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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Yesterday, 06:28 AM
Replies: 17
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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 Yesterday, 06:22 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 481
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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
Views: 32
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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, 06:43 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 377
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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, 05:41 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 69
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 17
Views: 377
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: 19
Views: 481
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: 133
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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: 25
Views: 1,916
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....
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-27-2025, 07:21 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,916
Posted By bluidkiti
April 4 Daily Reflections CRYING FOR...

April 4

Daily Reflections

CRYING FOR THE MOON

"This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish
sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-27-2025, 07:20 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,916
Posted By bluidkiti
April 3 Daily Reflections ACCEPTING OUR...

April 3

Daily Reflections

ACCEPTING OUR HUMANNESS

We finally saw that the inventory should be ours, not
the other man's. So we admitted our wrongs honestly and
became willing to set these...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-26-2025, 05:38 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 6,247
Posted By bluidkiti
March 26 It is better to begin in the...

March 26

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

~English Proverb

At times, we addicts feel bad that we lost years to our illness. We've wasted time, money, and energy on our...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-25-2025, 01:16 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 4,032
Posted By willbe275
Thank you Tammy, like I Said we have been...

Thank you Tammy, like I
Said we have been together
By God grace a nice little while
God bless, I will never forget when
Your cat went missing, your heart
was broken, I remember praying
For his...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-25-2025, 06:20 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 6,247
Posted By bluidkiti
March 25 As long as habit and routine...

March 25

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

~Henry Van Dyke

If nothing changes, nothing changes.

One reason people...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-25-2025, 06:11 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 4,032
Posted By bluidkiti
Thank you willbe. I appreciate your help and...

Thank you willbe. I appreciate your help and support. I first came online in AA in December 1997 in an AA chatroom. I started out with the username blukiti (blue kitty) because of how my life was...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-24-2025, 04:12 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 4,032
Posted By willbe275
Hey my awesome friend Tammy how do I change...

Hey my awesome friend Tammy
how do I change my profile?
I'm no longer in New York, I now resident
in Petersburg Virginia for the past two years
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-24-2025, 03:53 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 4,032
Posted By willbe275
I just dropped a $20 donation off to you, I know...

I just dropped a $20 donation off to you, I know its
been a while since I've done that.
Thank you Tammy for all you do, correct me if I'm wrong,
I think I've been following you ever since the...
Forum: Daily Recovery Readings 03-24-2025, 09:27 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 6,247
Posted By bluidkiti
Yes I do willbe

Yes I do willbe
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