Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Surrender
When I heard those words in A.A. it reminded me of a hymn I sang in church "I surrender all." I did not want to surrender when I heard the hymn and I didn't want to surrender when I heard it in A.A. But I had found a life that I really liked. I met people who made me feel at home. I didn't want to...
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Ordinary Recovery
On the Christian calendar there are holy days and ordinary days. In recovery, we will have days of crisis or breakthroughs, and we will have ordinary days, when things are relatively peaceful. It is during these times that instead of neglecting meetings, service work and stepwork, we should take...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Instead of anger
Those who have practiced spiritual principles for a while have better control over their temper. When they feel angry, they figure out why and deal with the problem. They live the serenity prayer, changing what they can, accept what they can't and asking for wisdom. They learn that anger is the...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Anger in Recovery
Jolly Jeff said, "I'm not so sure it's a good idea to NEVER get angry. I think there are times when anger is appropriate." I agree. I've always felt this way myself. When doing research on sociopaths, St Elizabeth's in Washington D.C. had a program for sociopaths. They found that if their patients...
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Monday, September 13, 2004
Anger
One of my housemates gets angry very easily. When someone disturbs his routine, he gets angry. A new housemate moved into our house. He is young and hasn't been following the rules. He also lacks consideration of Joe. So Joe gets angry. He also manipulates people with him anger. HIs anger comes from...
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Saturday, September 11, 2004
In Memory of Curt
A week ago Friday, Curt died. I tree hit him on the head, knocked him backwards and he died without bleeding. He had 99 days of recovery. His hundred day will be forever with God. Curt was a very intense guy. Recovery was hard for him, but he came to meetings and used the group with all the...
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Friday, September 10, 2004
The Rocky Road to Recovery
There is nothing easy about recovery, but you don't do it alone. First of all you have the members of the twelve step group, secondly you have friends and family that have wanted to see you clean and sober for a long time, but most of all you have a higher power, who i call God. In our world it it...
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Saturday, September 4, 2004
Spirituality
Today we had a meeting at five in the morning because today is unity day and we had five minutes of prayer with all the other members of N.A. It was an awesome meeting. The reason is because it was spiritual. We lost a member a week ago Friday. He was special to all of us and he died clean. There is...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Seeing who we are
is sometimes difficult. We tend to see our good side. When I see photographs of myself, I'm shocked at how fat I am. When I look in the mirror, I pose at angles that show my good side. But the camera doesn't do that, it has another person's point of view, who knows very well how fat I am. So if you...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
A New Mind
What you are striving for in recovery is a new way of thinking. All of your old ways and ideas are wrong and you need a new set of principles. Alcoholism and drug addiction makes us extremely self centered. We need to learn how to be a person again. If we learn well, we may be better than we were...
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