March-16 topics

From Pancake Marathon:

We all have those moments when we think we are right, and maybe we are: in our head’s and with the feelings that we feel, for those are valuable and can help: help in the way to guiding us upon seeing that we are in our sticking thinking; its the after that comes, that really is what the point of this whole recovery thing is about, see you worked on the drug Problem and now you have to work on the you problem so you can work on how you can help others to help you stay an active part in your Recovery today (See that's the thing I call it recovery time opposed to sobriety or that of clean time, for they all are saying the same thing just in their own way shape or form essentially what Tradition 5 is all about; and simply to say how to use in your garden: how do you keep your peace of mind and see your part) as that is all we have, for never rest on what you did yesterday, it’s always what you can do today.

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Fine is less then I hope to But For The Grace Of God Don't quit before the miracle happens is something that keeps me pushing to keep on Cultivate an attitude of gratitude at all moments when I know that what I is feeling: as Feelings are not facts when I don’t see that the First Things First is doing it sober by kissing so I can get the love and give the love that I know I get to give today.

Acronyms

Slogans

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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"The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are." Basic Text p. 27
Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to tell from one minute to the next what they're going to do or who they're going to be. Usually, the addict is just as surprised as anyone else.
When we used, our behavior was dictated by the needs of our addiction. Many of us still identify our personalities closely with the behavior we practiced while using, leading us to feel shame and despair. Today, we don't have to be the people we once were, shaped by our addiction; recovery has allowed us to change.
We can use the Fourth Step inventory to see past the needs of the old using life and find out who we want to be today. Writing about our behavior and noticing how we feel about that behavior helps us understand who we want to be. Our inventory helps us see beyond the demands of active addiction, beyond our desire
to be loved and accepted-we find out who we are at the root. We begin to understand what's appropriate for us, and what we want our lives to be like. This is the beginning of becoming who we really are.
Just for today: If I want to find out who I am, I'll look at who I've been and who I want to be.

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My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 12
I remember the times I looked up into the sky and reflected on who started it all, and how. When I came to A.A., an understanding of some description of the spiritual dimension became a necessary adjunct to a stable sobriety. After reading a variety of versions, including the scientific, of a great explosion, I went for simplicity and made the God of my understanding the Great Power that made the explosion possible. With the vastness of the universe under His command, He would, no doubt, be able to guide my thinking and actions if I was prepared to accept His guidance. But I could not expect help if I turned my back on that help and went my own way. I became willing to believe and I have had 26 years of stable and satisfying sobriety.

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