Your Daily Reprieve 06.29.17

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday June 29 , 2017

From Waynesville, NC

"The emotions we feel are created from the thoughts that we choose to focus on, consciously or unconsciously. The emotions act as markers to let us know if we are focusing on expansive, empowering thoughts or fearful, limiting thoughts. Feelings are not facts, simply information."

~Anonymous

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading

what you want most for what you want right now.

~Anonymous

Be honest. You're guilty of it. They are talking to you and you're no longer listening to understand; you're listening to reply. May you be blessed to be a worthy partner in conversation who pays attention to the words and their meaning, with a compassionate heart, and an open mind. ~Prayables

"Many blessings have been showered upon me during my five years and nine months of sobriety -- great spiritual gifts, as well as the more ordinary supplies of money and goods. These great gifts come one after the other in spite of my own foolishness and fumbling, as I very slowly grope my way toward the light of reason and love." ~Grapevine: Universal City, Calif., February 1970

Big Book Quote

"We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of
alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;
that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never
occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed
the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-
confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up
on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Doctor's Opinion, pg. xxviii~

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2007

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June 2017 Anniversaries

6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX).....14

6/1 Alli M. (St. Johns, USVI).....2

6/2 Stan B. (Dallas, TX) .....37 years

6/2 Linda B. (Dallas, TX).....37 Years

6/2 Kevin McD (Long Branch, NJ).....29

6/2 David E. (Conway, NH).....17

6/3 Kathy P. (Newport, RI).....15

6/4 Bob G. (Peapack, NJ).....2

6/4 Marci H. (Merritt island, FL).....7

6/6 Chris M. (Burlington, MA).....2

6/6 Kat W. (Amesbury, MA).....2

6/6 Karen S. (Bernardsville, NJ).....39

6/6 Angie G. (Bernardsville, NJ).....5

6/6 Carolina L. (Astoria, NY).....2

6/7 Ian W. (Stuart, FL).....14

6/7 Bill K. (Carle Place, NY).....22

6/8 Jackie M. (Palm City, F).....3

6/8 Pierre L. (Thorndale, PA).....8

6/8 Joanne L. (Bernardsville, NJ).....3

6/8 Cynthia L. (Long Hill, NJ).....3

6/9 Fran G. (Dublin, Ireland).....2

6/10 Clarke J. (Pepper Pike, OH).....10

6/10 Peter B. (Cape Coral, FL).....26

6/10 Hank G. (Tortola, BVI).....7

6/11 Cathy W. (Charlotte, NC).....10

6/13 Rob B. (Rumson, NJ).....2

6/13 Chuck A. (Asheville, NC).....21

6/14 Joe A. (Rocky River, OH).....3

6/15 Fran F. Dover, DE).....28

6/15 Sherry R. (North Port, FL).....29

6/15 Jamie W. (Huntington, NY).....5

6/16 Suzanne C. (Berwyn, PA).....3

6/17 Vin F. Astoria, NY).....4

6/17 Margo H. (Rothesay, Scotland).....50

6/18 Erin U. (Port Washington, NY).....2

6/18 John S. (Basking Ridge, NJ).....26

6/18 Jody F. (East Providence, RI).....32

6/18 Claire P. (Evanston, IL).....19

6/19 Jack D. (Larchmont, NY).....24

6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC).....22

6/19 Cindy W. (Satellite Beach, FL).....13

6/20 Joe R. (Ridgewood, NJ).....11

6/20 Chris G. (Harbor Island).....7

6/20 Chandler G. (Harbor Island).....7

6/20 Art G. (Buna, TX).....26

6/20 Casey C. (Palm Beach Gardens, FL).....31

6/21 Al P. (York, ME).....7

6/21 Mark L. (Bellevue, WA).....16

6/22 Bob “Hoot” G. (naples, FL).....31

6/22 Steph O’K (Larchmont, NY).....34

6/22 Ann Marie (Lodi, NJ).....1

6/22 Jason P “JP” (Sarasota, FL).....4

6/22 Bobby Y. (Long Island City, NY).....3

6/22 Donna S. (Bedminster, NJ).....6

6/22 Robin P. (Corpus Christi, TX).....31

6/23 Reggie R. (Nantucket, MA).....30

6/23 Fred H. (NYC, NY).....8

6/23 Chris B. (East Quoque, NY).....4

6/24 Leslie J. (North Port, FL).....11

6/25 Anne H. (Punta Gorda, FL).....45

6/25Patricia A. (Corpus Christi, TX).....5

6/26 Michael A. (Lake Geneva, WI).....1

6/26 Phyllis M. ().....41

6/27 Jim E. (Knoxville, TN).....14

6/27 Jean K. (North Port, FL).....39

6/27 Russ H. (Prescott, AZ).....31

6/27 Rachel C. (Queens, NY).....1

6/27 Gary K. (Stuart, FL).....3

6/28 Chuck D. (Leesburg, FL).....6

6/28 Dave C. (Windham,NH).....19

6/28 Meliisa T. (Winter Garden, FL).....2

