This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12 

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• Life is about life and what is life, I am life; so in the life we can find the peace of mind. It is that peace of mind that has us to be here to find us again, to come back to ourselves; to the moment of unity in the life of what is life happening: the way you go about life is about the life you will become, as then you are that now; life.

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• Cultivate an attitude of gratitude to see when it seems like I have failed is the moment when life is helping me to think, build a level of trust; Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm as Recovery is a journey ...not a destination.  Pass it on is the way to my true freedom, as that is what life is about.

Acronyms 

1. FAIL: First attempt in learning

2. LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve

3. TRUST: Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions

Slogans

1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

2.  Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm

3. Recovery is a journey ...not a destination

4. Pass it on

• 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 

Slogans (underlined) blog page  Acronyms (bold) blog page  Principles (italic): A.A. files

Meeting topic

• Finding the moment 

• of getting too

• Being part of your life

• Seeing how to keep going

word of the month

• Honesty/Integrity/Concern/readiness

step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message  and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations

Spiritual principle a day: Perseverance Helps Us Stay

Page 135

"We may tire mentally in repeating our new ideas and tire physically in our new activities, yet we know that if we fail to repeat them we will surely take up our old practices."

Basic Text, Chapter 7: Recovery and Relapse

Many of us can say: "Relapse is a part of my story."

From our own experience and from listening to each other share, we know the possibility that we might not stay clean is very real. What causes an addict in recovery to choose to get high again? It can be anything, really, but an unaware "I got this" can be especially dangerous. We tire of hearing the message, sharing the message, and, frankly, each other. The sun goes down and comes back up on what seems like the same day. We become increasingly cranky and unfulfilled. Having become disillusioned with life clean but without recovery, maybe we even quit going to meetings. Eventually, we reach outside of ourselves to fix our insides and use again. When we come back to the rooms, we tell our story of complacency and sitting on that stepwork.

While there are endless versions of the relapse story, we all have heard the ones that don't have happy Narcotics Anonymous endings. Not everybody makes it back to NA and has the opportunity for another go at recovery. Knowing we could die out there--or not die but bring ruin to our livelihood and relationships--doesn't keep us clean. So . . . what does?

We know the answer to the question. It's pushing through with the basics of Steps, service, sponsor, and Higher Power. It's breathing life into our recovery in whatever ways we can. Start a new meeting? Take on another sponsee? Read the daily "SPAD" entry? It's doing what we all have done in the past, again, just for today. It's carrying the message to a newcomer to remind ourselves of where we came from and what was so freely given to us. It's not picking up, even when we want to. It's staying, even when we don't want to. Perseverance can be an antidote to complacency. We want to live, so we have to keep on living.

We don't need a new relapse story, or one at all. It's preventable, not inevitable.

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Today I will honor the rewards of recovery that I've worked hard for by persevering in what I know works: the program of NA. I want to stay--and keep what I have so I can give it to others.

Keep It Simple: As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.---Andrew Carnegie 

1. Doing something with our lives, not just talking about it, is important. When we were sick with our  addiction, what we did was drink or use other drugs. We only talked about what we wanted to do. Now  that we are sober, we can really live our lives. 

2. We've already done a lot. we've gotten help for our chemical dependency. We've facing the harm we did  to our families. We've let other people into our lives. 

3. Before recovery, we didn't have to tell people we were alcoholics and addicts. Our actions showed it, if  people knew what to look for. Now we don't have to tell people we were recovering, because our actions  will show it.

4. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, let my actions show that I am getting better every day. 

5. Action for the Day: Today, I'll let my actions speak louder than words. I'll do one thing that I have been  saying I want to do. 

NA Just For Today: Becoming Entirely Ready 

1. "We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from  these defects." Basic Text, p. 33 

2. Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking  place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readiness grows in direct proportion to our awareness of  these defects and the destruction they cause.

3. We may have trouble seeing the devastation our defects are inflicting on our lives and the lives of those  around us. If this is the case, we would do well to ask our Higher Power to reveal those flaws which stand  in the way of our progress. 

4. As we let go of our shortcomings and find their influence waning, we'll notice that a loving God replaces  those defects with quality attributes. Where we were fearful, we find courage. Where we were selfish, we  find generosity. Our delusions about ourselves will disappear to be replaced by self-honesty and self acceptance. 

5. Yes, becoming entirely ready means we will change. Each new level of readiness brings new gifts. Our  basic nature changes, and we soon find our readiness is no longer sparked only by pain but by a desire to  grow spiritually. 

6. Just for today: I will increase my state of readiness by becoming more aware of my shortcomings.

Daily Reflections: FREE AT LAST 

1. Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility - a word often misunderstood. . . . it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 58 

2. I knew deep inside that if I were ever to be joyous, happy and free, I had to share my past life with some  other individual. 

3. The joy and relief I experienced after doing so were beyond description. Almost immediately after taking  the Fifth Step, 

4. I felt free from the bondage of self and the bondage of alcohol. That freedom remains after 36 years, a day  at a time. I found that God could do for me what I couldn't do for myself. 

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•  daily readings and inspirations blog page info

• simple literature Organized by Pancake Marathon: Daily Readings and Inspirations

• Read It to me of the literature of recovery

• pancake marathon: journey of recovery

• Where I talk about my recovery journey