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Your
Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 19,
2017
From Stuart.
FL
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"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
two things stand like stone;
kindness in another's trouble,
courage in your own."
~Adam Lindsay Gordon, Poet
"Owning our story can be hard but
not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our
vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and
belonging and joy-the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when
we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite
power of our light."
~Brene Brown
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles,
but it does ruin today's happiness.
"The purpose of life is a life of
purpose."
~Robert Byrne My creed is that; Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here. The time
to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others
so.
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Big
Book Quote
"We feel as though we had been
placed in a position of neutrality
safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 85~ |
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January 2017 Anniversaries
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1/1 Joanie R.
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1/1 Deirdre K.
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1/1 Boston Steve K. (Boston/Stuart, FL) ..... 19
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1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX).....5
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1/8 Alan J. (Roscoe, NY).....9
1/8 Jolly Lou (Tortola, BVI).....4
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1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY).....17
1/10 Kelly P. (Methuen, MA)..... 28
1/10 Sara M. (NYC, NY).....4
1/10 Janice E. (Corpus Christi, TX).....17
1/10 Tim S. (Rownhams, UK).....11
1/11 Dannielle T. New York, NY).....25
1/12 David F. (Invermere, BC).....4
1/12 Shahab N.
(Bethesda, MD).....14
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1/13 Debra G. (Culebra, PR).....2
1/13 Tara M.
(Larchmont, NY) ..... 4
1/13 Padraic O’R.
(Whistler, BC).....4
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(Acton, MA) ..... 4
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(Asheville, NC).....23
1/15 Mike R.
(Englewood, NJ/Culebra, PR).....26
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(Nantucket, MA).....1
1/15 Steve D.
(Bernardsville, NJ).....5
1/16 Jeff W.
(Lake City, CO).....12
1/16 Tree A. (San
Anselmo, CA).....28
1/17 Scott M.
(NYC, NY).....3
1/17 Steve P.
(Massachusetts).....1
1/17 Helen C.
(Dover, UK).....45
1/19 Rhonda L. (Stuart, FL).....15
1/19 Carol L. (Aspen/NYC).....26
1/20 Jeff L.
().....3
1/20 Elizabeth J.
(Longwood, FL).....30
1/20 Deryn K.
(Seymour, TN).....24
1/22 Stacy C.
(New York, NY).....10
1/24 Paul B.
(Newburyport, MA).....31
1/24 Vito
(Saratoga Springs, NY) ..... 25
1/24 Melanie K,
(New York City, NY).....6
1/25 Sonja C.
(San Diego, CA).....7
1/25 Thomas m.
Airdrie, Scotland).....28
1/26 Dana R.
(Madison, CT).....2
1/28 Howard G.(
Winter Garden, FL).....20
1/28 Lisa G.
(Manasquan, NJ).....5
1/28 Bill S.
(Horseheads, NY).....28
1/29 Sandra C.
(Port St, Lucie, FL).....41
1/30 Sandra W.
(Easthampton, NY).....21
1/31 Diane B.
(Cape Cod, MA).....24
1010 Total Years of Sobriety
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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
though lying upon a sunlit beach, let us relax and breathe deeply of the
spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer surrounds us. Let us
become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted up by the sheer
spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the
carriers. Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and
let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those
wonders still unseen.
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
On the foundation of sobriety, we can build a life of honesty, unselfishness, faith in God, and love of our fellow human beings. We'll never fully reach these goals, but the adventure of building that kind of life is so much better than the merry-go-round of our old drinking life that there's no comparison. We come into A.A. to get sober, but if we stay long enough we learn a new way of living. We become honest with ourselves and with other people. We learn to think more about others and less about ourselves. And we learn to rely on the constant help of a Higher Power. Am I living the way of honesty, unselfishness, and faith? Meditation For The Day I believe that God had already seen my heart's needs before I cried to Him, before I was conscious of those needs myself. I believe that God was already preparing the answer. God does not have to be petitioned with sighs and tears and much speaking, before he reluctantly looses the desired help. He has already anticipated my every want and need. I will try to see this, as His plans unfold in my life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may understand my real wants and needs. I pray that my understanding of those needs and wants may help to bring the answer to them. |
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Daily
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Change
How
many of us would presume to declare, "Well, I'm sober, and I'm happy.
What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am." We know that the
price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at
some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else
deteriorate. For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for
tomorrow. Change we must; we cannot stand still.
Bill W.,
April 1961
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 25 Thought to Consider . . . Backsliding begins when knee-bending stops *~*AACRONYMS*~*
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Daily
Reflection
ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day
in and through
us, or we perish.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 16
The essence of my spirituality, and my
sobriety, rests on a
round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power.
I need to
remember and rely on the God of my
understanding as I
pursue all of my daily activities. How
comforting for me is
the concept that God works in and through
people. As I
pause in my day, do I recall specific
concrete examples of
God's presence? Am I amazed and uplifted
by the number
of times this power is evident? I am
overwhelmed with
gratitude for my God's presence in my
life of recovery.
Without this omnipotent force in my every
activity, I would
again fall into the depths of my
disease—and death.
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Pot
Luck
Fear of the unknown, often referred to as free-floating anxiety, catches up to us on occasion. But it needn't. The program offers us strength whenever we need it, and faith diminishes all fear. It is said that fear cannot exist where there is faith. We have many days when we feel strong, in touch with our higher power, able to meet all situations. On those days, we are seldom conscious of how our faith is guiding us. But the hours of fear that we experience on other days make us aware of faith's absence. There is a simple solution: We can reach out to a friend. We can be attentive to our friend's needs and the connection to God will be made. Shifting our focus, from self-centered fears to another person's needs, offers us a perspective on our own life. It also offers us a chance to let God work through us. Our own faith is strengthened each time we offer our services to God and to a friend in need. What may frighten us seems less important the closer we are to the people in our lives. When I touch someone else, God touches me in return.
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