Your Daily Reprieve 01.18.17

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday January  18,  2017 From Stuart. FL

"To carry care to your bed is to sleep with a pack on your back." - Thomas C. Haliburton Your problems will not "automagically" disappear, unless you do something about them. ~Anonymous "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.  The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do. Sound like a theme in your life? May you be blessed to know when to say no, and to enthusiastically say yes when the time and need is right. ~Prayables

Big Book Quote "Those having religious affiliations will find here nothing disturbing to their beliefs or ceremonies. There is no friction among us over such matters." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, Page 28~

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12&12 Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea. It will help if we can drop all resistance to what our friend says. For in meditation, debate has no place. We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn. p.99-100

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day The new life can't be built in a day. We have to take the program slowly, a little at a time. Our subconscious minds have to be re-educated. We have to learn to think differently. We have to get used to sober thinking instead of alcoholic thinking. Anyone who tries it, knows that the old alcoholic thinking is apt to come back on us when we least expect it. Building a new life is a slow process, but it can be done if we really follow the A.A. program. Am I building a new life on the foundation of sobriety? Meditation For The Day I will pray daily for faith, for it is God's gift. On faith alone depends the answer to my prayers. God gives it to me in response to my prayers, because it is a necessary weapon for me to possess for the overcoming of all adverse conditions and the accomplishments of all good in my life. Therefore, I will work at strengthening my faith. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may so think and live as to feed my faith in God. I pray that my faith may grow because with faith God's power becomes available to me.

Daily Thought ​​​^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Insecurity The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When  under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react, well or badly, as  the case may be. Only the vainglorious claim perfect freedom from fear, though their very grandiosity is really  rooted in the fears they have temporarily forgotten. Bill W., January 1962 c. 1988 AA Grapevine, The Language of the Heart,  p. 265  Thought to Consider . . .  Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high. *~*AACRONYMS*~* T R U S T Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions

Daily Reflection WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23 When I was still drinking, I couldn't respond to any of life's situations the way other, more healthy, people could. The smallest incident triggered a state of mind that believed I had to have a drink to numb my feelings. But the numbing did not improve the situation, so I sought further escape in the bottle. Today I must be aware of my alcoholism. I cannot afford to believe that I have gained control of my drinking—or again I will think I have gained control of my life. Such a feeling of control is fatal to my recovery.

Pot Luck I was acting out my patterns when I denied that I had any patterns. --Julie F. Even when we are most out of control, there is always logic operating in our lives. B follows A, and D comes after C. The logical pattern doesn't cease to exist just because we're not aware of it. This is how it works: We learned to meet our needs in ways that were modeled for us. Some of us learned to apologize, to play dumb, to manipulate, to rant and rave, to deny ourselves legitimate pleasure, or to lust after those things and people that would only cause us pain. That's A. What we practice we become, and what we become stays with us. That's B and C. There are totally logical reasons for doing what we do and for thinking the way we think. That's D. Logic isn't lacking. What the logic is based on is what causes us problems. What we learned to practice may very well not be working. But why we continue to practice makes all the sense in the world. Today, I pray for the wisdom to recognize my patterns. I ask my Higher Power to deliver me from confusion. You are reading from the book: Days of Healing, Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty

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