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We grow in time

to trust the future for our answers…

~Ruth Benedict

Feelings are much like waves:

we can't stop them from coming,

but we can choose which one to surf.

~Jonatan Mårtensson

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"A Life Centered On Harming Others, Living In Complete Selfishness"

"A Life Consumed Often Hurting Others, Living In Complete Selfishness"

~Bob P.

"I have been putting a lot of thought into it

and I just don't think

that being an adult is gonna work for me."

~Anonymous

The 12 Steps are a ladder you must use

to ascend the rungs toward spiritual awakening (alignment),

apply them to any difficulty, remembering, in a very deep sense,

each step is a prayer of surrender.

Countless people have found

that when they do this humbly and sincerely,

miracles happen.

Such a miraculous transformation will happen

to anyone who takes the actions.

~Joe McF.

Big Book

"How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 8

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January 2020 Miracles

1/1 Bob V. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..36

1/1 Severine W. (Sacramento, CA)…..3

1/1 Elena C. (NYC, NY)…..4

1/1 Nancy W. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..32

1/1 Joan B. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..31

1/1 Jessica C. (NYC, NY)…..6

1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison, NJ)…..15

1/1 John C. (Los Alamitos, CA)…..15

1/1 Ray A. (Surrey, BC, Canada)…..2

1/1 Lauren B. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..2

1/2 Joe B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..6

1/2 Robbie H. (White Rock, BC)…..7

1/2 Brian C. (Port Washington, NY)…..4

1/2 Mercedes G. (Tampa. FL)…..1

1/2 Joe D. (NYC,NY)…..1

1/2 Gregory B. (New York, NY)…..8

1/3 Billy M. (Louisville, KY)…..41

1/3 Johnyr (Stuart, FL)…..42

1/4 Nicola H. (Hertfordshire, UK)…..1

1/4 Kevin J. (RI)…..29

1/5 Donna M. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..46

1/5 Paola V. (London, UK)….14

1/5 Gwen F. (Key West, FL)…..12

1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX)…..8

1/6 Mike S. (Jacksonville, FL)…..14

1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..14

1/6 David M. (Las Vegas, NV)…..24

1/6 Ann OK-B (Stuart FL/Greenwich, CT)…..41

1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..8

1/6 Karen F. (Clinton, NJ)…..2

1/7 Alexis E. (East Twickenham, UK)…..18

1/7 Ray W. (Long Island)…..8

1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..22

1/7 Luke T. (Nantucket, MA)…..1

1/7 Liz O. (New York, NY)…..16

1/8 Alan J. (Stone Ridge, NY)…..12

1/8 Lou S. Sarasota, FL)…..7

1/9 Tefft W. (Washington, DC)…..35

1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY)…..20

1/10 Paula B. (Charleston, SC)…..37

1/10 Janice E. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..20

1/12 Padraic O. (Whistler, BC, Canada)…..7

1/12 David F. (Windermere, BC, CA)…..7

1/12 Shabab N. (Bethesda, MD)…..17

1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..7

1/13 Robbie H. (FL/VA)…..38

1/13 Ken R. (Norfolk, MA)…..17

1/13 John E. (Reading, UK)….5

1/13 Brian G. (Ridgewood, NJ)…..30

1/13 Rick H. (Vero Beach, FL)…..2

1/13 Dennis B. (Northport, FL)…..31

1/14 Maria H. (New York, NY)…..26

1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..7

1/14 Nick M. (Asheville, NC/Denver.CO)…..26

1/15 Bob W. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..37

1/15 Sue J. (Palm Coast, FL)…..10

1/15 Mike R. (Englewood, NJ)…..29

1/15 Steve D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..8

1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO)…..15

1/17 Helen C. (Folkestone, UK)…..48

1/17 Scott M. (New York, NY)…..6

1/19 Rob W. (St Mary’s . GA) …..3

1/19 Rhonda L. (Stuart, FL)…..18

1/19 Carol L. (Aspen, CO)…..29

1/19 Alan S. (Hiawassee. GA)…..7

1/20 Paul M. (Shediac, NB, Canada)…..39

1/20 Peter G. (Scoudouc, NB, Canada)…..39

1/21 Levi S. (London, UK)…..5

1/21 Shane S. (Methuen, MA)…..1

1/21 Heather N. (Wylie,TX)…..23

1/21 Brian Mc. (Mahwah, NJ)…..36

1/22 Stacey C. (Austin, TX)…..13

1/22 Keith B. (Stuart, FL)…..22

1/22 Paul S. (Exeter, NH)…..2

1/23 Mike C. (Solon, OH)…..5

1/23 Susie S. (Legarto, TX)…..25

1/24 Paul B. (Newburyport, MA)…..34

1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..

1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air, 28MD)…..5

1/25 Steve L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..2

1/26 Dana R. (Madison, CT)…..5

1/28 Karen Ann B. (Stuart, FL)…..1

1/29 Sandra C. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..44

