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A Vision For you   2/7/2007

OR MOST normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that li


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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to the wives 2   2/7/2007

driven to maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment. Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.
Our loyalty and the


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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to the wives 1   2/7/2007

With few exceptions, our book thus far has spoken of men. But what we have said applies quite as much to women. Our activities in behalf of women who drink are on the increase. There is every evid


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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into action 2   2/7/2007

invariably they got drunk. Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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into action   2/7/2007

AVING MADE our personal inventory, what shall we do about it? We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path. We have adm


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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Our women folk   1/30/2007

Our women folk have suggested certain attitudes a wife may take with the husband who is recovering. Perhaps they created the impression that he is to be wrapped in cotton wool and placed on a pede


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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Bill   1/30/2007

WAR FEVER ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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Emotional sobriety   1/30/2007

Emotional sobriety is when: 1. I am free of resentments, jealousy, and envy--and free to forgive quickly. 2. My emotions are not so violent that they cause me to go or be on a dry drunk


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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Evenong Prayer   1/30/2007

Dear God,
Thank you for another day sober. Please show me where today I subtly tried to control and judge people.
Where was I outspoken, self righteous, self important? Did


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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Morning Prayer   1/30/2007

Good morning God,
Please direct my thinking today and remind me to pause when agitated or doubtful. To practice patience, tolerance and love. To say many many times Thy will no


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he_who_smiles 59 M
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WHOSE HANDS IS IT IN?   1/30/2007

WHOSE HANDS IS IT IN?


A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million. It depends on whose hands it


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