Your Daily Reprieve 10.31.15

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday October 31, 2015 From Stuart, Florida

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli, “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” ― August Wilson

Big Book Quote In spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Foreword To Third Edition, pg

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day WALKING THROUGH PAIN IN SOBRIETY AAWACYPAA 15 Las Vegas, 2012 (panel) http://bit.ly/1MAWcKI Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

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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 3000 people on this email list and perhaps as many as 30000 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 October 2015 Anniversaries 10/1 George S. (Pennington, NJ)…..11 10/1 Mark S. (Middletown, RI)…..1 10/1 Mike B. (Salonga, NY)…..10 10/1 Michael A. (Queens, NY)…..5 10/2 Armand the Chicken Man(Smithfield, RI)…..57 10/2 Stacy C. (NYC, NY)…..27 10/3 Charlie E. (Chicago, IL)…..3 10/3 Debby J. (Houston, TX)…..32 10/3 Chris H. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..25 10/4 Tom H. (Westlake, OH)…..15 10/4 Julie d H. (Netherlands)…..3 10/5 Darlene A. (Jensen Beach, FL)…..11 10/5 Marty B. (Hampton, NH)…..28 10/6 Dick H. (Hopkinton, MA)…..24 10/6 Annette L.(Dothan, AL)…..23 10/6 Kit B. (Murphy, N.C.)…..5 10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..40 10/7 Natalie R. (Davidson, NC)…..6 10/7 Kole (Belgrade, Serbia)…..9 10/7 Anne M. (Sag Harbor, NY)…..11 10/7 Kim S. (Yonkers, NY)…..2 10/8 Sally C. (Stuart, FL)…..10 10/8 Bernardsville Bob K. (Vero Beach, FL)…..32 10/8 Matt F. (Ocala, FL)…..4 10/8 Meredith R. (Brunswick, GA)…..3 10/9 Elizabeth Y. (Dallas, TX)…..1 10/10 Bob J. (Norwalk, CT)…..19 10/11 Harriett B. (Stuart, FL)…..27 10/11 Cigar Bob (Newburyport, MA/Cocoa Beach, FL)…..18 10/11 Peter J. (Stuart, FL/Clinton Corners, NY)…..13 10/11 Ann Marie F. (NYC, NY).….1 10/12 Allison R. ()…..10 10/12 - Joy H. (Port Charlotte, FL) ..... 13 yrs. 10/13 Sonia J. (Far Hills, NJ)…..1 10/13 Mike K. (Garden City, NY)…..2 10/13 Don C. (Chicago/Sarasota, FL)…..44 10/13 Nora Y. (NYC,NY)…..30 10/13 Matthew H. (Bristol, UK)…..9 10/14 Carol H. (Glen Cove, NY)…..30 10/14 James G. (Culebra Is. & Prince Edward Is.)…..28 10/14 Gil P. (Hull, MA)…..28 10/15 Brian L. (Groveland, MA)…..1 10/15 CJ D. (Waynesville, NC)…..37 10/15 Marianne M. (Hampton, NH)…..19 10/15 Alex L. (Tortola, BVI)…..1 10/16 Tony M. (NYC, NY)…..25 10/17 Barry W. (Rye, NH)…..38 10/18 Juliet G. (Florida)…..2 10/18 Hilary S. (Clermont, FL)…..23 10/18 Kevin C. (Roslyn, NY)…..4 10/19 Mike H. (Boca Raton, FL)…..6 10/19 Celia H. Seal Beach, CA)…..29 10/19 DeeDee L. (Charlotte, NC/Key Largo, FL)…..16 10/19 Corrie G. (San Diego, CA)…..7 10/19 Ray S. (Covington, LA)…..27 10/20 Adam C. (Hampstead, NH)…..2 10/21 Sarah F. (Bound Brook, NJ)…..1 10/21 Sue T. (Flanders, NJ)…..2 10/21 Rodney M. (Shenyang, China)…..34 10/22 Betsy H. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..5 10/22 Doug S. (Brookfield, CT)…..25)….. 10/22 Annelise S. (Peapack, NJ)…..4 10/22 Carol R. (Stuart, FL)…..12 10/23 Ray D. (Portsmouth, RI)…..29 10/23 James D. (NYC, NY)…..38 10/23 Ed D. (Tewksbury, MA)…..11 10/24 Nick M. (Charleston, SC)…..15 10/24 Andrea O. (Warren Twp., NJ)…..2 10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..26 10/25 Fawn S. (Vero Beach, FL)…..41 10/25  Keely S. (Ferndale, CA)....33 10/26 Vic S. (Stuart, FL)…..30 10/26 Patrick D. (N. Hampton, NH)…..28 10/27 Joe H. (Harpersfield, NY)…..25 10/28 Andy S. (Hopewell, NJ)….. 7 10/28 Craig B. (Memphis, TN)…..4 10/28 Diane J. (Portland, OR)…..24 10/29 Charlie V. (Millbrook, NY)…..1 1029 Laura Lea (Leesburg, FL)…..3 10/30 Estelle R. (NYC, NY)…..39 10/30 Patricia D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..3 10/30 Clint H. (Pittsburgh, PA)…..17 10/31 Gustavo M. (Dallas, TX)…..10 10/31 Rick W. (Santa Monica, CA)…..4 10/31 Sharon R. (Nantucket, MA)…..10 1380 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all." Such gross misbehavior is not by any means a full catalogue of the harms we do. Let us think of some of the subtler ones which can sometimes be quite as damaging. Suppose that in our family lives we happen to be miserly, irresponsible, callous, or cold. Suppose that we are irritable, critical, impatient, and humorless. Suppose we lavish attention upon one member of the family and neglect the others. What happens when we try to dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of minute directions for just how their lives should be lived from hour to hour? What happens when we wallow in depression, self-pity oozing from every pore, and inflict that upon those about us? Such a roster of harms done others--the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics difficult and often unbearable could be extended almost indefinitely. When we take such personality traits as these into shop, office, and the society of our fellows, they can do damage almost as extensive as that we have caused at home. p. 81

