Our good friend Ernie H (a.k.a. Khalis) from Harlem NY passed on
earlier this week. With the help of God He has touched many people
over the world in Narcotics Anonymous.

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*LAUGHTER Is HEALING*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The weekly meeting topic is:
I am new, do I surrender to the program?
Or do I surrender to the disease?
How does this work?
I thought surrendering meant I was weak.
How has your life changed since you got clean?

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A Safe Place to Share , Discover and Recover.
This is a SLAMMING, STRONG support group with
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This a message bulletin board meeting, where people post on the
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the join club link, sign in and go to the left hand side and click
messages to read what others have shared and click on the post link,
now you can share on the topic of the week or whatever you would like.
There is a lot of good experience, strength and hope in here as well
as newcomers who need our support and love, PLEASE stop by,
we will leave the light on in the room and there is coffee in the back :)
Thanks for your participation and support !!!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Please Be There For The Newcomers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

June 20
My past experience no longer take up room
and live in my mind and body.
I am free to live in today.
written by ~ Ruth Fishel
"Time for Joy"
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Just for Today*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Just for Today

Just for Today,
Iım no longer a mess
Just for today,
I know that Iım blessed!

Just for Today
I believe that I can
Just for Today
I know who I am!

Just for Today
Iım part of something thatıs greater than me!
Just for Today
You can count on me!

Just for Today
The fellowship is the gift
Just for Today
God is the ski lift

Just for Today
The future looks bright
Just for Today
I know God loves me with all his might!

Just for Today
I tell you no lie
Just for Today
I donıt have to cry!

Because you believed in me
Just for Today
I can be everything that God meant for me to be!
Just for Today

Just for Today
Iım a member of A Place To Start
Just for Today
I will not use, No Matter What!!!

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Don't Use*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If anyone has any original recovery poetry that they
would like to share with us please copy and paste it into the body
of an email and send it to me, Thanks for your support and contributions.
What I can't do alone, We do together.
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*No Matter What*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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The Danger of Reservations
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Personal Responsibility
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Spiritual Thought of the Day
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A.A. Big Book Chapter 8, To Wives
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Oxford Group History Books
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Make A Meeting*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Just for Today
June 20 Meditation for Beginners

"For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is
listening for God's answer. Quieting the mind through meditation
brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God
within us." Basic Text, pp.44-45

"Be patient when you're learning to meditate," many of us were told.
"It takes practice to know what to 'listen' for."

We're glad someone told us that, or many of us would have quit after
a week or two of meditating. For the first few weeks, we may have sat
each morning, stilled our thoughts, and "listened", just as the Basic Text
said-but "heard" nothing. It may have taken a few more weeks before
anything really happened. Even then, what happened was often barely
noticeable. We were rising from our morning meditations feeling just a
little better about our lives, a little more empathy for those we
encountered during the day, and a little more in touch with our Higher
Power.

For most of us, there was nothing dramatic in that awareness-no bolts
of lightning or claps of thunder. Instead, it was something quietly
powerful. We were taking time to get our egos and our ideas out of the
way. In that clear space, we were improving our conscious contact with
the source of our daily recovery, the God of our understanding. Meditation
was new, and it took time and practice. But, like all the steps, it worked -
when we worked it.

Just for today: I will practice "listening" for knowledge of God's will
for me, even if I don't know what to "listen" for yet. pg. 178

Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous İ
1991 by World Service Office Inc.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Get Involved In Service*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Equal Rights

At one time or another most A.A. groups go on rule making
benders. . . . After a time fear and intolerance subside. [and we
realize] We do not wish to deny anyone his chance to recover from
alcoholism. We wish to be just as inclusive as we can, never exclusive.
A.A. TRADITION: HOW IT DEVELOPED," pp. 10, 11, 12

A.A. offered me complete freedom and accepted me into the Fellowship
for myself. Membership did not depend upon conformity, financial success
or education and I am so grateful for that. I often ask myself if I extend
the same equality to others or if I deny them the freedom to be
different. Today I try to replace my fear and intolerance with faith,
patience, love and acceptance. I can bring these strengths to my A.A.
group, my home and my office. I make an effort to bring my positive
attitude everywhere that I go.

