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Rich posted an update 9 months, 1 week ago
FEAR AND FAITH
June 21
The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion — well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from f…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 11 months, 3 weeks ago
THE FALSE COMFORT OF SELF-PITY
April 13
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 effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford.
AS BILL SEES…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 11 months, 3 weeks ago
GROWING UP
April 10
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115
Sometimes when I’ve become willing to do what I should have been doing all along, I want praise and recognition. I don’t realize that the more…[Read more]
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Rich and John Bennett are now friends 12 months ago
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
A FULL AND THANKFUL HEART
March 25
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
I believe that we in Alcoholics Anonymous are fortunate in t…[Read more]
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Rich and Ariel Flankey are now friends 1 year ago
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
LOVE AND TOLERANCE
March 20
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain any real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiving may not be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great spiritual teacher has…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
PRAYER: IT WORKS
March 19
It has been well said that “almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never tried it enough.”
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 97
Having grown up in an agnostic household, I felt somewhat foolish when I first tried praying. I knew there was a Higher Power working in my life—how else was I stayin…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
AS WE UNDERSTAND HIM
March 16
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. . . . “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a…[Read more]
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Rich and John Keenan are now friends 1 year ago
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
A DAY’S PLAN
March 12
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86
Every day I ask God to kindle within me the fire of Hi…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
TODAY, IT’S MY CHOICE
March 10
. . . we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62
With the realization and acceptance that I had played a part in the way my life had turned out came a dramatic change in my outlook. It was at t…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
SURRENDERING SELF-WILL
March 09
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can one turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? In my search for the a…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year ago
OVERCOMING SELF-WILL
March 03
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us!
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62
For so…[Read more]
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Rich and Ashley Darrah are now friends 1 year ago
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Rich and Stephon Hummer are now friends 1 year, 1 month ago
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Rich posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago
A THANKFUL HEART
February 24
I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
My sponsor told me that I should be a grateful alcoholic and always…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago
MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES
February 23
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.
A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46
What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accepted, they reaffirm something in the…[Read more]
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Rich posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago
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Rich posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago
Hello friends! Don’t forget the 71st Annual Kentucky State AA Convention begins February 24th and will continue through Sunday February 26th in Louisville, KY. It’s going to be a great time with wonderful speakers and events. You won’t want to miss it! Check it out or register in the link below!…[Read more]
Desire for people, places, and things to be different has brought a lot of suffering to me but freedom from desire is a gift of recovery.
But then there’s (fear).
Freedom from fear will always be a work in progress.