Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 05:19 AM
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November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself...
November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself Better
As a veteran, you’ve done what countless millions of other people cannot or will not do, and that is serve this country. And you deserve the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 7
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November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 7
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November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-03-2024, 09:54 AM
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The Hurting
We all are so full of hurt and so worn out by having to carry it with us all the time by the time we all get to recovery, but very few of us have any idea why we are hurting the way all of us are. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 3
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November 3
Avoiding fights
The program...
November 3
Avoiding fights
The program encourages us to stop fighting against people and things. In fighting, our principles get blurred and it gets harder to think, so we have trouble doing...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-02-2024, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 273
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No...
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No matter how far you think you have fallen at times in your life, you are not an evil person, not even if you believe that some of the things you did in your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 7
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Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my ...
Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my
Dear friend Tammy.
Thank God for getting us though the
month of October safe and sound
one day at a time.
I pray that this month will be full of peace,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:32 AM
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Today's Thought - November
November 1
If you don’t take chances, you can’t do anything in life.
~Michael Spinks
Many of us have done things that, in looking back, seem insane or dangerous. We may have had friends or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 7
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Daily Motivator - November
November 1, 2024
Nice and polite
It’s great to be nice, to be polite. Everyone prefers to interact with other people who are polite.
Yet when you hide or even deny the truth in the interest of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2024, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 29
AA Thought for the Day
We...
October 29
AA Thought for the Day
We alcoholics used so little self-control when we were drinking, we were so absolutely selfish, that it does us good to give up something once in a while....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2024, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 29
Work of true richness
Your...
October 29
Work of true richness
Your life deserves to be more than just a series of empty transactions. Give meaning to the minutes, hours, months and years.
Your interactions are too...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-28-2024, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 0
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Facing It
All of us have been runners, running away from something. For some of us we knew exactly what we were running from, for the rest of us didn't, but it really doesn't matter either way, once we've all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,193
November 4
Daily Reflections
A DAILY...
November 4
Daily Reflections
A DAILY DISCIPLINE
, . . when they [self-examination, meditation and prayer] are logically related and
interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,193
November 3
Daily Reflections
FOCUSING...
November 3
Daily Reflections
FOCUSING AND LISTENING
There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken
separately, these practices can bring much relief and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 27
The more I force things, the...
October 27
The more I force things, the tougher my life.
~Helen Neujahr
Are we driven to control? Perhaps we wonder if trying to control other people is part of the human condition. We've...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 26
Honesty
Honesty's the best...
October 26
Honesty
Honesty's the best policy.
~Miguel de Cervantes
How grateful we became when we moved out from the shadows of our past. Our program asked us to be honest. We found that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 27
Appreciating the limitations
...
October 27
Appreciating the limitations
When the possibilities are unlimited, when you can do anything, too often you do nothing. You become so overwhelmed with all the choices that it seems...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 26
Let life be good
Let life be...
October 26
Let life be good
Let life be good today. The quality of what you experience is greatly influenced by the way you expect your experience to be.
So expect goodness, offer kindness,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,193
November 2
Daily Reflections
KEEPING...
November 2
Daily Reflections
KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOAT
The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven
can keep us growing. . . .
THE LANGUAGE OF THE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,193
Daily Recovery Readings - November
November 1
Daily Reflections
I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING...
October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING CONTROVERSY
All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder
because they were designed for, or tempted into,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 24
The spiritual life does not...
October 24
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
~Henri J. M. Nouwen
We get into recovery to get our life back. The shame that is often part of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 24
Treasures remain
Various...
October 24
Treasures remain
Various circumstances and experiences come and go. Yet the treasures you gain in living through them remain with you always.
Every day is your chance to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2024, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 23
Unless I accept my virtues, I...
October 23
Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.
~Robert G. Coleman
For many shame-based reasons, it is always easier to acknowledge our flaws than...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2024, 06:54 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 23
Minor inconvenience
Your...
October 23
Minor inconvenience
Your troubles seem big and ugly whenever they arrive. But nearly every one ends up being a minor inconvenience in the context of your whole life.
Storms will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2024, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 22
Experiment
Experiment. Try...
October 22
Experiment
Experiment. Try something new. Try stepping out. We have been held back too long. We have held ourselves back too long.
As children, many of us were deprived of the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2024, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 22
Act right away
As soon as...
