Your Daily Reprieve 01.31.16

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday January  31, 2016 From Stuart, Florida

"Gratitude releases us from the 'Gimmies'. If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. --Henry Miller “I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good might turn up at any moment. That's a big change for someone who used to come to in the morning feeling sentenced to another day of life. When I wake up today, there are lots of possibilities. I can hardly wait to see what's going to happen next.” ~Anonymous "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there's no such thing as the unknown - only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood" ~Captain James T Kirk The ultimate purpose of human life is to love in the face of hatred, to forgive in the place of pain, to live in the face of death. ~ John Shelby Spong

Big Book Quote "We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals. This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his present choice." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 28

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day ALLEN VANICK Las Vegas, NV Mahoney’s Silver Nugget 07.31.2005 http://bit.ly/1nrm2fs Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

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 January 2016 Anniversaries 1/1 Skipper Bob V. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..32 1/1 Steve K. (Boston/Stuart, FL)…..18 1/1 Joan B. (Port Charlotte, FL) ...... 27 years 1/1 Joe G. (Riverside, RI)…..29 1/1 Deirdre K. (New Providence, NJ)…..11 1/1 John C. (Los Alamitos, CA)…..11 1/1 Mary Lou K. (Phillips, Maine)…..35 1/1 Dan D. (Creve Coeur, MO)…..1 1/1 Joanie R. (Bedminster, NJ)…..14 1/1 Peter J. (Vancouver BC, Canada)….. 5years 1/2 Gregory B. (NYC, New York)…..4 1/2 Peggy M. (Rye Beach, NH)…..36 1/2 Tara H. (NYC, NY)…..1 1/2 Katherine F. ( Cohassett, MA) ...... 10 1/3 Kare B. (Boston, MA)…..32 1/3 Johnyr (Stuart, FL)…..38 1/5  Heidi O. ()…..19 1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX)…..4 1/6 Heather B. (Scotland)…..2 1/6 Ann B. (Greenwich, CT/Stuart, FL)…..37 1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..10 1/6 Richard F. (Annapolis, MD)…..1 1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..4 1/6 Cate N. (Calgary. Alberta, CA)…..6 1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..18 1/7 Tom D. (Gold Canyon, AZ (Scituate, MA))…..44 1/7 Kurt D. (Thailand)…..14 1/7 Liz O. (NY, NY)…..12 1/8 Louis S. (Tortola, BVI)…..3 1/8 Alan J. (Roscoe, NY)…..8 1/9 Patrick H. (Long Beach, CA)…..1 1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY)…..16 1/10 Kelly P. (Methuen, MA)…..27 1/10 Tim S. (Nursling, UK)…..10 1/10 Tom D. (Dallas, TX)…..25 1/10 Sara M. (Fresh Meadows, NY)…..3 1/11 Danielle T. (NYC, NY)…..24 1/11 Austin B. (NYC, NY)…..7 1/11 Larry H. (Yalata, FL)…..10 1/12 Mike L. (Scituate, MA) ........3 1/12 Shahab N. (Havre de Grace, MD)…..13 1/13 Padraic O’. (Whistler, BC_.....3 1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..3 1/13 David S. (Boston, MA)…..30 1/13 Robbi (Port Charlotte, FL/VA)…..34 1/14 Cheryl V. (Netherlands)…..1 1/14 Dot C. (MA)…..3 1/14 Nick M. (Asheville, NC)…..22 1/15 Steven D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..4 1/15 John M. (Dumaguete, Phillipines)…..19 1/16 Tree A. San Anselmo, CA)…..27 1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO)…..11 1/16 Rob R. (Mesa, AZ)…..8 1/16 Sheila j. (NYC, NY)…..30 1/17 Scott M. (New York City)…..2 1/17 Helen C. (Folkestone, UK)…..44 1/17  Melinda F. (Dothan, AL)…..6 1/17 Gabby M. (Denville, NJ)…..3 1/18 Jerry H. (Winchester, UK)…..17 1/19 Alan S. (Hiawassee, GA)…..3 1/19 Carol L. (Palm Beach /Aspen /New York City)…..25 1/20 Elizabeth J. (Lake Mary, FL)…..29 1/20 Mary Lois (ML) A. (Stuart, FL)…..13 1/20 Jeff L. (Portsmouth, NH)…..2 1/21 Mary Jane H. (Melvile, NY)…..44 1/21 Robby R. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..3 1/22 Gary J. (New Canaan, CT)…..30 1/22 Julie K. (Bridgewater, NJ)…..8 1/22 Stacey C. (NYC, NY)…..9 1/23 Lindsay M. (Randolph, MA)…..1 1/23 George McC. (Venice, FL) ...... 47 1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..24 1/24 Paul B. (Newburyport. MA)…..30 1/24 Melanie K. (NYC, NY)…..5 1/25 Terry O’D. ( Scituate, MA) ..... 41 1/25 Thomas M (Airdrie, Scotland)…..27 1/26 Dana R. (Madison, CT)…..1 1/26 Doug L. (San Diego, CA)…..5 1/27 Bud C. (Marshfield, MA) ....... 27 1/27 Iris F. (Naples, FL)…..18 1/28 Bill S. (Big Flats, NY)…..27 1/28 Lisa G. (Spring Lake, NJ)…..4 1/29 Sandy W. (East Hampton, NY)…..20 1/29 Sandra C. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..40 1/30 Kurt S. (Philly/ Ponte Vedra, FL)…..22 1/30 Kris W. (Arkansas)…..30 1/31 Bob P. (Fushun, China/Morehead City, NC)….. 32 1/31 Diane B. (Cape Cod, MA)…..23 1466 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." Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change. With a few exceptions, all of us had been spendthrifts. We threw money about in every direction with the purpose of pleasing ourselves and impressing other people. In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly. Without realizing it we were just accumulating funds for the next spree. Money was the symbol of pleasure and self-importance. When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought. p. 120

