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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
“It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle for. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of…[Read more]
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
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That’s right @Johnna!
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You know that’s right! 👌
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
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Very grateful today @johnna!
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Thank you God! 🙌
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
July 17
SURRENDER AND SELF-EXAMINATION
“My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. Thus, I think it can work out with emotional sobriety. If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God’s help,…[Read more] -
Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
July 16
A MEASURE OF HUMILITY
“In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain.”
12&12 p. 75
It was painfulto give up trying to control by life, even though success eluded me, and when…[Read more] -
Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
July 15
PRIDE
“For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. In all these strivings, so many of them…[Read more] -
Johnna and Christina Emery are now friends 3 years, 9 months ago
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
July 14
A NOURISHING INGREDIENT
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.
12 &12 p. 74How often do I docus on my problems and frustrations? When I am having a “good day” these same problems shrink in importance and my preoccupation with them…[Read more]
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
“The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose.” – Ghandi
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
July 9 Daily Reflection
I AM AN INSTRUMENT
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
-12 & 12 p. 70
The subject of humility is a difficult one. Humility is not thinking less of myself than I ought to; it is acknowledging that I do certain things well, it is accepting a compliment graciously. God can only do for me what He can do through me.…[Read more]-
That’s 🔥 @johnna!
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Beautiful! 💙
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 10 months ago
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
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Johnna joined the group Addiction 101 Students 3 years, 10 months ago
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Johnna joined the group Friends For Recovery Support 3 years, 10 months ago
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Johnna joined the group Christians for Recovery 3 years, 10 months ago
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 10 months ago
“When I focus on what’s good today, I have a good day, and when I focus on what’s bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on a problem, the problem increases; if I focus on the answer, the answer increases.” A.A. p. 419
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Always @Johnna!
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Sounds like Dyer. I like it. The difference between a good day and a bad day? Attitude.
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Johnna posted an update 3 years, 10 months ago
“Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress” -12 Steps & 12 Traditions
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That’s right @Johnna!
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Johnna posted an update 4 years, 6 months ago
“It is in self-forgetting that one finds.”
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Johnna posted an update 4 years, 7 months ago
“Adversity truly introduces us to ourselves.” BB 530
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Johnna posted an update 4 years, 7 months ago
“Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends-this is an experience you must not miss.” -B.B. page 89
Same! 👊
Me too @Johnna!