I have neither the right, nor the responsibility, to judge
others. Depending on my attitude I can view newcomers to A.A., family
members and friends as menaces or as teachers. When I think of some of
my past judgments, it is clear how my self-righteousness caused me
spiritual harm.

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Daily Reflection In Loving Memory Of Scott Reeves

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ June 20th

A.A. Thought for the Day

You should be ready and willing to carry the A.A. message
when called upon to do so. live for some purpose greater
than yourself. Each day you will have something to work for.
You have received so much from this program that you should
have a vision that gives your life a direction and a purpose
that gives meaning to each new day. Let us not slide along
through life. Let us have a purpose for each day and let us
make that purpose for something greater than just
ourselves. What is my purpose for today?

Meditation for the Day

To see God with eyes of faith is to cause God's power to
manifest itself in the material world. God cannot do His work
because of unbelief. In response to your belief, God can work
a miracle in your personality. All miracles happen in the realm
of personality and all are caused by and based on belief in
God's never - failing power. But God's power cannot manifest
itself in personalities unless those personalities make His
power available by their faith. We can only see God with the
eyes of faith, but this kind of seeing produces a great change
in our way of living.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may see God with the eyes of faith. I pray that
this seeing will produce a change in my personality.

"Twenty-Four Hours A Day" is a İ Copyrighted book of
Hazelden Foundation. No portion of this publication may
be reproduced in any manner without the written
permission of Hazelden.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Work The Steps*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Today's Thought
JUNE 20

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.
Melody Beattie İ

Relationship Martyrs

Many of us have gone so numb and discounted our feelings so completely that
we have gotten out of touch with our needs in relationships.

We can learn to distinguish whose company we enjoy, whether we're talking
about friends, business acquaintances, dates, or spouses. We all need to
interact with people we might prefer to avoid, but we don't have to force
ourselves through long-term or intimate relationships with these people.

We are free to choose friends, dates, and spouses. We are free to choose how
much time we spend with those people we can't always choose to be around,
such as relatives. This is our life. This is it. We can decide how we want
to spend our days and hours. We're not enslaved. We're not trapped. And not
one of us is without options. We may not see our options clearly. Although
we may have to struggle through shame and learn to own our power, we can
learn to spend our valuable hours and days with the people we enjoy and
choose to be with.

God, help me value my time and life. Help me place value on how I feel being
around certain people. Guide me as I learn to develop healthy, intimate,
sharing relationships with people. Help me give myself the freedom to
experiment, explore, and learn who I am and who I can be in my
relationships.

İ1990, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this
publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission
of the publisher.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*You Are A Miracle*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep It Simple*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Creating Togetherness
by Jann Mitchell

Family is the most powerful matrix of our life,
the source of character and virtue.
Family is incredibly important, mysterious, powerful.
-- John Bradshaw

The '80s were a time of fractured families - if not from busy schedules and
distant moves, then from adult children identifying and disparaging their
parents and their mistakes. Some even "divorced" their parents, refusing
contact, and moving cross-country to escape them.

As this century draws to a close, the value and lasting impact of family is
being rediscovered.

Even the "dysfunctional family" guru of publishing and television, John
Bradshaw, has softened his position - although he contends his work was
misinterpreted if people actually cast family members from their lives.

In Family Secrets, he underscores the importance of family connection. He
emphasizes acceptance and "loving your own crooked family with your own
crooked heart. The reverence we've had for family is justified."

Bradshaw says: "I was more enamored with family dysfunction, so I focused
more on the dysfunctional family. What I feel now is Thomas Moore's sense
that life is much more soulful and we can't get it in these categories that
I thought as a younger man. The family has a soul, deeper than we can fully
understand how it impacts our lives.'

Retaining the soul of the family is essential in an era where kids turn to
gangs to feel they belong.

In a Life magazine article, George Howe Colt pointed out that family bonds
"are formed less by moments of celebration and of crisis than by the quiet,
undramatic accretion of minutiae - the remark on the way out the door, the
chore undone, the unexpected smile."

