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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA Thought for the Day</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>April 4, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Red
Flags</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Many years later, although alcohol is not a part of my life and I no longer
have the compulsion to drink,<br />
it can still occur to me what a good drink tastes like and what it can do for
me,<br />
from my stand-at-attention alcoholic taste buds right down to my stretched out
tingling toes.<br />
As my sponsor used to point out, such thoughts are like red flags,<br />
telling me that something is not right, that I am stretched beyond my sober
limit.<br />
It's time to get back to basic AA and see what needs changing.<br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Alcoholics Anonymous,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> pp.
396-397</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
to Ponder . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
AA is not something we join; it's a way of life.<br />
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'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>A A</b> = <b>A</b>lways <b>A</b>live.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>March 31, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hangovers</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Few people who have ever had a hangover could forget how unreasonably
irritable it makes you feel.<br />
Sometimes, we took it out on family members, fellow workers, friends,<br />
or strangers who had certainly not earned our displeasure.<br />
That tendency can hang around awhile after we start staying sober,<br />
the way wraiths of stale smoke do in a closed-up barroom, reminding us of
drinking days<br />
-- until we do a good mental housecleaning.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Living Sober,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>Trust God. Clean house. Help others.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>H O W</b> = <b>H</b>onesty, <b>O</b>pen-mindedness, <b>W</b>illingness.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA Thought for the Day</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>March 29, 2016</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facing
Challenges</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Life is meant to be lived by facing the challenges it brings.
Otherwise, I'm not living, just existing.<br />
God didn't give me this gift of sobriety to sit in a rocking chair,<br />
imagining myself as some wise old woman who has arrived somewhere.<br />
There is no easier, softer way. . .<br />
The teaching I receive in Alcoholics Anonymous about courage and love<br />
helps me to continue to grapple with the challenges of life as they are given
to me, one day at a time.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
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[Vol. 3], p. 320</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succeed.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>O D A A T</b> = <b>O</b>ne <b>D</b>ay <b>A</b>t <b>A</b> <b>T</b>ime.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
<strong><a href="mailto:dailythought@aa-alive.org"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dailythought@aa-alive.org</span></a></strong><br />
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA Thought for the Day</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<br />
<b>March 28, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
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<b>Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest
possession you have<br />
-- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death
and misery for them.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Alcoholics Anonymous,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
124</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains<br />
and we never even know we have the key.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>A A</b> = <b>A</b>lways <b>A</b>wesome.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
<strong><a href="mailto:dailythought@aa-alive.org"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dailythought@aa-alive.org</span></a></strong><br />
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<b>March 27, 2016<br />
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Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood<br />
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<b>Love and tolerance of others is our code.<br />
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P U T</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> = <b>P</b>atience, <b>U</b>nderstanding,<b>T</b>olerance.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Lance here, an alcoholic. Someone once said the Steps are there so we
don't kill ourselves, and the Traditions are there so we don't kill one
another. I agree. It gives everyone the same right to share, with
the least emphasis on differences. We've got to learn to be tolerant and
loving, and it sure shows up at face-to-face meetings. My Home Group is
very loving and we are very different .. could, in fact, become hostile to one
another. But I am learning to really put what I think on the back burner
and just appreciate people for who they are, just regular folks who have a
deadly disease. We have every right to celebrate together, since we are
sober and most of us eager to learn how to get along. It's what I think
is secondary to the benefit of the group, so it's good to listen to different
points of view. Mostly, I am grateful I can go somewhere and feel
accepted and loved for who I am, with few repercussions in what I think.
