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Your
Daily Reprieve for Monday February 20, 2017
From Stuart.
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"A preoccupation with the future not only
prevents us from seeing the
present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past." --Eric Hoffer
"For me, fear is sometimes the realization
that I am gripping the steering wheel too hard - and I'm not even supposed to
be in the driver's seat." (thanks Chris C.)
To advise is easier than to help.
~ German Proverb
"From the moment I pulled open the doors
to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was
going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest
ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."
"Attitude Adjustment," New York,
N.Y., January 2006
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Big
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"We have found much of heaven and
we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had
not even dreamed."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~ |
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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."
Of course all A.A.'s, even the best, fall far short of such achievements as a consistent thing. Without necessarily taking that first drink, we often get quite far off the beam. Our troubles sometimes begin with indifference. We are sober and happy in our A.A. work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us. We are doing fine on a few of them. Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we "carry the message." In A.A. slang, that blissful state is known as "two-stepping." And it can go on for years. pp. 112-113 |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
Liquor used to be my friend. I used to have a lot of fun drinking. Practically all the fun I had was connected with drinking. But the time came when liquor became my enemy. I don't know just when liquor turned against me and became my enemy, but I know it happened, because I began to get into trouble. And since I realize that liquor is now my enemy, my main business now is keeping sober. Making a living or keeping a house is no longer my main business. It's secondary to the business of keeping sober. Do I realize that my main business is keeping sober? Meditation For The Day I can depend on God to supply me with all the power I need to face any situation, provided that I will sincerely believe in that power and honestly ask for it, at the same time making all my life conform to what I believe God wants me to be. I can come to God as a business manager would come to the owner of the business, knowing that to lay the matter before Him means immediate cooperation, provided the matter has merit. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may believe that God is ready and willing to supply me with all that I need. I pray that I may ask only for faith and strength to meet any situation. |
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Daily
Thought
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Vigilance
Now that we're in AA and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 92 Thought to Consider . . . Always remember you're unique ... just like everyone else.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
H A L T
Honestly, Actively, Lovingly, Tolerant.
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Daily
Reflection
THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER
At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor
usually laughs.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26
Before my recovery from alcoholism began,
laughter was
one of the most painful sounds I knew. I
never laughed and
I felt that anyone else's laughter was
directed at me! My
self-pity and anger denied me the
simplest of pleasures or
lightness of heart. By the end of my
drinking not even
alcohol could provoke a drunken giggle in
me.
When my A.A. sponsor began to laugh and
point out my
self-pity and ego-feeding deceptions, I
was annoyed and
hurt, but it taught me to lighten up and
focus on my
recovery. I soon learned to laugh at
myself and eventually I
taught those I sponsor to laugh also.
Every day I ask God to
help me stop taking myself too seriously.
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Pot
Luck
--Jan Lloyd Old patterns grip us so tightly! Even when the behavior pinches us painfully, we are loathe to give it up. Its familiarity makes it tolerable, knowable, somewhat manageable, and far less scary than trying something new. However, we are truly the luckiest people alive because now we have a training ground where it is safe to try new behaviors. We can discard old, self-defeating patterns in the safe environment of these Twelve Steps. We are on this recovery path because each of us wants a new life. We have grown sick and tired of the old ways that no longer work. And we have come to believe that change is possible if we look for it in the right place. This is the right place! At any meeting we can see others who, like us, are trying on new behaviors and meeting with success. We are role models for one another, and every time one of us tries a new response to an old situation, we are all heartened and stretched a bit. We know that what another can do, we can do too. I am in the right place today to let go of the old and try the new. My support is all around me. I will not fear.
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