April-7 topics

Pancake Marathon:

I know that I have this value, I have this power to be able to set myself free; it is only then will I see that it was all for helping those that come next….doing the work now so that they are able to find their way with more grace: yes, hoping that they will see how to smile because they can have more fulfillment( as the work has already been done, it's all about maintenance at this point) is upon their life today, and yet do the same for the next as such to come.

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Push is the power that I have now, with the help of another; for I know that when I is fine i forget how it works: as it works just fine, if I work it; for me to think before I just react, to then getting to the point of acting within wisdom of seeing that I now have hope to the simple point of life is: How Important Is It to say that feeling that at that moment is the fact of how you are feeling and only you are feeling that, seeing that yes it has value and yet Easy does it but do it as Progress, not perfection with Pass it on that of Principles before personalities.

Acronyms

Slogans

Principles

Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives

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"This firsthand experience in all phases of illness and recovery is of unparalleled therapeutic value. We are here to share it freely with any addict who wants to recover." Basic Text p. 10
Most of us came into the program with some serious regrets. We had never finished high school, or we had missed going to college. We had destroyed friendships and marriages. We had lost jobs. And we knew that we couldn't change any of it. We may have thought that we'd always be regretful and simply have to find a way to live with our regrets.
On the contrary, we find that our past represents an untapped gold mine the first time we are called on to share it with a struggling newcomer. As we listen to someone share their Fifth Step with us, we can give a special form of comfort that no one else could provide - our own experience. We've done the same things. We've had the same feelings of shame and remorse. We've suffered in the ways only an addict can suffer. We can relate - and so can they.
Our past is valuable - in fact, priceless - because we can use all of it to help the addict who still suffers. Our Higher Power can work through us when we share our past. That possibility is why we are here, and its fulfillment is the most important goal we have to accomplish.
Just for today: I no longer regret my past because, with it, I can share with other addicts, perhaps averting the pain or even death of another.

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And, speaking for Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that had it not been for our wives, Anne and Lois, neither of us could have lived to see A.A.'s beginning. THE A.A. WAY OF LIFE, p. 67
Am I capable of such generous tribute and gratitude to my wife, parents and friends, without whose support I might never have survived to reach A.A.'s doors? I will work on this and try to see the plan my Higher Power is showing me which links our lives together.

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