It gives us a lot of freedom! Thanks for letting me share.</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>March 26, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spirituality</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>I finally began to separate the religious aspects of my life from AA's
spiritual program.<br />
Now the big difference to me is that religion is the ritual, and we all differ
there,<br />
and spirituality is the way we feel about what we do.<br />
It's about my personal contact with my personal Higher Power, as I understand
Him.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Alcoholics Anonymous,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
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<b>Spirituality is the essence of being. It can shape reality.</b><br />
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<b>K I S S</b> = <b>K</b>eeping <b>I</b>t <b>S</b>imple, <b>S</b>piritually.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>March 25, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Willpower</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use
it rightly. . .<br />
<i>Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to
bombard our problems with it<br />
instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us.</i></b><br />
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<b>I can't do His will my way.</b><br />
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<b>W H O</b> = <b>W</b>illingness, <b>H</b>onesty, <b>O</b>pen-mindedness.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>March 19, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meditation</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Meditation belongs and grows with daily life and daily growth,<br />
for it is in daily life that analytical thought binds us into the dilemma of
opposites<br />
and consequently into sorrow, pleasure-seeking and loss of freedom.<br />
In a life that may often seem onerous, boring and senseless,<br />
meditation can free us to its beauty, its joy beyond pleasure, its passion
beyond sorrow.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The Best of the Grapevine</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> [Vol. 1], p. 172</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>Meditation means trusting the silence around me.</b><br />
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<b>March 11, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A New
Perspective</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>For some of us, it is easier to slow ourselves down if we have the help of
another person.<br />
We may be unable to generate our own peace, but sometimes we can make ourselves
sit quietly<br />
and listen to a friend who has achieved a measure of serenity.<br />
Full attention to someone else helps restore our equilibrium and gives us a new
perspective on our own lives,<br />
so that we may see that they don't <i>have</i> to be a rat race.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Living Sober,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
45</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.</b><br />
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<b>T L C</b> = <b>T</b>ears, <b>L</b>aughter, <b>C</b>aring.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>March 10, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Progress</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>As I peel away the layers of day-to-day expediency, I realize that my
zigzag, erratic and inconsistent course<br />
was in the general direction of progress all the time. That's good.<br />
What right do I have to expect perfection and efficiency in my spiritual growth
when the rest of my life<br />
is so full of ups and downs, ins and outs, and backs and forths?
Throughout this whole adventure,<br />
the only consistency I have maintained is an absolute and total faith in AA,
come what may.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
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[Vol. 1], p. 187</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>The road to recovery is always under construction.</b><br />
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<b>A A</b> = <b>A</b>dventurers <b>A</b>nonymous.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>March 8, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Purpose</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>This latest part of my life has had a purpose, not in great things
accomplished, but in daily living.<br />
Courage to face each day has replaced the fears and uncertainties of earlier
years.<br />
Acceptance of things as they are has replaced the old impatient chomping at the
bit to conquer the world.<br />
I have stopped tilting at windmills and, instead, have tried to accomplish the
little daily tasks,<br />
unimportant in themselves, but tasks that are an integral part of living fully.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Alcoholics Anonymous,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 266</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought to Ponder . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.</b><br />
<br />
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<b>A B C</b> = <b>A</b>cceptance, <b>B</b>elief, <b>C</b>hange.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In love and service,<br />
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<b>March 7, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Resentments</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Selfishness -- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our
troubles.<br />
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,
we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.<br />
Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find
that in some time in the past<br />
we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be
hurt.<br />
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Alcoholics Anonymous,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
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<b>Resentment is like acid, eating away at the vessel it is stored in.</b><br />
<br />
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'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>S W A T</b> = <b>S</b>urrender, <b>W</b>illingness, <b>A</b>ction, <b>T</b>rust.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In love and service,<br />
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<b>March 3, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Surrender</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>It is only when I have experienced enough emotional pain, through failed
attempts to fix myself,<br />
that I become willing to surrender to God's will for my life.<br />
Surrender is like the calm after the storm. When my will is in line with
God's will for me, there is peace within.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Daily Reflections,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
77</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace. It
was inside all the time.</b><br />
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<b>W O W</b> = <b>W</b>illingness <b>O</b>ver <b>W</b>illpower.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>February 29, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Healthy Respect</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Fear may have originally pushed some of us toward looking into the
possibility that we may have a drinking problem.<br />
And over a short period, fear alone may help some of us stay away from a drink.<br />
But a fearful state is not a very happy or relaxed one to maintain for very
long.<br />
So we try to develop a healthy respect for the power of alcohol, instead of a
fear of it,<br />
just as people have a healthy respect for cyanide, iodine, or any other poison.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Living
Sober,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> pp.
