Smokebriety and Sobriety

[katheen]

Well I went to the Dr. yesterday and he said that he is going to give me acuputure so it'll help me out a little more.

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 3, 2009

  Keep It Simple
  After years of sobriety, I occasionally ask myself: "Can it be this simple?"
  Then, at meetings, I see former cynics and skeptics
  who have walked the AA path out of hell, without alcohol,
  into twenty-four hour segments, during which they practice a few principles
  to the best of their individual abilities.
  And then I know again that, while it isn't always easy,
  if I keep it simple, it works.
  - Daily Reflections, p. 30


  Thought to Ponder . . .

  The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  K I S S = Keep It Serenely Simple.

[lisamo]

JV and friends! Hello! Yes I visit this site everyday that I see u post &I ck to see if its the same as friends of bill w group or different. Also LOVE ageless wisdom too so yes, I appreciate and read everyone's posts and hope to someday manage my time better to be able to post more often too. Now I have my grandbaby Sky every day for 2 more weeks til preschool starts up!

[jv_]

Thanks for stopping by, n congrats on your 90 days !!!!

  thats big, no its huge, keep up the great work...

  love n joy
  jv

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 4, 2009

  Attitudes
  Whatever is done is over. It cannot be changed.
  But my attitude about it can be changed through talking with those who
  have gone before and with sponsors. . .
  If I change my actions in regard to what I have done, my attitude will change.
  I won't have to wish the past away.
  - Daily Reflections, p. 141


  Thought to Ponder . . .

  Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  A A = Altered Attitudes.

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 5, 2009

  In All Our Affairs

  "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
  we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
  and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 106

  Thought to Ponder . . .

  A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  P R O G R A M = People Relying On God Relaying A Message.

  A Member Shares:
  My name is Barry and I am an alcoholic. I love this program and all it has given us. This topic comes from Tradition Twelve. When I got to AA, they talked about turning it over to a Higher Power. Well, this alkie did not believe in any kind of higher power when I got here. Over the first year, I kept seeing all these "coincidences" happening, and I started to believe. It helped me a lot, especially learning about Tradition Two; leaving things to God, that we are not in charge but God is. So often, because many of us were control freaks before AA we tried to carry that on after coming to AA. However, the more we put all Twelve Steps into our lives on a daily basis the less full of ourselves we become. It is a life-long program and I am still learning. We do need to work with each other and leave our old ways back in the past and learn a whole new way to live and work together to make a much happier life. So far, it has been working for me for thirty years clean and sober one day at a time. Thank you for letting me share.

  To respond to the sharer, please email DTShare@aaonline.net and it will be forwarded to them.
  (All shares are reproduced with the kind permission of the person sharing)

  Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.

  Blessings in sobriety to all,
  In love and service,
  joanna b
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[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 6, 2009

  Solitude
  A little solitude is necessary to think and try to work some of the Steps.
  In solitude, we take our inventories.
  In solitude, we admit to ourselves the exact nature of our wrongs.
  In solitude, our spirits seek that Power greater than we are;
  in solitude, we seek through prayer and meditation
  to be aware of God's will for us.
  - Came To Believe . . ., p. 109


  Thought to Ponder . . .

  Once we understand ourselves, the rest of living falls in line.


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  Y A N A = You Are Not Alone.

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 7, 2009

  Seeds of Victory
  At one time the admission that I was an am an alcoholic
  meant shame, defeat, and failure to me.
  But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in AA,
  I have been able to interpret that defeat and that failure and that shame
  as seeds of victory.
  - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 295


  Thought to Ponder . . .

  When I change the way I look at things, the things I look at change.


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  T G I F = Thank God I'm Forgiven.

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 8, 2009

  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 new one.
  But we of AA do not have to understand this paradox;
  we have only to be grateful for it.
  - Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 46


  Thought to Ponder . . .
  We surrender to win; we give away to keep;
  we suffer to get well; we die to live.


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  O D A A T = One Day At A Time.

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 9, 2009

  Self-centered Fear

  Are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, our self-pity?
  Selfishness -- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
  - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

  Thought to Ponder . . .

  RULE #62: "Don't take yourself too damn seriously."

  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  F E A R = Forgetting Everything's All Right.

  A Member Shares:
  My name is Linda and I am a grateful recovering, discovering alcoholic, sober today by God's saving grace. I have been given a second chance at doing life on God's terms as opposed to playing God myself. I was brought up with a punishing God as well as critical alcoholic parents, and I learned to condemn. I was good at condemning myself, and holding myself in a place of shame and guilt and remorse. All my young life I tried to be "perfect," which only set me up to fail. I was actually afraid to be human, afraid to make a mistake, and yet I thought I WAS a mistake and that God could not possibly love me nor could God possibly forgive me. So when I came into AA, with my self-loathing, truly my superwoman cape was choking me. I was sick in the head and had a heavy, cold heart. My spirit was dark, lonely and negative. Thank God, through time and working the Steps, through people -- kind loving, gentle people in AA, who shared honestly about themselves and were able to break down the walls of protection I had put up -- I was able to start seeing things differently. Facing my fears took me a while to trust in the process and trust God. Thanks to years of living the Steps, living clean and sober, and having many moments of clarity, I can laugh at myself. I put down the bat, picked up a sense of humor, and remembered rule #62, "Don't take yourself so seriously." The disease is serious, but I can lighten up and enjoy life. That's what I believe my loving God put me here for. The message is celebrate YOU, celebrate sobriety!

  To respond to the sharer, please email DTShare@aaonline.net and it will be forwarded to them.
  (All shares are reproduced with the kind permission of the person sharing)

[jv_]

AA Thought for the Day
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  August 10, 2009

  Reflections
  AA reflects, in a limited, human sense, the way God works for us.
  AA people love us when we're newcomers,
  not because of what we've done, but in spite of it,
  not because we've earned love, but because we need it.
  And so, I think, comes the final great acceptance of the AA member:
  the realization that I have been accepted by God --
  that, when I staggered up those stairs for the first time,
  God was there waiting for me.
  - The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 1], p. 162


  Thought to Ponder . . .

  When we love, we see in others what we wish to have in ourselves.


  AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

  B O G G L E = Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone.