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Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday February 24 , 2017
From Waynesville,
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You will never have this day again,
so make it count.
~Unknown
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious
choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are
still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions
present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.
~Henri Nouwen
"It is the highest form of self-respect
to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
To make a mistake is only an error in
judgment,
but to adhere to it when it is discovered
shows infirmity of character."
~Dale E. Turner
"The grass is not, in fact, always
greener on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." --Robert Fugue, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It "Acceptance is not a judgment or sentencing. In acceptance, we recognize and accept the larger scope of life. This means to simply be with how it feels in this moment. Set aside the mind stories, judgments, criticisms and everything else. Simply feel. And accept. Acceptance brings a spaciousness that alleviates tension. And thus, a sense of humor and self-humility goes even further. Acceptance doesn’t wait for the right circumstance in the future, nor does it belabor past events and traumas. Acceptance is not self-denigrating. It is simply a quiet balance of observation and awareness, though the tasks and challenges of life still need tending to, the burden is set aside for this moment." ~~ Keith Artisan |
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"We have begun to comprehend their
futility and their fatality. We
have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness. We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Pg. 70~ |
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Gilly L. (West Sussex, UK).....17
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Mike P. (Elmont, NY).....25
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USVI).....9
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2/27
Neil R. (Queens, NY).....3
2/28
Matthew M. (Pelham, NY).....7
1234 Total Years of Sobriety
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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."
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses. Ordinarily we see these situations met with fortitude and faith. p. 114 |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
When we came to our first A.A. meeting, we looked up at the wall at the end of the room and saw the sign: " But for the Grace of God." We knew right then and there that we would have to call on the grace of God in order to get sober and get over our soul-sickness. We heard speakers tell how they had come to depend on a Power greater than themselves. That made sense to us and we made up our minds to try it. Am I depending on the grace of God to help keep me sober? Meditation For The Day Share your love, your joy, your happiness, your time, your food, your money gladly with all. Give out all the love you can with a glad, free heart and hand. Do all you can for others and back will come countless stores of blessings. Sharing draws others to you. Take all who come as sent by God and give them a royal welcome. You may never see the results of your sharing. Today they may not need you, but tomorrow may bring results from the sharing you did today. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may make each visitor desire to return. I pray that I may never make anyone feel repulsed or unwanted. |
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Faith
We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn't true. Actually, we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55 Thought to Consider . . . We found the Great Reality deep down within us. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H
Found Always In Trusting Him.
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Daily
Reflection
A THANKFUL HEART
/ try to hold fast to the truth that a
full and thankful heart
cannot entertain great conceits. When
brimming with
gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely
result in outgoing
love, the finest emotion that we can ever
know.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
My sponsor told me that I should be a
grateful alcoholic
and always have "an attitude of
gratitude"—that gratitude
was the basic ingredient of humility,
that humility was the
basic ingredient of anonymity and that
"anonymity was the
spiritual foundation of all our
Traditions, ever reminding us
to place principles before
personalities." As a result of this
guidance, I start every morning on my
knees, thanking God
for three things: I'm alive, I'm sober,
and I'm a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I try to live
an "attitude of
gratitude" and thoroughly enjoy
another twenty-four hours
of the A.A. way of life. A.A. is not
something I joined; it's
something I live.
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Luck
Viktor
Frankl, the Holocaust survivor, observed three universal facts about human existence. They are not
immediately uplifting, so please close this email if you were expecting light
and fluffy inspiration. He said, “There is no human being who may say that he
has not failed, that he does not suffer, and that he will not die.”
It is
this “Tragic Triad” that defines every one of our lives, does it not? That
might seem like reason for despair. Suffering, failure and death.
The
Stoics say that it is not. These are simply objective truths—it’s our
perceptions that look at them and say: “It’s unfair.” “It’s sad.” “I must try
to escape it.”
Instead
of judging this reality, we should say instead, “Ok, if that’s how it is, I
will try to make the most of my lot.” If we do this, we will find—though
certainly not easily—that it is from failure, struggle and death that meaning
is produced. It’s death that gives life urgency. It’s failure that teaches us
lessons. It’s suffering that shows us who we are.
Don’t
run from these three facts. Don’t label them tragic. Face them.
~The Daily Stoic
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