Your Daily Reprieve 10.01.18

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday October 1, 2018

From Waynesville, NC

"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it,

the other person still owns that gift.

The same is true of insults and verbal attacks."
--Steve Pavlina

Wanting to be someone else

is a waste of the person you are.

~Unknown

Ego is always some form of "I know".
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Big Book Quote

“When we retire at night, we constructively review our day.. Were we
resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have
we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review we ask Gods forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 86~

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SOBER DATE	YOUR NAME	YOUR LOCATION	YEARS SOBER
6/10 (mo/day)	Bob S	Akron, OH	83

It will look like this :

6/10 Bob S. (Akron, OH).....83

October 2018 Anniversaries

10/1 Michael A. (Palm Beach, FL).....8

10/1 Kelly R. (Jensen Beach, FL).....8

10/1 Mary H. (Andover, MA).....30

10/1 Bret K. (Charlotte, NC).....7

10/1 Michael B. (Commack, NY).....13

10/2 Ian B. (Bristol, UK).....16

10/3 Chris H. (Punta Gorda, FL).....28

10/3 Mark R. (Parkesburg, PA).....1

10/4 Kristopher B. (Millbury, OH).....4

10/4 Charlie E. (Chicago, IL).....6

10/4 Tom H. (Elyria, OH).....18

10/6 Annette L. (Dothan, AL).....26

10/6 Nancy G. (Port Orchard, WA).....13

10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL).....43

10/7 Liz C. (Boston, MA).....7

10/10 Ingrid K. (Port Washington, NY).....1

10/10 Graham B. (Louisville, KY).....1

10/11 Laurie C. (Ocoee, FL).....3

10/13 Angie T. (Okeford Fitzpaine, UK).....14

10/13 Matthew H. (Bristol, UK).....12

10/13 Ken G. (Lacrosse, WI).....1

10/15 Anne P. (Kittery Point, ME).....30

10/15 Polly L. (Fort Lauderdale, FL).....25

10/17 Donna K. (Brockton, MA).....2

10/19 Ray S. (Covington, LA).....30

10/20 Caroline J. (Stuart, FL).....1

10/21 Sue T. (Flanders, NJ).....5

10/21 Belinda R. (Mt Vernon, OH).....10

10/22 Doug S. (Brookfield, CT).....27

10/23 Lisa B. (Atkinson, NH).....24

10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL).....29

10/26 Niall H. (Dublin, Ireland).....26

10/27 Jessica A. (Queens, NY).....1

10/28 Craig B. (Memphis, TN).....7

10/31 Clint H. (Pittsburgh. PA).....19

10/31 Rick W. ().....7

0503 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Three - "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

Let's examine for a moment this idea of dependence at the level of everyday living. In this area it is startling to discover how dependent we really are, and how unconscious of that dependence. Every modern house has electric wiring carrying power and light to its interior. We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut off the supply of current. By so accepting our dependence upon this marvel of science, we find ourselves more independent personally. Not only are we more independent, we are even more comfortable and secure. Power flows just where it is needed. Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too. Ask the polio sufferer confined to an iron lung who depends with complete trust upon a motor to keep the breath of life in him.

p. 36

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

A.A. will lose some of its effectiveness if I do not do my share.

Where am I failing? Are there some things I do not feel like doing?

Am I held back by self-consciousness or fear? Self-consciousness is a form of pride.It is a fear that something may happen to you. What happens to you is not very important. The impression you make on others does not depend so much on the kind of job you do as on your sincerity and honesty of purpose.

Am I holding back because I am afraid of not making a good impression?

Meditation For The Day

Look to God for the true power that will make you effective.

See no other wholly dependable supply of strength. That is the secret of a truly effective life. And you, in your turn, will be used to help many others find effectiveness. Whatever spiritual help you need, whatever spiritual help you desire for others, look to God. Seek that God's will be done in your life and seek that your will conforms to His. Failures come from depending too much on your own strength.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may feel that nothing good is too much for me if I look to God for help. I pray that I may be effective through His guidance.

Daily Thought

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Comfort

"When I am feeling depressed, I repeat to myself statements such as these: 'Pain is the touchstone of progress.' . . . 'Fear no evil.' . . . 'This, too, will pass.' . . . 'This experience can be turned to benefit.' These fragments of prayer bring far more than comfort. They keep me on the track of right acceptance; they break up my compulsive themes of guilt, depression, rebellion, and pride; and sometimes they endow me with the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Bill W., AA Grapevine, March 1962
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 110

Thought to Consider . . .

God enters us through our wounds.

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H E L P
Hope, Encouragement, Love, and Patience

Daily Reflection

LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and

rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for

alcohol is a subtle foe.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85

When I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I

have found in the program. Relief from that pain is

provided in the solutions contained in A.A.'s Twelve Steps.

But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I can

become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and

turn into the problem instead of the solution. I need to get

into action, to take stock: where am I and where am I

going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must change to

regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within

myself, to God and to another human being, keeps me

honest and humble.

Pot Luck

In the chapter "We Agnostics" in the Big Book, there are two groups of people mentioned. Which one more closely describes your CURRENT experience?

1 - (page 50-51) "Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed. They flatly declare that since they have (1) come to believe in a Power greater than themselves (Step 2), (2) to take a certain attitude toward that Power (Step 3), and (3) to do certain simple things (Steps 4 through 12), there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources (Step 1), they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them. This happened soon after they (4) wholeheartedly met a few simple requirements (the Twelve Steps). Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life. Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory. They show how the change came over them. When many hundreds of people (5) are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith." (This is also called living in the solution.)

2 - (page 52) "We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living (which includes not being able to make a successful life), we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people." (These are also called the bedevilments, which means, "to torment maliciously". They are the results of living a self-centered life, drinking or not, and describes the inner unmanageability mentioned in Step One. They are the mental state that precedes the first drink and are the result of untreated alcoholism, whether we are drinking or not. They are the root of the problem.)

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