Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 1, 2017
From Stuart.
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When little things start to bother you,
it might be because you need more big
things in your life.
~Unknown
"Life's challenges are not
supposed to paralyze you,
they're supposed to help you discover
who you are."
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Tomorrow: noun - A
mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement
is stored."
~Urban Dictionary
"The worst loneliness is not to be
comfortable with yourself."
- Mark Twain
“It never ceases to amaze me:
we all love ourselves more than other
people,
but care more about their opinion than
our own.”
~Marcus Aurelius
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Big
Book Quote
"If we are painstaking about this
phase of our development, we will
be amazed before we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a
new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut
the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and
we will
know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have
gone, we will
see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness
and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things
and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our
whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic
insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to
handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize
that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 83~ |
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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."
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction. All of us, without exception, pass through times when we can pray only with the greatest exertion of will. Occasionally we go even further than this. We are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we simply won't pray. When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should simply resume prayer as soon as we can, doing what we know to be good for us. p. 105 |
Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A.
Thought For The Day
When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape from boredom, the feeling of self-importance and the companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of is the letdown, the hangover, the remorse, the waste of money, and the facing of another day. In other words, when we think about that first drink, we're thinking of all the assets of drinking and none of the liabilities. What has drinking really got that we haven't got in A.A.? Do I believe that the liabilities of drinking outweigh the assets? Meditation For The Day I will start a new life each day. I will put the old mistakes away and start anew each day. God always offers me a fresh start. I will not be burdened or anxious. If God's forgiveness were only for the righteous and those who had not sinned, where would be its need? I believe that God forgives us all our sins, if we are honestly trying to live today the way He wants us to live. God forgives us much and we should be very grateful. Prayer For The Day I pray that my life may not be spoiled by worry and fear and selfishness. I pray that I may have a glad, thankful and humble heart. |
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Illusion
No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30 Thought to Consider . . . . The two most dangerous words in a recovering alcoholic's vocabulary are, "I'm different." *~*AACRONYMS*~* A A
Absolute Abstinence
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Daily
Reflection
GOAL: SANITY
". . . Step Two gently and very
gradually began to infiltrate
my life. I can't say upon what occasion
or upon what day I
came to believe in a Power greater than
myself, but I
certainly have that belief now."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27
"Came to believe!" I gave lip
service to my belief when I
felt like it or when I thought it would
look good. I didn't
really trust God. I didn't believe He
cared for me. I kept
trying to change things I couldn't
change. Gradually, in
disgust, I began to turn it all over,
saying: "You're so
omnipotent, you take care of it." He
did. I began to receive
answers to my deepest problems, sometimes
at the most
unusual times: driving to work, eating
lunch, or when I was
sound asleep. I realized that I hadn't
thought of those
solutions—a Power greater than myself had
given them to
me. I came to believe.
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"Today is the tomorrow you
worried about yesterday so live in the now."
When I came into the program, I was so consumed with worry for my future that I couldn't even talk about what I was doing in the present. "But what happens if I lose my house; how about my career? What if I go to jail?" These and other future events where my new obsession once I put the drugs and alcohol down. When I tried to tell others in the program my concerns, they gave me suggestions that seemed ludicrous at the time. "Help stack the chairs after the meeting", they told me. "Collect the coffee cups and go into the kitchen and help the others clean up", they advised. "Aren't you listening?" I wanted to scream at them. Instead, I washed cups... It has taken years for me to finally learn the lessons they were trying to teach me, but it's clear now. Today, I have everything I need to be happy, joyous and free. And if I take care of the things in front of me today, then one day at a time my life can and will improve. I now know that today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday, so I now make the most out of living today. |
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