April-14 topics
- Apr 14, 2024
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Pancake Marathon:
There are moments when I really look back at my past hurdles that I've overcome, I say the hurdles because I had to put the work in to get over them: essentially the way that I see what a trigger is; getting to letting the pain go. As that is why it's a marathon, I've only was able to overcome and get over what is a hurdle at that moment, seemingly a mountain when really it was just an ant hill, knowing that I would have to not stay there or I would be attacked by those ants: it is an ant hill, as what else is addiction: something that is attacking me killing me slowly but surely; upon the simple fact that putting the work in to Manifest this life of being able to take responsibility for my actions and keeping my peace of mind and not stealing anybody else's: essentially is me as such as the marathon as it is rehydrating keep practicing the principles all my Affairs not resting on my Laurels my past actions as such.
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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
” Don’t take yourself too seriously!” as we at times, when we are so serious we were dead and lost the gift of hope and having then the able to see how far we have come to pushing the love that we could only hope for from the family we wanted to just simply hug; as all we wanted was to Cultivate an attitude of gratitude and now that we know that we can do it sober as Easy does it but do it with us seeing that First Things First is we must(as the only thing we have to do is: stay teachable and stay in the herd ) get to the point in seeing that Feelings are not facts at the time when we get to look into the wisdom that we are using in the moments of being able to think and see that we have a different kind of fear.
Acronyms
DEAD: Drinking Ends All Dreams
GIFT: God Is Forever There
HOW: Honest Open Willing
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists
FAITH: Fantastic Adventure In Trusting Him/hope
HUG: Hope Using God
WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind
FEAR: Face Everything And Rise
Slogans
” Don’t take yourself too seriously!”
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
do it sober
Easy does it but do it
stay teachable
stay in the herd
Feelings are not facts
Principles
Step 1: when we are so serious we where dead and lost the gift of hope
Step 2: Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Tradition 5: see that we have a different kind of fear.
Because of tradition 4: Because we're letting it happen because we're not devaluing or focusing on the pain
as that upon what is tradition 1: unity
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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Slogans (underlined) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files
NA Just For Today: A New Vision
"Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear?" Basic Text p. 33
Why do we call them "shortcomings?" Perhaps they should be called "long-goings" because that's often what it takes for them to fade from our lives. Some of us feel that our shortcomings are the very characteristics that saved our lives when we used. If this is true, then it is little wonder that we sometimes cling to them like old, dear friends.
If we are having trouble with resentment, anger, or fear, we may want to envision what our lives could be like without these troubling defects. Asking ourselves why we react in a certain manner can sometimes root out the fear at the core of our conduct. "Why am I afraid to step beyond these aspects of my personality?" we ask ourselves. "Am I afraid of who I will be without these attributes?"
Once we have uncovered our fear, we are able to move beyond it. We try to imagine what our lives could be like without some of our more glaring shortcomings. This gives us a feeling for what lies past our fear, providing the motivation we need to push through it. Our Higher Power offers us a new vision for our lives, free of our defects. That vision is the essence of our own best, brightest dreams for ourselves. We need not fear that vision.
Just for today: I will imagine what my life would be like without my character defects. I will ask for the willingness to have God remove my shortcomings.
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Daily Reflections: THE "NUMBER ONE OFFENDER"
Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64
As I look at myself practicing the Fourth Step, it is easy to gloss over the wrong that I have done, because I can easily see it as a question of "getting even" for a wrong done to me. If I continue to relive my old hurt, it is a resentment and resentment bars the sunlight from my soul.
If I continue to relive hurts and hates, I will hurt and hate myself. After years in the dark of resentments, I have found the sunlight. I must let go of resentments; I cannot afford them.
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