Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-30-2017, 05:52 AM
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September 30
Boundaries
Fences are...
September 30
Boundaries
Fences are built to keep valuable things safe--to keep children and pets from escaping or running headlong into danger. Roadways have painted lines to keep cars in their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2017, 05:38 AM
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September 29
At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack...
September 29
At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.
--Albert Camus
What is time for? How often we say, "I don't...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2017, 05:49 AM
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September 28
Look, the wind vane fluttering...
September 28
Look, the wind vane fluttering in the autumn breeze
Takes hold of certain things that cannot be held.
--Feng Chih
When we think we are losing our grip, we have good reason to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-27-2017, 06:04 AM
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September 27
Praise God!
We did not...
September 27
Praise God!
We did not create this program on our own, and we did not achieve abstinence by ourselves. Our recovery is a gift, just as life is a gift. Light, the natural world, our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2017, 05:37 AM
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September 26
Zip It
Not every thought...
September 26
Zip It
Not every thought needs to become a spoken word. Not every feeling needs to become an action. Sometimes I need to just keep quiet. If my words will seem harsh—if they will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2017, 05:12 AM
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September 25
Today I Will Trust
Today,...
September 25
Today I Will Trust
Today, I will stop straining to know what I don't know.
To see what I can't see.
To understand what I don't yet understand.
I will trust that being is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2017, 06:42 AM
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September 24
Sharing our experiences...
September 24
Sharing our experiences heightens our joy and lessens out pain.
Not letting other people know what's troubling us causes the problem to trouble us even more. "Secrets keep us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2017, 05:19 AM
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September 23
No Place to Go
Love is...
September 23
No Place to Go
Love is supposed to flit about, here and there. Happily. And lightly. It's also supposed to have a place to land. Love is supposed to reach out and check in: How's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2017, 05:34 AM
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September 22
Listening and Sharing
Let...
September 22
Listening and Sharing
Let us review what others have said about listening and sharing:
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
--Churton Collins
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2017, 05:35 AM
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September 21
Seeking growth
We are...
September 21
Seeking growth
We are where we are for a reason. As long as that reason remains, we remain where we are. If we aren't where we think we should be, working the program will help us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2017, 05:55 AM
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Replies: 29
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September 20
Un-abling
It is not...
September 20
Un-abling
It is not helping my child if I do things for him that he can (and should) do for himself. Instead, by diminishing expectations, I diminish his capabilities. I am...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2017, 05:13 AM
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September 19
One deceit needs many others,...
September 19
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come crashing down.
-- Baltasar Gracian
If we are honest about our addiction, we know how it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2017, 05:26 AM
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September 18
Give us to go blithely on our...
September 18
Give us to go blithely on our business this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
--Robert Louis Stevenson...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2017, 04:53 AM
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September 17
Flowers, Not Weeds
When...
September 17
Flowers, Not Weeds
When addiction took hold of my son, it grew and spread like a thick, thorny vine, twisting and turning and choking him tight. But it didn't stop there. It kept...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2017, 06:00 AM
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September 16
Inspiration starts in the home....
September 16
Inspiration starts in the home.
--Alpha English
What does being inspired really mean? Alpha would say it means having the faith to tackle difficult tasks. She surely had it. In a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2017, 05:16 AM
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September 15
The evolution of human growth...
September 15
The evolution of human growth is an evolution from an absolute need to be loved towards a full readiness to give love.
--Dr. Karl Stern
As children, we looked to our parents for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2017, 05:35 AM
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September 14
History books begin and end,...
September 14
History books begin and end, but the events they describe do not.
--R. G. Collingwood
Each day we turn a new page in our recovery, and we grow more settled in our new life. As we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-13-2017, 05:40 AM
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September 13
I Did Not Cause It
I did...
September 13
I Did Not Cause It
I did not cause my child to become an addict. As a parent, I don't possess that power.
When my children were little, I imagined I had all kinds of power. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2017, 05:25 AM
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September 12
Reflection for the Day
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September 12
Reflection for the Day
Even with a growing understanding of The Program and its Twelve Steps, we sometimes might find it difficult to believe that our new way of life leads to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-11-2017, 06:18 AM
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September 11
Keeping my mind active through...
September 11
Keeping my mind active through good, intellectual discussions is important to me. Talking over golf scores doesn't take us very far.
--Louise Jerome
Small talk is what engages us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-10-2017, 05:41 AM
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September 10
Real love pours itself out upon...
September 10
Real love pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without demanding any return.
--Florence Scovel Shinn
Loving another wholly, purely, with no strings attached promises...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-09-2017, 05:06 AM
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September 9
Letting Go of the Silence
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September 9
Letting Go of the Silence
Addiction's best friends are shame and silence--without them, addiction couldn't survive. They play together so nicely, hanging out deep in the shadows. A...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-08-2017, 04:31 AM
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September 8
How important is it?
The...
September 8
How important is it?
The young man in the meeting was very angry and upset. His lawnmower had broken down. He was having a cookout in his back yard that evening, the yard "looked...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2017, 04:37 AM
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September 7
Reflection for the Day
One...
September 7
Reflection for the Day
One of the most constructive things I can do is to learn to listen to myself and get in touch with my true feelings. For years, I tuned myself out, going...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-06-2017, 06:19 AM
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September 6
To Love an Addict
When I...
September 6
To Love an Addict
When I held my baby in my arms for the very first time, I rubbed my cheek on his fuzzy head and whispered, "I will love and protect you for as long as I live." I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-05-2017, 03:27 AM
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September 5
There is no happiness; there are...
September 5
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
-- Spanish proverb
How happy we are right now may hinge on dinnertime - whether it is just before or just after. It may...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-04-2017, 04:42 AM
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September 4
Because I have been athirst I...
September 4
Because I have been athirst I will dig a well that others may drink.
--Arabian proverb
Most of us do as we please. When we want to go we go; when we want to stay, we stay. We're...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-03-2017, 06:44 AM
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September 3
Happiness is a by product of an...
September 3
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
--Gretta Brooker Palmer
Self-centeredness aggravates the natural flow of circumstances surrounding us; too much...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-02-2017, 06:23 AM
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September 2
Gratitude
Sometimes in...
September 2
Gratitude
Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-01-2017, 05:35 AM
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Today's Thought - September
September 1
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
--Meridel Le Sueur
The beautiful correspondences that structure the world - from the five...
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