Your Daily Reprieve 03.30.14
Your
Daily Reprieve for Sunday March 30, 2014
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“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 |
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"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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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 |
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Twenty
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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. |
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(\ ~~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ 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., The Language of the Heart, p. 238 *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* PUSH Pray Until Something Happens |
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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.
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Pot
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--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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