Your Daily Reprieve 01.01.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday January 1, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

Happy New Year!!

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Tennyson

“This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!”
― Pablo

“As the year comes to an end, don’t look back at yesterday's disappointment.

Look ahead to God's promises yet to unfold.”
― Buky Ojelabi

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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

"What the new year brings to you

will depend a great deal

on what you bring to the new year."
– Vern McLellan

Big Book Quote

“The age of miracles is still with us. Our own recovery proves that!”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 153~

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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

January 2019 Miracles

1/1 Terry H. (Rockville, MD).....26

1/1 Dorothy D. (Fayetteville, NC).....18

1/1 Lauren B. (Basking Ridge, NJ).....1

1/1/Severine W. (Sacramento, C).....2

1/1 Lee Anne P. (Chicago, IL).....2

1/1 John C. (Los Alamitos, CA).....14

1/1 Greg S. (Littlehampton, UK).....11

1/1 Pine J. (Salt Lake City, UT).....8

1/1 John S. (Naples, FL).....30

1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison, NJ).....15

1/1 Gerry K. (Purcellville, VA).....19

1/1 Patrick T. (New York, NY).....41

1/1 Joan B. (Port Charlotte, FL).....30

1/2 Peggy M. (Rye, NH).....39

1/2 Gregory B. (NY,NY).....7

1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL).....14

1/6 David M. ().....19

1/6 Steve S. (Astoria. NY).....1

1/6 David M. (Los Angeles, CA).....23

1/7 Patrick M. (Boston, MA).....7

1/10 Rosemary I. (Orland Park, IL).....31

1/10 Kelly P. (Methuen, MA).....30

1/11 Betsy F.(Satellite Beach, FL).....31

1/11 Mary S. (Jacksonville, FL).....6

1/12 John E. (Reading, UK).....4

1/13 Tara M. Larchmont, NY).....6

1/13 Barb W. (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) .....40

1/13 Robbie H. (FL/VA).....37

1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA).....6

1/14 Frank A. (Queens, Long Island, NY).....1

1/14 Earl B. (Chateauguay QC).....

1/15 Kathy Anne C. (Athens, GA).....3

1/15 Aaron H. (Basking Ridge, NJ).....4

1/16 Tree A. (San Anselmo, CA).....30

1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO).....14

1/17 Stephanie H. (New York, NY).....4

1/17 Steve B. (Florham Park, NJ).....1

1/18 Christabel R. (Akron, OH).....9

1/21 Tony R. (New Canaan, CT).....23

1/21 Shirley S. (Midlothain, IL).....1

1/22 Tiffany M. (Los Angeles, CA).....3

1/23 Daniel R. (Tokyo, Japan).....2

1/23 Jay O’D. (East Milton).....9

1/24 Brian Mc (Mahwah, NJ).....35

1/24 Glenn C. (Adelaide, Australia).....3

1/25 PJC (Bel Air, MD).....4

1/26 Doug L. (San Diego, CA).....8

1/26 Billy D. (Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada)......32

1/27 Brian L. (Tampa, FL).....1

1/29 Sandra C. (Port St Lucie, FL).....43

1/31 Kim J. (Streator, IL).....8

1/31 Diane B. (Cape Cod, MA).....26

1/31 Sandy W. (East Hampton, NY).....23

0816 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Five - "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey. Even when you've found the person, it frequently takes great resolution to approach him or her. No one ought to say the A.A. program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you've got. Happily, though, the chances are that you will be in for a very pleasant surprise. When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager. Before long, your listener may well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more at ease. Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquillity takes its place. And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur. Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God. And even those who had faith already often become conscious of God as they never were before.

pp. 61-62

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I came into A.A., was I a desperate person? Did I have a
soul-sickness? Was I so sick of myself and my way of living that I
couldn't stand looking at myself in a mirror? Was I ready for A.A.?
Was I ready to try anything that would help me to get sober and to get
over my soul-sickness? Should I ever forget the condition I was in?

Meditation For The Day

In the new year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one
of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past or
the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future, all
thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments,
my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my
gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go
forward, in this new year, into a new life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that God will guide me one day at a time in the new year. I pray
that for each day, God will supply the wisdom and the strength that I
need.

Daily Thought

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( \(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
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Belonging

There is no more aloneness, with that awful ache, so deep in the heart of every alcoholic that nothing, before, could ever reach it. That ache is gone and never need return again. Now there is a sense of belonging, of being wanted and needed and loved. In return for a bottle and a hangover, we have been given the Keys of the Kingdom.
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 276
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 312

Thought to Consider . . .

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

*~*^AACRONYMS^*~*

G R A C E
Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations

Daily Reflection

"I AM A MIRACLE"

The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty

that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a

way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to

accomplish those things for us which we could never do by

ourselves.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25

This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle. I

always believed in God, but could never put that belief

meaningfully into my life. Today, because of Alcoholics

Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand

Him; I am sober today because of that! Learning to trust

and rely on God was something I could never have done

alone. I now believe in miracles because I am one!

Pot Luck

Attitudes and Limitation

To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us.

We cannot harbor poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing in our lives. If we dwell on our inadequacy and ineffectiveness, for example, circumstances will prove us correct because we will invite self-defeating events to us.

On the other hand, replacing destructive thoughts with hope-filled, optimistic ones brings peaceful and confidence-producing circumstances to us. We will radiate competence and joy.

Today I will make it a habit to continually replace pessimistic thoughts with optimistic ones. I will dwell on what is uplifting so that I may increase my courage and confidence as well as better my circumstances.

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The Reflecting Pond by Liane Cordes

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