Your daily Reprieve 11.30.17

Your Daily Reprieve forThursday  November 30 ,  2017 From St Augustine, FL

12 Step Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-jRWOaoZ3k "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while" – Albert Einstein ‎"Uncharted territory in your life is not good or bad, it just is. Yes, it may rattle your foundation, and you may be tempted to pullback, say you can’t do it, or bail completely. But these are exactly the conditions that set you up for massive growth, joy, and new experiences in your life." ~Alissa Finerman Laughter is carbonated holiness. ~Anonymous "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." ~Margaret Mitchell

Big Book Quote I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. Business and professional men have regained their standing. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, Page 15~

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12&12 Step Six - "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life. For nature and God alike abhor suicide. p. 64

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day We have slips in A.A. It has been said these are not slips but premeditated drunks, because we have to think about taking a drink before we actually take one. The thought always comes before the act. It has been suggested that people should always get in touch with an A.A. before taking that first drink. The failure to do so makes it probable that they decided to take the drink anyway. And yet the thoughts that come before taking a drink are often largely subconscious. People usually don't know consciously what made them do it. Therefore, the common practice is to call these things slips. Am I on guard against wrong thinking? Meditation For The Day "The eternal God is thy refuge." He is a sanctuary, a refuge from the cares of life. You can get away from the misunderstanding of others by retiring into your own place of meditation. But from yourself, from your sense of failure, your weakness, your shortcomings, whither can you flee? Only to the eternal God, your refuge, until the immensity of His spirit envelopes your spirit and it loses its smallness and weakness and comes into harmony again with His. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may lose my limitations in the immensity of God's love. I pray that my spirit may be in harmony with His spirit.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Commitment "No matter how much one wishes to try, how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? A beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed. Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock, and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more." c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 122 Thought to Consider . . . If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been. *~*AACRONYMS*~* O U R Openly Using Recovery

Daily Reflection PROTECTION FOR ALL At the personal level, anonymity provides protection or all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard often of special importance to newcomers, i t the level of press, radio, TV, and films, anonymity tresses the equality in the Fellowship of all members by putting the brake on those who might otherwise exploit their A.A. affiliation to achieve recognition, power, or personal gain. "UNDERSTANDING ANONYMITY," p. 5 Attraction is the main force in the Fellowship of A.A. The miracle of continuous sobriety of alcoholics within A.A. confirms this fact every day. It would be harmful if the Fellowship promoted itself by publicizing, through the media of radio and TV, the sobriety of well-known public personalities who became members of A.A. If these personalities happened to have slips, outsiders would think our movement is not strong and they might question the veracity of the miracle of the century. Alcoholics Anonymous is not anonymous, but its members should be.

Pot Luck The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein Being overly preoccupied with ourselves stunts our spiritual growth just as it limits all we do. We cannot realize our full potential when we are concentrating on our desires or fears. We cannot hear the voice of our Inner Guide when we are listening to the voice of anxiety. Our recovery can be measured by our progress in getting out of ourselves. That's why we are asked to turn our will and our life over to the care of God. The relinquishment of self to a Higher Power is the key to personal freedom. Our addictions are only symptoms of our underlying disease - the disease of self-centeredness. Surrendering the self automatically puts us in touch with the power of the universe - our Creator. I ask God to relieve me of the preoccupation of self. In God's Care

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