April-29 topics

Word/step: of the month

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This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12 

Pancake Marathon: 

• I see that if i have that able to be free is only by me seeing that I have this why, why do I do what I do and how then can I get to free myself from this pain; I see that the pain is something that has no gain in it; for yes, the pain it self is something of value: all things are, but it is a destination that is killing me with it’s pain of hate.  So I will set upon a new path to finding hope and holding on to the freedom I am.

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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die as that is why Recovery is a journey ...not a destination so that I can keep it as One Day At A Time being able to Principles before personalities so that the faith  that I do have is a gift to be freely given with hope; as this hope is something that helps me to stop going nuts and be able to get to a point in being able to q-tip so that I can see the wisdom and know my why for today.

Acronyms 

1. FAITH: Fantastic Adventure In Trusting Him/hope

2. GIFT: God Is Forever There

3. HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists

4. NUTS: Not Using The Steps

5. Q-TIP: Quit Taking It Personally

6. WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

Slogans

1. Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die

2.  Recovery is a journey ...not a destination

3. One Day At A Time

4.  Principles before personalities

• 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

Daily Reflections: GROUP AUTONOMY 

(STEP 8: Brotherly Love_Empathy_growth)

• Some may think that we have carried the principle of group autonomy to extremes. For example, in its original "long form," 

• Tradition Four declares: "Any two or three gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A.  group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation." . . . . But this ultra-liberty is not so risky as it looks. A.A. COMES OF AGE, pp. 104-05 

• As an active alcoholic, I abused every liberty that life afforded. How could A.A. expect me to respect the "ultra-liberty" bestowed by Tradition Four? Learning respect has become a lifetime job. 

• A.A. has made me fully accept the necessity of discipline and that, if I do not assert it from within, then I  will pay for it. This applies to groups too. Tradition Four points me in a spiritual direction, in spite of my alcoholic inclinations. 

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NA Just For Today: "What If...." 

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• "Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power." Basic Text, pp. 90-91

• In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us. What if we  got arrested? lost our job? our spouse died? we went bankrupt? and on, and on, and on. It was not unusual  for us to spend hours, even whole days thinking about what might happen. We played out entire  conversations and scenarios before they ever occurred, then charted our course on the basis of "what if..."  By doing this, we set ourselves up for disappointment after disappointment. 

• From listening in meetings, we learn that living in the present, not the world of "what if," is the only way  to short-circuit our self-fulfilling prophecies of doom and gloom. We can only deal with what is real  today, not our fearful fantasies of the future. 

• Coming to believe that our Higher Power has only the best in store for us is one way we can combat that  fear. We hear in meetings that our Higher Power won't give us more than we can handle in one day. And  we know from experience that, if we ask, the God we've come to understand will surely care for us. We  

• stay clean through adverse situations by placing our faith in the care of a Power greater than ourselves.  Each time we do, we become less fearful of "what if" and more comfortable with what is. 

• Just for today: I will look forward to the future with faith in my Higher Power. 

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Keep It Simple

I’m as pure as the driven slush.---Tallulad Bankhead 

1. The Steps are filled with words and phrases like shortcomings, exact nature of our wrongs, persons we had harmed, and when we were wrong. The Steps help us accept all parts of who we are. 

2. Our program asks us to share these parts of ourselves with others. We heal by doing this. It’s hard to talk about how wrong we can be, but we must. It’s part of how we recover. 

3. Remember, all of us have bad points. At times, we act like jerks. When we can talk about our mistakes,  we end up having less shame inside of us.

4. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to love and accept myself---as You love and accept me. Give  me the courage to share all my secret wrongs. 

5. Action for the Day: Today, I’ll review my Fourth Step. If I haven’t done this Step, I’ll start today. 

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What i get from the readings or as the words that I AM inspired because of the topics

Daily Reflections

1. That we 

Keep It Simple

1. That in shearing: what to me means to heal within away to that you are not alone

2. That in a program: you can know that it is okay to be who you are, you just have to know that you are now at a point of, if you are willing, to pick up the tools that are handed to you and see how they can fit into your life.

NA Just For Today: "What If...." 

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2. Open-mindedness  helps us to come to a point in letting the battle be fought by the one that is meant to be fighting it: as what is your higher power

3. For I AM within the knowing that, yes, i know what I don’t some that I can not know what I do know (we can say that is addiction upon being able and by the willingness to become sober and stay within being part of my recovery; yet, you must be willing to pick your battles or you will be always fighting, never really able to stand for anything (as you have to stand for something or you will fall for anything.).

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5. welfare as it maybe simplifying onto a bad/having a conversation to be of/a place holder_as by what is a of a hand out: yet was it not the hand out of welfare that we gave to the drug dealer, that we gambled upon if that would be the last moments upon this plain of Existence , by what is over used of a word, “welfare;” yet, if you see that in that way, well yes_for it is your attitude that will set you within freedom: for Mental or physical can be a prison yet your attitude sets you free and it is not within this freedom, of “setting something free, as then it will come back to you and that is when you get to keep it.”

6. As to simply say, welfare is just another way of saying, to give to those that, at that moment as asking for help and i know that, asking for help, does not always from from hearing the word “help,” it comes from the points/moments, that I had as simply known as inComprehensible demoralization

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8. Level to have the respect Unity of a Brotherly Love_Empathy_growth (step 8_from D.R.)