Monthly Archives: June 2012

June 30, 2012 – Just for Today


Just for Today Saturday, June 30, 2012 “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” - Step Eleven

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June 30, 2012 – Twenty-Four Hours a Day


Twenty-Four Hours a Day Saturday, June 30, 2012 AA Thought for the Day Alcoholics are unable or unwilling, during their addiction to alcohol, to live in the present. The result is that they live in a constant state of remorse

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June 30, 2012 – A Day at a Time


A Day at a Time Saturday, June 30, 2012 Reflection for the Day I’ve learned in The Program that the trick, for me, is not stopping drinking but staying stopped and learning how not to start again. It was always

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June 30, 2012 – The Eye Opener


Saturday, June 30, 2012 The Eye Opener We are very apt to travel in the direction we are headed. Even the brightest of sunshiny days appears overcast if we wear black glasses. If we enter a restaurant by the rear

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June 30, 2012 – Today’s Gift from Hazelden


Saturday, June 30, 2012 Today’s thought from Hazelden is: Doing nothing, that hurts you. – John Arnold Doing nothing as a steady diet would wear thin after a while, but doing nothing once in a while is good therapy. We need to let

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June 29, 2012 – Just for Today


Just for Today Friday, June 29, 2012 “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us tp sanity.” - Step Two ” …(W)e believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible,

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June 29, 2012 – Twenty-Four Hours a Day


Twenty-Four Hours a Day Friday, June 29, 2012 AA Thought for the Day The program of Alcoholics Anonymous involves a continuous striving for improvement. There can be no long resting period. We must try to work at it all the

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June 29, 2012 – A Day at a Time


A Day at a Time Friday, June 29, 2012 Reflection for the Day Once we surrendered and came to The Program, many of us wondered what we would do with all that time on our hands. All the hours we’d

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June 29, 2012 – The Eye Opener


Friday, June 29, 2012 The Eye Opener To pity distress is a natural human characteristic, except in the case of the poor drunk. The hospitals want no part of him. He brought it on himself and, besides, they need their

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June 29, 2012 – Today’s Gift from Hazelden


Friday, June 29, 2012 Today’s thought from Hazelden is: More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. Before going to sleep at night, empty your consciousness of unwanted things,

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