Twenty Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Drinking cuts you off from God. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religion is, no matter if you say you believe in God, nevertheless you build up a wall between you and God by your drinking. You know you're not living the way God wants you to. As a result, you have that terrible remorse. When you come into A.A., you begin to get right with other people and with God. A sober life is a happy life, because by giving up drinking we've got rid of our loneliness and remorse. Do I have real fellowship with other people and with God? Meditation For The Day I believe that all sacrifice and all suffering is of value to me. When I am in pain, I am being tested. Can I trust God, no matter how I feel? Can I say Thy will be done, no matter how much I am defeated? If I can, my faith is real and practical. It works in bad times as well as in good times. The Divine Will is working in a way that is beyond my finite mind to understand, but I can still trust in it. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may take my suffering in my stride. I pray that I may accept pain and defeat as part of God's plan for my spiritual growth.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~  /) (   \ (AA)/   ) (_   /AA\ _)   /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Carrying the Message "Alcoholics simply will not listen to a paid twelfth-stepper. Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on the desire to help and be helped. When an AA talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too. The money motive compromises him and everything he says and does for his prospect. This has always been so obvious that only a very few AA's have ever worked the Twelfth Step for a fee." c. 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 166 ^*^*^*^*^ Thought to Consider . . There is no materialism in AA -- just spirituality. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H E A R T =  Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together

Daily Reflection OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has . . . We stay whole, or A. A. dies TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129 Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. The First Tradition reminds me not to take credit, or authority, for my recovery. Placing our common welfare first reminds me not to become a healer in this program; I am still one of the patients. Self-effacing elders built the ward. Without it, I doubt I would be alive. Without the group, few alcoholics would recover. The active role in renewed surrender of will enables me to step aside from the need to dominate, the desire for recognition, both of which played so great a part in my active alcoholism. Deferring my personal desires for the greater good of group growth contributes toward A.A. unity that is central to all recovery. It helps me to remember that the whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.

Pot Luck AA Paradoxes   Paradox #1 On the face of it, surrendering certainly does not seem like winning. But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobriety, which we could never accomplish before. We must, and we do, surrender in order to win. - Experience, Strength and Hope, pp. 155-156 Paradox #2 How can you keep anything if you give it away? It seems absurd and untrue. But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fee or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had better get ready for our next "drunk." It will happen every time. We've got to continue giving it away in order to keep it. - Experience, Strength and Hope, p. 156 Paradox #3 There is no way to escape the terrible suffering of remorse and regret and shame and embarrassment which starts us on the road to getting well from our affliction. There is no new way to shake off a hangover. It's painful. And for us, necessarily so. . . . We suffer to get well. - Experience, Strength and Hope, p. 156 Paradox #4 When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and better way of life. As our shortcomings are removed, one life of us dies, and another life of us lives. We in AA die to live. - Experience, Strength and Hope, p. 15

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