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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 15 , 2017
From Stuart.
FL
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"Love - A wildly misunderstood although
highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes
eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to
pucker."
~Cupid
"If
you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt,
it means
you never take any chances."
--Julia Sorrel
It is
the enemy who can truly teach us
to
practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
- The Dalai Lama
"Words
are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold."
- Chinese proverb
"The
true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it,
to be
perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not,
and never
persist in trying to set people right."
~Hannah
Whitall Smith
If I had
to give advice across many aspects of life, I would ask people to take what’s
called “the outside perspective.” And the outside perspective is easily
thought about: “What would you do if you made the recommendation for another
person?” And I find that often when we’re recommending something to another
person, we don’t think about our current state and we don’t think about our
current emotions. We actually think a bit more distant from the decision and
often make the better decision because of that.
~Dan
Ariely
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Big
Book Quote
"Those
of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have
eventually seen the childishness of it. This dream
world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by agrowing consciousness of the power of God in our lives. We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth. That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done. These are the realities for us. We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 130~ |
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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."
We may often pass through Twelfth Step experiences where we will seem to be temporarily off the beam. These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things. For example, we may set our hearts on getting a particular person sobered up, and after doing all we can for months, we see him relapse. Perhaps this will happen in a succession of cases, and we may be deeply discouraged as to our ability to carry A.A.'s message. Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in which we are highly elated because we seem to have been successful. Here the temptation is to become rather possessive of these newcomers. Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion. By a great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes carry the message to so many alcoholics that they place us in a position of trust. They make us, let us say, the group's chairman. Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take. But in the longer run we clearly realize that these are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers. pp. 110-111 |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
If alcoholism were just a physical allergy, like asthma or hay fever, it would be easy for us, by taking a skin test with alcohol, to find out whether or not we're alcoholics. But alcoholism is not just a physical allergy. It's also a mental allergy or obsession. After we've become alcoholics, we can still tolerate alcohol physically for quite a while, although we suffer a little more after each binge and each time it takes a little longer to get over our hangovers. Do I realize that since I have become an alcoholic, I cannot tolerate alcohol mentally at all? Meditation For The Day The world does not need super-men or women, but super-natural people. People who will persistently turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. Seek to grow spiritually, rather than to acquire fame and riches. Our chief ambition should be to be used by God. The Divine Force is sufficient for all the spiritual work in the world. God only needs the instruments for His use. His instruments can remake the world. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be an instrument of the Divine Power. I pray that I may do my share in remaking the world. |
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Daily
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Resentments
In A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride. We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 47 Thought to Consider . . . Resentment is like acid, eating away at the vessel it is stored in. *~*AACRONYMS*~* C A L M
Can Anger Leave Me?
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Daily
Reflection
TAKING ACTION
Are these extravagant promises? We think
not They are
being fulfilled among us—sometimes
quickly, sometimes
slowly. They will always materialize if
we work for them.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
One of the most important things A.A. has
given me, in
addition to freedom from booze, is the
ability to take "right
action." It says the promises will always
materialize if I
work for
them. Fantasizing about them, debating them,
preaching about them and faking them just
won't work. I'll
remain a miserable, rationalizing dry
drunk. By taking
action and working the Twelve Steps in
all my affairs, I'll
have a life beyond my wildest dreams.
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Pot
Luck
"Many of us
get to Heaven by backing away from Hell."
At a meeting the other day someone was going on and on about how he hated being an alcoholic. What a curse he kept saying, why couldn't he be like normal people? Someone else then shared about the extreme gratitude she felt being an alcoholic, and she said that if having alcoholism was the only way of finding and establishing a relationship with God, then she would have gladly chosen to be an alcoholic. This made me think about my own journey and attitude about my disease. In the beginning, I, too, was resentful I had to work a program and attend meetings, and I could never understand when someone identified as a 'grateful alcoholic.' Grateful for what? I'd wonder. Now that I'm sober a while though, I have come to understand and appreciate what the Big Book means when it says our past becomes our greatest treasure. This has many implications, of course, but one is that if I hadn't been dying, and if alcoholism hadn't driven me to perdition, I may never have reached out for life, for the program and for God. It is indeed true that many of us get to heaven by backing away from hell. Today I know what it means to be a grateful alcoholic. |
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