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		<title>Sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[check inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enjoying life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sobriety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God willing, we members of AA may never again 
have to deal with drinking, 
but we have to deal with sobriety every day. 
How do we do it? 
By learning &#8211; through practicing the Twelve Steps 
and through sharing at meetings &#8211; 
how to cope with the problems 
that we looked to booze to solve, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/fear-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catholic committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catholic friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom from fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york archdiocese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twelve steps and twelve traditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When, with God&#8217;s help, we calmly accepted our lot, 
then we found we could live at peace with ourselves 
and show others who still suffered the same fears 
that they could get over them, too. 
We found that freedom from fear was more important 
than freedom from want.&#8221; 
1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guidance</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/guidance-4/</link>
		<comments>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/guidance-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aaws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfect justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional caseworker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trouble nobody]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. 
But I am fully aware, and humble enough, I hope, 
to see there may be nothing infallible 
about my guidance. 
The minute I figure I have got a perfectly clear 
pipeline to God, I have become egotistical enough 
to get into real trouble. 
Nobody can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangovers</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/hangovers-3/</link>
		<comments>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/hangovers-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[any lengths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man in the looking glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negative emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[step inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twelve steps and twelve traditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When a drunk has a terrific hangover because 
he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. 
But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience 
whether we are drinking or not. 
That is the emotional hangover, 
the direct result of yesterday&#8216;s and sometimes today&#8216;s 
excesses of negative emotion &#8211; 
anger, fear, jealousy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Restraint</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/self-restraint-2/</link>
		<comments>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/self-restraint-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unreasoning prejudice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We enjoy certain inherent advantages 
which should make our task of self-restraint 
relatively easy. 
There is no really good reason for anyone to object 
if a great many drunks get sober. 
Nearly everyone can agree that this is a good thing. 
If, in the process, we are forced to develop 
a certain amount of honesty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/fact/</link>
		<comments>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/fact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absence of fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puzzling questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self delusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sober today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thousand deaths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The explanation that alcoholism was a disease 
of a two fold nature,
an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind,
cleared up a number of puzzling questions for me.
The allergy we could do nothing about.
Somehow our bodies had reached the point
where we could no longer absorb alcohol in our systems.
The why is not important;
the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship</title>
		<link>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/fellowship-5/</link>
		<comments>http://hopegroupaa.org/thoughts-for-the-day/fellowship-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts for the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personnel officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twelve steps and twelve traditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The fellowship I found in AA enabled me 
to face my problem honestly and squarely. 
I couldn&#8216;t do it among my relatives, 
I couldn&#8216;t do it among my friends. 
No one likes to admit they&#8216;re a drunk, 
that they can&#8216;t control this thing. 
But when we come into AA, 
we can face our problem honestly [...]]]></description>
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