Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 25, 2014

From Stuart, Florida

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told

that sorrow knows how to swim." ~Ann Landers

Heard in a Meeting

I had to work the program my way...and fail,

before I was open to suggestion.

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.”

~ Ann Lamott

“I hope you live a life you are proud of. If you find that you are not,

I hope you have th strength to start all over again.”

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Big Book Quote

"When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the
Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our
ideas did not work. But the God idea did."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, Page 52~

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Frank Milos , Overland Park IL.

Beginners Workshop; Naples, FL.; 1996

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February 2014 Anniversaries

2/1 Trish S. (Stuart, FL)…..1

2/1 Sue D. (Middleton, MA)…..15

2/1 Todd S. (Pittsburg, PA)…..2

2/1 Sean D. (Waterloo, NY)…..6

2/1 Danielle C. (Weymouth, MA)…..6

2/1 Gilly L. (London, UK)…..14

2/2 Tom R. (New York, NY)…..7

2/2 Sussan B. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..13

2/2 Maureen B. (Oyster Bay, NY)…..25

2/2 Michele M. (Lighthouse Point, F)…..7

2/2 Karen S. (Warminster, PA)…..6

2/3 Meredith T. (Santa Fe, NM)…..17

2/4 John A. (Houston, TX)…..5

2/5 Jane S. (Goffstown, NH)…..5

2/6 Marni P. (Australia)…..9

2/6 Paul K. (So. Hadley, Cape Cod, MA & Key Largo, FL)…..30

2/7 Lorin C. (East Sandwich, MA)…..17

2/7 Tom M. (Georgetown, MA)…..32

2/7 Nate B. (Stuart, FL)…..8

2/7 Jordan G. (New York, NY)…..9

2/7 Wendy (Ringwood, UK)…..3

2/8 Leo H. (Newport, So Wales, UK)…..9

2/9 Darlene A. (Largo, FL)…..20

2/10 Woody N. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..26

2/10 Collette C. (Nantucket, MA)…..6

2/10 Kay H. (Lake Monticello, Palmyra, VA)...25

2/10 Paul B. (Portsmouth, NH)…..39

2/11 Steve B. (Ipswich, MA)…..34

2/12 Katy S. (Far Hills, NJ) …..1

2/12 Betty P. (Valparaiso, IN)…..32

2/12 Paul E. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)…..34

2/14 Yisrael C. (Jerusalem, Israel)…..34

2/14 Vanessa G. (Whitehorse, Yukon)…..3

2/15 Steve Y. (Kabul, Afghanistan)…..26

2/15 John T. (Tortola, B.V.I./Clinton, Conn)…..27

2/15 Ed G. (Stowe, VT/Nantucket, MA)…..27

2/17 Kristen B. (Stuart, FL)…..1

2/17 Pete R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..3

2/17 Woody W. (Michigan City, IN)…..31

2/17 Noel S. (Harrison, NY)…..5

2/17 David H. (Rye, NH)…..36

2/17 Kristen B. (Stuart, FL)…..1

2/17 David B. (Tortola, BVI/New Zealand)…..23

2/18 Scott W. (Hopewell, NJ)…..30

2/18 Mike R. (Weymouth, MA)…..3

2/18 Allan C. (No. Andover, MA)…..3

2/19 Barry K. (Marlowe, UK)…..3

2/20 Mary Stuart C. (Raleigh, NC)…..12

2/20 Jackie M. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..8

2/20 Breon O. (Mamarone1ck, NY)…..

2/20 Cami M. (Lafayette, LA)…..4

2/22 Marshall T. (Nantucket, MA)…..16

2/23 Casey Q. (Hookset, NH)…..21

2/24 Stephanie S. (USVI)…..6

2/24 Matt L. (Kauai, HI)…..5

2/25 Alexandra M. (Belgrade, Serbia)…..2

2/25 Marty M. (Astoria, NY)…..6

2/26 Brooks M. (Stuart, FL)…..9

2/27 Jim M. (Bloomington, IN)…..9

2/28 Amy L. (Murray Hill, NY)…..9

2/28 Brian B. (Portsmouth, NH)…..4

823 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Seven - "Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions."

In this connection, Bill likes to tell the following pointed story. He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation* letterbox in New York. "Our office staff," Bill says, "consisted of two people: one devoted secretary and myself. How could this landslide of appeals be met? We'd have to have some more full-time help, that was sure. So we asked the A.A. groups for voluntary contributions. Would they send us a dollar a member a year? Otherwise this heartbreaking mail would have to go unanswered.

p. 162

Twenty Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Some people find it hard to believe in a Power greater than themselves.
But not to believe in such a Power forces us to atheism. It has been said
that atheism is blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe
originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. That's practically
impossible to believe. I think we all can agree that alcohol is a power
greater than ourselves. It certainly was in my case. I was helpless
before the power of alcohol. Do I remember the things that happened to
me because of the power of alcohol?

Meditation For The Day

The spiritual and moral will eventually overcome the material and
unmoral. That is the purpose and destiny of the human race. Gradually
the spiritual is overcoming the material in our minds. Gradually the
moral is overcoming the unmoral. Faith, fellowship, and service are
cures for most of the ills of the world. There is nothing in the field of
personal relationships that they cannot do.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may do my share in making a better world. I pray that I
may be part of the cure for the ills of the world.

Daily Thought

^*^*^*^*^
(\ ~~~ /)
\(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
^*^*^*^*^
Carry the Message
Taking advantage of technological advances,
AA members with computers
can participate in meetings online,
sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country
or around the world.
Fundamentally, though, the difference
between an electronic meeting
and the home group around the corner
is only one of format.
In any meeting, anywhere, AA's share experience,
strength, and hope with each other,
in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
Modem-to-modem or face-to-face,
AA's speak the language of the heart
in all its power and simplicity.
c. 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to Fourth Edition, p. xxiv
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Thought to Consider . . .

We in AA don't carry the alcoholic;
we carry the message.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together.

Daily Reflection

THE CHALLENGE OF FAILURE

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we

learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed,

painful though it is.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 31

How thankful I am today, to know that all my past failures

were necessary for me to be where I am now. Through

much pain came experience and, in suffering, I became

obedient. When I sought God, as I understand Him, He

shared His treasured gifts. Through experience and

obedience, growth started, followed by gratitude. Yes, then

came peace of mind—living in and sharing sobriety.

Pot Luck

Pray to God but row to shore.
--Proverb

There exists a Divine partnership between God and man that is wonderfully depicted in the following story. A young minister was driving through the countryside when he spotted a farmer tilling 40 acres of magnificent farmland. The minister pulled over and addressed the farmer, "God has certainly blessed you with a wonderful piece of land." The farmer replied, "Yes, but you should have seen the mess it was in when God had it to Himself!"

A well-known entrepreneur was asked the secret of her business success. She answered, "I pray as if everything depends on God, but act as if everything depends on me." It is not enough just to pray for and affirm our good. Like the farmer and businesswoman, we must also take concrete steps to make our dreams a reality.

Working together, we and spirit form an unbeatable combination. Neither can succeed without the other. Just as nature provided the land but needed the farmer to till the soil, spirit needs us to bring about heaven on earth. Let us work together as Divine partners to fulfill this promise.

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