Your Daily Reprieve 11.30.14

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday  November 30 , 2014 From Waynesville, NC

"Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. ~Eckhart Tolle "When you seek to get something for nothing, what you usually end up with is nothing worth having. It is by investing yourself in life that you’re able to reap life’s best rewards." ~Ralph Marston God's ear lies close to the believer's lips. ~Anon. A saddened heart is not made happier with a change of place. --Capt. Michael Hobson

Big Book Quote "We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 67~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day Dave P. from Birch Way, WA at the Woodstock of AA, Cocoa Beach, FL May, 2010 http://goo.gl/3yfkPa Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes http://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst email: sobrietyfirst@verizon.net

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW HOW IT WORKS!!! If you are celebrating an anniversary this month, please send along the date and any message you would like to share with the other 2200 people on this email list and perhaps as many as 10000 others who have it forwarded. You need to remind me every year! Send your day, your location and number of years to: txm1@comcast.net November 2014 Anniversaries 11/1 Thomas K. (Akron, OH)…..3 11/1 Barb Z. (Kinnelon, NJ)…..12 11/2 Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..7 11/2 Joyce C. (San Diego, CA)…..4 11/3 Craig B. (Port Washington, NY)…..19 11/4 Lou L. (Smithtown, NY)…..18 11/4 Patrick O’D (Boston, MA)…..34 11/4 Stacy S. (NYC, NY)…..5 11/5 Gwen D. (L.A., CA)…..39 11/5 Donna M. (Methuen, MA)…..8 11/5 Kent L. (Silverdale, WA)…..29 11/5 Hilda J. (Waxahachie, TX)…..19 11/5 Sham S. (Hersham, Surrey, UK)…..3 11/5 George H. (St. Louis, MO)…..2 11/6 Paul H. (The Villages, FL)…..38 11/6 Holly G. (Bremerton, WA)…..8 11/6 Tyler C. (Columbia, SC)…..3 11/6 Laura Lee (Savannah, GA)…..11 11/6 Maureen N. (Milford, CT)…..27 11/7 Sandi A. (Bristol, UK)…..40 11/7 Harry D. (Exeter, NH)…..23 11/7 Ed E. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..12 11/7 Mike S.(Danvers, MA)…..23 11/9 Matt K. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..4 11/10 Russ S. (Palm City, FL)…..29 11/10 Sarah M. (Martinsville, NJ)…..3 11/11 Jay D. (Danbury, CT/Stuart, FL)…..33 11/11 Gerry J. (Palm City, FL)…..6 11/11 Judy J. (Antrim, NH)…..11 11/11 Ray G. (Massillon, OH)…..2 11/11 Nicole B. (Queens, NY)…..1 11/11 Michael M. (Taos, NM)…..15 11/11 Donna O. (Morristown, NJ)…..18 11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..9 11/13 Steve G. (Randolph, NJ)…..16 11/13 Britta S. (Corrales, NM)…..3 11/13 Jane K. (Nantucket, MA)…..11 11/14 Debbie Jayne L. (Ajaccio, France)…..10 11/14 Rod T. ()…..1 11/15 Ned W. (Portland, ME)…..29 11/16 Jayne W. (Algarve, Portugal)…..29 11/16 Monte M. (Port Washington, NY)…..10 11/16 Robert M. (Stuart, FL)…..30 11/16 Ryan G. (Lansing, MI)…..1 11/17 Lynn G. (Hardwicke, NB, Canada) 13 years 11/19 Carla C. (San Antonio, TX)…..29 11/19 Linda B. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..6 yrs 11/20 Brad E. (Vancouver, CANADA)…..6 11/20 Paula F. (Boca Raton)…..6 11/22 Jim K. (Nantucket, MA)…..10 11/23 Rose V. (Rockledge, FL)…..23 10/24 Nick M. (Charleston, SC)…..14 11/24 Tony L. (Brooklyn Bouda)…..12 11/26 Pam B. (Summerfield, FL)…..30 11/26 Teri H. (Stuart, FL)…..4 11/26 David S. (Dallas, TX)…..33 11/26 Ronni J. (Michigan City, IN)…..18 11/26 Lea B. (Hackettstown, NJ)…..4 11/26 Tharin S. (South Padre, Island, TX)…..9 Thanksgiving Day Debi G. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..6 Thanksgiving Day Gayle, B. (Portsmouth, NH)…..20 11/27 Sophie l. (Heidelberg, Germany)…..4 11/28 Ryan M. (Concord, NC)…..3 11/29 Peter V. (Kittery, ME)…..34 11/29 Debbie M. (Bedford, MA)…..1 11/30 Ted D. (Mequon, WI) …..3 11/30 Dave C. (Methuen, MA)…..17 11/30 Samba N. (Francistown, Botswana, Africa)…..15 11/30 Andy M. (Bristol, UK)…..11 983  Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." In Step Eight, we continued our housecleaning, for we saw that we were not only in conflict with ourselves, but also with people and situations in the world in which we lived. We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right. We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it would injure them or other people. By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly. In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible. The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him. pp. 108-109

