February-20 topics

Daily Readings and Inspirations

At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 

1. Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most painful sounds I knew. I never  laughed and I felt that anyone else's laughter was directed at me! My self-pity and anger denied me the  simplest of pleasures or lightness of heart. By the end of my drinking not even alcohol could provoke a  drunken giggle in me. When my A.A. sponsor began to laugh and point out my self-pity and ego-feeding  deceptions, I was annoyed and hurt, but it taught me to lighten up and focus on my recovery. I soon  learned to laugh at myself and eventually I taught those I sponsor to laugh also. 

2. Every day I ask God to help me stop taking myself too seriously. 

NA Just For Today: Powerlessness, Personal Responsibility 

1. "Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems." Basic Text, p. 13

2. When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to  remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal behavior. 

3. Many of us have misused the concept of powerlessness to avoid making decisions or to hold onto things  we had outgrown. We have claimed powerlessness over our own actions. We have blamed others for our  circumstances rather than taking positive action to change those circumstances. If we continue to avoid  responsibility by claiming that we are "powerless;" we set ourselves up for the same despair and misery  we experienced in our active addiction. The potential for spending our recovery years feeling like victims  is very real. 

4. Instead of living our lives by default, we can learn how to make responsible choices and take risks. We  may make mistakes, but we can learn from these mistakes. A heightened awareness of ourselves and an  increased willingness to accept personal responsibility gives us the freedom to change, to make choices,  and to grow. 

Just for today: My feelings, actions, and choices are mine. I will accept responsibility for them.

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From recoveryhq.com

ACRONYMS: Recovery 

1. LOVE: Let. Others. Voluntarily. Evolve.

2. NUTS: Not. Using. The. Steps.

3. KISS: keep it simply simple.

4. PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens 

5. TIME: This I Must Experience

6. THINK: is it...? Thoughtful. Honest. Intelligent.Necessary. Kind.

7. HUG: Hope Using God

8. WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives *

9. T R U S T = Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions. 

 Love is something that we all look for when we are going nuts wanting to be kissed or giving the kisses because we know that we need to give, so that we can get it back, so we push to the times to think; to see that the hugs we can give are now by the wisdom that we have come to trust.

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SLOGANS: RECOVERY

•  If you don't want to slip, stay away from slippery places but only by stay in the herd to we can stay teachable to see that the tigers are only their to help us be in the moment of where we are(there) so that we can do something about it in that moment(now) to give time time and Turn it over, don't turn it off.

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From myself

• Changing yourself into seeing that you only have to see that you have changed, just as the same as only needing to have the desire to stop using; its as the same as what is, to manifesto: of the manifestation(to be living it now) of itself.