6/29 Steve T. (Huntersville, NC).....5

6/30 Pete K. (Vancouver, BC).....21

6/30 Jim H. (Newburyport, MA).....27

6/30 Mary Kate F. (Dublin, Ireland).....2

1057 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Nine - "A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve."

Yet Alcoholics Anonymous is an exception. It does not conform to this pattern. Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,* nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment. We've tried it lots of times, but utter failure is always the result. Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying "This is life for us; you can't keep us out." Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business. Who are you to judge?" This doesn't mean an A.A. won't take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but he surely won't take orders. Who is more unpopular than the old-time A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business? He and all like him who "view with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or, worse still, laughter.

*In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.

p. 173

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The program of Alcoholics Anonymous involves a continuous striving
for improvement. There can be no long resting period. We must try to
work at it all the time. We must continually keep in mind that it is a
program not to be measured in years, because we never fully reach
our goals nor are we ever cured. Our alcoholism is only kept in
abeyance by daily living of the program. It is a timeless program in
every sense. We live it day by day, or more precisely, moment by
moment - now. Am I always striving for improvement?

Meditation For The Day

Life is all a preparation for something better to come. God has a plan
for your life and it will work out, if you try to do His will. God has
things planned for you, far beyond what you can imagine now. But you
must prepare yourself so that you will be ready for the better things to
come. Now is the time for discipline and prayer. The time of
expression will come later. Life can be flooded through and through
with joy and gladness. So prepare yourself for those better things to
come.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may prepare myself for better things that God has in
store for me. I pray that I may trust God for the future.

Daily Thought

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Resentment

"Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 64

Thought to Consider . . .

We are prisoners of our own resentments. Forgiveness unlocks the door and sets us free.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

F A I L U R E
Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty.

Daily Reflection

A RIPPLING EFFECT

Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everyone else

how. . . . Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How

natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt

idealists. . . . So why shouldn't we share our way of life

with everyone?

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156

The great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to

spread the "good news" to the world around me. The

grandiose thoughts of my drinking days returned. Later, I

learned that concentrating on my own recovery was a fulltime

process. As I became a sober citizen in this world, I

observed a rippling effect which, without any conscious

effort on my part, reached any "related facility or outside

enterprise," without diverting me from my primary purpose

of staying sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve

sobriety.

Pot Luck

... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
--Julian of Norwich

Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all manner of experiences, the mundane as well as the momentous. Our reactions could turn any situation sour. At long last we are learning a new behavior, but it takes practice.

As we learn to rely on a Higher Power to help us handle our experiences, we begin to grow in peace and the belief that all is well. Even when we are tormented by a decision, we can have faith that our Higher Power will lead us where we need to go. Our part of the bargain is to ask for help and to be open to guidance.

I will know peace today because I will trust my Higher Power's guidance in the situations I face. All will be well if I do my part.

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