Your Daily Reprieve 05.31.16

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  May   31, 2016 From Waynesville, NC

"God, teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken." ~Anonymous May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. Amen. ~Franciscan Blessing A minister of love does not proselytize or aggressively spread the message. She/he just loves and accepts people and they keep coming back. That is the way the teaching is extended. Being a minister of love requires honesty and humility. You keep admitting your mistakes and confessing your worries and fears, and people hold you ever more deeply in their hearts.  -- Everyday Wisdom We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us. ~Anonymous "Trust that you are where you need to be." ~Melanie Griffith "I need to remember how humiliated, confused, insecure and frightened I felt at my first meeting, and compare that to how I feel today." ~Grapevine: Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 2011

Big Book Quote "So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~

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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 May 2016 Anniversaries 5/1 The Colonel (Stuart, FL)…..13 5/1 Alan H. (Colorado Springs, CO)…..28 5/1 Rhonda B. (Seattle, WA)…..15 5/1 Stacey E. (Dothan, AL)…..10 5/1 Greg J.(NY, NY)…..3 5/2 Eddie C. (Southampton, UL)…..16 5/3 Nina S. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..3 5/3 Victor V. (Uniondale, NY)…..2 5/4 Patrick R. (Whately, MA)…..5 5/4 Dan L. (Norwell, MA)…..22 5/4 Craig F. (NYC, NY)…..1 5/5 Noreen K. (Island Heights, NJ)…..29 5/6 Frank K. (Stuart, FL/Plymouth, MA)…..37 5/7 Clinton S. (Orlando Fl/Linden NJ)…..30 5/8 Mickey B. (Oyster Bay, NY)…..28 5/8 Mark C. (Kodak, TN)…..2 5/9 Timothy D. ()…..7 5/9 Crystal D. (NYC, NY)…..8 5/9 Pete D. (NY, NY)…..4 5/10 Valerie G. (Devon, PA)…..3 5/10 Ursula V. (Kittery, ME)…..10 5/10 Mary W. (Culebra, Puerto Rico)…..1 5/10 Jim P. (Carmel, CA)…..5 5/10 Pam R. (Plymouth, MA)…..2 5/11 Vaugn T. (Stuart, FL/Basking Ridge NJ)…..12 5/11 Chuck E. (Mount Arlington, NJ)…..1 5/12 Beth N. (Orlando, FL)…..19 5/13 Gary V. (Schererville, IN)…..30 5/13 Pat P. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..10 5/13 Endi S. (NY,NY)…..1 5/13 Linda K. (Deerfield, IL).….30 5/14 Shirley K. (Mason, WV)…..4 5/15 Wilma R. (Lawrenceville, NJ)…..26 5/15 Dyane M. (Port Washington, NY)…..13 5/15 Jana R. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..3 5/15 Tricia M. (Rye, NY)…..22 5/15 Carol K. (Higgins Lake, MI)…..16 5/15 Bill O’D. (East Hampton, NY)…..12 5/15 Austin P. (Portsmouth, RI)…..16 5/15 Chris W. (Stuart, FL)…..27 5/16 Joey T. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..1 5/17 Heather S. (Highland Park, NJ)…..7 5/17 Lisa H. (Lexington, KY)…..5 5/17 John C. (East Hampton, NY)…..15 5/18 Alice O. (Dublin, Ire.)…..1 5/18 Ed I. (Union, WA)…..12 5/19 Adam B. (Tortola, BVI)…..1 5/20 Leo LB (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..36 5/21 Paolo M. (North Palm Beach/Nantucket)…..15 5/22 Jamie S. (Harbor Is., Mamaroneck, NY)…..14 5/23 Erik A. (Mequon, WI)…..33 5/23 Roberta B. (Stuart, FL)…..14 5/25 Monica H. (Denver, CO)…..3 5/25 Leonard B. (BC, Canada)…..4 5/26 Lisa F. (NYC, NY)…..12 5/26 Jerry S. (Manhattan, NY)…..34 5/26 Lee T. (Tortola, BVI/Connecticut)…..25 5/27 Angelo N. (Brick, NJ)…..24 5/28 Phil K. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..41 5/28 Susan L. (Westhampton, NY)…..3 5/28 Larry S. (Methuen, MA)…..25 5/28 Moira S. (Methuen, MA)…..25 5/28 Brian L. (Westchester, NY)…..7 5/28 Roldan CP (Portsmouth, RI/Puerto Rico)…..1 5/29 Kathleen S. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..15 5/29 George B. (Cleveland, OH/Key Largo, FL)…..3 5/29 Bumpersticker Billy (Portsmouth, RI)…..18 5/29 Paula M. (Bloomfield, IN)…..9 5/29 Allen V. (Astoria, NY)…..8 5/29 Jim C. (Brooklyn, NY)…..3 5/29 Rebecca D. (Doylestown, PA)…..9 5/31 Dave P. (Gulf Breeze, FL)…..2 5/31 Art D. (Mequon, WI)…..32 5/31 Diana H. (Oceanside, CA)…..4 5/31 Jonathan H. (Madrid, Spain)…..23 5/31 Mike B. (St. Petersburg, FL)…..24 1003 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Tradition Ten - "Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family. Of course, this isn't so at all. Human beings that we are, we squabble. Before we leveled off a bit, A.A. looked more like one prodigious squabble than anything else, at least on the surface. A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps. Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking. Elders, temporarily turned Pharisee, have sulked. Bitter attacks have been directed against people suspected of mixed motives. Despite their din, our puny rows never did A.A. a particle of harm. They were just part and parcel of learning to work and live together. Let it be noted, too, that they were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more effective, how to do the most good for the most alcoholics. pp. 177-178

