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  Tim V March 5, 2026 at 6:35am

  

  there is a God and it's not me. I think of my life in addiction when my self-will would win the day. After 30 years of drinking with poor decisions and relationships damaged it was time to make a decision. With willingness to turn my will over to the care of AA and the fellowship, and with Good Orderly Direction as my guide, my life has changed for the better.
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  Tim V March 4, 2026 at 6:08am

  

  pledging to live in recovery is how I start my day. It's the stop before my start to the day. I find it best to visit the spiritual principles of my program of recovery as a start, then I go visit life. I can carry this forward throughout my day. I can refresh my thinking at all times when I stop before I start.
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  Tim V March 3, 2026 at 5:57am

  my life is improving each day. It's because I've made a decision to live in recovery each day. I've made a decision to turn my will (my thinking) and my life (my behaviors) over to the good orderly direction I've found in the fellowship of AA, my meetings, my sponsor, and positive spiritual principals. This decision is changing my life in a better way each day. I believed and had hope it could restore me to sanity. Now I have faith in this decision because it works.
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  Tim V March 2, 2026 at 6:17am

  while living in recovery I find hope. I recall the powerlessness I had over alcohol, the unmanageability, the insanity and the hopelessness of my life in addiction. When I go to meetings, I find hope. The fellowship of men and women that share their experience, strength and hope is a power greater than myself that restores me to sanity. It's through the fellowship and my meetings that I came to believe there's hope for me.
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  Tim V March 1, 2026 at 7:51am

  every part of my life is better when I continue to live in recovery. When I isolate and find fear, resentments, ego, selfishness and dishonesty, I'm living in my addiction. When I do that, King Alcohol is out in my driveway doing push-ups and beckoning me. With continued thoughts of honesty, humility, integrity and willingness rightly directed, I'm living in recovery. The urges of addiction go away. I'll continue each day to choose to live in recovery.
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  Tim V February 27, 2026 at 6:38am

  I came; I came to and came to believe. All I had to do is go to meetings. I listened and learned. It woke me up. I came to. Then I listened even more and I came to believe there is a God, it's not me, and I'd have a chance to be restored to sanity. I found that when I came, I got outside of myself. I came to a realization that doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome was shear insanity. I met others that shared my plight, I came to believe there was hope for me. I'm grateful for step 2.
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  Tim V February 26, 2026 at 10:55am

  there's strength to be found when I understand I'm powerless. I used to think I had all the answers to life. I could manipulate and direct things to go my way. The reality is that I'd change myself into something other than what I truly am. I'd become an individual that adapted to what I believed others would want to see. I was a fraud to this obsession for acceptance while knowing I've not accepted myself. My life became unmanageable, I drank. In recovery, it's the powerlessness I accept first. I know the unmanageability follows, and I'm grateful to understand vulnerability is a virtue learned through knowing I am powerless.
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  Tim V February 25, 2026 at 7:24am

  

  with a thankful heart I cannot entertain conceits. When I strive to be thankful, and reach an attitude of gratitude, I get out of myself. I find a desire to connect with others when I'm thankful. When I'm thankful, I do the next right thing. I look to live in recovery today, and I'll be thankful.
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  Tim V February 24, 2026 at 8:58am

  I have a new host of friends in recovery. My friends in recovery present me with a new perspective on what it means to be a human being. I don't fear vulnerability with these friends. I identify with my friends. The opposite of my addiction is connection with my friends. I'm grateful for these friends in recovery. I know I am no longer alone.
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  Tim V February 23, 2026 at 7:03am

  I can control the desire for drinking with the effort to follow a few simple rules. Don't drink, go to meetings, work with my sponsor, work the steps, maintain my spiritual condition, serve others. Simple!