Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-31-2016, 07:10 AM
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January 31
Believe more deeply. Hold your...
January 31
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.
--Bill Wilson
At times, despair, sadness, and hopelessness fill us. None of us will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-30-2016, 05:57 AM
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January 30
Where There is Charity and Wisdom...
January 30
Where There is Charity and Wisdom
---- St. Francis of Assisi (paraphrased)
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Where there is patience and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2016, 06:29 AM
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January 29
One cannot have wisdom without...
January 29
One cannot have wisdom without living life.
--Dorothy McCall
Understanding circumstances, other people, even ourselves, comes with the passage of time and our willingness to be open...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2016, 07:37 AM
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January 28
Believing in change
At...
January 28
Believing in change
At first, drugs or booze turned us on; later they turned on us. We couldn't find any peace anywhere. We began turning into the kind of person we didn't want to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-27-2016, 06:11 AM
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January 27
Gaining peace of mind
Even...
January 27
Gaining peace of mind
Even though many of us were certainly ready to take the First Step - to admit that we were addicts - we balked at taking the following eleven steps. We felt it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2016, 07:56 AM
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January 26
Hope is always available to us....
January 26
Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say,"Yes," and hope will reappear.
-- Monroe Forester
Coastal redwoods are the planet's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-25-2016, 05:24 AM
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January 25
The true use of speech is not so...
January 25
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
--Oliver Goldsmith
Learning to communicate, for little children, means squeezing huge desires into...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2016, 07:38 AM
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January 24
Courage is the power to let go of...
January 24
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-- Raymond Lindquist
Coeur is the French word for "heart." When we act with courage, we act from our hearts, not our heads alone. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2016, 06:28 AM
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January 23
God will wait as long as it takes...
January 23
God will wait as long as it takes for us.
-- Rev. R. Walters
Whenever we try to understand, analyze, or probe too much into the reasons for love, we damage it. All that can really...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2016, 06:56 AM
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January 22
Finding Joy
In the...
January 22
Finding Joy
In the revelation of life (not in booze, pills, or junk), our first joy is the very fact that we are alive. Next, we find gladness and joy in our daily activities and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2016, 05:27 AM
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January 21
Man, like the bridge, was...
January 21
Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
--William A. Ward
When trouble tumbles down on us, we are easily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-20-2016, 05:30 AM
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January 20
You've got to create a dream. ...
January 20
You've got to create a dream.
You've got to uphold the dream.
If you can't, go back to the factory
or go back to the desk.
--Eric Burdon
We develop goals, priorities, and action...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2016, 06:24 AM
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January 19
Today was like a shadow. It...
January 19
Today was like a shadow. It lurked behind me. It's now gone forever. Why is it that time is such a difficult thing to befriend?
--Mary Casey
Each passing minute is all that we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-18-2016, 05:44 AM
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January 18
The Horse and the Mule
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January 18
The Horse and the Mule
Traveling together, a horse sported a fine coat and a magnificent saddle with ornate decorations, while a mule was burdened with a heavy load. Its coat was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2016, 05:42 AM
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January 17
There is no reality except the...
January 17
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
--Herman Hesse
Claude Gellee painted lovely pictures of the English countryside. Europeans loved his landscapes, with their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2016, 06:59 AM
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January 16
The self is a calm stable center...
January 16
The self is a calm stable center surrounded by a continuous changing sea. Merge with yourself and be ready for any emergent sea.
--Coretta Scott King
Wise ones tell us to be true to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2016, 05:15 AM
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January 15
I am living out my life in...
January 15
I am living out my life in accordance with my faith.
--Ruth Casey
Does faith in God guide your actions as it does Ruth's? It's certain our actions are guided by some set of beliefs....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2016, 05:18 AM
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January 14
I believe there has been a grand...
January 14
I believe there has been a grand plan for my life; so much has happened that I hadn't counted on.
--Louise Jerome
What Louise believes might offer great comfort, particularly to a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2016, 05:36 AM
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January 13
The adventure of connection is to...
January 13
The adventure of connection is to speak out. . .
The feeling of connection we yearn for with our partner comes when we speak what is on our mind; we have to stop guessing what each...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2016, 05:12 AM
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January 12
Getting people to like you is...
January 12
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
--Norman Vincent Peale
What does it mean to like other people? It means giving respect and attention to their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2016, 06:05 AM
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January 11
I can still remember my mother...
January 11
I can still remember my mother clutching her heart, threatening to have a heart attack and die, and blaming it on me.
--Anonymous
For some of us, the idea that we were responsible...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-10-2016, 05:50 AM
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January 10
Love is a positive feeling and if...
January 10
Love is a positive feeling and if one cultivates this feeling in their life, they will surely free themselves from any unbalanced condition that surrounds them.
--Syd Banks
Anger,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-09-2016, 05:39 AM
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January 9
Today I will review the goals I've...
January 9
Today I will review the goals I've set for myself.
Have I met some of them? Do some of them seem out of reach? If so, I will consider how I can simplify them by breaking them down...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2016, 05:42 AM
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January 8
Suffering is a journey which has...
January 8
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
--Matthew Fox
Pain is part of life. To live a spiritual life, we need a way to understand the suffering we sometimes endure. Looking back at...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2016, 06:37 AM
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January 7
We don't want to live in the past,...
January 7
We don't want to live in the past, but we do need to learn to live comfortably with it.
"We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it." This is a promise of the Twelve...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2016, 04:49 AM
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January 6
Oh, what a tangled web we weave ...
January 6
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.
--Sir Walter Scott
To deceive means to fool people into believing things that are not true. As addicts, we did...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2016, 05:46 AM
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January 5
How beautiful it is to do nothing,...
January 5
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
--Spanish proverb
The beauty of the Third Step is that there's no real work for us to do. Making a decision to turn our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-04-2016, 05:37 AM
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January 4
Is there room in your day for the...
January 4
Is there room in your day for the unexpected?
Recovery works best for me when I'm open to what comes along each day. I used to set rigid schedules for myself, write long lists of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-03-2016, 03:54 AM
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January 3
Moral Inventory
It is...
January 3
Moral Inventory
It is fortunate that we can think in secret, because our thoughts would quickly get us in trouble if others could read them. In our thoughts, we can choose what we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-02-2016, 05:36 AM
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January 2
Learning new ways
Once we...
January 2
Learning new ways
Once we make a connection with our Higher Power, the ongoing problem is to hold on to it. Repeatedly we slip into our old ways of thinking and behaving. If not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-01-2016, 03:33 AM
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Today's Thought - January
January 1
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
We carry problems and discrepancies within us, quandaries that are...
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