Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 03.28.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday March 28, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

"If there are challenges to be met today,

I remember other days when what seemed impossible was made possible."

~"Never Sober Today Before," Huntington, West Virginia, August 2006

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.

We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it

-- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Let us not look back in anger,

nor forward in fear,

but around us in awareness."
– James Thurber

As soon as you get some sense of contact,

you want to be teachers of others.

This is a big mistake.
-Ta-sui

Big Book Quote

"Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an
altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is
very jittery or befogged. More often than not, it is imperative that
a man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as he has then
a better chance of understanding and accepting what we have to offer."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Doctor's Opinion, pg. xxvi~

Daily Share!

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BILL BORCHERT

Little River, SC

@ Thursday Night Speaker

Las Vegas, NV

03.16.2006

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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."

Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience.

p. 95

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When you come into an A.A. meeting, you're not just
coming into a meeting, you're coming into a new life.
I'm always impressed by the change I see in people after
they've been in A.A. for a while. I sometimes take an
inventory of myself, to see whether I have changed and if
so, in what way. Before I met A.A., I was very selfish. I
wanted my own way in everything. I don't believe I ever
grew up. When things went wrong, I sulked like a spoiled
child and often went out and got drunk. Am I still all get
and no give?

Meditation For The Day

There are two things we must have if we are going to change
our way of life. One is faith, the confidence in things
unseen, that fundamental goodness and purpose in the
universe. The other is obedience, that is living according
to our faith, living each day as we believe God wants us to
live, with gratitude, humility, honesty, purity,
unselfishness and love. Faith and obedience, these two,
will give us all the strength we need to overcome sin and
temptation and to live a new and more abundant life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may have more faith and obedience. I pray that
I may live a more abundant life as a result of these things.

Daily Thought

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/ AA \

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Spiritual Growth

"When we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. If we wished to grow we had to begin somewhere. So we used our own conception, however limited it was."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 47

Thought to Consider . . .

Spirituality is the ability to get our minds off ourselves.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

W I S D O M
When Into Self, Discover Our Motives

Daily Reflection

EQUALITY

Our membership ought to include all who suffer from

alcoholism Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover.

Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or

conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together

for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided

that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 565

Prior to A.A., I often felt that I didn't "fit in" with the

people around me. Usually "they" had more/ less money

than I did, and my points of view didn't jibe with "theirs."

The amount of prejudice I had experienced in society only

proved to me just how phony some self-righteous people

were. After joining A. A., I found the way of life I had been

searching for. In A.A. no member is better than any other

member; we're just alcoholics trying to recover from

alcoholism.

Pot Luck

We learn to expect the unexpected.

Serenity and satisfaction come not when we achieve some measure of precarious temporary control, but when we learn to expect the unexpected. They come when we learn the art of responding to change and accommodating the ever-shifting circumstances of our lives.

We did not choose our journey before we were born. We did not choose the fact that this journey will end in death. Naturally we want to control what we can and our lives are better when we do so. But the best part of the adventure comes in taking what life brings to us and learning how to make it work. No amount of blaming, criticism, soul-searching, or grumpiness will ever unearth the reasons why changes happen.

Our relationship can be corroded by the acid of blame, but it becomes stronger when we join together as a team to cope with the events that shape our lives.

Tell your partner one event in your relationship that you did not welcome but that brought new growth.

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