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Your
Daily Reprieve for Saturday January 21, 2017
From Stuart.
FL
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Today, help me God, to let
go of my resistance to change. Help me to be open to the process. Help me
believe that the place I will be dropped off will be better than the place I
was picked up. Help me to surrender, trust and accept, even if I don't
understand. ~Melody Beattie
"The AA message does
not carry itself; somebody must carry it."
~Grapevine: " Jackson,
Miss., November 1964
"Fearlessness is not
the absence of fear.
It's the mastery of fear.
It's about getting up one
more time than we fall down."
--Arianna Huffington
People with good intentions
make promises.
But people with good
character keep them.
~Anonymous
How cool is it that the same
God who created oceans, mountains, and galaxies, decided that the world
needed one of you too? May you be blessed to know you are uniquely special to
God, humanity, and to the future of all that is good on this planet.
~Prayables
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"...I would enter upon a new
relationship with my Creator; that I
would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems. Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, Page 13~ |
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1016 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."
When, by such simple devices, we have placed
ourselves in a mood in which we can focus undisturbed on constructive
imagination, we might proceed like this:
Once more we read our prayer, and again try to see what its inner essence is. We'll think now about the man who first uttered the prayer. First of all, he wanted to become a "channel." Then he asked for the grace to bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could. pp. 100-101 |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
To grasp the A.A. program, we have to think things out. said: "They are transformed by the renewing of their minds." We have to learn to think straight. We have to change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must build up a new way of looking at things. Before we came into A.A., we wanted an artificial life of excitement and everything that goes with drinking. That kind of life looked normal to us then. But as we look back now, that life looks the exact opposite of normal. In fact, it looks most abnormal. We must reeducate our minds. Am I changing from an abnormal thinker to a normal thinker? Meditation For The Day I will take the most crowded day without fear. I believe that God is with me and controlling all. I will let confidence be the motif running through all the crowded day. I will not get worried, because I know that God is my helper. Underneath are the everlasting arms. I will rest in them, even though the day be full of things crowded in upon me. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be calm and let nothing upset me. I pray that I may not let material things control me and choke out spiritual things. |
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Satisfaction
No
satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in Twelfth Step job well
done. To watch the eyes of men and Women with wonder as they move from
darkness into light,to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and
meaning,to see whole families reassembled,to see the alcoholic outcast
received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch
these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives --these
things are the substance of what we receive as we carry AA's message to the
next alcoholic.
c. 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 110 Thought to Consider . . . I keep my sobriety by giving it away.
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Daily
Reflection
SERVING MY BROTHER
The member talks to the newcomer not in a
spirit of power
but in a spirit of humility and weakness.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279
As the days pass in A.A., I ask God to
guide my thoughts
and the words that I speak. In this labor
of continuous
participation in the Fellowship, I have
numerous
opportunities to speak. So I frequently
ask God to help me
watch over my thoughts and my words, that
they may be the
true and proper reflections of our
program; to focus my
aspirations once again to seek His
guidance; to help me be
truly kind and loving, helpful and
healing, yet always filled
with humility, and free from any trace of
arrogance.
Today I may very well have to deal with
disagreeable
attitudes or utterances—the typical
stock-in-trade attitude of
the still-suffering alcoholic. If this
should happen, I will
take a moment to center myself in God, so
that I will be able
to respond from a perspective of
composure, strength and
sensibility.
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I
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I could to hide from it. As I began to get clean and sober, the fear bubbled
up to the surface of my life and quickly manifested itself as anger, rage,
irritability, discomfort and depression. I was not a happy camper in early
recovery.
What
amazed me about the people who would share in meetings was how they were able
to walk through real life stuff that I thought would devastate me if I was
faced with it. Deaths of those near to them, losing jobs, houses, spouses,
illnesses, suffering, pain, etc. "How do they deal with all this and
stay sober?" I wondered. "Where do they get the strength to face
all this with peace, dignity and courage?
Today
I know this courage comes from God. Today my fear has been replaced with
faith in my Higher Power and I now know - from watching others and from my
own experience of letting God lead me through my own difficulties - that I,
too, can face life on life's terms and go through it all with peace, dignity
and courage.
Today
I know the truth in the saying, "If God leads you to it, He will lead
you through it."
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