All We Have Is Now

We can only live now, this moment. We cannot erase the mistakes we made yesterday or bring back the good times we had. We cannot know what tomorrow will require of...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-18-2017, 05:20 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 18 Disappointment and Frustration ...

August 18

Disappointment and Frustration

How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-17-2017, 04:55 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 17 Quiet Day This is another...

August 17

Quiet Day

This is another day, O Lord.

I don't know what it will bring

For I have not scheduled anything.
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-16-2017, 04:14 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 16 I am determined to maintain the...

August 16

I am determined to maintain the perpendicular position.
--Lucy Stone

Perpendicular lines make right angles; they make possible extensions of both height and breadth. Right angles are...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-15-2017, 05:14 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 15 Friendship and Love ...

August 15

Friendship and Love

Friendships or marriages based on "dire need" or physical security are doomed to fail if each person in the relationship does not grow beyond his or her limited...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-14-2017, 04:26 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 14 Reflection for the Day It...

August 14


Reflection for the Day

It was far easier for me to accept my powerlessness over my addiction than it was for me to accept the notion that some sort of Higher Power could accomplish...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-13-2017, 04:22 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 13 The block of granite which was an...

August 13

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. That block of granite is often nothing more than a decision....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-12-2017, 07:07 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 12 Accepting the past Noted...

August 12

Accepting the past

Noted psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "If one can accept one's sin, one can live with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable consequences."...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-11-2017, 03:31 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 11 God give[s] us a mind that can or...

August 11

God give[s] us a mind that can or can't believe, but not even God can make us believe.... You have to believe first before you can pray.
--Harriet Arnow

Sometimes it's difficult to...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-10-2017, 02:43 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 10 It is a long baptism into the seas...

August 10

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
--Tillie Olsen

We have each had days when we preferred hiding under the covers,...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-09-2017, 03:59 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 9 The crow that mimics a cormorant...

August 9

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.
--Japanese proverb

When we are young we are vulnerable to the images of success that surround us - in sports, in politics, and in our...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-08-2017, 02:44 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 8 When a child loves you for a long,...

August 8

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real.
--Margery Wilson

Intimacy with another is a necessary risk if we're to...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-07-2017, 04:03 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 4,449
Posted By bluidkiti
August 7 Aloneness and Quality Time ...

August 7

Aloneness and Quality Time

There are many ways to be good to ourselves. Here are just a few:

At the beginning of each day, we can think about what we'd like to accomplish. This can...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-06-2017, 04:23 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 6 "Stomp, Scram, Spit, Cry," a friend...

August 6

"Stomp, Scram, Spit, Cry," a friend said. "Just don't go numb again. Maybe what you're really angry about is that you've been dead longer than Abe Lincoln, and now you're finally coming...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-05-2017, 04:51 AM
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 5 Having loosened our grip on the...

August 5

Having loosened our grip on the past, we are free to reach for the future.
--Ann D. Clark

Everyday of our lives we think of some situation we wish we had handled differently. Perhaps...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-04-2017, 05:14 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 4,449
Posted By bluidkiti
August 4 All music is what awakes from you...

August 4

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
--Walt Whitman

A small group of friends sat in a room around a record player. It was a heavy old thing,...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-03-2017, 05:40 AM
Replies: 30
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Posted By bluidkiti
August 3 The Four Absolutes by the Oxford...

August 3

The Four Absolutes
by the Oxford Group, used by early AAs before the Twelve Steps were written

Absolute Honesty
Both with ourselves and with others, in word, deed, and thought.
...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-02-2017, 05:50 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 4,449
Posted By bluidkiti
August 2 Courage is very important. Like a...

August 2

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
--Ruth Gordon

All of us fear the unfamiliar at times; and it's nothing to be ashamed of to occasionally feel...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 08-01-2017, 05:30 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 4,449
Posted By bluidkiti
Today's Thought - August

August 1

Saving the World

Today may my prayers help me realize
I cannot control everything.
To put the world in order,
We must first put the nation in order;
To put the nation in order,
We...
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