Your Daily Reprieve 12.01.18

Your Daily Reprieve for  Saturday December 1, 2018 From Waynesville, NC

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. -Milarepa "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ~Eddie Cantor "Courage is, with love, the greatest gift. We are, each of us, defeated many times - but if we accept defeat with cheerfulness, and learn from it, and try another way - then we will find fulfilment." ~Rosanne Ambrose-Brown "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." – Og Mandino

Big Book Quote "But life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals. Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified these are everyday occurrences. No one is too discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially if he means business." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 161~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day KC  P. If God Brings You To It He Will Bring You Through It https://bit.ly/2OGuCnD Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net 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 December 2018 Anniversaries 12/1 Beth S. (Madison, NH/Albuquerque, NM).....23 12/2 Jose A. (NYC).....7 12/2 Wendy M. (Scottsdale, AZ).....29 12/4 Lisa B. (San Leandro, CA).....23 12/4 Ellen A. (New York, NY).....13 12/5 Dave F. (Flower Mound, TX).....36 12/5 Libby M. (Whistler, BC Canada).....6 12/6 Dave B. (Venice, FL).....27 12/6 Jamie D. (Nantucket).....2 12/7 Georgia O. (Stuart, FL).....40 12/8 Ed B. (Lawrenceville, NJ).....17 12/9 Mary M. (Watertown, MA).....24 12/10 Lowell MacG. (Portland, OR).....29 12/12 Mitch B. (Evanston, IL).....32 12/14 Bob P. (Cullman, AL).....28 12/14 Linda M. (Salem, NH).....6 12/15 John M. (Paros, Greece).....16 12/16 Joan B. (New City, NY).....2 12/16 Heather V. (Nantucket, MA).....1 12/16 Jim J. (New York City, NY).....45 12/17 Joe K. (North Port, FL).....32 12/18 Ciro G. (Phoenix, AZ).....12 12/19 Brian K. (Ossipee, NH).....6 12/20 Caroline M. (Novato, CA).....34 12/21 Bridget C. (Albany , NY).....16 12/21 Oakie O. (Astor, FL).....39 12/21 Deb S. (North Hampton, NH).....28 12/23 Jim McN. (Maggie Valley, NC).....33 12/23 Carole H. (Amarillo, TX).....12 12/23 Meredith, D. (Miami, FL).....19 12/24 Niki D. (Lake Worth, FL).....2 12/25 Daragh M. (China).....1 12/25 Elaine B. (Florida).....1 12/25 Kate H. (Nantucket, MA).....2 12/25 Bill C. (Greenwich, CT).....5 12/26 Mark L. (Brooklyn, NY).....2 12/27 Tom B. (NYC, NY).....15 12/27 Trish H. (UK).....2 12/28 Natalie D. (Jamaica).....5 12/31 Larry S. (Marietta, GA).....31 12/31 Lisa Mc (Sonoma County, CA).....18 0689     Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. Then fear, in turn, generates more character defects. Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not. We eat, drink, and grab for more of everything than we need, fearing we shall never have enough. And with genuine alarm at the prospect of work, we stay lazy. We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build. p. 49

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day The thoughts that come before having a slip are often largely subconscious. It is a question whether or not our subconscious minds ever become entirely free from alcoholic thoughts as long as we live. For instance, some of us dream about being drunk when we are asleep, even after several years of sobriety in A.A. During the period of our drinking days, our subconscious minds have been thoroughly conditioned by our alcoholic way of thinking and it is doubtful that they ever become entirely free of such thoughts during our lifetime. But when our conscious minds are fully conditioned against drinking, we can stay sober and our subconscious minds do not often bother us. Am I still conditioning my conscious mind? Meditation For The Day Having sympathy and compassion for all who are in temptation, a condition which we are sometimes in, we have a responsibility towards them. Sympathy always includes responsibility. Pity is useless because it does not have a remedy for the need. But wherever our sympathy goes, our responsibility goes too. When we are moved with compassion, we should go to the one in need and bind up his wounds as best we can. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have sympathy for those in temptation. I pray that I may have compassion for others' trials.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Sanity "My actions drunk or sober, before A.A., were not those of a sane person. My desire to be honest with myself made it necessary for me to realize that my drinking was irrational. It had to be, or I could not have justified my erratic behavior as I did. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: 'rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity." c. 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 550-1 Thought to Consider . . . Let the lunatic out of the attic. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H Facing All In Trusting Him

Daily Reflection "SUGGESTED" STEPS Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening. . . . A. A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 106-07 I remember my sponsor's answer when I told him that the Steps were "suggested." He replied that they are "suggested" in the same way that, if you were to jump out of an airplane with a parachute, it is "suggested" that you pull the ripcord to save your life. He pointed out that it was "suggested" I practice the Twelve Steps, if I wanted to save my life. So I try to remember daily that I have a whole program of recovery based on all Twelve of the "suggested" Steps.

Pot Luck God Wants Us to Get Better           God wants us to get better. That is why He extended His grace to us when we admitted we were powerless. He took us in and helped us to accept our program. He showed us the mercy of His ways.                 God wants us to keep getting better. That’s we why we keep getting examples of our powerlessness, so that we may learn to turn to God in all our affairs.                 God is very much like us. He wants to be loved. He wants to take part. He wants to be an active force in our lives. He doesn't want to sit on the sidelines, kicking the turf. He wants to play.                 Each one of us represents an opportunity for God. When we have trouble on the job, trouble at home, maybe even trouble in the Fellowship, God is there for us. God is there to help us ease our anger, and our heartaches and our hurt egos. He is there to catch us when we let go. He is there to provide us that Good Orderly Direction, when we say, “I can’t You can. Take Charge.”                 Some days it’s easier to admit  our powerlessness than others. We can always reach out when life bowls us over. But we have to remember to turn to God in the good times, too. When we get a raise, when we finish a difficult job, when that other person suddenly becomes significant in our life - these are the extra special times we have to  remember to thank God for pitching in                 No doubt about it. God helps us to get over all the hurdles, even success. Stephen Beal, Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men

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Resources Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE: http://www.whytehou se.com/big_ book_search/ Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/ NEW! Twisted Thinking Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Change Happens by Changing Your Perception by Georgia Hughes amazon.com/author/georgiahughes AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/ Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/ The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee Prayables http://prayables.org/ As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/ Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

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