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		<description><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. —Marion Anderson Because of our resentments we sometimes get<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3083&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 11:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is the greatest hindrance to my achieving serenity? Determination &#8211; the grim resolve that I can do something about everything.  This whole feeling of tightening up, girding oneself for battle, can defeat my purpose. Over and over, in a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3078&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. —Edward R.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3072&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Higher Power: May 2 For the next twenty-four hours… In recovery, we live life one day at a time, an idea requiring an enormous amount of faith. We refuse to look back—unless healing from the past is part of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3070&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY 1 Insight is cheap. —Martha Roth For years we kept ourselves in a split condition: With one part of our minds we looked at ourselves and said, “I do some self-destructive things because I don’t believe I deserve love.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3067&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Serenity Prayer helps me maintain a sense of inner peace amidst the chaos present in in my home and at work.  At home I ask God to grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, such as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3063&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Reading &#8211; April 23, 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adrienne M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many weapons we use to castigate the alcoholic &#8211; or other people we disapprove of- is sarcasm.  True, it relives our pent-up feelings, and if our remarks are really pointed, gives us a certain satisfaction. Repugnant as it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=12stepsthinkaboutit.org&#038;blog=21594675&#038;post=3059&#038;subd=12stepsthinkaboutit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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