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Pancake Marathon

•  I find that in the moment of trying to find the balance in life, it can come down to the simple fact of how do I take responsibility for my actions; in what way do I find that I was unable to do before’ maybe because I put to much on my plate from the moment before and or that I'm trying to fit into the past ways it worked(expectation) before. Living live on life terms and giving it to God by letting it go, comes to mind. 

• So I have to live, just for that moment: be okay with finding that I have something more to grow from/within, to getting to a point of, being able to manifesting the life I will be able to smile now and within the future's past actions of when doing it.

• You may think that there are a thousand different things being done in recovery, really there's just a thousand different ways of saying a few simple things. 

Topic

1. Living life now

2. Finding by seeing the points of growth and doing them

3. Willingness

4. Letting go and giving it to God

5. To not obsessed 

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• It's about the moment I can see that I have trust again, as finding that the push upon the gifts that I get to give; for today I can.

• 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

Literature 

She Recovers Every Day: Color Me Grateful

I don't know about you, but how I feel about color sure has changed since I've come into recovery. I used to be a person who colored my life in neutral tones and blacks. Beige, creams, and grays. My color tastes were rather "blah" because that is how I felt. Recovery brightened things up considerably. A few years into recovery, as my life became more vibrant, I started to embrace more vivid colors. This period included a rather protracted time when all of the décor in our house was made up of yellow sunflowers and forest green. I overdid it, and to this day I can't bear the sight of forest green outside of the forest. For more than a decadeand I suspect this will last for the rest of my lifemy favorite color has been pale turquoise, with white and chocolate brown as minor but important accents. Those have become the She Recovers colors, but they are also very much what surround me in my She Cave (my basement, which is my very own space). If you search the internet, you will find that the color turquoise symbolizes calmness and clarity. How perfect that it's the color I've found to be most delightful in my recovery. Do you have a recovery color?

Color can be mood altering, in a healthy and most satisfying way.

Spiritual principle a day: Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Spirit

Page 218

"Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives."

Basic Text, Chapter 9: Just for Today--Living the Program

When many of us arrive in NA, we fancy ourselves as reasonably open-minded people. For one thing, many of us tried lots of different drugs! More seriously, we may have an anything goes or live and let live type of attitude and have been tolerant toward others who aren't like us. But were our minds even a tiny bit open to others' insights and opinions or to feedback about our behavior? Could we even listen? Were we able to admit that we might be wrong or didn't know something? Did we believe that we needed to change--and even if so, did we believe we actually could? Probably not so much.

Our experience tells us that open-mindedness is at the very foundation of change for us. While some NA members may insist that we have to "change everything about ourselves," practicing open-mindedness does not mean that everything we know--or think we know-- is worthless. Instead, we gain some carefully wrought insight into what behaviors and perspectives we want to keep in our lives and what is no longer serving us today--and we learn to share these insights with others. Asking questions, listening to the answers, and then letting those answers resonate helps us to identify our old ideas and patterns, see our behavior more clearly, and act differently when it's called for.

Open-mindedness is also one of the most indispensable tools for carrying the message to other addicts and for having productive discussions regarding NA service. We learn to listen more to our sponsees and service buddies, rather than planning out what we want to say. In the process, hopefully, we grow more comfortable with the concept of I don't know. As one member put it, "We're not here to be right, we're here to be better."

Open-mindedness prevents us from running away from problems, ourselves, and each other. Many of us believe that striving to be open-minded keeps us closer to our Higher Power or to the higher self we want to be.

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I aim to keep my mind and my heart open. I will listen more and speak less. And I will allow my insights and opinions to evolve as my recovery does.

Keep It Simple: Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.---Henry Ward Beecher 

1. Our addiction was like a veil over our heads. We saw the world as an ugly place. 

2. We saw people as trouble. We thought our drinks and drugs were beautiful. But even they became ugly  over time. Life became ugly because we had put distance between our Higher Power and ourselves. 

3. Now we are blessed because the veil is lifted, and we are part of the healing process. We help others step  into the beauty of recovery. 

4. Our spirits are again free to seek a relationship with God and others. Through these relationships, we get  our hope back. This hope help us focus on the beauty of the world. Hope is the rain that helps our souls  grow. 

5. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, the world is both beautiful and ugly. For to long I only saw the ugly.  Help me focus on the beauty. 

6. Action for the Day: Today, I'll keep an eye out for the beauty recovery holds for me. Throughout the day,  I'll pray for this. 

NA Just For Today: Regular Inventory 

1. "Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions,  attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis." Basic Text, p.41 

2. Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined  ourselves as little as possible. We weren't happy with how we were living our lives, but we didn't feel that  we could change the way we lived. Self- examination, we felt, would have been a painful exercise in  futility. 

3. Today, all that is changing. Where we were powerless over our addiction, we've found a Power greater  than ourselves that has helped us stop using. Where we once felt lost in life's maze, we've found guidance  in the experience of our fellow recovering addicts and our ever-improving contact with our Higher Power.  We need not feel trapped by our old, destructive patterns. We can live differently if we choose. 

4. By establishing a regular pattern of taking our own inventory, we give ourselves the opportunity to  change anything in our lives that doesn't work. If we've started doing something that causes problems, we  can start changing our behavior before it gets completely out of hand. And if we're doing something that  prevents problems from occurring, we can take note of that, too, and encourage ourselves to keep doing  what works. 

5. Just for today: I will make a commitment to include a regular inventory in my new pattern of living.

Daily Reflections: GIVING BACK 

1. . . . . he has struck something better than gold. . . . He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest  of his life and insists on giving away the entire product. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 129 

2. My part of the Seventh Tradition means so much more than just giving money to pay for the coffee. It  means being accepted for myself by belonging to a group. For the first time I can be responsible, because  I have a choice. I can learn the principles of working out problems in my daily life by getting involved in  the "business" of A.A. By being self-supporting, I can give back to A.A. what A.A. gave to me! Giving  back to A.A. not only ensures my own sobriety, but allows me to buy insurance that A.A. will be here for  my grandchildren. 

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

• She Recovers Every Day comes from https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/thought-for-the-day

• pancake marathon: journey of recovery

• Where I talk about my recovery journey And how I carry my message 

•  what is this page about

• This is how I carry my message( Tradition 5/7, step 12)

• Pancake Marathon

• acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• 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: comes from https://www.spadna.org/

• Keep It Simple: found in Daily Readings and Inspirations comes from recoveryhq.com 

• NA Just For Today: Daily Readings and Inspirations comes from recoveryhq.com

• Daily Reflections: Daily Readings and Inspirations comes from recoveryhq.com