Your Daily Reprieve 04.01.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday April 1, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives,

need to take advice and to receive help from other people."

-Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life

"If you haven't been to a meeting for a while,

come, and add to the mix ... we need you.

Come for yourself, come for the Fellowship,

come to celebrate sobriety and

come for the alcoholic who still suffers."

~Grapevine: San Francisco, California, February 1993

Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those that mind don't matter and

those that matter don't mind.

~Anonymous

Laughter, like a drenching rain, settles the dust,

cleans and brightens the world around us,

and changes our whole perspective.

--Jan Pishok

Big Book Quote

"Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-
believe have eventually seen the childishness of it. This dream
world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a
growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives. We have come
to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him,
but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth. That is where
our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done.
These are the realities for us. We have found nothing incompatible
between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy
usefulness."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 130~

Daily Share!

AA Speaker of the Day

RIP HOWARD

Howard Polenz

Gilbert, AZ

Thursday Night Speaker

Las Vegas, NV

09.11.2006

https://bit.ly/2CWNFXV

*****

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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

April 2019 Miracles

4/1 Joyce G. (Haverhill, MA)…..31

4/1 Jack D. (Hampton, NH)…..50

4/1 Brian N. (Diamondhead, MS)…..6

4/1 Frank A. (Blauvelt, NY)…..14

4/2 Justin L. (Waynesville, NC)…..1

4/3 Bob K. (Syracuse, NY)…..30

4/3 Leigh A. (Bethesda, MA)…..21

4/5 Bob C. (New Franklin, OH)…..17

4/5 Erica W. (Chiefland, FL)…..3

4/6 Kevin M. (Hendersonville, NC)…..11

4/6 Eugene R. (Barcelona, Spain)…..5

4/7 Susie C. (NYC)…..28

4/7 Madeleine M. (Groveland, MA)…..36

4/8 Maureen K. (New Providence, NJ)…..9

4/12 Lisa S. (Valley Cottage, NY)…..17

4/14 Tommy M. (Kingston, NY)…..1

4/15 Larry R. (Westchester, NY)…..40

4/15 Mary B. (Birmingham, AL)…..1

4/16 Beverly D. (North Port, FL)…..18

4/16 Hannah (Los Angeles, CA)…..5

4/18 Brad G. (St Louis, MO)…..18

4/18 Kathleen M. (Wilton, CT)…..15

4/19 Tim M. (Huntersville, NC)…..2

4/21 Cheryl B. (Los Angeles, CA)…..5

4/21 Thom Mc (Leesburg, FL)…..49

4/22 Becky S. (Knoxville, TN)…..

4/25 Sara H. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..10

4/25 Melissa S. (NYC, NY)…..10

4/26 Margie W. (Waltham, MA)…..2

4/26 Nate L. (Charleston, SC)…..2

4/28 Brian C. (Davenport, FL)…..21

4/28 Bobby S. (So. Boston, MA)…..17

4/29 Lyn K. (Palm City, FK)…..19

4/30 Joyce G. (Michigan/Florida)…..9

4/30 Sam M. (Dothan, AL)…..8

0526 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."

Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace. To an amazing extent the facts of A.A. life confirm this ageless truth.

pp. 97-98

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward becoming more
honest? Do I no longer have to lie to my loved ones? Do I try to have
meals on time, and do I try to earn what I make at work? Am I trying
to be honest? Have I faced myself as I really am and have I admitted
to myself that I'm no good by myself, but have to rely on God to help
me do the right thing? Am I beginning to find out what it means to be
alive and to face the world honestly and without fear?

Meditation For The Day

God is all around us. His spirit pervades the universe. And yet we
often do not let His spirit in. We try to get along without His help and
we make a mess of our lives. We can do nothing of any value without
God's help. All our human relationships depend on this. When we let
God's spirit rule our lives, we learn how to get along with others and
how to help them.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may let God run my life. I pray that I will never again
make a mess of my life through trying to run it myself.

Daily Thought

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Prayer

"As the doubter tries the process of prayer, he should begin to add up the results. If he persists, he will surely find more serenity, more tolerance, less fear, and less anger. He will acquire a quiet courage, the kind that isn't tension-ridden. He can look at 'failure' and 'success' for what these really are. Problems and calamity will begin to mean his instruction, instead of his destruction. Wonderful and unaccountable things will start to happen."
Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, June 1958
As Bill Sees It, p. 321

Thought to Consider . . .

Trying to pray is praying.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B S
Before Sobriety

Daily Reflection

LOOKING WITHIN

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of

ourselves.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42

Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover

what the liabilities in each of us have been, and are. I want

to find exactly how, when, and where my natural desires

have warped me. I wish to look squarely at the unhappiness

this has caused others and myself. By discovering what my

emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction.

Without a willing and persistent effort to do this,

there can be little sobriety or contentment for me.

To resolve ambivalent feelings, I need to feel a strong

and helpful sense of myself. Such an awareness doesn't

happen overnight, and no one's self-awareness is

permanent. Everyone has the capacity for growth, and for

self-awareness, through an honest encounter with reality.

When I don't avoid issues but meet them directly, always

trying to resolve them, they become fewer and fewer.

Pot Luck

Differences
. . . with no hidden cutting edge.

The respect and dignity a couple shows each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their lives. Any feeling can be expressed in respectful or disrespectful ways. Anger is one of the most difficult to express respectfully. Everyone feels frustrated and angry at times. The crucial thing to learn is how to be angry and still be respectful – how to deal with our impatience without blame or put-downs. Many of us have to learn how to love without being possessive, how to be playful in a lighthearted way with no hidden cutting edge. When we treat our partner with disrespect, we pour poison into our own well. It may feel satisfying at first, but the long-term consequences are not good to live with.

When we are committed to respect in our relationship, we continue to learn at even deeper levels what respect truly means. We find that simply listening to each other – and letting in our differences – is a form of respect that nourishes us.

Name a difference between you and your mate that you respect.

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