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October 11, 2025
If I try to get better each day, there is a chance … … that I can live without my fears directing my thoughts and actions… … that I will never consider giving up … … that I can pay attention to the little things in my life … … that I can be gentle…
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October 10, 2025
Here are some inescapable truths about myself… I am powerless over alcohol and my life had become unmanageable. My powerlessness and unmanageability begin with my thoughts… progress into patterns of feelings… which turn into actions to soothe the feelings. Alcohol took away those feelings until it stopped working. No amount of alcohol could relieve my…
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October 9, 2025
I see the change in others more easily than I see the change in my self. It seems that I don’t notice the change in myself because it manifests gradually. What I do see in others is the result of God’s Grace. If I look closely enough, I see God within them. What I see…
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October 8, 2025
Only a sober alcoholic knows how difficult it is to stop drinking and stay stopped. Alcohol had become the single most important thing in my life, so much that I had put alcohol before everything. It wasn’t just a “bad habit” – it was a way of living. It was as much of a spiritual…
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October 7, 2025
Each person’s life is custom-designed by God. The course of my life is unique to me. My experiences affect me only from the lens I view them. They are only important if I see them that way. Every interaction I have with another person, however brief, may be significant to one of us. I need…
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October 6, 2025
Some people refuse to accept help. For whatever reason, they choose suffering over peace. I suppose that is their destiny. I was not spared from misery to just clean up my life and then keep it to myself. I was led to a way of living which includes helping others. I can only help those…
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October 5, 2025
Pain is a great catalyst for change. It creates an urgency unlike anything else, but it is tougher to focus on change when I am in pain. I need to continue to try to get better, to ask God to help me to get better especially when I’m not in pain. Sooner or later life…
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October 4, 2025
I have made my share of mistakes in my life. Some of them were carelessness. Some of them were bad judgement. Some of them were just self-willed foolishness. Every day I get a chance to correct my mistakes or make new ones. Every day is a second chance. I can’t let my mistakes of the…
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October 3, 2025
No one understands an alcoholic like another alcoholic. We think differently than other people, especially our developed insanity. When I connect and identify my common thoughts and feelings with another alcoholic, I know that I’m not alone and that there is hope for me. My alcoholism never goes away. That’s why I go to meetings.…
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October 2, 2025
Pride and ego keep me from asking for help when I need it. If I ignore my need for help for too long, my decisions are not always the best. When I ask God for help, I must truly be humble and accept the help in whatever form it comes to me. I’m not a…
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