Thought for the Day When you come into an A.A. meeting,

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Thought for the Day

When you come into an A.A. meeting, you're not just coming into a meeting, you're coming into a new life. I'm always impressed by the change I see in people after they've been in A.A. for a while. I sometimes take an inventory of myself, to see whether I have changed, and if so, in what way. Before I met A.A., I was very selfish. I wanted my own way in everything. I don't believe I ever grew up. When things went wrong, I sulked like a spoiled child and often went out and got drunk. Am I still all get and no give?

Meditation for the Day

There are two things that we must have if we are going to change our way of life. One is faith, the confidence in things unseen, the fundamental goodness and purpose in the universe. The other is obedience: that is, living according to our faith, living each day as we believe that God wants us to live, with gratitude, humility, honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love. Faith and obedience, these two, will give us all the strength we need to overcome sin and temptation and to live a new and more abundant life.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may have more faith and obedience. I pray that I may live a more abundant life as a result of these things.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time where the tide will turn. - Sober Time's message for March 28, 2023.

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Thanks for posting this!

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#3

Congratulations on a week its super hard I know, it gets insanely better. Be really gentle with yourself as best you can

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#4

Thank you for posting :sparkles:

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Thank you! I haven’t been in deep active addiction since 2018. I stopped recovery in 2019 after I was released from probation. I haven’t ended up in legal trouble and I’ve been able to take it or leave it. I wasn’t having any urges but was drinking here or there and mostly socially. I feel like I’ve been barely surviving emotionally. I haven’t been thriving and feel like I have been wandering through a desert. I went through some personal issues that brought some feelings that previously triggered several downward spirals. I was able to recognize those same feelings this time and seeked out help and started back going to meetings

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So it’s been a week since I’ve rejoined the recovery community and renewed my goal of sobriety! I have been to several meetings and sometimes back to back. I feel like I’m finally walking out of the desert I’ve been wandering around in the past few years! I was not thrilled the previous 2 times I was court mandated to be sober. I’m legitimately excited to be on this journey this time. I’m so grateful for those other 2 times that I was mandated because something clicked the other night when I wanted to numb those unwanted feelings!

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#7

I think that is so awesome you are exactly where you are supposed to be and the back-to-back meetings really help with your pink cloud

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#8

Thank you for this!

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#9

Good morning Kay!! How did your day go yesterday? I​:hugs::hugs:

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#10

You know… I had to look up pink cloud because someone in a meeting said it yesterday too. I was so agitated and annoyed yesterday. Ashamed of how short my patience with my kids were. Something I just couldn’t shake. I ended up catching a late meeting and it was mostly about taking self inventory. It was hard looking back over my actions. My reactions to everything because things weren’t going how I wanted them to was ridiculous. I couldn’t find anything to be grateful for because I didn’t want to be grateful. I have so much to be grateful for but I just wanted to be angry. I wanted to hate everything because I wasn’t getting what I wanted. I’m not sure if I was in a pink cloud… I was in a pink bubble for sure and it burst. I’m just glad I went to a meeting yesterday.

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#11

As usual, your posts start off great then devolve into some supernatural gobbledygook.

You don't need to have "confidence in things unseen", as you stated in the very beginning of your post, you SAW people in the program change their lives around. The fellowship of the program gets us through this. It's real. It's tangible. And while many like to believe they have some mysterious force watching over them (when he feels like it) the fellowship is ALWAYS THERE. You got your AA sisters that are always there when god doesn't answer. You can lean on them and they can lean on you. It's not magic. It's simply the power of real support. The power of self worth. When others care, you care and on and on.

Hang in there.

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