Your Daily Reprieve 02.04.17

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday February   4,  2017 From Stuart. FL

You have the world at the tip of your fingers. Learning something new has never been easier. But knowledge is useless until you pass it on. May you be blessed to teach someone all that you know to be true. Mentor. Encourage. Guide. Open minds today. ~Prayables Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn  to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. ~Joan Chittister “Perhaps for some, 'How It Work' has become a tired, overworked bit of dogma, an opportunity to daydream. But not for this alcoholic. I get more out of those words with each passing day. The words don't change, but I do." ~Grapevine: Paradise, Calif., October 2003 Learn from others, but don't allow them to do your thinking for you. That's your job. And your reward. ~ Ralph Marston

Big Book Quote "...with us, to drink is to die." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! February 2017 Anniversaries 2/1 Gilly L. (West Sussex, UK).....17 2/1 Michael S. (Budd Lake, NJ).....7 2/1 Sean D. (Ithaca, NY).....9 2/2 Brad M. (Westfield, NY).....34 2/3 Meredith T. (Santa Fe, NM).....20 2/3 Emmanuel Z. (Pensacola, FL).....3 2/4 Bob F. (Larchmont, NY).....2 2/4 Pam S. (North Hollywood, CA).....30 2/5 Jane S. (Newfound Lake, NH).....8 2/6 Vanessa G. (Stuart/Celebration/Stone Harbor).....21 2/6 Dale W. ().....10 2/6 Paul K (S.H., Ma., Cape Cod, Key Largo)...33. 2/7 Lorin C. (E. Sandwich, MA).....20 2/7 Greg K. (Newburyport, MA).....3 2/7 Macs S. (Scottsdale, AZ).....29 2/8 Patti L. (Tampa, FL).....40 2/9 Darlene A. (Largo, FL).....23 2/9 Jason G. (Costa Rica/British Columbia).....3 2/10 Judson G. (Fort Lauderdale/NYC).....48 2/10 Collette C. (Nantucket, MA).....9 2/10 Howard S. (Colonia, NJ).....3 2/11 Steve B. (Kittery/Beverly).....37 2/11 Tim S. (Charlotte, NC).....5 2/12 Betty P. (Valparaiso, IN).....33 2/12 Bob J. (Harrison, NY).....3 2/13 Tom B. (LaPointe, WI).....28 2/15 Josh D. (Bath, UK).....12 2/15 Stephen Y. (Jakarta, Indonesia).....29 2/15 Zach G. (Plymouth, MI).....7 2/16 Noel S. (Harrison, NY).....8 2/17 Jamie R. (Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA).....2 2/17 David H. (Rye, NH).....39 2/17 James "Woody" W.  (Michigan City, In).....34 2/17 Pete R. (Basking Ridge, NJ).....6 2/18 Laura S. (Jacksonville, FL).....19 2/18 Jim P. (Jacksonville, FL).....15 2/18 Mike P. (Elmont, NY).....25 2/20 Mark P. (Port Charlotte/Venice, FL).....2 2/21 Mike D. (Nantucket, MA0.....24 2/22 Cyndi C. (Whitehouse, NJ).....34 2/24 Betsy W. (Osprey, FL).....28 2/25 Judy S. (Los Angeles, CA).....36 2/28 Matthew M. (Pelham, NY).....7 0715 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." The joy of living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step, and action is its key word. Here we turn outward toward our fellow alcoholics who are still in distress. Here we experience the kind of giving that asks no rewards. Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety. When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it. p. 106

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were not really doing the other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, especially if they happened to be an alcoholic. In A.A., we really try to help other alcoholics. We build them up instead of tearing them down. Drinking created a sort of fellowship. But it really was a false fellowship, because it was based on selfishness. We used our drinking companions for our own pleasure. In A.A., we have real fellowship, based on unselfishness and a desire to help each other. And we make real friends, not fair weather friends. With sobriety, have I got everything that drinking's got, without the headaches? Meditation For The Day I know that God cannot teach anyone who is trusting in a crutch. I will throw away the crutch of alcohol and walk in God's power and spirit. God's power will so invigorate me that I shall indeed walk on to victory. There is never any limit to God's power. I will go step by step, one day at a time. God's will shall be revealed to me as I go forward. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have more and more dependence on God. I pray that I may throw away my alcohol crutch and let God's power take its place.

Daily Thought ​​​^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Belief Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed. They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them. c. 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous,  p. 50 Thought to Consider . . . Newcomers are the lifeblood of the program. But our old-timers are the arteries. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P R O G R A M People Relying On God Relay A Message

Daily Reflection WHEN FAITH IS MISSING Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting. They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28 I was so sure God had failed me that I became ultimately defiant, though I knew better, and plunged into a final drinking binge. My faith turned bitter and that was no coincidence. Those who once had great faith hit bottom harder. It took time to rekindle my faith, though I came to A.A. I was grateful intellectually to have survived such a great fall, but my heart felt callous. Still, I stuck with the A.A. program; the alternatives were too bleak! I kept coming back and gradually my faith was resurrected.

Pot Luck Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. --Aristotle Once we have embarked upon this program, we find spiritual recovery through relationships more than any other single factor. We find it through relationships with other people, with ourselves, and with our Higher Power. But most of us in recovery need to learn how to be in a relationship. We have to give up ideas that a friendship is an intense connection or a conflict-free blending of like minds. A meaningful friendship is a long-term dialogue. If there is conflict or if we make a mistake or fail to do what our friend wants of us, we don't end the friendship. We simply have the next exchange to resolve the differences. Our dialogue continues over time, and time - along with many amends - builds the bond. With it develops a deepening sense of reliability and trusting one another. When we have lived with our friend through many experiences - or with our Higher Power - we gain a feeling that we really know him or her in a way we could never have in a brief intense connection. Today, I will do what I need to do to be reliable in my friendships. You are reading from the book: Touchstones by Anonymous

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