This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12 

Pancake Marathon

• As each comes into the moment of life, we find that we have this willingness to keep going; it's this willingness that we have to keep going that allows us to find or why.  It's the why that keeps us going,  it's the why that allows us to hold on to everything about letting go of this pain: addiction;  finding a way into gaining a piece of mind: a solution.  for that is ultimately what we are doing,  learning knowledge( our being put onto the outer wisdom/ actions on how to interact with the world outside of ourselves,) To that of having then wisdom take place into a piece of mind;  to being able to give really what I have because I have everything to give freely.

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• Fine, is something that seems that of hope; maybe not at first time looking at what is the love that I hold onto, from the fear of the past; onto what is to see how to think and to become one gifting hugs with the wisdom of god breath.

Acronyms 

1. FINE: F***ed up, Insecure, Neurotic, & Emotional

2. HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists

3. TIME: This I Must Experience

4. LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve

5. FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real

6. Past: present actions sets tolerance

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

8. GIFT: God Is Forever There

9. HUG: Hope Using God

10. WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

11. GOD: Good Orderly Direction

12. Breath: bright reminders ever  activating/(a)Illuminating the  healing

• 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

• As what is life coming to you because you asked:prayed

• Being part of your life

• Finding life within forgiveness

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: Flexibility and Relationships Page 138

"The flexibility that relationships require comes more easily to us when we are practicing principles in our lives."

Living Clean, Chapter 5, "Romantic Relationships," 'The Courage to Trust'

Most of us are not wired for flexibility. Letting go of control just isn't in our nature. We struggle with rigid expectations of how people should behave, so we fight or flee when things don't go our way. Others of us live with minimal boundaries; we put up with anything to avoid conflict, pain, and rejection.

Thankfully, we have a program based on spiritual principles and relationships with NA members to help teach us how to live by them. By being real with each other in NA, we support each other in becoming less rigid. We learn to handle the truth. Working with a sponsor helps us to trust and to ask for what we need. Serving in a home group and beyond provides us with opportunities to compromise, speak up for ourselves, and respect boundaries. We become more flexible as we apply other principles, too. Our emotional muscles get more limber with open-mindedness, willingness, honesty, empathy--sometimes tolerance if that's all we've got.

Working the Steps and practicing principles helps us to let go of the illusion of control. Our lives improve as we figure out who we are and who we're not. We come to understand the disease and trust our Higher Power. We allow people to be who they are because we're learning to be okay with ourselves. Getting to know someone on a deeper level is easier when we know ourselves. As we let go of self-centered patterns of gratification, being cooperative and accommodating allows us to be equal partners in our relationships. Many of us once lived by a policy of "my way or the highway." By practicing the principles in our program, we gain the flexibility to be able to say, "Your way? Sure. Let's try it out."

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Relating well with others involves some give-and-take. I will draw on my NA experience to practice flexibility in all of my relationships.

Keep It Simple: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.---Harry Emerson Fosdick 

1. Hate is like an illness. It steals our hope, our love, our relationships. Hate puts distance between people.  Hate can give us a false sense of power. Do I use hate to make myself feel important? 

2. Our program tells us to let go of hate. Hate and sobriety don't mix. Hate doesn't let us connect with our  Higher Power. 

3. Ours is a program of love and respect. We're taught that if someone treats us wrong, we still should be  respectful in our response. Why? Because we're changed by our actions. If we act with hate, we become  hateful. If we act in a respectful way, we become respectable. 

4. Prayer for the Day: Hate is the drug of those who are afraid. Higher Power, help me to be free from hate  today. 

5. Action for the Day: It's self-centered to hate. Today, I'll read pages 60-62 of Alcoholics  Anonymous(Third Edition) about being self-centered. 

NA Just For Today: Onward On The Journey 

1. "The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey" Basic Text, p. 79 

2. The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesn't give us  more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding  the turns, there is hope. That hope lies in our spiritual progression. 

3. If we keep showing up at meetings and staying clean, life gets... well, different. The continual search for  answers to life's ups and downs can lead us to question all aspects of our lives. Life isn't always pleasant.  This is when we must turn to our Higher Power with even more faith. Sometimes all we can do is hold on  tight, believing that things will get better. 

4. In time, our faith will produce understanding. We will begin to see the "bigger picture" of our lives. As  our relationship with our Higher Power unfolds and deepens, acceptance becomes almost second nature. 

5. No matter what happens as we walk through recovery, we rely on our faith in a loving Higher Power and  continue onward. 

6. Just for today: I accept that I don't have all the answers to life's questions. Nonetheless, I will have faith in  the God of my understanding and continue on the journey of recovery. 

Daily Reflections: THE EASIER, SOFTER WAY 

1. If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 

2. I certainly didn't leap at the opportunity to face who I was, especially when the pains of my drinking days  hung over me like a dark cloud. 

3. But I soon heard at the meetings about the fellow member who just didn't want to take Step Five and kept  coming back to meetings, trembling from the horrors of reliving his past. The easier, softer way is to take  these Steps to freedom from our fatal disease, and to put our faith in the Fellowship and our Higher  Power.

What is this page about/seems to be as:

•  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