2,11Miracles In Progress 
                 2,11Al-Anon Family Group
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We welcome you to the Miracles In Progress
Al-Anon Family Group and hope you will find in
this fellowship the help, support and friendship
we have been privileged to enjoy.  
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0,4Our Current Meeting Schedule is:
.8,14Group Business Meeting held in this room on8,14The FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH
8,14 immediately following 7PM meeting.
.0,4(Morning Meetings)
Mon. - Fri. at 9am eastern time
Sat - Sun. - 10am eastern time
.0,4(Nite Meetings)
Mon -Saturday 9PM eastern time
Sunday 7PM eastern time

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We are glad you are here with us and hope that you will
keep coming back! 

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Our Web Page is at
http://www.12stepforums.net/alanon.html
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Our Message Board is at
http://alanon.activeboard.com
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Would you help us open this meeting with a moment of 
silence, followed by the Serenity Prayer? 
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Serenity Prayer
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God, Grant us the Serenity
To Accept the things we cannot change, 
Courage to Change the things we can, 
And the Wisdom to know the difference. 
Amen.
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                      0,4Al-Anon preamble 
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The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and 
friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, 
and hope, in order to solve their common problems.
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We believe alcoholism is a family illness, and that changed
attitudes can aid recovery.  Al-Anon is not allied with any
sect, denomination, political entity, organization, or 
institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither
endorses nor opposes any cause.
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There are no dues for membership.  Al-Anon is 
self-supporting through its own members voluntary
contributions.
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Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. 
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We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps, 
by welcoming and giving comfort to families of 
alcoholics, and by giving understanding and 
encouragement to the alcoholic.
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We who live with the problem of alcoholism, understand
as perhaps few others can.  We, too, were lonely and 
frustrated, but in Al-Anon we discovered that no situation
is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us to find
contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is
still drinking or not.
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We urge you to try our program.  It will show you how to
find solutions that lead to serenity.  
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So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to
place our problems in their true perspective, we find
they lose their power to dominate our thoughts 
and our lives. 
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The Family situation is bound to improve as we apply
the Al-Anon ideas. Without such spiritual help, living
with an alcoholic is too much for most of us. 

Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force 
solutions and we become irritable and unreasonable
without knowing it.
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The Al-Anon program is based on the Twelve Suggested
Steps of Alcoholics Annonymous, which we try, little
by little, one day at a time, to apply to our lives,
along with the our slogans and the Serenity Prayer.
The loving interchange thus makes us ready to receive
the priceless gift of serenity. 
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Regarding Alcoholism, Al-Anon's must learn the valubale
lesson of what we have come to call the "Three C's";
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We didn't Cause it,
We cannot Cure it, 
We cannot Control it. 
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                  0,4The 12 Steps of Al-Anon 
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  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our 
.   lives had become unmanageable.
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  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
.   could restore us to sanity.
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  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
.   the care of God as we understood Him.
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  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
.   ourselves.
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  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being
.   the exact nature of our wrongs.
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  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects 
.   of character.
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  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
.   willing to make amends to them all.
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  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
.   except when to do so would injure them or others.
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 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we
.   were wrong promptly admitted it.
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 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve
.   our conscious contact  with God as we understood Him,
.   praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the
.   power to carry that out.
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 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result 
.   of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others,
.   and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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2,15"These meetings are open discussion Topic meetings.
2,15 We are glad you are here. We encourage everyone to 
2,15share their experience, strength and hope with us.
2,15 Please keep shares to 5-7 minutes, stick to the 
2,15selected topics and refrain from *cross-talk* while 
2,15 another is sharing.
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2,8NO CROSS-TALKING ALLOWED During meetings.
2,8Crosstalk means we do not interrupt during shares,
2,8give advise, or directly refer to or comment on the details of 
2,8another member's share, either in our own shares or in our response to theirs. 
2,8We share only our own personal experience, strength and hope related to the topic
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0,6To share on the topic please indicate that you would
0,6like to do so in the text box by using a exclaimation
0,6 mark (!) to raise your hand and I will call on you in
0,6 the order your hands were raised.

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8,14Does anyone have a topic related to alcoholism or
8,14recovery from living with alcoholism that they would
8,14like to have discussed for this meeting?