April-17 topics
- recovery is love
- Apr 17, 2024
- 4 min read
Pancake Marathon:
Ultimately knowing, that I have a right to my peace of mind at the same measure I see that I don't have the right to steal anybody else's peace of mind: for then I would be neurotic and taking action upon being a narcissist practicing those personality before principles: maybe more commonly understood in what is recovery shop talk such as stinking thinking; and still ultimately within recovery I know that I deserve to know that I am loved and through wisdom because I have experienced all this knowledge I am able to see past my old ways and thinking: Stinking think, to get to a point of Serenity knowing a new piece and a New Freedom so that I'm a lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in myself, so it comes down to what is the right that I have to keep my peace of mind: and someone like kind to gift others with the same respect…. with me being able to find Unity because I'm commonly giving it away in such a way to ultimately knowing the true meaning of life. Simply to say the true meaning of life is a peace of mind.
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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
Don’t take yourself too seriously!” as it is But For The Grace Of God we are able to have that level of trust, as when we fail do we have faith past the gift of the pain to loss hope; for then it becomes that simple fact of Cultivate an attitude of gratitude: being able to look at with the willingness of finding your peace of mind: what is a higher power/Serenity….as what then to think about how you see god.
Acronyms
TRUST: Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions
FAIL: First attempt in learning
FAITH: Fantastic Adventure In Trusting Him/hope
GIFT: God Is Forever There
HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind
GOD: Good Orderly Direction
Slogans
Don’t take yourself too seriously!”
But For The Grace Of God
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
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: Priority: Meetings
"I initially felt that it would be impossible to attend more than one or two meetings a week. It just wouldn't fit in with my busy schedule. I later learned that my priorities were [180] degrees reversed. It was the everything else that would have to fit into my meeting schedule." Basic Text p. 204
Some of us attended meetings infrequently when we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, then wondered why we couldn't stay clean. What we soon learned was that if we wanted to stay clean, we had to make meeting attendance our priority.
So we began again. Following our sponsor's suggestion, we made a commitment to attend ninety meetings in ninety days. We identified ourselves as newcomers for our first thirty days so that others could get to know us. At our sponsor's direction, we stopped talking long enough to learn to listen. We soon began to look forward to meetings. And we began to stay clean.
Today, we attend meetings for a variety of reasons. Sometimes we go to meetings to share our experience, strength, and hope with newer members. Sometimes we go to see our friends. And sometimes we go just because we need a hug. Occasionally we leave a meeting and realize that we haven't really heard a word that's been said-but we still feel better The atmosphere of love and joy that fills our meetings has kept us clean another day. No matter how hectic our schedule, we make meeting attendance our priority.
Just for today: In my heart, I know that meetings benefit me in all kinds of ways. Today, I want what's good for me. I will attend a meeting. pg. 111
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Daily Reflections: LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES
All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49
"Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there." I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. I create the illusion myself.
I experienced fear early in my life and I mistakenly thought that the mere presence of it made me a coward. I didn't know that one of the definitions of "courage" is "the willingness to do the right thing in spite of fear." Courage, then, is not necessarily the absence of fear.
During the times I didn't have love in my life I most assuredly had fear. To fear God is to be afraid of joy. In looking back, I realize that, during the times I feared God most, there was no joy in my life.
As I learned not to fear God, I also learned to experience joy.
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