Get Your Day Started Right http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/forums/66 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:09:27 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/forums/66 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ July 3rd ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2538/t/July-3rd.html

You are here for a purpose. There is not a duplicate of you in the whole wide world; there never has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over.
--Lou Austin

No other person is exactly like you or me. No one can do exactly what we can, or touch another person in exactly the way we can. Out of all the people who could have been created, we were chosen to be a part of this time and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2538 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:09:27 GMT <![CDATA[ July 2nd ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2537/t/July-2nd.html Change

The world is changing constantly, and I am no longer afraid of this change.
I want to be a part of it and its new developments.
I have been shown, and fully believe today, that faith can move mountains.
I once encountered many blind alleys, but today, as long as I have faith,
my path is clear. . .
Whatever problems confront me, large or small, they can be solved wisely.
Or they can be solved my way. The choice is mine.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2537 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:15:31 GMT <![CDATA[ July 1st ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2533/t/July-1st.html
The Best For Today

The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 60

Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in
creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are
used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself
with life's problems, and how much more work needs to be done. I let
myself be comforted in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2533 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:37:17 GMT <![CDATA[ June 30th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2531/t/June-30th.html
A.A. Thought For The Day

Alcoholics are unable or unwilling, during their addiction
to alcohol, to live in the present. The result is that they
live in a constant state of remorse and fear because of
their unholy past and its morbid attraction, or the uncertain
future and its vague foreboding. So the only real hope for
the alcoholic is to face the present. Now is the time. Now is
ours. The past is beyond recall.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2531 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:18:19 GMT <![CDATA[ June 29th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2529/t/June-29th.html

Joy fixes us to eternity and pain fixes us to time. But desire and fear hold us in bondage to time, and detachment breaks the bond.
--Simone Weil

We live both in the material realm and the spiritual. In our material dimension we seek material pleasures, inherent in which is pain. Our human emotions are tied to our material attachments, and joy, at its fullest, is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2529 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:45:37 GMT <![CDATA[ June 28th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2528/t/June-28th.html
A.A. Thought For The Day

You can prove to yourself that life is basically and fundamentally an
inner attitude. Just try to remember what troubled you most a week
ago. You probably will find it difficult to remember. Why then should
you unduly worry or fret over the problems that arise today? Your
attitude toward them can be changed by putting yourself and your
problems in God's hands and trusting Him to see that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2528 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:39:46 GMT <![CDATA[ June 27th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2527/t/June-27th.html A Lot of AA

They told me that giving was living, and living was loving, and loving was God.
And you don't have to worry about God,
because He's sitting right in front of your eyes.
You get just a little sobriety, and you get just a little humility.
Not much, just a little.
Not the humility of sackcloth and ashes, but the humility of a man
who's glad he's alive and can serve.
You get just a little tolerance, not too much,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2527 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:13:37 GMT <![CDATA[ June 26th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2526/t/June-26th.html

Mental health, like dandruff, crops up when you least expect it.
--Robin Worthington

We're responsible for the effort but not the outcome. Frequently, a single problem or many problems overwhelm us. We may feel crazy, unable to cope and certain that we have made no progress throughout this period of recovery. But we have. Each day that we choose sobriety, that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2526 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:31:26 GMT <![CDATA[ June 25th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2525/t/June-25th.html
A.A. Thought For The Day

We must know the nature of our weakness before we can determine
how to deal with it. When we are honest about its presence, we may
discover that it is imaginary and can be overcome by a change of
thinking. We admit that we are alcoholics and we would be foolish if
we refused to accept our handicap and do something about it. So by
honestly facing our weakness and keeping ever present the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2525 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:29:13 GMT <![CDATA[ June 24th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2521/t/June-24th.html
A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN

We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which
people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace
to go on living to better effect.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95

When I came to A. A., I was run down by the bottle and
wanted to lose the obsession to drink, but I didn't really
know how to do that. I decided to stick around long enough
to find out from the ones who went... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2521 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:15:14 GMT <![CDATA[ June 23rd ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2517/t/June-23rd.html
TODAY, I'M FREE

This brought me to the good healthy realization that there
were plenty of situations left in the world over which I
had no personal power--that if I was so ready to admit that
to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same
admission with respect to much else. I would have to be
still and know that He, not I, was God.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 114

I am learning to practice acceptance in all... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2517 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:05:03 GMT <![CDATA[ June 22nd ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2515/t/June-22nd.html Isolating

If I feel isolated in AA, it is not something for which others are responsible.
It is something I've created by feeling I'm "different" in some way.
Today I practice being just another alcoholic in the worldwide
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Reprinted from Daily Reflections, Page 58, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2515 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:43:57 GMT <![CDATA[ June 21st ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2514/t/June-21st.html
FEAR AND FAITH

The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime
undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed.
When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other
condition of insecurity, we shall all react to this
emotion - well or badly, as the case may be. Only the
self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 263

Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2514 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:33:46 GMT <![CDATA[ June 20th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2497/t/June-20th.html

One receives only that which is given. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words, return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
--Florence Scovel Shin

Each of us can attest to the truth of this passage. During the difficult times, however, it is not uppermost in our minds that "what goes around, comes around." It... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2497 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:59:01 GMT <![CDATA[ June 19th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2494/t/June-19th.html Faith

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up,
just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there.
He was as much a fact of life as we were.
We found the Great Reality deep down within us.
In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.
It was so with us.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 55,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2494 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:33:27 GMT <![CDATA[ June 18th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2492/t/June-18th.html Happiness

Happiness to me is fulfillment, the satisfaction gained
from knowing that you did the best your honestly evaluated limitations
would permit -- in all phases of living.
Happiness is gratitude for the miracle which granted another go-around
in a life once abandoned.
Happiness is growing up. It is learning to recognize all the things you really have.
Happiness is for experiencing, as well as remembering.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2492 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:42:58 GMT <![CDATA[ June 17th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2489/t/June-17th.html

A.A. Thought for the Day

We in A.A. have the privilege of living two lives in one lifetime. One life of drunkenness, failure, and defeat. Then, through A.A., another life of sobriety, peace of mind, and usefulness. We who have recovered our sobriety are modern miracles. And we're living on borrowed time. Some of us might have been dead long ago. But we have been given another chance to live. Do... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2489 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:03:29 GMT <![CDATA[ June 16th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2488/t/June-16th.html Reality

Good days and bad days, reality is a wild ride,
and I wouldn't miss it for the world.
I don't question how this program works, I trust in my God,
stay involved in AA service, go to lots of meetings, work with others,
and practice the principles of the Steps to the best of my willingness each day.
I don't know which of these keeps me sober, and I'm not about to try to find out.
It's worked for quite a few days now, so... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2488 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:46:58 GMT <![CDATA[ June 15th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2487/t/June-15th.html
Daily Reflections

MAKING A. A. YOUR HIGHER POWER

". . . . . You can . . . make A. A. itself your 'higher power.'
Here's a very large group of people who have solved their
alcohol problem. . . . .many members . . . . have crossed the
threshold just this way. . . . .their faith broadened and
deepened. . . . transformed, they came to believe in a
Higher Power. . . . ."
TWELVE STEPS AND... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2487 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:11:06 GMT <![CDATA[ June 14th ]]> http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2486/t/June-14th.html

For many years I was so flexible I didn't know who I was, and now that I'm discovering who I am, I think, "OK, I know where I stand on that issue. Now on to the next one." But I have to remind myself that all issues are interrelated--no one is separate.
--Kathleen Casey Theisen

Today flows from yesterday, the day before, the day before that.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sam923) http://recoveryinn.yuku.com/topic/2486 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:07:42 GMT