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Your Daily Reprieve 01.31.15

Your Daily Reprieve for  Saturday  January 31, 2015 From Stuart , Florida Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ~Aristotle I thought I was a "can not." The Steps helped me to discover that I was a "will not." ~As We See It Life is creation. Self and circumstances are the raw material. ~ Dorothy M. Richardson The life of the alcoholic is very similar to a jigsaw puzzle. In our days of drinking, the whole of life appeared as simply a jumbled mass of unrelated pieces impossible to unscramble.  In AA someone gave us the corner piece and from this we slowly and laboriously found one piece after another. Each piece we fitted in made it easier to find the next piece. First we found understanding, then hope, then determination,...