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July 2009

REBELLIOUS RESPITE

An inmate uses prayer to replace anger with gratitude

BY the grace of God, going to meetings, reading and practicing the Big Book, and relying on the Fellowship of AA, I have not had a drink today. However, it is still pretty early in the morning. I'm hoping, though, that my program will continue to work because to date, I haven't had a drink in over eight years worth of "todays." For that I am certainly grateful; sometimes humbly grateful, other times grumbly hateful. Today is one of the latter.

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