Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the...
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John Thomas
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Feb 1, 2013 3:54 pm
 Big Book Quote "But life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals. Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle...
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John Thomas
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Feb 1, 2013 3:56 pm
Daily Reflections GOAL: SANITY ". . . Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to...
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John Thomas
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Feb 2, 2013 11:30 am
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed...
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John Thomas
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Feb 2, 2013 11:30 am
As Bill Sees It All or Nothing? Acceptance and faith are capable of producing 100 per cent sobriety. In fact, they usually do; and they must, else we could...
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John Thomas
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Feb 2, 2013 11:37 am
Big Book Quote "We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of...
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John Thomas
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Feb 3, 2013 3:48 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as...
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John Thomas
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Feb 3, 2013 3:49 pm
As Bill Sees It "Not Allied with Any Sect..." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists...
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John Thomas
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Feb 3, 2013 3:49 pm
Big Book Quote "We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of...
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John Thomas
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Feb 4, 2013 2:13 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were...
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John Thomas
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Feb 4, 2013 2:13 pm
Big Book Quote "Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start, this...
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John Thomas
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Feb 4, 2013 2:13 pm
Daily Reflections Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have...
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John Thomas
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Feb 5, 2013 12:22 pm
Big Book Quote "...with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We...
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John Thomas
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Feb 5, 2013 12:22 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking...
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John Thomas
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Feb 5, 2013 12:22 pm
As Bill Sees It Humility First "A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual...
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John Thomas
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Feb 6, 2013 3:51 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day On a dark night, the bright lights of the comer tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth...
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John Thomas
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Feb 6, 2013 3:52 pm
Big Book Quote "We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our ...
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John Thomas
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Feb 6, 2013 4:00 pm
Daily Reflections A RALLYING POINT Therefore, Step <http://pathwaytorecovery.spruz.com/blog.htm#> Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic,...
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John Thomas
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Feb 7, 2013 12:26 pm
Big Book Quote "Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. If you persist, remarkable things will happen." ~Alcoholics...
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John Thomas
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Feb 7, 2013 12:26 pm
As Bill Sees It Pipeline to God "I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. But I am fully aware, and humble enough, I hope, to see there may be nothing...
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John Thomas
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Feb 7, 2013 12:26 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day A night club crowded with men and women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a very festive place. But...
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John Thomas
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Feb 8, 2013 2:24 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out of bed, we're thankful to God that we feet...
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John Thomas
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Feb 8, 2013 2:25 pm
Big <http://pathwaytorecovery.spruz.com/blog.htm#> Book Quote "Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the...
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John Thomas
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Feb 8, 2013 2:26 pm
Daily Reflections CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come...
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John Thomas
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Feb 9, 2013 11:50 am
As Bill Sees It Material Achievement No member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement. Nor do we enter into debate with the many who cling to the...
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John Thomas
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Feb 9, 2013 11:51 am
Big Book Quote "Many of us keep liquor in our homes. We often need it to carry green recruits through a severe hangover Some of us still serve it to our ...
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John Thomas
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Feb 9, 2013 11:51 am
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day In the past, we kept right on drinking in spite of all the trouble we got into. We were foolish enough to...
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John Thomas
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Feb 10, 2013 2:13 pm
As Bill Sees It Membership Rules Around 1943 or 1944, the Central Office asked the groups to list their membership rules and send them in. After they arrived...
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John Thomas
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Feb 10, 2013 2:14 pm
Big Book Quote As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power. If anyone questions whether...
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John Thomas
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Feb 10, 2013 2:14 pm
Twenty Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought for the Day Since I realized that I had become an alcoholic and could never have any more fun with liquor and since I knew...