October 22
Act right away
As soon as you make a decision, begin to put that decision into action. Lock in your commitment by immediately investing yourself in it.
At the moment you decide on...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-21-2024, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 799
From Now On
Many of us want to come into recovery wanting to be certain that if we're going to do this recovery thing that from now on things are going to be alright for all of us going forward. Unfortunately...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2024, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 30
Daily Reflections
LIVE AND...
October 30
Daily Reflections
LIVE AND LET LIVE
Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial
issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 29
Daily Reflections
OUR...
October 29
Daily Reflections
OUR SURVIVAL
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full
strength our means of survival.
TWELVE STEPS AND...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2024, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 28
Daily Reflections
AN...
October 28
Daily Reflections
AN UNBROKEN TRADITION
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far
greater importance than the weight we could...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2024, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 27
Daily Reflections
GLOBAL...
October 27
Daily Reflections
GLOBAL SHARING
The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety.
These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2024, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 20
Our behavior won't be irrational...
October 20
Our behavior won't be irrational if we pause and think before acting.
Reacting to another person’s craziness makes us a bit crazy too. However, someone else's anger, even if directed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2024, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 20
Focus and curiosity
Use your...
October 20
Focus and curiosity
Use your curiosity to gather knowledge and experiences. Employ your focus to weave together, expand upon, and make purposeful sense of what curiosity brings to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2024, 06:47 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 18
Accepting Help
When I was in...
October 18
Accepting Help
When I was in the military in the early 2000s, alcoholism and drug addiction were the kiss of death. If you liked what you were doing and wanted to keep on doing it,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 18
Embrace your feelings
...
October 18
Embrace your feelings
Welcome the way you feel, for there is authentic life in your feeling. Treasure the feelings as they change from one day to the next, in this situation and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2024, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 17
Whatever the outcome
Work to...
October 17
Whatever the outcome
Work to create your desired outcomes. Commit to those outcomes, focus on the specific efforts they demand, and persist in those efforts.
But stop short of...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-16-2024, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,000
New To All Of Us
When all of us come into recovery it's all new to all of us as it should be because none of us even know where to begin or what the things are that we could all do that would make our life's better...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 26
Daily Reflections
ONE...
October 26
Daily Reflections
ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may
express Himself in our group conscience.
TWELVE STEPS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 25
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s...
October 25
Daily Reflections
A.A.'s HEARTBEAT
Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125
Without unity I would be unable to recover in A.A. on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 24
Daily Reflections
"BY FAITH...
October 24
Daily Reflections
"BY FAITH AND BY WORKS"
On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. . . . Thus has
it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 16
The Next Right Thing
...
October 16
The Next Right Thing
Sometimes I get stuck. When I'm in the middle of a mess or a crisis, I often get or feel paralyzed and can't seem to make a decision or take action. It might not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2024, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 16
You’ve got this
Don’t get...
October 16
You’ve got this
Don’t get angry. Get to work.
Don’t let frustration cause you to throw in the towel. Plow your energy into efforts that have proven to make a difference, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2024, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 15
When angry, count four; when very...
October 15
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain
Feelings of anger are a knotty problem for many men. Some of us as children were injured or so frightened by an angry...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2024, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 15
Cherish the opportunities
...
October 15
Cherish the opportunities
When you’re interested, you’re effective. You find a way.
When you’re invested, you get results. You know the details, and you figure out how to best...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2024, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 17,962
October 14
In my friend, I find a second...
October 14
In my friend, I find a second self.
~Isabel Norton
We are all part of each other. We are part of others. When we can't see ourselves, maybe we need to look at others in our group....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2024, 02:29 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 14,428
October 14
Give life to excellence
...
October 14
Give life to excellence
Nothing equals the satisfaction of a job well done. Create some of that satisfaction in your own life today.
When you’re engaging in effort, proactively...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2024, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 23
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE...
October 23
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE KNOW BEST
"Shoemaker, stick to thy last!" . . . better do one thing supremely well than many badly.
That is the central theme of this Tradition [Five]....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2024, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 22
Daily Reflections
TRUE...
October 22
Daily Reflections
TRUE TOLERANCE
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent
emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2024, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,366
October 21
Daily Reflections
NOTHING...
October 21
Daily Reflections
NOTHING GROWS IN THE DARK
We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10
With the...
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