Your Daily Reprieve 12.31.14

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday December 31, 2014

From Stuart, Florida

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash

“The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.”
― Stella Payton

"I've seen some of my old drinking buddies over the holidays . . . . I don't know but they just seem to be stuck on stupid." Dave H., As We See It

When we once begin to form good resolutions,

God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

~ St. John Chrysostom

Big Book Quote

"Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a necessity."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 5~

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AA Speaker of the Day

Janice P.

Monday Night Speakers’ Meeting

St. Petersburg, FL

12/31/2007

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December 2014 Anniversaries

12/1 Beth S. (North Conway, NH)…..19

12/1 Jeffrey M. (NYC, NY)…..8

12/2 Rebecca R. (Dallas, TX)…..13

12/2 Susie W. (Cambridge, MA/Nantucket)…..13

12/02 JR (Akron, OH)…..1

12/3 Jamie F. (Duxbury, MA)…..1

12/3 Donna N. (Bay Shore, NY)…..11

12/3 Janet C. (Columbia, MO)…..30

12/3 Jim G. (Baldwin, NY)…..11

12/3 John V. (Montgomery, AL)…..3

12/3 Chris S. (Sacramento, CA)…..1

12/3 Debra A. (Stuart, FL)…..32

12/3 Bill M. (Caguas, Puerto Rico)…..30

12/4 Ellen A. (New York, NY)…..9

12/4 Sue M. (Nantucket, MA)…..21

12/4 Sheldon B. (Davie, FL)…..9

12/5 Rebecca M. (Port Charlotte FL) ….. 16 yrs

12/5 Sophie B. (Larchmont, NY)…..2

12/5 Matthew G. (Colt’s Neck, NJ)…..6

12/5 Sean B. (Morristown, NJ)…..4

12/5 AA Dave F. (Flower Mound, TX)…..33

12/6 Dave B. (Venice, FL)…..23

12/6 Rob N. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..21

12/6 Kent F. (Phoenix, AZ)…..4

12/7 Rob M. (NYC, NY)…..12

12/7 Chris (Princeton, NJ)…..7

12/8 Lynne L. (Sausalito, CA)…..41

12/9 Liz W. (NYC, NY)…..2

12/9 Susan V. (NYC, NY)…..1

12/9 Chip H. (Barrington, NH)…..31

12/10 Mike T. (Kapaa, HI)…..2

12/10 Paul K. {Gypsy Paul} (Nantucket, MA)…..8

12/10 Kathy R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..4

12/11 Kevin G. (Leonardo, NJ)…..3

12/12 Mitch B. (Evanston, IL)…..28

12/12 Dixon S. St. Louis, MO)…..4

12/13 Tom O. (Mequon, WI)…..8

12/13 Oliver E. (Jackson, NJ)…..18

12/14 Linda M. (Methuen, MA)…..2

12/14 Mike the Greek (New Provadance, NJ)…..7

12/15 John M. (Paros, Greece/Claverack, NY)…..12

12/16 Jim J. (NYC, NY)…..41

12/17 Jessica B. (Mount Vernon, OH)…..4

12/17 Cheryl C. (Palm City, FL)…..3

12/17 Chris V. (Gulf Breeze, FL)…..7

12/18 Linda and Michael Martinez (San Miguel de Allende Mexico)…..29X2

12/19 Kathy S. (Andover, MA)…..34

12/21 Michelle M. (Silverdale, WA)…..3

12/21 Deb S. (North Hampton, NH)…..24

12/21 Ann M. (New York, NY)…..24

12/21 Scott M. (Mooresville, NC)…..3

12/21 Erik D. (New York, NY)…..2

12/23 Cathy B. (Princeton, NJ)…..10

12/23 Peter G. (Larchmont, NY)…..34

12/23 Jim C. (Edenton, NC)…..15

12/23 Georgie S. (Nantucket, MA)…..7

12/25 Peter M. (New York, NY)…..17

12/25 Lenita N. (Barbados)…..1

12/26 Kate B. (Nantucket, MA)…..12

12/26 Eve F-C (Acton, MA)…..5

12/27 Tom B. (NYC, NY)…..12

12/27 Erik P. (Madison, NH)…..8

12/27 Doug K. (NHP, NY)…..7

12/27 Carol N. (Brittany, France)…..27

12/27 Roberta T. (Randolph, NJ)…..31

12/27 Annette P. (Pompano Beach, FL)…..20

12/28 Johanna T. (Cobleskill, NY)…..14

12/28 Ryan T. (Sydney, Australia)…..2

12/29 Jim H. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)…..7

12/29 Natalie D. (Edgewater, Jamaica)…..2

12/30 Rufus W. (Coppell, TX)…..41

12/30 Jeff S. (Pompano Beach, FL)…..9

12/31 Jake R. (Murphy, NC)…..39

12/31 Aussie Ian M. (Dublin, Ireland ) …..20

12/31 Galia P. (Jerusalem, Israel)…..7

12/31 Brien R. (Amagansett, NY)…..22

1068 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."