Twenty Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day I shall not wait to be drafted for service to A.A. I Shall volunteer. 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 to A.A. my interest, my enthusiasm, my devotion, and most of all, myself. Do I also accept this as my AA. credo? Meditation For The Day Prayer is of many kinds, but of whatever kind, prayer is the linking up of the soul and mind to God. So, if prayer is only a glance of faith, a look or a word of love, or just a feeling of confidence in the goodness and purpose in the universe, still the result of that prayer is added strength to meet all temptations and to overcome them. Even if no supplication is expressed, all the supply of strength that is necessary is secured, because the soul, being linked and united to God, receives from Him all spiritual help needed. The soul, when in its human body, still needs the things belonging to its heavenly habitation. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be taught how to pray. I pray that I may be linked through prayer to the mind and will of God.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Virtues "We of AA are apt sometimes to brag of the virtues of our fellowship. Let us remember that none of these are earned virtues. We have been forced into them, to begin with, by the cruel lash of John Barleycorn. We have adopted these attitudes, these practices, this structure, not at first because we wished to but because we had to. But today I think we stand willing to conform permanently and gladly to the principles which experience, under the grace of God, has taught us." Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 224 Thought to Consider . . . Unless I accept my virtues, I will be overwhelmed with my faults. *~*AACRONYMS*~* LET GO Leave Everything To God, Okay?

Daily Reflection READINESS TO SERVE OTHERS . . . our Society has concluded that it has but one high mission—to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The "Light" to freedom shines bright on my fellow alcoholics as each one of us challenges the other to grow. The "Steps" to self-improvement have small beginnings, but each Step builds the "ladder" out of the pit of despair to new hope. Honesty becomes my "tool" to unfurl the "chains" which bound me. A sponsor, who is a caring listener, can help me to truly hear the message guiding me to freedom. I ask God for the courage to live in such a way that the Fellowship may be a testimony to His favor. This mission frees me to share my gifts of wellness through a spirit of readiness to serve others.

Pot Luck "If nothing changes, nothing changes." In early recovery I heard someone say that, "If you get a horse thief sober, all you have is a sober horse thief." I learned that the 12-step program is a program of recovery because it is a program of change. Just getting sober isn't enough. I have known many people who came into the program and stopped drinking but either delayed or didn't work the steps, and they soon found that they still had all the old problems, feelings and circumstances they had while drinking. Besides not drinking, not much had changed. "The same man will drink again." Another saying I heard when I was new reveals yet another danger of not working the steps and so not changing. Driven and haunted by the pain of the old self, it is a short distance to the temporary relief and old solution of drinking. Once again, if nothing changes (besides not picking up a drink), nothing changes, and the same man will soon drink again. "The only thing we have to change is everything." The miracle of the program comes as we work the steps, abandon our old ideas, and discard our old self. The big book tells us that we become "reborn" as a result of working the steps, and it is this new self that is capable of living a new life that is happy, joyous and free. The good news is that this total change is much easier than it sounds and a natural result of working the steps. Ultimately, everything changes as we change. http://www.thewisdomoftherooms.com

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Together WE Trudge The Road OF Happy Destiny June 17-19   Biloxi, MS Mississippi State AA Convention "In The Sunlight At Last" Gulf Coast Convention Center Edgewater Inn June 1st is cut off date for hotel special rate Online registration  http://www.aa-mississippi.org/calendar/convention.html

Unity & Service Conference The Secret is U.S. (Unity + Service) September 2 - 4, 2016 Concord, CA   Join us as we foster Unity and Service by sharing our stories and experience. Our panelists from around the country will be focusing on the following topics:  Applying Spiritual Principles - Sharon C., CA  A.A. Myths and Misconceptions - Phyllis H., NY  A.A. Hot Topics and Controversies - Billy N., NJ  Successful Relationships - Debbie D., CA  The Home Group - Don L., WA   www.UnityAndServiceConference.org

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