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10-14-2006, 09:17 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
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Welcome Zephyr - we're glad you're here!  Be sure to introduce yourself on the Newcomers Forum too.
__________________ Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. ~Ojibwe saying~ |
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10-16-2006, 11:51 AM
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| Spiritual Progress,Not Perfect  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento, CA
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Hi Zephyr...welcome! I'm also very grateful for the serendipity which led me to this community. It is a great way to kill some time at work when I'm not otherwise busy and it keeps me out of trouble!
__________________ "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." - Big Book, pg. 62 |
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10-19-2006, 05:02 AM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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Today I'm grateful for recovery, serenity, my sponsor, my children. Grateful for the tremendous blessing of being able to go to a meeting every day after work and see the familiar faces that help me to stay sober. I'm grateful for the opportunity to lead a Big Book study this evening at my club. I need to stay in the literature in order to stay centered. I'm grateful for learning to say "NO" to my magnificant imagination. And grateful that my sponsor calls me on my crap when I need it. Mostly I'm grateful for a GOD who brought me into the rooms of AA and continues to give me chances to grow in character (eventhough it gets me way out of my comfort zone) and intimacy with HIM. Today is a great day to be sober.
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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10-20-2006, 07:41 PM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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Today I'm grateful that God gave me a good brain. I found a back way from the mall to a restuarant where I was meeting my sponsor for lunch. It cut about 10 minutes off my trip. I'm thankful that I am learning how to say "NO" to my magnificant imagination. On the way to the Italian restuarant I thought, "I wonder if they would serve us grape juice in wine glasses." I instantly told my disease "NO!". That was one of the craziest things I ever thought. Next thing you know I'd be drinking real wine in that glass. I am thankful that I was able to chair my 4:30 meeting and then share in the 6:00pm meeting. I'm thankful for newcomers who remind me where I was before God brought me into AA. Thankful for an intimate relationship with my Higher Power.
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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10-21-2006, 02:51 AM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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Saturday. Grateful that autumn is really here, for a warm house, goose down, running water, a car that runs, clothes to wear, good food to eat, friends, a job, my children, my three cats, computer with internet, lots of meetings where i get to see lots of people who understand this drunk and love me anyway. Thank you Father!!!
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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10-25-2006, 03:38 AM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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Today I am grateful for sobriety and abstinence, my big brother and my parents, mountains, autumn leaves, coffee. I'm thankful for the trips I made for my company to Louisiana over the past year and for all the people in recovery who I met there. They helped me to stay sober in unfamiliar surroundings. I am grateful for the privilege of walking in the good works that my higher power prepared for me to walk in. Thankful that He got me sober so that I can participate in life. What an awesome gift!
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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11-01-2006, 04:58 AM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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I am grateful for my sponsor, for a wonderful sober retreat last weekend, for GOD, and for learning, sometimes slowly, to say NO to my magnificant imagination. I am choosing serenity over chaos. I am learning how to get out of the habitual thinking. Hard work with great rewards.
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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11-12-2006, 05:04 AM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Georgia
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I asked God to let me know my true self that He created me to be. I'm grateful for emotional growth through working the steps with my sponsor. I'm learning who I am. It's like meeting someone for the very first time. I was there all along, but masked by substance abuse and codependent relationships. I'm very grateful for new days, new realizations, and acceptance.
__________________ Zephyr Gratefully recovering |
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