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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Yesterday, 05:14 AM
Replies: 22
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Posted By bluidkiti
April 22 The Issues Live in Our Tissues ...

April 22

The Issues Live in Our Tissues

I thought that talk therapy would heal every part of me that needed healing. I was wrong. Making sense of our past negative experiences, including our...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Yesterday, 05:12 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 22 What if and why not What if I...

April 22

What if and why not

What if I started? What if I stopped?

What if I changed? What if I listened more carefully, understood more deeply?

What if I followed through on my...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-19-2025, 06:34 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 19 Live robustly Even when you’re...

April 19

Live robustly

Even when you’re surrounded by apathy and incompetence, avoid letting it absorb you. Remain true to who you are and the good you can do.

When nearly everyone else...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-19-2025, 06:22 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 19 Along the way Make time in...

April 19

Along the way

Make time in your days for wonder, for awe. Make space in your thoughts to dream of what’s possible.

Your journey is much more than getting quickly and efficiently...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-17-2025, 06:28 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 17 Remember that not getting what you...

April 17

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of good luck.

~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Managing desires is one of the most crucial elements of being an adult. Children...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-17-2025, 06:22 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 17 Meaningful effort Even when...

April 17

Meaningful effort

Even when nobody else cares about the good things you do, that’s okay. Because you have the opportunity to care, and to make a difference.

The point of effective...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-16-2025, 04:45 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 16 To show great love for God and our...

April 16

To show great love for God and our neighbor, we need not do great things.

~Mother Teresa

We don't have to invent a cure for cancer or lift the burdens of a friend to prove our worth...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-16-2025, 04:38 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 16 Make your choice In the long...

April 16

Make your choice

In the long run it will improve your life. Yet in your immediate, day to day experience, you’ll have some inconvenience, discomfort, and doubt.

You know a change is...
Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support 04-15-2025, 11:01 AM
Replies: 0
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Posted By roverl0616
Living The Lie

At one time what has now become the problem was once a solution for all of us. Here lies the true trouble we all face now because we all hope that one day it will once again be our solution, and it...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-15-2025, 06:46 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 15 You can't hold a man down without...

April 15

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

~Booker T. Washington

It seems that when we're not feeling good about ourselves, we're more prone to gossip about others or...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-14-2025, 05:15 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 14 Service Love is the forgetting...

April 14

Service

Love is the forgetting of oneself in the service of another.

~R. Ainsley Barnwell

Any act of "carrying the message" can serve a useful purpose, whether or not we see the...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-14-2025, 05:09 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 14 Prepare the way You have the...

April 14

Prepare the way

You have the opportunity today to prepare the way for tomorrow. Because of what you choose in the present, you can arrive in the future fully prepared to make the most...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-13-2025, 07:00 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 23 Daily Reflections A.A. IS NOT...

April 23

Daily Reflections

A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL

It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all,
even for alcoholism.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-13-2025, 06:57 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 22 Daily Reflections NEW SOIL . ....

April 22

Daily Reflections

NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS

Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of
spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know.
Roots of reality, supplanting...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-13-2025, 06:56 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 21 Daily Reflections CULTIVATING...

April 21

Daily Reflections

CULTIVATING FAITH

"I don't think we can do anything very well in this world
unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too
well unless we practice it....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-13-2025, 06:56 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 20 Daily Reflections ...

April 20

Daily Reflections

SELF-EXAMINATION

. . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking
that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking
motives.
ALCOHOLICS...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-13-2025, 06:43 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 13 All day, where the sunlight played...

April 13

All day, where the sunlight played on the seashore, Life sat.

~Olive Schreiner

When we let ourselves, we look around and feel a deep sense of respect for life and our part in it....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-12-2025, 05:19 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
Apeil 12 Inches make champions. ~Vince...

Apeil 12

Inches make champions.

~Vince Lombardi

What's the difference between success and failure? Ideal conditions? Fifty percent more effort? Twice the talent? Ten times "the breaks"? Or...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-12-2025, 05:16 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 13 Opportunity to learn The most...

April 13

Opportunity to learn

The most valuable lessons are not what anyone else seeks to teach you. They are the lessons you learn for yourself.

How do you learn those lessons? You learn by...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-12-2025, 05:15 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 12 Design your life Design your...

April 12

Design your life

Design your day, design your season, design your year, design your life. Then follow through and do the work to bring your design into being.

Know at the beginning...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-11-2025, 06:42 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 11 Being Vulnerable Part of...

April 11

Being Vulnerable

Part of recovery means learning to share ourselves with other people. We learn to admit our mistakes and expose our imperfections - not so that others can fix us,...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-11-2025, 06:41 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 11 Give it some time Occasionally...

April 11

Give it some time

Occasionally an immediate response is necessary for an urgent situation. But in most cases, what might appear to be urgent really isn’t.

Often it’s best to take a...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-09-2025, 05:42 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 19 Daily Reflections BROTHERS IN...

April 19

Daily Reflections

BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS
We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue
as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common
strivings to overcome them....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-09-2025, 05:41 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 18 Daily Reflections SELF-HONESTY...

April 18

Daily Reflections

SELF-HONESTY

The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the
deception of ourselves. . . . When we are honest with
another person, it confirms that we...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-09-2025, 05:41 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 17 Daily Reflections LOVE AND...