But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were. We could cheerfully perform humble labor without worrying about tomorrow. If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values. It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was. Money gradually became our servant and not our master. It became a means of exchanging love and service with those about us. When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.

pp. 121-122

Twenty Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

I shall be loyal in my attendance, generous in my giving, kind in my criticism, creative
in my suggestions, loving in my attitudes. I shall give A.A. my interest, my
enthusiasm, my devotion, and most of all, myself. The Lord's Prayer has become part
of my A.A. thoughts for each day: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Have I given myself?

Meditation For The Day

As we look back over the year just gone, it has been a good year to the extent that
we have put good thoughts, good words, and good deeds into it. None of what we have
thought, said, or done need be wasted. Both the good and the bad experiences can be
profited by. In a sense, the past is not entirely gone. The result of it, for good or
evil, is with us at the present moment. We can only learn by experience and none of our
experience is completely wasted. We can humbly thank God for the good things of the
year that has gone.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may carry good things into the year ahead. I pray that I may carry on
with faith, with prayer, and with hope.

Daily Thought

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Belonging

"Perhaps one of the greatest rewards
of meditation and prayer
is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
We no longer live in a completely hostile world.
We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless.
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will,
the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love
as the real and eternal things in life,
we are no longer deeply disturbed
by all the seeming evidence to the contrary
that surrounds us in purely human affairs."
c. 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 105
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Thought to Consider . . .

Veni, vidi, velcro ... I came, I saw, I stuck around.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
A A = Adventurers Anonymous

Daily Reflection

DAILY RESOLUTIONS

The idea of "twenty-four-hour living" applies primarily to

the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking,

we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 284

A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours,

525,600 minutes—a time to consider directions, goals, and

actions. I must make some plans to live a normal life, but

also I must live emotionally within a twenty-four-hour

frame, for if I do, I don't have to make New Year's

resolutions! I can make every day a New Year's day! I can

decide, "Today I will do this . . . Today I will do that."

Each day I can measure my life by trying to do a little

better, by deciding to follow God's will and by making an

effort to put the principles of our A.A. program into action.

Pot Luck

Moving Forward

Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to change as well.

Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to grow, even though the people we love are not ready to change. We may even need to leave people behind in their dysfunction or suffering because we cannot recover for them. We don't need to suffer with them.

It doesn't help.

It doesn't help for us to stay stuck just because someone we love is stuck. The potential for helping others is far greater when we detach, work on ourselves, and stop trying to force others to change with us.

Changing ourselves, allowing ourselves to grow while others seek their own path, is how we have the most beneficial impact on people we love. We're accountable for ourselves. They're accountable for themselves. We let them go, and let ourselves grow.

Today, I will affirm that it is my right to grow and change, even though someone I love may not be growing and changing alongside me.

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