13-14</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>A fear faced is a fear erased.</b><br />
<br />
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<b>F E A R</b> = <b>F</b>ear <b>E</b>xpressed <b>A</b>llows <b>R</b>elief</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>February 27, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>And what is time to me now? It is a most precious asset.<br />
I have the luxury of being able to cherish the memory of yesterday,<br />
to live today with serenity, to wait for tomorrow.<br />
I find great contentment in just knowing where I was and where I am.<br />
And I am grateful; grateful for the existence of Alcoholic Anonymous;<br />
grateful to my God for leading me to the doors of AA and to himself, grateful
for hope.<br />
I am grateful for this minute. My eternity may be in it.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
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[Vol. 2], p. 21</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>Give Time time.</b><br />
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<b>T I M E</b> = <b>T</b>his <b>I</b>s <b>M</b>y <b>E</b>ternity.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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<b>February 26, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Generation
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<b>I walked into my first AA meeting a month after my 70th birthday. . . Half-sober,
I got myself to an AA meeting near my home.<br />
My first reaction, as I stared at the people in the meeting was to flee.
Unwittingly, I had walked into a young people's meeting.<br />
The leader, a girl named Kathy, was fourteen and one-half years old, with six
months' sober.<br />
Muttering, I turned toward the exit and found myself face to face with a young
man, who stuck out a hand.<br />
"My name is Frank." "I'm not staying. I'm in the
wrong place." He got a whiff of my breath. "I'd say you
aren't."<br />
That evening, I learned that the generation gap works both ways.<br />
While I had as much chance for recovery as a girl of 14, she was as likely to
die from alcoholism as I was.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Time To Start Living,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> AA
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<b>It's never too late to be what I might have been.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
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<b>H E A R T</b> = <b>H</b>ealing, <b>E</b>njoying, <b>A</b>nd <b>R</b>ecovering
<b>T</b>ogether.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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<b>February 25, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Complacency</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>The truth is, that in the life of each AA member, there still lurks a
tyrant. His name is alcohol.<br />
He is cunning, ruthless. And his weapons are misery, insanity, and death.<br />
No matter how long we may be sober, he always stands at each man's elbow,<br />
ever watchful of an opportunity to resume his destruction.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
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34</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>The alcoholic is in no greater peril than when he takes sobriety for
granted.</b><br />
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<b>A A</b> = <b>A</b>lways <b>A</b>ware.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
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<b>February 24, 2016<br />
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</span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Step Eight</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."</i><br />
<br />
<b>What real harm had we done? No more, surely, than we could easily mend
with a few casual apologies.<br />
This attitude, of course, is the result of purposeful forgetting.<br />
It is an attitude which can be changed by a deep and honest search of our
motives and actions. . .<br />
. . .we should nevertheless make an accurate and exhaustive survey of our life
as it has affected other people.<br />
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been
great,<br />
the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 79</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought to Ponder . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Forgiveness is the final form of love.<br />
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</b></span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related 'Alconym' . . .</span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A A</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> = <b>A</b>ltered <b>A</b>ttitudes.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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My name is Hope, an alkie. I was given a very practical approach to Step
Eight. The folks I did not list on my Step 8 list were sick people, whose
woes I had increased. I had a 'never' in there, too. I flinched
each time I heard St Francis prayer: "…forgiven as we forgive."
Then, I heard a speaker, Bobby E, and he said there are some things only God
can forgive. I followed the directions on that, and I prayed for God to
bless them with all the things I wished for myself. And it worked; it
took the heat out. I was open in my heart and could grow spiritually to
forgive and be forgiven. They benefitted, and I did too. Bless us
all.</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
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<b>February 23, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rebellion</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>A whole lifetime geared to self-centeredness cannot be set in reverse all at
once. Rebellion dogs our every step at first.<br />
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over
alcohol,<br />
we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God
that's over! I'll never have to go through <i>that</i> again!"<br />
Then we learn, often to our consternation, that this is only the first
milestone on the new road we are walking.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 73</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>The road to recovery is always under construction.</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>O D A A T</b> = <b>O</b>ne <b>D</b>ay <b>A</b>t <b>A</b> <b>Time.</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
<strong><a href="mailto:dailythought@aa-alive.org"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dailythought@aa-alive.org</span></a></strong><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young
People</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>It is very different to be a sober member of AA when you are young. If
you doubt this, think back to when you were sixteen<br />
and try to imagine yourself working the Steps in your life then as you do
today.<br />
Couple this with other people telling you that you are too young be an