Twenty Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day We have slips in A.A. It has been said these are not slips but premeditated drunks, because we have to think about taking a drink before we actually take one. The thought always comes before the act. It has been suggested that people should always get in touch with an A.A. before taking that first drink. The failure to do so makes it probable that they decided to take the drink anyway. And yet the thoughts that come before taking a drink are often largely subconscious. People usually don't know consciously what made them do it. Therefore, the common practice is to call these things slips. Am I on guard against wrong thinking? Meditation For The Day "The eternal God is thy refuge." He is a sanctuary, a refuge from the cares of life. You can get away from the misunderstanding of others by retiring into your own place of meditation. But from yourself, from your sense of failure, your weakness, your shortcomings, whither can you flee? Only to the eternal God, your refuge, until the immensity of His spirit envelopes your spirit and it loses its smallness and weakness and comes into harmony again with His. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may lose my limitations in the immensity of God's love. I pray that my spirit may be in harmony with His spirit.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~  /) (   \ (AA)/   ) (_   /AA\ _)   /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Humility ^*^*^*^*^ "Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as AA members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public. As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe that each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may grow and work in unity. We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have." c.1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 187 ^*^*^*^*^ Thought to Consider . . . Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* S W A T  =  Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, Trust

Daily Reflection PROTECTION FOR ALL At the personal level, anonymity provides protection or all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard often of special importance to newcomers, i t the level of press, radio, TV, and films, anonymity tresses the equality in the Fellowship of all members by putting the brake on those who might otherwise exploit their A.A. affiliation to achieve recognition, power, or personal gain. "UNDERSTANDING ANONYMITY," p. 5 Attraction is the main force in the Fellowship of A.A. The miracle of continuous sobriety of alcoholics within A.A. confirms this fact every day. It would be harmful if the Fellowship promoted itself by publicizing, through the media of radio and TV, the sobriety of well-known public personalities who became members of A.A. If these personalities happened to have slips, outsiders would think our movement is not strong and they might question the veracity of the miracle of the century. Alcoholics Anonymous is not anonymous, but its members should be.

Pot Luck Eric Clapton on Recovery From his recent autobiography, Clapton: “I stumbled through my month in treatment much as I had done the first time, just ticking off the days, hoping that something would change in me without me having to do much about it. Then one day, as my visit was drawing to an end, a panic hit me, and I realized that in fact nothing had changed in me, and that I was going back out into the world again completely unprotected. The noise in my head was deafening, and drinking was in my thoughts all the time. It shocked me to realize that here I was in a treatment center, a supposedly safe environment, and I was in serious danger. I was absolutely terrified, in complete despair. At that moment, almost of their own accord, my legs gave way and I fell to my knees. In the privacy of my room I begged for help. I had no notion who I thought I was talking to, I just knew that I had come to the end of my tether, I had nothing left to fight with. Then I remembered what I had heard about surrender, something I thought I could never do, my pride just wouldn’t allow it, but I knew that on my own I wasn’t going to make it, so I asked for help, and, getting down on my knees, I surrendered. Within a few days I realized that something had happened for me. An atheist would probably say it was just a change of attitude, and to a certain extent that’s true, but there was much more to it than that. I had found a place to turn to, a place I’d always known was there but never really wanted, or needed, to believe in. From that day until this, I have never failed to pray in the morning, on my knees, asking for help, and at night, to express gratitude for my life and, most of all, for my sobriety. I choose to kneel because I feel I need to humble myself when I pray, and with my ego, this is the most I can do.” (pg. 235-36)

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Resources Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE:  http://www.whytehou se.com/big_ book_search/ Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised),  this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation Tammy’s recovery links http://www.cyberrecovery.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=4 NEW!!! AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ *NEW* MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/ Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/ The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/ Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations ePrayer http://www.eprayer.com/dailyinspiration.htm Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily  Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

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