1/30 Keith C. (Denham Springs, LA)…..11

1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..36

1/31 Diane B. (Cape Cod, MA)…..27

1390 Total Years of Sobriety

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12&12

Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Also of importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security. In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness, and pride have too often done their worst. Surveying his business or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability? Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict? Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, cheating, lying, or evading responsibility? Or by griping that others failed to recognize my truly exceptional abilities? Did I overvalue myself and play the big shot? Did I have such unprincipled ambition that I double-crossed and undercut my associates? Was I extravagant? Did I recklessly borrow money, caring little whether it was repaid or not? Was I a pinch penny, refusing to support my family properly? Did I cut corners financially? What about the "quick money" deals, the stock market, and the races?

p. 51

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we were drinking,

most of us never thought of helping others.

We liked to buy drinks for people,

because that made us feel like big

shots. But we only used others for our own pleasure.

To really go out and try to help somebody

who needed help never occurred to us.

To us, helping others looked like a sucker's game.

But when we came into A.A.,

we began to try to help others.

And we found out that helping

others made us happy and also helped us to stay sober.

Have I learned that there is happiness in helping others?

Meditation For The Day

I will pray only for strength and that God's will be done.

I will use God's unlimited store of strength for my needs. I will seek God's will for me. I will strive for consciousness of God's presence, for He is the light of the world. I have become a pilgrim, who needs only marching orders and strength and guidance for this day.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may seek God's guidance day by day.

I pray that I may strive to abide in God's presence.

Daily Thought

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(\ ~~ /)

( \(AA)/ )

( /AA\ )

/AA\

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Certainty

The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows, and toward God's universe. The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.

c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25

Thought to Consider . . .

I stood in the sunlight at last.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

S T E P S

Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

Daily Reflection

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.

Pot Luck

Tears

Let It Flow

by Madisyn Taylor

Tears are as natural to us as breathing and there is beauty in allowing yourself to be open to the pain of tears.

How wonderful it feels to give in and let tears flow when we are overwhelmed with emotions, whether we are happy or sad. Tears come from the soul, from our well of feelings rising from deep down. When we give in to the prickling behind our eyes and the lump in our throat to let teardrops fall from our eyes, we allow our feelings to surface so they can be set free.

Proud parents shed tears of pride in a child's accomplishments, a baby's first step, birthdays, and graduations. Long lost friends fall into each other's arms, tears rolling down their cheeks when they reunite after years of separation. Tears may flow from us when we are witness to a commitment being made at a wedding or even while we are watching a love story. Tears of relief may spring forth from our eyes when we hear that a loved one has survived an ordeal, and tears may fall when we bow our head in sorrow over a loss or death. Tears born from heartache can flow like they'll never cease, whether our tears are for a love that is over, a friendship lost, or an opportunity missed. We shed tears because of disappointment in ourselves, tragedy in the world, pain, and illness. Tears of anger can burn with emotion as they fall down our faces. Tears offer us a physical release of our

feelings.

Shedding tears can sometimes make us feel better, although it can feel like the tears will never end once the floodgates are open. There is no shame in letting tears flow freely and frequently. Tears are as natural to us as is breathing. There is beauty in allowing yourself to be vulnerable enough to shed tears. Open up, release your tears, and let your feelings flow.