And, let us add, the time spent together. Just as Mormons celebrate Mondays
as Family at Home Night, we can rethink some of our commitments and create
time for what's truly important.

And family is important.

Workaholism Kills Relationships
Riddle: What's the best way to please your boss and frustrate your mate?

Answer: Work overtime. Bring work home. Break promises to the family when
work interrupts plans.

As we push to succeed, relationships suffer, sometimes even die. Yet the
pressure is greater than ever to spend more time on the job.

A survey of 3,000 male readers by a business magazine shows:

More than half work more than sixty hours weekly;

29 percent more than seventy hours.

More than half fight about it with their wives at least monthly, almost 25
percent at least once weekly.

One-third bring work home and work till 11 p.m. or midnight;

some work eighty hours a week and don't get to bed until 2 a.m.

Who has time - or energy - for love?

Now, we're not talking here about a healthy work ethic, company loyalty, or
job integrity. We're talking about buying the myth that working long hours
to the exclusion of having a life is good for you.

It isn't.

Facing up to the Myths
Look at the myths:

Hard work brings company gratitude.
Not necessarily. Ask those whose company has been laying people off. Ask
workers in a firm taken over by another corporation or by new managers. What
you've accomplished can count for nothing overnight. No one is
indispensable.

Working long hours proves you love your family.
Have you asked your mate or kids lately how they feel about your perpetual
physical or emotional absence? Do you find yourself offering your family
things instead of time? Two-thirds of the men working eighty or more hours
weekly said in the magazine survey that they appeased their families by
buying expensive gifts or sending them off on fancy vacations.

Working overtime shows you're successful.
Not necessarily. It may just indicate you're a workaholic, confusing
productivity with busyness, and leisure with wasting time. Worst of all,
workaholics confuse work with personal worth. These are the people who
ignore family and friends, who feel worthless upon retiring, who die soon
after retirement - or make their mates so miserable they wish they would
die.

Hard work gets you into heaven.
That's what theologian John Calvin would have us believe. These days, it
gets you burnout.

Preventing Job Burnout and Alienation
So how we can prevent job burnout and family alienation?

Bookstores and libraries are full of books on job stress. Some counselors
specialize in the subject. We can avail ourselves of all these.

We can get our priorities straight - like the man who told me, "I promised
myself I wouldn't turn fifty and realize I didn't know my kids." We can turn
down promotions. Learn to work more efficiently. Leave when the workday is
over instead of waiting for the boss's light to go out. Stop carrying work
home.

We can stop buying into the myths that are easily exploded by those who've
been rifled, "downsized", or encouraged to retire ahead of us. Remember the
lie carved over the gates of the Nazi concentration camps: "Work shall make
you free."

Working long and hard may make you the workplace pet. It may make you rich
or even famous. It may make you a CEO. But it won't make you popular with
those you love most. And those are the folks who matter.

Creating Time Together
Time together won't happen automatically; we have to make it happen. And if
it's truly important to us, we do just that. We set time aside for those we
love - first.

Schedule time with your partner or kids or parents regularly. Write it on
the calendar in red.

Decide what works best for you: A date every Friday night? A walk together
after dinner? A leisurely breakfast Saturday mornings? Discuss it with those
involved.

Plan as many meals together as possible; establish some as mandatory.
Preparing the meal, serving it attractively, enjoying it, and even cleaning
up can become an unhurried ritual providing cherished time together.

Make a date with a child. Each child gets special time alone with Mom or Dad
on a regular basis. It may just be a burger out, but it's undivided
attention. One dad I know takes each child out for a special dinner alone
with him near their birthdays.

Get away alone as a couple, without the kids. Do this partnership right, and
it will endure long after the children are gone. Money tight? Arrange to
bunk the kids with Gramma or a friend; sleep naked, enjoy breakfast in bed,
be romantic. Take your turn keeping the friend's children to return the
favor.

