The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
Love, love, love the movie! I too am grateful to be a part of my adopted family....I am also glad that I am accepted, as I am, perfectly imperfect!
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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
some people around now- I might call daughters, and sons, in the rooms... .
I watched that clip again this morning- and again it bought tears to my eyes... ...I watch a family, as some of us do, from 2000 years ago... and their life and work. Lois and Bill had no kids of their own... and in a sense we all became their family- for fruit of their love and marriage.
I have learned a lot about the disease, over the years. Through the generations. Ing my home town I wrote a local history- and was able to see others families too. The flip-flops between drinking and religion, from one generation to the next.
So, here in the rooms, we build our own belief systems, and our own strength in each other- as our groups build, slowly.
Like us too- some groups fall apart... ... we have the big news here- under the trapeze is a big bouncy net... we have our business board... and the MIP family board too. Very rarely used- part from the Tradition 7 giving... but there, none-the-less...
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Thanks, Ellen... 
... our family of choice...