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September 4, 2025
I did not stop drinking to please someone else, and I didn’t stay stopped for someone else. I stopped because alcohol no longer provided relief for me, yet I still needed it – even when I didn’t want it anymore. Alcohol and the internal turmoil it caused held power over me like nothing else could.
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September 3, 2025
After all this time – getting sober, staying sober through all of the ups and downs of my life, watching my friends succeed, or fail, or die – and continuing to trudge through, I sometimes wonder if I should ease up. It’s easy to do. But then I remember that I only have today. Today
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September 2, 2025
When I was in early recovery, I felt lost. I was trying to figure out how to live without alcohol, which seemed impossible to me. I thought that sooner or later I would wind up drunk, so why bother? I met people who were living a sober life, who cared enough to listen to me
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September 1, 2025
Sometimes I feel God’s Presence during the course of my day and other times not so much. Sometimes I can go days without really feeling it. It’s kind of a “spiritual funk” that happens where I’m just not feeling it. It doesn’t mean that God has taken a break. God is always with me. The
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August 31, 2025
Not only has my life been spared and my self-imposed suffering stopped, but I have been given a life worth living. It didn’t happen by accident. It didn’t happen overnight. It started with desperation. It started with a belief and a trust in God to save me. It continues for me by seeking God’s Protection
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August 30, 2025
After a long period of time without abusing substances, I can get the sense that “I’m good. I got this.” If I actually believe that, I will become complacent and forget how I got here. I need to remember the life I used to live and the suffering that comes with it. If I forget
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August 29, 2025
The heaviest burden I have ever carried was living as a hopeless drunk. Every day the burden got heavier, no matter what I tried to do about it. It wasn’t until I was shown a way to turn that burden over to God have I been freed. God has been doing for me what I
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August 28, 2025
I used to think that I was “terminally unique” – that no one understood how I felt and thus I kept my pain to myself and would have to figure things out for myself. I am not so unique. When I met people with a similar affliction who had found a common solution, I realized
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August 27, 2025
If I had been a normal drinker, I imagine that my life would be so different. I would not have tortured myself every day with guilt, shame, and remorse. I would not have lived with constant, unfounded fear. I would not have tried to escape from the reality of my life by drinking. I would
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August 26, 2025
I know I’m getting better when I can stop being too self-involved and try to help others instead. I’m not going to solve anyone’s problems, but maybe by showing them my path I can help them get through their difficulties. We are not passing through this life single-file. Everyone needs a hand-up along the way.
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