Your Daily Reprieve 10.30.17

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday  October 30 ,  2017 From Waynesville, NC

Look at your problems in the light of God's power instead of looking at God in the shadow of your problems. ~Anonymous "The things that count cease being those that can be held in the hand and become only what can be held in the heart." ~Grapevine: North Hollywood, Calif., August 1982 "When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." --Peter Marshall "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." ~Khalil Gibran. Let every person be who they are instead of who you think they should be. May God bring to you the blessing of acceptance. Don't pray for God to change them, pray for God to change your heart. The greatest gift you can give someone is unconditional love and acceptance. ~Prayables

Big Book Quote "Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 98~

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12&12 Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security. pp. 51-52

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day I have real friends, where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and freely. Does friendship have new meaning for me? Meditation For The Day There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives  and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Solution "The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism." c.1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 17 Thought to Consider . . . The joy is in the journey, so enjoy the ride. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I N E Feeling Insecure, Numb, and Empty

Daily Reflection LIVE AND LET LIVE Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall publicly." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176 Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that others don't have to share it? That's the spirit of "Live and Let Live." The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God's help, to "Accept the things I cannot change." Am I still trying to change others? When it comes to "Courage to change the things I can," do I remember that my opinions are mine, and yours are yours? Am I still afraid to be me? When it comes to "Wisdom to know the difference," do I remember that my opinions come from my experience? If I have a know-it-all attitude, aren't I being deliberately controversial?

Pot Luck Gratitude is larger than life. One day, a friend called me on the phone. He was going through a difficult time and wondering if and when things would ever turn around and improve. I knew he was in a lot of pain, I didn't know then that he was considering suicide. "If you could give a person only one thing to help them," he said, "what would it be?" I thought carefully about his question, and then I replied, "It's not one thing, it's two: gratitude and letting go." Gratitude for everything, not just the things we consider good or a blessing. And letting go of everything we can't change. A few years have passed since that day my friend called me on the phone. His life has turned around. His financial problems have sorted themselves out. His career has shifted. The two very large problems he was facing at that time have both sorted themselves out. Someone once asked the artist Georgia O'Keeffe why her paintings magnified the size of small objects - the petals on a flower - making them appear larger than life, and reduced the size of large objects - like mountains - making them smaller than life. "Everyone sees the big things," she said. "But these smaller things are so beautiful and people might not notice them if I didn't emphasize them." That's the way it is with gratitude and letting go. It's easy to see the problems in our lives. They're like mountains. But sometimes we overlook the smaller things; we don't notice how truly beautiful they are. God, teach me to use gratitude and letting go to reduce the size of my problems. You are reading from the book: More Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

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