Make family get-togethers special by keeping the TV off and using your
imagination. Get out the board games. Show the kids what you used to do as
kids. Tell family stories. Get up a ball game in the backyard or nearby
park. After a family dinner at my house recently, three generations played
charades of sorts - complete with impromptu costumes. We divided into teams
of two adults and one child, then suggested or let the kids decide what
story they wanted to act out. Grampa, Daddy, and Zach draped towels around
their shoulders to become dueling Three Musketeers. Brittany, Aunt, and
Uncle did Little Red Riding Hood. Confined to the couch with a bad back, Mom
was the slumbering Snow White, three-year-old Ashley a weeping dwarf, and
Gramma the Prince Charming who awoke her. We not only played and laughed
together, but the kids didn't want to quit.

Consider family camping trips. Several families I know get together every
Labor Day weekend at a campground, expanding the number of tents to cover
the growing numbers of grandchildren.

This article was excerpted from;
"Home Sweeter Home" by Jann Mitchell.

About The Author :
Jann Mitchell is an award-winning feature writer and author. Her popular
column, "Relating," in The Sunday Oregonian has run for eight years and is
carried by the Newhouse News Service to newspapers around the country. Her
work has been featured in national magazines and appears in A Second Helping
of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Author Barbara De Angelis calls Jann Mitchell
"the most conscious journalist in America." Mitchell is also a sought-after
lecturer. This article was excerpted with permission from Jann Mitchell's
book Home Sweeter Home, published by Beyond Words Publishing, (800) 284-9673
www.beyondword.com

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Day At A Time*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Downwind from Flowers

Several years ago in Seattle, Washington, there lived a 52-
year-old Tibetan refugee. "Tenzin," as I will call him, was
diagnosed with one of the more curable forms of lymphoma. He was
admitted to the hospital and received his first dose of
chemotherapy.

But during the treatment, this usually gentle man became
extremely angry and upset. He pulled the IV out of his arm and
refused to cooperate. He shouted at the nurses and became
argumentative with everyone who came near him. The doctors and
nurses were baffled.

Then Tenzin's wife spoke to the hospital staff. She told
them Tenzin had been held as a political prisoner by the Chinese
for 17 years. They killed his first wife and repeatedly tortured
and brutalized him throughout his imprisonment. She told them
that the hospital rules and regulations, coupled with the
chemotherapy treatments, gave Tenzin horrible flashbacks of what
he had suffered at the hands of the Chinese.

"I know you mean to help him," she said, "but he feels
tortured by your treatments. They are causing him to feel hatred
inside - just like he felt toward the Chinese. He would rather
die than have to live with the hatred he is now feeling. And,
according to our belief, it is very bad to have hatred in your
heart at the time of death. He needs to be able to pray and
cleanse his heart."

So the doctors discharged Tenzin and asked the hospice team
to visit him in his home. I was the hospice nurse assigned to
his care. I called a local representative from Amnesty
International for advice. He told me that the only way to heal
the damage from torture is to "talk it through."

"This person has lost his trust in humanity and feels hope
is impossible," the man said. "If you are to help him, you must
find a way to give him hope."

But when I encouraged Tenzin to talk about his experiences,
he held up his hand and stopped me. He said, "I must learn to
love again if I am to heal my soul. Your job is not to ask me
questions. Your job is to teach me to love again."

I took a deep breath. I asked him, "So, how can I help you
love again?"

Tenzin immediately replied, "Sit down, drink my tea and eat
my cookies."

Tibetan tea is strong black tea laced with yak butter and
salt. It isn't easy to drink! But that is what I did.

For several weeks, Tenzin, his wife, and I sat together,
drinking tea. We also worked with his doctors to find ways to
treat his physical pain. But it was his spiritual pain that
seemed to be lessening. Each time I arrived, Tenzin was sitting
cross-legged on his bed, reciting prayers from his books. As
time went on, he and his wife hung more and more colorful
"thankas," Tibetan Buddhist banners, on the walls. The room was
fast becoming a beautiful, religious shrine.

When the spring came, I asked Tenzin what Tibetans do when
they are ill in the spring. He smiled brightly and said, "We sit
downwind from flowers."

