Your Daily Reprieve 03.30.14

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday March 30, 2014

From Stuart, Florida

“Resentment, fear and anger are related:

Resentment is the feeling I have when I remember

that I didn’t get my way in the past.

Fear is the feeling I have when I don’t think

I’ll get my way in the future.

Anger is the feeling I have when I don’t get my way right now!”

~Doug D.

"Forgiveness is the final form of love."

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

This world belongs to the enthusiastic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tradition Two, like all the A.A. Traditions, is the voice of experience,
based upon the trials of thousands of groups in our pioneering time.
The main principles of Tradition Two are crystal clear: the A.A. groups
are to be the final authority; their leaders are to be entrusted with
delegated responsibilities only.
-- The A.A. Service Manual Combined With Twelve Concepts for World Service

"You haven't truly won an argument

until the other person says, "whatever".
~Anonymous

Big Book Quote

"For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a
humble willingness to have Him with me -- and He came.

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, Page 12~

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AA Speaker of the Day

Danny Trejo Chatsworth CA

2006-09-22 55th SCAAC San Diego CA

Danny is a Mexican-American actor who has appeared in over 70 Hollywood movies. He's usually known for his tough guy roles. He's had roles in movies that include: Blood in Blood Out, Animal Factory, Anaconda, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Heat, From Dusk Till Dawn, Con Air, Six Days Seven Nights, Spy Kids, The Replacement Killers, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Devil's Rejects, Valley of Angels, and Grindhouse. At the time of this recording, Danny had been sober for 35 years. He tells a funny story about his very first experience with AA; way back in 1959 he and some friends stormed into a meeting thinking he was crashing a party that he had not been invited to. He tells how he got some great advice from popular AA speaker, Johnny Harris. Danny says that everything good that has happened to him in the AA program has been the direct result of helping someone else.

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3/6 Chris O. (NYC,NY)…..3

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3/9 Sheila J. (NYC, NY) …..28

3/9 Kelly M. (Carversville, PA)…..5

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3/10 Nard B. (Bridgewater, NJ)…..1

3/10 Lou C. (Waterford, CT)…..6

3/11 Michael L. (NYC, NY)…..2

3/12 Jesse T. (New York, NY)…..90 days

3/12 Tony L. (Orlando, FL)…..2

3/12 Mark W. (Dallas, TX)…..13

3/13 Tom V. (East Hanover, NJ)…..7

3/13 Grace P. (Chatham, NJ)…..25

3/13 Sue S. (Naples, FL)…..2

3/13 Brian H. (Haverhill, MA)…..21

3/14 Vik R. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..26

3/15 Brian G. (S. Harpswell, ME)…..24

3/15 Henry Z. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..27

3/16 Bill I. (Islington, MA)…..29

3/16 Kate C. (Ventura, CA)…..38

3/17 Dan D. (Tortola, BVI)…..35

3/18 Dawn (Amesbury, MA)…..16

3/18 Jane C. (London, UK)…..1

3/18 Sanyu (Tortola, BVI)…..1

3/20 Bill M. (Clearwater, FL)…..40

3/20 Rob A. (Highland Falls, NY)…..1

3/20 Gloria F. (West Roxbury, MA)…..3

3/21 Norm A. (Boston/Miami)…..25

3/21 Manny S. ( )…..2

3/22 Lee H. (Montreal, Quebec)…..5

3/22 Dane M. (Nongprue, Thailand)…..22

3/23 Isobel A-D. (Madison, NJ)…..33

3/22 Sally S. (NJ/Nantucket)…..26

3/23 Yvonne M. (Caguas, Puerto Rico)…..1

3/23 David C. (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)…..1

3/23 Marlene P. ( ) …..12

3/23 Laura P. (Melville, NY)…..1

3/24 Willie B. (Davenport, FL)…..29

3/24 Kevin T. (NYC, NY)…..28

3/25 Deb K. (Hampton, NH)…..25

3/25 Mike D.(Barcelona, Spain)…..10

3/25 Buffy H. (Gambier, OH)…..22

3/26 Stella A. (Ringwood, UK)…..

3/26 Fred L. (Long Beach, NY)…..6

3/27 Cathy C-T. (Palm City, FL)…..6

3/27 Chuck L. (Key largo, FL)…..27

3/27 Jonelle A. (Laguna Beach, CA)…..26

3/29 Cliff K. (Philadelphia, PA)…..9

3/29 Robyn S. (New City, NY)…..21

3/29 Francis G. (Southampton, UK)…..38

3/30 Mike C. (Townsend, MA)…..2

3/31 Susan w. (Ringwood, UK)…..1

1106 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Eleven - "Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."

The Foundation* wrote letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection. Since that time, editors and rewrite men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures of members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have reminded ambitious individuals of A.A.'s anonymity policy. They have even sacrificed good stories to this end. The force of their cooperation has certainly helped. Only a few A.A. members are left who deliberately break anonymity at the public level.

*In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.

pp. 182-183

Twenty Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Before I met A.A., I was very unloving. From the time I went away to
school, I paid very little attention to my mother and father, I was on my
own and didn't even bother to keep in touch with them. After I got
married, I was very unappreciative of my spouse. Many a time I would
go out all by myself to have a good time. I paid too little attention to our
children and didn't try to understand them or show them affection. My
few friends were only drinking companions, not real friends. Have I
gotten over loving nobody but my self?

Meditation For The Day

Be calm, be true, and be quiet. Do not get emotionally upset by anything
that happens around you. Feel a deep, inner security in the goodness and

purpose in the universe. Be true to your highest ideals. Do not let
yourself slip back into the old ways of reacting. Stick to your spiritual
guns. Be calm always. Do not talk back or defend yourself too much
against accusation, whether false or true. Accept criticism as well as you
accept praise. Only God can judge the real you.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not be upset by the judgment of others. I pray that I
may let God be the judge of the real me.

Daily Thought

^*^*^*^*^
(\ ~~~ /)
(   \(AA)/ )
(_   /AA\ _)
   /AA\
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Release

"Who can render an account of all the miseries that have once been ours, and who can estimate the release and joy that the later years have brought to us? Who could possibly tell the vast consequences of what God's work through AA had already set in motion?

"Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pp. 44-5
As Bill Sees It, p. 163

Thought to Consider . . .

"I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

"Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, Jan. 1958.
The Language of the Heart, p. 238

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
PUSH
Pray Until Something Happens

Daily Reflection

OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE

". . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best"

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE P- 101

I think these words apply to every area of A.A.'s Three

Legacies: Recovery, Unity and Service! I want them etched

in my mind and life as I "trudge the Road of Happy

Destiny" (Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 164). These words,

often spoken by co-founder Bill W., were appropriately

said to him as the result of the group's conscience. It

brought home to Bill W. the essence of our Second Tradition:

"Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not

govern."

Just as Bill W. was originally urged to remember, I think

that in our group discussions we should never settle for the

"good," but always strive to attain the "best." These

common strivings are yet another example of a loving God,

as we understand Him, expressing Himself through the

group conscience. Experiences such as these help me to

stay on the proper path of recovery. I learn to combine

initiative with humility, responsibility with thankfulness,

and thus relish the joys of living my twenty-four hour

program.

Pot Luck

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
--Calvin Coolidge

There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes tonight to go to sleep, we can say we have self-respect. A day at a time or an hour at a time, it's our actions now that count. If we put our self-respect on hold, saying something like "I'll have self-respect when I graduate," or "I'll have self-respect when I get a good job," we are putting off what we should do today. But when we live in the present, knowing it's all we have, we can give our best effort to life today.

Today let me treat myself and all those I encounter with respect.

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