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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 8
, 2017
From Stuart.
FL
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"If you don't have charity in you
heart then you have the worst kind of heart disease" ~Bob Hope
"When gratitude replaces judgment,
peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, wisdom
fills your mind.
Let gratitude replace judgment and your
whole experience of life
will take a turn for the better."
~Neale Donald Walsch
A problem-free life is an illusion.
Nobody has ever had it and nobody ever will. If you pray for an end to the
difficulties, you're only creating false hope. Instead pray for the strength
to overcome. Pray for understanding. Pray that you will respond to your
trials with Divinely inspired reactions. May you be blessed with truly
beneficial prayer that enables you to enjoy life even under the worst of
circumstances. ~Prayables
"What we must realize is that we
cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must
understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of
life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and
principles."
~Iyanla Vanzant |
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Big
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"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads
only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these,
do we squander the hours that might have been worth while."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66 |
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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."
In Step Eight, we continued our housecleaning, for we saw that we were not only in conflict with ourselves, but also with people and situations in the world in which we lived. We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right. We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it would injure them or other people. By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly. In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible. The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him. pp. 108-109 |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out of bed, we're thankful to God that we feel well and happy instead of sick and disgusted. Serenity and happiness have become much more important to us than the excitement of drinking, which lifts us up for a short while, but lets us way down in the end. Of course, all of us alcoholics had a lot of fun with drinking. We might as well admit it. We can look back on a lot of good times, before we became alcoholics. But the time comes for all of us alcoholics when drinking ceases to be fun and becomes trouble. Have I learned that drinking can never again be anything but trouble for me? Meditation For The Day I must rely on God. I must trust Him to the limit. I must depend on the Divine Power in all human relationships. I will wait and trust and hope, until God shows me the way. I will wait for guidance on each important decision. I will meet the test of waiting until a thing seems right before I do it. Every work for God must meet this test of time. The guidance will come, if I wait for it. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may meet the test of waiting for God's guidance. I pray that I will not go off on my own. |
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Daily
Thought
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Ghosts
AA experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 55 Thought to Consider . . . Trust God. Clean house. Help others. *~*AACRONYMS*~* Y A N A
You Are Not Alone
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Daily
Reflection
CONVINCING "MR. HYDE"
Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy
will still elude
us. That's the place so many of us A. A.
oldsters have come
to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally.
How shall our
unconscious—from which so many of our
fears,
compulsions and phony aspirations still
stream —be
brought into line with what we actually
believe, know and
want! How to convince our dumb, raging
and hidden "Mr.
Hyde" becomes our main task.
THE BEST OF BILL, pp. 42-43
Regular attendance at meetings, serving
and helping others
is the recipe that many have tried and
found to be
successful. Whenever I stray from these
basic principles,
my old habits resurface and my old self
also comes back
with all its fears and defects. The
ultimate goal of each A.A.
member is permanent sobriety, achieved
One Day at a
Time.
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Pot
Luck
“Reality is always so much kinder
than the story I tell myself about it.”
When I was drinking, and my life was unraveling, what
was even worse than what was happening was the story I told myself about it.
To start with, I thought most people hated me – almost as much as I
hated myself – but I found out later they just felt bad for me and wished I
would recover. I also thought I had ruined my career and would never be
hired again. And as far as ever having a relationship, the story I
painted proved that I would be alone forever. At the end of my
drinking, the reality of my life seemed quite dark indeed.
When I entered recovery, I brought my dark stories with
me. As I laid in bed at night, I was consumed with negative thoughts
about the damage I had done, and felt for sure I had done irreparable harm.
I constantly obsessed about my health and worried I had cancer or some
other horrible disease. I feared my financial wreckage and could feel
the IRS and banks closing in. When I shared these stories with my
sponsor, he simply told me to look at my feet. “My feet?!” I cried
incredulously. He said, “Right here in today’s reality, are you O.K.?”
I admitted I was. “Then if you stay in today and out of your
head, one day at a time, you will always be fine.”
It wasn’t always easy to stay in today – and I still
struggle with it sometimes – but when I do, I find the reality of my life is
much different than the stories I tell myself about it. In reality, I
have not only everything I need to be happy, joyous and free, but I have more
than I could ask for.
Today I have a God of my own understanding that
continues to perform miracles in my life. I am surrounded by a caring
fellowship that is loving and supportive. Today I have the awareness to
know that the reality of my life is much better than any story I can make up
about it.
And for this, I am eternally grateful. |
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Devender Middle School
918 31st St, Parkersburg, WV
26104
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