Twenty Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day I have more peace and contentment. Life has fallen into place. The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle have found their correct position. Life is whole, all of one piece. I am not cast hither and yon on every wind of circumstance or fancy. I am no longer a dry leaf cast up and away by the breeze. I have found my place of rest, my place where I belong. I am content. I do not vainly wish for things I cannot have.  I have "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." Have I found contentment in A.A.? Meditation For The Day In all of us there is an inner consciousness that tells of God, an inner voice that speaks to our hearts. It is a voice that speaks to us intimately, personally, in a time of quiet meditation. It is like a lamp unto our feet and a light unto your path. We can reach out into the darkness and figuratively touch the hand of God. As the Big Book puts it: "Deep down in every man, woman and child is the fundamental idea of God. We can find the Great Reality deep down within us. And when we find it, it changes our whole attitude toward life." Prayer For The Day I pray that I may follow the leading of the inner voice. I pray that I may not turn a deaf ear to the urging of my conscience.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~  /) (   \ (AA/   ) (    /AA\ )    /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Fellowship ^*^*^*^*^ "Today, I'm counting my blessings instead of my troubles. When I walked into the friendly atmosphere of my first AA meeting, I knew I was where I belonged. Here were people who had thought and felt as I had. Here was the understanding I'd been searching for all my life. These people were my friends, and I felt their sincere interest in me. With these new and enlightening doors opening up to me, I was able to make the eventual decision to stop drinking, a day at a time -- because I, too, was an alcoholic. And with this came the only real freedom, the freedom of truth." c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 355 ^*^*^*^*^ Thought to Consider . . . If you love someone, tell them now. Eternity is time enough for silence. *~*AACRONYMS*~* C A R E =  Comforting And Reassuring Each other

Daily Reflection AVOIDING CONTROVERSY All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specification. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176 As an A.A. member and sponsor, I know I can cause real damage if I yield to temptation and give opinions and advice on another's medical, marital, or religious problems. I am not a doctor, counselor, or lawyer. I cannot tell anyone how he or she should live; however, I can share how I came through similar situations without drinking, and how A.A.'s Steps and Traditions help me in dealing with my

Pot Luck Set Aside Prayer God, Please help me set aside everything I think I know about myself, my disease, the 12 steps, and especially You; So I may have an open mind and a new experience of all these things. Please let me see the truth. The set aside prayer is about believing in new possibilities, even though you can't see them. I once had an interesting conversation with someone about her experience of faith. She said that no one could have told her what chocolate tasted like before she tried it. Imagine trying to convince someone of the amazing taste of chocolate if all they ever had (and loved) was vanilla. There is no way that you can really articulate that sensorial event. Words are insufficient. One actually has to have the experience; but when you have never tried something, and feel like you are just fine on this side of the fence (vanilla is a perfectly enjoyable taste) you can talk yourself right out of anything foreign and new. And then you never really know what you are missing. This prayer opens the door. May you have a new experience of yourself, your faith, and anything else you are trying to grow in your life. May it be all you ever wanted, even though you never could have articulated it, even if you tried. Ingrid Mathieu, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and author of Recovering Spirituality: Achieving Emotional Sobriety in Your Spiritual Practice (link is external).

PROMISES IN PARADISE St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Caribbean convention, set for October 29, 30, 31, and November 1. Look forward to hearing our Saturday night speaker, Lyle P. from Georgia. http://promisesinparadise.com/

Speaker Recordings Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst ***** The Lights are On http://xa-speakers.org/ AA Speaker Tapes http://www.aaspeakers.org/AA_Speaker_Tapes Recovery Speakers http://recoveryspeakers.com/

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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.bluidkiti.com/forums/ NEW! Twisted Thinking Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Change Happens by Changing Your Perception  by Georgia Hughes amazon.com/author/georgiahughes  AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ 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 Prayables http://prayables.org/ 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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