April-9 topics
- Apr 9, 2024
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Pancake Marathon:
As I find my peace of mind, growing in time through this manifestation of each Spiritual Awakening that I have; I know that I made it, yes for that moment sure and yet it's in that moment that I know I made it because I have a peace of mind through the spiritual Awakenings to manifest: that I made it.
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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude is the power of seeing that doing it sober as seeing that not just being a visitor in AA as I halt on the power of q-tip; the power to keep the love that I know I have pushed to the point of the trust that get to have because of the wisdom that I have by the power of hope. For simply the power of fear you have now is by the grace of god; for its the simple fear that you had that got you to the point of god that you have now: for that is why you give the gift of kisses.
Acronyms
HALT: if you're _ Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
Q-TIP: Quit Taking It Personally
LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
TRUST: Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions
WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives
HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists
GOD: Good Orderly Direction
GOD: Got over drugs
FEAR: Fight Everyone And Relapse
GIFT: God Is Forever There
KISS: keep it simply simple
Slogans
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
doing it sober
Don't just be a visitor in AA
But For The Grace Of God
Principles
Step 12 for tradition 1 as promise 6 and 7
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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Slogans (underlined) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files
NA Just For Today: Acting Out
"We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them." IP No. 16, "For the Newcomer"
Many of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted to be rid of the problems, but we didn't want to stop getting high. Eventually, though, we saw that we couldn't have one without the other Even though we really wanted to get loaded, we didn't use; we weren't willing to pay the price anymore. The
longer we stayed clean and worked the program, the more freedom we experienced. Sooner or later, the compulsion to use was lifted from us completely, and we stayed clean because we wanted to live clean.
The same principles apply to other negative impulses that may plague us. We may feel like doing something destructive, just because we want to. We've done it before, and sometimes we think we've gotten away with it, but sometimes we haven't. If we're not willing to pay the price for acting on such feelings, we don't have to act on them.
It may be hard, maybe even as hard as it was to stay clean in the beginning. But others have felt the same way and have found the freedom not to act on their negative impulses. By sharing about it and seeking the help of other recovering people and a Power greater than ourselves, we can find the direction, the support, and the strength we need to abstain from any destructive compulsion.
Just for today: It's okay to feel my feelings. With the help of my sponsor, my NA friends, and my Higher Power, I am free not to act out my negative feelings.
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Daily Reflections: FREEDOM FROM "KING ALCOHOL"
. . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great "must" that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die. As Bill Sees It, p. 134
When drinking, I lived in spiritual, emotional, and sometimes, physical confinement. I had constructed my prison with bars of self-will and self-indulgence, from which I could not escape. Occasional dry spells that seemed to promise freedom would turn out to be little more than hopes of reprieve. True escape required a willingness to follow whatever right actions were needed to turn the lock. With that willingness and action, both the lock and the bars themselves opened for me. Continued willingness and action keep me free--in a kind of extended daily probation--that need never end.
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