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02/16/2026

Thought for the day: I remember times back in my life where I had lived in my lies so long that I actually started to believe them...We are meant to follow a set of guidelines because it keeps us safe from ourselves and hopefully others. Problem is, nobody wants to follow them because they didn't write them. This is how we end up with the argument that nobody can tell me how to live. In the end I needed to be told how to live, this never changes till the day we die..There is a right way and a wrong way to do all this and God already set the standards for both of those...we just refuse to listen.

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01/21/2026

Thought for the day: We are only asked to live in truth and harmony in this world......but who's truth are you listening to?........What do you clam to be harmony? We are designed to follow only two powers in this world and we ourselves are not one of them......One power wants to give us life, the other wants to take our life.........Its one or the other......there is no in between...... I will think on this today.

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01/16/2026

Thought for the day: When is the last time we actually walked a mile in someone else's shoes...?...Have we become so consumed with our own little plans, our own ideas that nothing and no one else matters........hmmm gravity check..!

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01/16/2026

Daily Reflections

HITTING BOTTOM

Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom
first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try
to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit
bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps
means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost
no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24

Hitting bottom opened my mind and I became willing to
try something different. What I tried was A.A. My new
life in the Fellowship was a little like learning how
to ride a bike for the first time: A.A. became my
training wheels and my supporting hand. It's not that
I wanted the help so much at the time; I simply did
not want to hurt like that again. My desire to avoid
hitting bottom again was more powerful than my desire
to drink. In the beginning that was what kept me sober.
But after a while I found myself working the Steps to
the best of my ability. I soon realized that my
attitudes and actions were changing - if ever so
slightly. One Day at a Time, I became comfortable with
myself, and others, and my hurting started to heal.
Thank God for the training wheels and supporting hand
that I choose to call Alcoholics Anonymous.

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01/14/2026

Thought for the day: Its never as easy as it appears but never as hard either.....We have a mental circus between our ears....our minds are our worst enemy. We can think our way right into trouble, complications and duress...Isn't it interesting that we spend a lot of our time thinking ourselves out of trouble but never really take the time to think before hand to avoid the trouble in the first place....hmmmm

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01/11/2026

Thought for the day: If we look long enough we will see Gods finger prints on everything..the good, the bad ,the ugly and the beautiful. We as people must start choosing a better way of doing things because we are made with a free will....This means God has to work inside of the choices we make....We actually limit what God can do because we refuse to turn fully over to his control....He could step in but then it would defeat the purpose of choosing him above all else ...because we truly want to do so. I struggle with this as I think we all do to some degree...

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01/11/2026

Daily Reflections

THE 100% STEP

Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were
powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68

Long before I was able to obtain sobriety in A.A., I knew without a
doubt that alcohol was killing me, yet even with this knowledge, I was unable to stop drinking. So, when faced with Step One, I found it easy to admit that I lacked the power to not drink. But was my life
unmanageable? Never! Five months after coming into A.A., I was
drinking again and wondered why.

Later on, back in A.A. and smarting from my wounds, I learned that
Step One is the only Step that can be taken 100%. And that the only way to take it 100% is to take 100% of the Step. That was many twenty-four hours ago and I haven't had to take Step One again.

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01/10/2026

Thought for the day: Are you okay today just being average....A lot of my life was spent in chaos because I only knew how to live when things were really really good or really really bad.....I didn't know how to live in a kind of balance. Along with all the bad choices I also learned how to get "things" in my life....but never learned how to keep them. Today take the time to see if "extremes" rule your life and if so ...move towards balance.

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01/07/2026

Daily Reflections

AT THE TURNING POINT

Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59

Every day I stand at turning points. My thoughts and actions can
propel me toward growth or turn me down the road to old habits and to booze. Sometimes turning points are beginnings, as when I decide to start praising, instead of condemning someone. Or when I begin to ask for help instead of going it alone. At other times turning points are endings, such as when I see clearly the need to stop festering resentments or crippling self-seeking. Many shortcomings tempt me daily; therefore, I also have daily opportunities to become aware of them. In one form or another, many of my character defects appear daily: self-condemnation, anger, running away, being prideful, wanting to get even, or acting out of grandiosity. Attempting half measures to eliminate these defects merely paralyzes my efforts to change. It is only when I ask God for help, with complete abandon, that I become willing -- and able -- to change.

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01/05/2026

Daily Reflections

TOTAL ACCEPTANCE

He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will
be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without
it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will
be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.152

Only an alcoholic can understand the exact meaning of a
statement like this one. The double standard that held
me captive as an active alcoholic also filled me with
terror and confusion: "If I don't get a drink I'm going
to die," competed with "If I continue drinking it's
going to kill me." Both compulsive thoughts pushed me
ever closer to the bottom. That bottom produced a total
acceptance of my alcoholism - with no reservations
whatsoever - and one that was absolutely essential for
my recovery. It was a dilemma unlike anything I had
ever faced, but as I found out later on, a necessary
one if I was to succeed in this program.

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