Your Daily Reprieve 10.31.17

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  October  31,  2017 From Waynesville, NC

"The simplicity of this program never changes – what works is constant: trust in God, clean house, and work with others." ~Grapevine: Concord, Calif., Mary 1997 "Growth is a painful process." --Wilma Mankiller, CHEROKEE God is there when we need him the most. When we are afflicted, when trials are facing us, he is there for us. But what we need to understand is that God is there for us even when there are no trials, or when we are not afflicted. In knowing this truth, we can appeal to God at any time. We need not look to God only in testing times, but in fertile times. We should look to cultivate a relationship with Him in good times, and not just bad. ~unknown Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy. ~Jennie Jerome Churchill Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ~Doris Mortman

Big Book Quote Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we havent the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg.76~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day MARIE LUCAS King, NC @37th Florida State Convention Orlando, 1993 http://bit.ly/2zIfEqY Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

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12&12 Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." The most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression. These stem from causes which sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without. To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble. It should be remembered that this kind of insecurity may arise in any area where instincts are threatened. Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression? Appraising each situation fairly, can I see where I have been at fault? Did these perplexities beset me because of selfishness or unreasonable demands? Or, if my disturbance was seemingly caused by the behavior of others, why do I lack the ability to accept conditions I cannot change? These are the sort of fundamental inquiries that can disclose the source of my discomfort and indicate whether I may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline. p. 52

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day I have more peace and contentment. Life has fallen into place. The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle have found their correct position. Life is whole, all of one piece. I am not cast hither and yon on every wind of circumstance or fancy. I am no longer a dry leaf cast up and away by the breeze. I have found my place of rest, my place where I belong. I am content. I do not vainly wish for things I cannot have.  I have "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." Have I found contentment in A.A.? Meditation For The Day In all of us there is an inner consciousness that tells of God, an inner voice that speaks to our hearts. It is a voice that speaks to us intimately, personally, in a time of quiet meditation. It is like a lamp unto our feet and a light unto your path. We can reach out into the darkness and figuratively touch the hand of God. As the Big Book puts it: "Deep down in every man, woman and child is the fundamental idea of God. We can find the Great Reality deep down within us. And when we find it, it changes our whole attitude toward life." Prayer For The Day I pray that I may follow the leading of the inner voice. I pray that I may not turn a deaf ear to the urging of my conscience.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Change "Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better. But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in A.A. as a whole, it has long been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way. The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails." Bill W., July 1965 c.1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 115 Thought to Consider . . . Not to change is not to adapt; not to adapt is to become extinct. *~*AACRONYMS*~* A N O N Y M O U S Actions, Not Our Names, Yield Maintenance Of Unity and Service

Daily Reflection AVOIDING CONTROVERSY All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specification. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176 As an A.A. member and sponsor, I know I can cause real damage if I yield to temptation and give opinions and advice on another's medical, marital, or religious problems. I am not a doctor, counselor, or lawyer. I cannot tell anyone how he or she should live; however, I can share how I came through similar situations without drinking, and how A.A.'s Steps and Traditions help me in dealing with my life

Pot Luck Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.     - Will Rogers I thought there would be some point where I just was “fixed” and could relax. I keep forgetting that life is a process and I am a process and we just go on and on. Of course I try to forget that a addictions are a process, too! ——————— The recovering person who tries to rest on his or her laurels is on very thin ice in a very hot soup.  Schaef, Anne Wilson LAUGH I THOUGHT’D I’D DIE (IF I DIDN’T) Daily Meditations on Healing through Humor c 1990

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