alcoholic and you can see how hard it is.<br />
I know one thing for certain: no young person ever needs to hear that she has
gotten sober before she had to hurt plenty.<br />
She needs to hear what every newcomer does who comes into the Fellowship:<br />
"Welcome. This is AA, where the only requirement for membership is a
desire to stop drinking."</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
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[Vol. 3], p. 183</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>Newcomers are the lifeblood of the program; but our old-timers are the
arteries.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>F E L L O W S H I P</b> =<br />
<b>F</b>aith, <b>E</b>mpathy, <b>L</b>earning, <b>L</b>ove, <b>Openness,
Wisdom, Self-worth, Hope, Insight, Peace.</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope
in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
<strong><a href="mailto:dailythought@aa-alive.org"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dailythought@aa-alive.org</span></a></strong><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>February 20, 2016</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traditions</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>The Twelve Traditions point straight at many of our individual defects.<br />
By implication they ask each of us to lay aside pride and resentment. They
ask for personal as well as group sacrifice.<br />
They ask us never to use the AA name in any quest for personal power or
distinction or money.<br />
The Traditions guarantee the equality of all members and independence of all
groups.<br />
They show how we may best relate ourselves to each other and to the world
outside.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 96</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>The Steps help me live with me; the Traditions help me live with you.</b><br />
<br />
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<b>H E A R T</b> = <b>H</b>ealing, <b>E</b>njoying, <b>A</b>nd <b>R</b>ecovering
<b>T</b>ogether.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
<b>February 19, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Renewal</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>I have a new outlook on life.<br />
I look forward to each day with happiness because of the real enjoyment it is
to me to be sane, sober, and respectable.<br />
I was existing really from one drink until the next, with no perception about
circumstances, conditions, or even nature's elements.<br />
My acquaintance with God -- lost and forgotten when I was a young man -- is
renewed.<br />
God is all-loving and all-forgiving.<br />
The memories of my past are being dimmed by the life I now aspire to.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Experience, Strength and Hope,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 62</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started.</b><br />
<br />
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<b>T G I F</b> = <b>T</b>hank <b>G</b>od <b>I</b>'m <b>F</b>orgiven.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>February 18, 2016</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emotional
Sobriety</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the
root of it some unhealthy dependency<br />
and its consequent unhealthy demand.<br />
Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling demands.<br />
Then we can be set free to live and love; we may be able to Twelfth Step
ourselves and others into emotional sobriety.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
Language of the Heart,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p.
238</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
to Ponder . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Sobriety is not a destination, but an everlasting journey.</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related
'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>K I S S</b> = <b>K</b>eep <b>I</b>t <b>S</b>imple; <b>S</b>urrender.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA Thought for the Day</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(courtesy AA-Alive.net)</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
<b>February 17, 2016</b><br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Responsibilities</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>Remember, AA is not going to preserve itself automatically.<br />
What are we, each one of us, doing with the gift of sobriety, so freely and
lovingly given?<br />
Will we squander our magnificent inheritance? Perhaps each one of us
should hold on to these thoughts:<br />
"Keep me mindful of the responsibilities that accompany the blessings of
freedom.<br />
The only time that wrong can prevail is when good people do nothing."</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The
Home Group: Heartbeat of AA,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 60</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought
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<b>I am responsible for the effort -- not the outcome.</b><br />
<br />
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'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>B E S T</b> = <b>B</b>een <b>E</b>njoying <b>S</b>obriety <b>T</b>oday?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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in carrying the AA message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
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<b>February 16, 2016</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Mirror</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>One looks in the mirror to powder, shave, or admire. But the good AA
is apt to look deeper.<br />
Every morning he gives thanks for a sober countenance, he asks forgiveness for
lingering resentment,<br />
he hopes for grace to live the coming day well. At nightfall he takes
another look, saying,<br />
"Well, my friend, how did we do today? Thanks be to thee for the
privilege of living."<br />
Thus the AA's mirror reflects not rouge, but gratitude; not conceit, but
humility; not froth, but reality.<br />
It reflects a priceless experience.</b><br />
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- The Language of the Heart,</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p. 390</span><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought to Ponder . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.</b><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AA-related 'Alconym' . . .</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>T G I F</b> = <b>T</b>hank <b>G</b>od <b>I</b>'m <b>F</b>orgiven.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0000a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks to all of you for
sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA
message.<br />
Blessings in sobriety to all,<br />
In love and service,<br />
joanna b<br />
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