Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 03.27.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday March 27 , 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

"As a cure for worrying,

work is better than whiskey."
– Thomas A. Edison

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall,

remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal.

You will become as small as your controlling desire;

as great as your dominant aspiration."

~James Allen

Courage can't see around corners,

but goes around them anyway.

--Mignon McLaughlin

I am responsible.

Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening,

I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable

misfortunes that darken life.

Bad things do happen;

how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness,

immobilized by the gravity of my loss,

or I can choose to rise from the pain

and treasure the most precious gift I have

- life itself.

--Walter Anderson

Big Book Quote

"At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes
into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of
absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in
practically every case long before it is suspected."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 24~

Daily Share!

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BEVERLY HUR

Costa Mesa, CA

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04.22.2004

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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).....84

March 2019 Miracles

3/1 Crispin H. (London, UK).....37

3/1 Mike McC. (White Plains, NY).....8

3/1 Rich W. (Astoria, NY).....4

3/2 Liz C. (White Plains. NY).....10

3/3 Ilene W. (Los Angeles, CA).....44

3/3 Phoebe H. (Waynesville, NC).....34

3/3 Kelly T. (Newmarket, NH).....28

3/4 George W. (Port Charlotte, FL).....2

3/4 Mile L. (Melbourne, FL).....11

3/5 Tom M. (Waynesville/Jacksonville).....25

3/5 Russell N. (Dublin, Ireland).....5

3/5 Marty B. ().....1

3/5 Deirdre C. ().....23

3/5 Peter G. (Stuart, FL).....40

3/7 George (Milwaukee, WI).....11

3/7 Dave G. (White Rock, BC).....16

3/8 Elaine M. (new York, NY)…..35

3/9 Phil S. (Santa Fe, NM).....9

3/9 Becki V. (Canton, NC).....1

3/9 Andy W. (City Island, NY (BYOC).....32

3/9 Patti K. (Baiting Hollow, NY).....35

3/9 Tony C. (Punta Gorda, FL).....40

3/9 Dan W. (Port Charlotte, FL).....30

3/9 Peter R. (New York, NY).....9

3/11 John M. Succasunna, NJ)…..10

3/12 Carol S. (Farmington Hills, MI).....16

3/12 Ned W. (Melbourne, FL).....22

3/13 Tom V. (Morris Plains, NJ).....12

3/13 Sue S. (Naples, FL)…..7

3/14 Nard B. (Bridgewater, NJ).....6

3/16 John S. (Austin, TX).....6

3/17 Tortlola Dan (Vero Beach, FL).....40

3/17 Carolyn W. (Nantucket, MA).....22

3/17 Judy D. (Good Morning, Carmel, CA).....4

3/18 Brian K. (New York, NY).....9

3/18 Rachael P. (London, UK).....5

3/19 Mike B. (Purchase, NY).....19

3/20 Michelle O. (Palm Springs, CA)…..20

3/20 Shannon C. (Joliet, IL).....2

3/20 Bill M. (Clearwater, FL)…..45

3/21 Tucker H. (Nantucket, MA)…..2

3/21 BethLynn C. (Gaithersburg, MD).....27

3/21 Diane W. (Melbourne Beach, FL).....1

3/21 Kate A. (Nyack, NY/Stuart, FL).....31

3/21 Lee H. (Devon, PA).....1

3/21 Pamela B. (Clinton, NJ).....36

3/21 Norm A. (Boston, MA)…..30

3/22 Sally S. (Spring Island SC/Nantucket MA).....31

3/23 Jesse R. ().....9

3/24 Debbie K. (Hampton, NH).....30

3/24 Julie P. (Anglesey, Wales).....7

3/25 Buffy H. (Gambier, OH/Nantucket).....27

3/25 Brian Q. (Rowley, MA).....10

3/25 Tim F. (River Edge, NJ).....5

3/26 Cheryl S. (Waynesville, NC).....15

3/27 Chuck L. (Key Largo, FL).....32

3/27 Cathy C-T. (Palm City, FL).....11

3/26 Stephen O’C (Philadelphia, PA).....9

3/28 Lisa B. (Jensen Beach, FL).....31

3/28 David B. ().....5

3/28 Steven S. ().....9

3/28 Rich W. (Candler, NC).....25

3/29 Robin S. (New York, NY).....26

3/29 Pat H. (Young Harris, GA).....50

3/29 Stan R. (Port Charlotte, FL).....20

3/29 Bill D. (Plymouth, MA)….5

3/30 Barbara K. (Melville, NY).....14

3/30 Joyce G. (Michigan/Florida).....9

3/30 Ralph B. (Port St. Lucie, FL).....37

3/30 Larry G. (Wingham, Ontario, CA)…..18

1276 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

We "constructively criticized" someone who needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument. Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down. We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish. We were depressed and complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.

pp. 94-95

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

You get the power to overcome drinking through the
fellowship of other alcoholics who have found the way
out. You get power by honestly sharing your past
experience by a personal witness. You get power by
coming to believe in a Higher Power, the Divine Principle
in the universe which can help you. You get power by
working with other alcoholics. In these four ways,
thousands of alcoholics have found all the power they
needed to overcome drinking. Am I ready and willing to
accept this power and work for it?

Meditation For The Day

The power of God's spirit is the greatest power in the
universe. Our conquest of each other, the great kings
and conquerors, the conquest of wealth, the leaders of
the money society, all amount to very little in the end.
But one that conquers oneself is greater than one who
conquers a city. Material things have no permanence. But
God's spirit is eternal. Everything really worth while
in the world is the result of the power of God's spirit.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may open myself to the power of God's spirit.
I pray that my relationships with others may be improved
by this spirit.

Daily Thought

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Fear

"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. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 49

Thought to Consider . . .

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the action in spite of the fear.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A N O N Y M O U S
Actions Not Our Names Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service

Daily Reflection

A.A.'s FREEDOMS

We trust that we already know what our several freedoms

truly are; that no future generation of AAs will ever feel

compelled to limit them. Our AA freedoms create the soil in

which genuine love can grow. . . .

LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 303

I craved freedom. First, freedom to drink; later, freedom

from drink. The A.A. program of recovery rests on a

foundation of free choice. There are no mandates, laws or

commandments. A.A.'s spiritual program, as outlined in the

Twelve Steps, and by which I am offered even greater

freedoms, is only suggested. I can take it or leave it.

Sponsorship is offered, not forced, and I come and go as I

will. It is these and other freedoms that allow me to recapture

the dignity that was crushed by the burden of drink,

and which is so dearly needed to support an enduring

sobriety.

Pot Luck

A.A. Thought for the Day

Our faith is apt to be weak, and so we have to strengthen and build up this faith. We do this by going to meetings and listening to others tell how they have found all the strength they need to overcome drinking. Is my faith being strengthened by this personal witness of other alcoholics?

Meditation for the Day

It is the quality of my life that determines its value. The most valuable life is one of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be honest, pure, unselfish, and loving.

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