April 17

Daily Reflections

LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES

All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49

"Fear knocked at the...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-08-2025, 05:13 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 8 Choice to be inspired What is...

April 8

Choice to be inspired

What is necessary to inspire you? What’s necessary is your own choice.

Do you seek to be inspired? Then respond to life with inspiration.

A quiet moment can...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-08-2025, 05:12 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 8 Reflection for the Day Rare are...

April 8

Reflection for the Day

Rare are the practicing alcoholics and addicts who have any idea how irrational they are or, seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. One reason is that...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-07-2025, 06:59 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 7 It Takes What It Takes In 1986,...

April 7

It Takes What It Takes

In 1986, I was suffering the fallout of multiple affairs that my now-ex-wife was having. I was not handling this situation very well.

Long story short, I...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-07-2025, 06:57 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 7 Marvels of this day Your very...

April 7

Marvels of this day

Your very breath, each and every one, is a miracle. Take some time to focus on your breathing, and only on your breathing, and the life energy it continually brings....
Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support 04-06-2025, 10:59 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 157
Posted By roverl0616
What Needs To Be Changed

While this may be simply said that the only thing that we can ever change is ourselves this is by no means an easy thing for anyone to ever be able to do. This will take a life time for all of us,...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-06-2025, 05:27 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 16 Daily Reflections ANGER: A...

April 16

Daily Reflections

ANGER: A "DUBIOUS LUXURY"

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch
and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious
luxury of the...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-06-2025, 05:26 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 15 Daily Reflections THE BONDAGE...

April 15

Daily Reflections

THE BONDAGE OF RESENTMENTS

. . . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then
we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-06-2025, 05:25 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 14 Daily Reflections THE "NUMBER...

April 14

Daily Reflections

THE "NUMBER ONE OFFENDER"

Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-06-2025, 05:24 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 13 Daily Reflections THE FALSE...

April 13

Daily Reflections

THE FALSE COMFORT OF SELF-PITY

Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects
that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and
can cut off all...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-04-2025, 04:33 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 4 Look objectively What if you...

April 4

Look objectively

What if you decided to welcome the problems instead of dread them? Would that make any difference in the way you felt, in your level of anxiety from day to day, moment...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-02-2025, 05:10 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 12 Daily Reflections GIVING UP...

April 12

Daily Reflections

GIVING UP INSANITY

. . . where alcohol has been involved, we have been
strangely insane.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 38
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-02-2025, 05:10 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 11 Daily Reflections A WORD TO...

April 11

Daily Reflections

A WORD TO DROP: "BLAME"

To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We
could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-02-2025, 05:07 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 10 Daily Reflections GROWING UP ...

April 10

Daily Reflections

GROWING UP

The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for
the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder
whatever responsibility this...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-02-2025, 05:02 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
April 2 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,...

April 2

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume.

~Walt Whitman

Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-02-2025, 04:54 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
April 2 Diligent efforts This world and...

April 2

Diligent efforts

This world and the people in it are not perfect, and never will be. Your challenge is to live a good and fulfilling life in situations that are less than ideal.

That...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-01-2025, 05:41 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
God bless you also willbe. Glad to see you.

God bless you also willbe. Glad to see you.
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-01-2025, 12:46 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By willbe275
God bless you Tammy, happy April the 1st, ...

God bless you Tammy, happy April the 1st,
thanking God for getting through the
month March, one day at a time.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Here a great song to start Our month off.
...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-01-2025, 07:23 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,124
Posted By bluidkiti
Today's Thought - April

April 1

AA Thought for the Day

In the story of the Good Samaritan, the wayfarer fell among robbers and was left lying in the gutter, half dead. And a priest and a Levite both passed by on the...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 04-01-2025, 07:19 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,428
Posted By bluidkiti
Daily Motivator - April

April 1

Being useful

Being useful is particularly useful to you. Making a difference for others can give an immense boost to your confidence and positivity.

Feeling useful will make...
Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support 03-30-2025, 09:43 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 235
Posted By roverl0616
Pushing The Reset Button

Relapsing back to where any of us may have once been is not at all that unusual after coming into recovery. Sometimes this will happen right away other times it can take awhile before it does,...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-30-2025, 06:23 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 9 Daily Reflections FREEDOM FROM...

April 9

Daily Reflections

FREEDOM FROM "KING ALCOHOL"

. . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under
constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-30-2025, 06:22 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 8 Daily Reflections AN INSIDE...

April 8

Daily Reflections

AN INSIDE LOOK

We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural
desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the
unhappiness this has caused others...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-30-2025, 06:21 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 7 Daily Reflections A WIDE ARC OF...

April 7

Daily Reflections

A WIDE ARC OF GRATITUDE

And, speaking for Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare
that had it not been for our wives, Anne and Lois, neither
of us could have...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-30-2025, 06:21 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 6 Daily Reflections A LIFETIME...

April 6

Daily Reflections

A LIFETIME PROCESS

We were having trouble with personal relationships, we
couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey
to misery and depression, we...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-27-2025, 07:22 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,246
Posted By bluidkiti
April 5 Daily Reflections TRUE...

April 5

Daily Reflections

TRUE BROTHERHOOD

We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among
friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of
society....
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