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Welcome to the Transitions Daily Podcast. Transitions Daily is an online recovery group
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that offers a daily distribution of popular recovery resources accompanied by a secret
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Facebook group for discussion. We hope you enjoy today's readings.
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This is Transitions Daily for April 23rd. I'm Buddy and I'm an alcoholic from Atlanta,
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Georgia, AA Thoughts for the Day, Gratitude. One exercise that I practice is to try for
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a full inventory of my blessings, and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that
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are mine, both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude.
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When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally
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displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been
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enabled to make in certain areas of living. I try hard to hold fast to the truth that
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a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude,
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one's heart beat must surely result in outgoing love. The finest emotion that we can ever
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know, as Bill sees it, page 37, thought to consider, it's a pity we can't forget
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our troubles the same way we forget our blessings, acronyms, gifts, getting it from the steps.
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Just for today, progress from gutter bravado. Still very impatient, I wanted to hold
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ill right away. That's why I related so well to the story about a wide eyed new person
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and an old timer. When the newcomer approached the old timer, invading his accomplishments
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and many years of sobriety, the old timer slapped down his hand like a gavel and said,
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I'll trade you even my 30 years to your 30 days right now. He knew what the newcomer
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had yet to find out. The true happiness is found in the journey, not in the destination.
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Alcoholics anonymous fourth edition, pages 5, 10 and 5, 11. Daily Reflections. AA is not
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a cure all. It would be a product of false pride to claim that AA is a cure all, even
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for alcoholism. As Bill sees it, page 285. In my early years of sobriety, I was full
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of pride, thinking that AA was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. It
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certainly was the basic ingredient for my sobriety, and even today, with over 12 years in the
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program, I am very involved in meetings, sponsorship and service. During the first four
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years of my recovery, I found it necessary to seek professional help, since my emotional
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health was extremely poor. There are those folks too, who have found sobriety and happiness
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in other organizations. AA taught me that I had a choice. To go to any links to enhance
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my sobriety, AA may not be a cure all for everything, but it is the center of my sober
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living. As Bill sees it, to be fair-minded. Too often, I think, we have deprecated and even
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derided projects of our friends in the fields of alcoholism, just because we do not always
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see eye to eye with them. We should very seriously ask ourselves, how many alcoholics have
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gone on drinking? Simply because we have failed to cooperate in good spirit with these
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many agencies, whether they are good, bad or indifferent. No alcoholics should be mad
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or die merely because he did not come straight to AA at the beginning. That is from the grapevine
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July 1965. Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. This carries
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a top priority rating. When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded
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and tolerant evaporates on the spot, 12 and 12 page 91.
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Big book quote. Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to
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Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Get freely of what you find
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and join us. We shall be with you in the fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some
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of us as you trudge the road of happy destiny. Alcoholics anonymous a vision for you, page
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164. 24 hours a day. AA thought for the day. Men and women keep coming into AA, licked
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by alcohol, often given up by doctors as hopeless cases. They themselves admitting they're
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helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay sober over
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a period of months and years, I know that AA works. The change I see in people who come
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into AA, not only convinces me that AA works, but it also convinces me that there must
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be a power greater than ourselves, which helps us to make that change. Am I convinced that
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a higher power can help me to change? Meditation for the day.
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Cooperation with God is the great necessity for our lives. All else follows naturally.
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Cooperation with God is the result of our consciousness of His presence. Guidance is
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bound to come to us as we live more and more with God, as our consciousness becomes more
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and more attuned to the great consciousness of the universe. We must have many quiet times
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when we not so much asked to be shown and led by God as to fill and realize His presence.
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New spiritual growth comes naturally from Cooperation with God. Prayer for the day. I pray
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that God may supply me with strength and show me the direction in which He wants me to
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grow. I pray that these things may come naturally from my Cooperation with Him. Hazard in Foundation
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PO Box 176, Center City, Minnesota 55012. I'm Buddy and I'm an alcoholic.
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