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The ODA T reading for March 18 speaks about how living with the disease of alcoholism our thinking truly becomes distorted and we learn to place the responsibility for our problems on the alcoholic and on others. In Al-Anon we are learning to look squarely at each difficulty not trying to blame it on others to discover and how our attitudes helps to create the problem itself. We must learn to face the consequences of our own actions and words and to not  distract ourselves when we are wrong. When we accept responsibility for our behavior and our actions, we become mature adults. There is no advantage or profit or growth in deceiving ourselves to escape the consequences.  When we  realizes this we know we will be making progress.
 

The quote is from Thomas Merton. "We must be true inside to  ourselves before we can know the truth that is outside of us.  We make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it."


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Thanks Betty for the daily and your service....I readily admit I was moving sloooooooooooooooooowly this morning and did not read the daily until after a long nap this afternoon!

I love today's quote and have been reminded this week to be true to me. I spent too much time before recovery trying to figure out why others were as they were and why we had to have extreme insanity. What recovery taught me is my climbing onto the crazy train is a choice as well as climbing off!

Hope your Saturday was good - mine was relaxing....I did go to a meeting this morning and heard a new meaning for HALT - Humble...Accepting...Loving...Tolerant! I got a kick out of a positive spin that I'd not heard before!!!

(((Hugs)))

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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging.  Pause before assuming.  Pause before accusing.  Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret.  ~~~~  Lori Deschene

 

 
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