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From: billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.recovery
Subject: Thought for the Day
Message-ID: <1333@serene.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 08:01:04 GMT
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Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, California
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From the Day at a Time book
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January 17 -- Reflection for the Day

I have been told over and over that I must constantly work to give up
my old ideas.  "That's easy for you to say," I've sometimes thought.
All my life, I have been programmed, computer-style; specific inputs
brought forth predictable responses.  My mind still tends to react as
a computer reacts, but I am learning to destroy the old tapes and
literally reprogram myself.  ** Am I fully willing to abandon my old
ideas?  Am I being fearless and thorough on a daily basis? **


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Today I Pray

Help me to take inventory each day of my stock of my new, healthy
thoughts, throwing out the old ones as I happen upon them without
regret or nostalgia.  For I have outgrown those old ideas, which are
as scuffed and run-over as an old pair of shoes.  Now, in the light,
I can see that they are filled with holes.


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Today I Will Remember

The Program reprograms.


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