I thought he must be speaking poetically. But Tenzin's
words were quite literal. He told me Tibetans sit downwind so
they can be dusted with the new blossoms' pollen that floats on
the spring breeze. They feel this new pollen is strong medicine.

At first, finding enough blossoms seemed a bit daunting.
Then, one of my friends suggested that Tenzin visit some of the
local flower nurseries. I called the manager of one of the
nurseries and explained the situation. The manager's initial
response was: "You want to do what?" But when I explained the
request, the manager agreed.

So, the next weekend, I picked up Tenzin and his wife with
their provisions for the afternoon: black tea, butter, salt,
cups, cookies, prayer beads and prayer books. I dropped them off
at the nursery and assured them I would return at 5:00.

The following weekend, Tenzin and his wife visited another
nursery.

The third weekend, they went to yet another nursery.
The fourth week, I began to get calls from the nurseries
inviting Tenzin and his wife to come again. One of the managers
said, "We've got a new shipment of nicotiana coming in and some
wonderful fuchsias and oh, yes! Some great daphne. I know they
would love the scent of that daphne! And I almost forgot! We
have some new lawn furniture that Tenzin and his wife might
enjoy."

Later that day, I got a call from the second nursery saying
that they had colorful wind socks that would help Tenzin predict
where the wind was blowing. Pretty soon, the nurseries were
competing for Tenzin's visits.

People began to know and care about the Tibetan couple. The
nursery employees started setting out the lawn furniture in the
direction of the wind. Others would bring out fresh hot water
for their tea. Some of the regular customers would leave their
wagons of flowers near the two of them. It seemed that a
community was growing around Tenzin and his wife.

At the end of the summer, Tenzin returned to his doctor for
another CT scan to determine the extent of the spread of the
cancer. But the doctor could find no evidence of cancer at all.
He was dumbfounded. He told Tenzin that he just couldn't explain it.

Tenzin lifted his finger and said, "I know why the cancer
has gone away. It could no longer live in a body that is filled
with love. When I began to feel all the compassion from the
hospice people, from the nursery employees, and all those people
who wanted to know about me, I started to change inside. Now, I
feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to heal in this way.
Doctor, please don't think that your medicine is the only cure.
Sometimes compassion can cure cancer, as well."

By Lee Paton
Reprinted by permission of Lee Paton (c) 2000, from Chicken Soup
for the Gardener's Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,
Marion Owen, Cindy Buck, Cynthia Brian, Pat Stone and Carol Strugulewski.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*First Things First*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The truth about our childhood
is stored up in our body,
and although we can repress it,
we can never alter it.

Our intellect can be deceived,
our feelings manipulated,
our perceptions confused,
and our bodies tricked
with medication.

But someday
the body will present its bill,
for it is as incorruptible as a child who,
still whole in spirit,
will accept no compromises or excuses,
and it will not stop tormenting us
until we stop evading the truth.

Alice Miller

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Easy Does It*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

A Perfect Stranger

I met a perfect stranger
along the shore last night
At once, somehow familiar
yet elusive as to when and where
We walked together without talking
as we both contemplated matters
I remember being vaguely irritated
over the peaceful smiles of the stranger
While I wrestled with all of my failures
and all the might have beens and maybes
Why hadn't I been more aware and wiser
with the choices I had made during this lifetime
And I admit that my irritation with the stranger grew
into anger as I realized he was reviewing his lifetime too
But rather than second guessing his choices with recriminations
he seemed rather pleased with what he had learned from his mistakes
Why could he approach his lessons with such graceful understanding
and self forgiveness while I righteously punished myself for my failures
Finally, I could not stand his presence anymore and I asked him
who are you to interrupt my solitude with gloating satisfaction
He stopped and looked at me with absolute love and faith
as he gently reached out to me with his hands
Dearest brother who are greatly troubled,
don't you yet recognize your own soul

dennis j hopkins
mrseven@...
www.dennisjhopkins.com/Poetry.html

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Live And Let Live*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Contentment and Serenity

