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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, I read your story very powerful,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NFBOH-Cleveland <nfboh-cleveland-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cheryl Fields via NFBOH-Cleveland<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 24, 2021 1:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> leeth123--- via NFBOH-Cleveland <nfboh-cleveland@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Cheryl Fields <cherylelaine1957@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBOH-Cleveland] FW: Thoughts For The Day~*~Language of the Heart ^*^*^ April 24<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Ronnie! I am so sorry to hear that. Hope you are taking care of yourself and getting what you need to cope through your loss. I will call you soon lots to tell. Sending you a virtual hug and lots of love.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheryl E. Fields<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Apr 24, 2021, at 3:15 AM, leeth123--- via NFBOH-Cleveland <<a href="mailto:nfboh-cleveland@nfbnet.org">nfboh-cleveland@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This has been a very trying and sad week Peaches Died Peaceful in her sleep on 04/22, painless in her sleep by my side at work. It was unexpected and sudden Peaches will be missed by all that had the opportunity to share any time with her. Rest in Peace Peaches you are Loved and Missed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Peace Out,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ronnie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:transitionsdaily@googlegroups.com">transitionsdaily@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:transitionsdaily@googlegroups.com">transitionsdaily@googlegroups.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>TransitionsDaily<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 23, 2021 11:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:TransitionsDaily@googlegroups.com">TransitionsDaily@googlegroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Thoughts For The Day~*~Language of the Heart ^*^*^ April 24<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span 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style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>AA</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>)/ )<br>(_ /</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>AA</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>\ _)<br>/</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>AA</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>\</span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br><b>^*^*^*^*^</b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>Language of the Heart </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>"</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>A</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>s we better use the 'language of the heart', our communications grow apace: already we find ourselves in a safe passage through all those barriers of distance and language, of social distinctions, nationality and creed, that so divide the world of our time."</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Bill W., A.A. Today<br>published on the occasion of A.A.'s twenty-fifth anniversary. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>The Language of the Heart, pp. 309-310 </span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>Thought to Consider . . .</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'><br><br><b>I</b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'> am responsible for carrying the message. 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The Trustees had authority over our services; A.A. itself had no authority. The simple trusteeship had been the ideal guardian for our infancy and adolescence, but how in future years could it possibly go on functioning as it had?</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>At first we had talked vaguely about a hand-picked advisory council or an elected conference of some sort. But since there was no imminent danger, no action was taken.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>Following a long plea for an elected A.A. conference and other reforms, and after having pointed out that the Trustees had all the authority there was, with no responsibility to anyone, even to Dr. Bob and me. I set out on the road in 1948 to sound out among the groups the possibility of an elected conference to which the Board of Trustees could eventually become accountable."<br>Bill W.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>2001 AAWS, Inc.<br>Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 210-211</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'>D</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>a</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>i</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>l</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:navy'>y</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'> R</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF0080'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#38761D'>f</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#BF9000'>l</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>c</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>t</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'>i</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>n</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'>s</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us . . . We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or dependence.</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>AS BILL SEES IT, p. 252</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>When I did my personal inventory I found that I had unhealthy relationships with most people in my life - my friends and family, for example. I always felt isolated and lonely. I drank to dull emotional pain.<br><br>It was through staying sober, having a good sponsor and working the Twelve Steps that I was able to build up my low self-esteem. First the Twelve Steps taught me to become my own best friend, and then, when I was able to love myself, I could reach out and love others.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br>Copyright 1990 </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:purple'>~</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>A</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>s</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'> B</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'>i</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF0080'>l</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>l </span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>S</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:navy'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:maroon'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>s</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>t</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:purple'>~</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>No Personal Power</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>"At first, the remedy for my personal difficulties seemed so obvious that I could not imagine any alcoholic turning the proposition down were it properly presented to him. Believing so firmly that Christ can do anything, I had the unconscious conceit to suppose that He would do everything through me -</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>right then and in the manner I chose. After six long months, I had to admit that not a soul had surely laid hold of the Master -</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>not excepting myself. This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power -</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same admission with respect to much else. I would have to be still and know that He, not I, was God."</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>LETTER, 1940 </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br><b><br></b></span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:purple'>~</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>B</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>i</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>g</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'> B</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'>k</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'> Q</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>u</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>t</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:purple'>~</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>"Do not be discouraged if your prospect does not respond at once. Search out another alcoholic and try again. You are sure to find someone desperate enough to accept with eagerness what you offer. We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a person alone, he may soon become convinced that he cannot recover by himself."</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition<br>Working With Others, pg. 96</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'>T</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>w</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'>n</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#400040'>t</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>y</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'> F</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>u</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'>r</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'> H</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>o</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'>u</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>r</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF0080'>s</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#8000FF'> A D</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#008040'>a</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#800040'>y</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>^</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'>*</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>A.A. Thought for the Day</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0000A0'><br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'>It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I know that power is there because it never fails to help me. Do I believe that A.A. works through the grace of God?<br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>Meditation for the Day</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'><br><br><b>Once I am "born of the spirit," that is my life's breath. Within me is the life of life, so that I can never perish. The life that down the ages has kept God's children through peril, adversity, and sorrow. I must try never to doubt or worry, but follow where the life of the spirit leads. How often, when little I know it, God goes before me to prepare the way, to soften a heart, or to overrule a resentment. As the life of the spirit grows, natural wants become less important. <br><br></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#990000'>Prayer for the Day</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'><br><br><b>I pray that my life may become centered in God more than in self</b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0B5394'> I pray that my will may be directed toward doing His will.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>You have 3 Options to Participate in Transitions Daily:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>1. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Receive a daily email from Transitions Daily:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> send an email to <a href="mailto:TransitionsDaily@gmail.com" target="_blank">TransitionsDaily@gmail.com</a> with “Join” in the subject line. 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