Why doesn't anything seem to go right?
I try to win, but it's a losing fight.
Just as I think the battle is won,
I turn, and there's something else to be done.
It has no end and it has no start.
Too many people, who don't have a heart
This day and age, you have to have heart,
Then and then only, you might have a start.
For without Love and kindness,
You have nothing at all.
A wasted life, a quick sudden fall.
I know I'm not perfect, at times I'm unkind.
Yet, when I am, please pay me no mind.
I have no intentions of hurting, you see,
And I pray that no one purposely hurts me,
But, they have and they will,
for the rest of my life,
Contentment and serenity,
are for all that I strive.

written by ~ Rebecca Ann Bowlin
rbowlin14@...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep The Focus On You*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Understand

So many things I did not understand
Like addictions running wild in a man
Spending all your money on a high
Going and going to just get by
Feeling guilt and remorse
Now that is the way
It always goes
Low living
With a high cost
God knows many things
I now understand and now see
The paths that help keep us free
Today the more I give the more I get
I do my best and have no regret
Recovery is the way to go
Just hang on
So you will soon know
This will take time you see
Welcome to the recovery
Now at last
I understand

Daniel M Corkery
6/14/2003
DMCDREAMER1@...
DMCDREAMER's Page of Poetry
www.geocities.com/dmcdreamer

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Let God and Let Go*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress
what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Occasionally in life there are those moments
of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained
by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Suffering is good,
in that it constitutes a recognition of inner conflict.
Without such recognition,
there can be no resolution of problems.
Sri Kriyananda

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To Believe*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Real communication happens when people feel safe.
Ken Blanchard

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Look For The Beauty*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Don't quit, surrender.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today Is A Gift*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Surrender to win.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep Stepping*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Surrender doesn't mean you have to quit.
It means that you don't have to fight anymore.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Stay In The Light*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If you don't keep coming,
you are going to keep going...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Promise, Many Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Adult Children of Alcoholics
www.AdultChildren.org

Al-Anon/Alateen
www.al-anon.org

Alcoholics Anonymous
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Alcoholics Anonymous Deaf and Hard of Hearing
www.dhh12s.com/access.htm

Artists Recovering through the Twelve Steps
www.artsanonymous.org

Cluttererıs Anonymous
www.clutterersanonymous.net

Cocaine Anonymous World Services
www.ca.org

Co-Dependents Anonymous Home Page
www.codependents.org

Crystal Meth Anonymous
www.crystalmeth.org

Criminal and Gangs Anonymous
www.angelfire.com/id/CGAnonymous

Debtors Anonymous: A Twelve Step Fellowship forŠ
www.debtorsanonymous.org

Depressed Anonymous
www.depressedanon.com

Dual Recovery Anonymous - a 12 Step program
www.draonline.org

Eating Disorders Anonymous
www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org

Emotions Anonymous
www.emotionsanonymous.org

Families Anonymous
www.familiesanonymous.org

Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page
www.gamblersanonymous.org

Hepatitis C Anonymous
www.hcvanonymous.com

HIV Anonymous
www.hivanonymous.com

The Marijuana Anonymous
www.marijuana-anonymous.org

Methadone Anonymous
www.afirmfwc.org/methanon.htm

Narcotics Anonymous Official Homepage
www.na.org

Earth Group N.A. online meetings
www.earthgroupna.org

Nar-Anon is a family support group
www.naranon.com

Nicotine Anonymous (WWW Home Page) NA Home Page
www.nicotine-anonymous.org

Overeaters Anonymous
www.oa.org

Parents Anonymous
www.parentsanonymous.org/paIndex1.htm

Rape Survivors Anonymous
www.rsaws.org

Recovering Couples Anonymous
www.recovering-couples.org

Sexaholics Anonymous
www.sa.org

Sex Addicts Anonymous
www.saa-recovery.org

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
www.slaafws.org/

Shoplifters Anonymous
www.shopliftersanonymous.org

Spenders Anonymous
www.spenders.org/home.html

Suicide Anonymous
www.geocities.com/samemphis

Survivors Of Incest Anonymous
www.siawso.org

Workaholics Anonymous
www.workaholics-anonymous.org

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