Your Daily Reprieve 06.30.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday June 30, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

Look around you…everything changes… everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing and changing …you were not put on this earth to remain stagnant… ~Dr. Steve Mataboli Few situations.. no matter how greatly they appear to demand it.. can be bettered by us going berserk.          ~Codependent No More "When I call my sponsor, my friends, someone on my home group's phone list, or someone who scribbled their number on a napkin after a meeting, I make progress ... If we just call, we help one another stay sober, one call at a time, one connection at a time." ~Grapevine: Morristown, New Jersey, May 2003 It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. ~Zig Ziglar

Big Book Quote "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 64~

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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).....84 June 2019 Miracles 6/1 Mary Ann T. (Gresham, OR)…..32 6/1 Bobby C. (Covington, LA)…..2 6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX)…..16 6/1 Charlene C. (Boston, MA)…..7 6/2 Linda B. (Dallas, TX)…..39 6/2 Stan B. (Dallas, TX)…..39 6/2 Sabrina R. (Larchmont, NY)…..4 6/2 David E. (So, Conway, NH)…..19 6/2 Troy E. (Burbank, CA)…..1 6/3 Kathy P. (Newport, RI)…..17 6/3 Christian L. (Wells, ME)…..29 6/3 Beth M. (Seattle, WA)…..38 6/4 Bob G. (Peapack, NJ)…..4 6/4 Joe L. (Columbus, OH)….4 6/5 Shawn L. (Whistler, BC)…..3 6/6 David M. (Murphy, NC)…..8 6/6 Karen S. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..41 6/6 Carolina L. (Astoria, NY)…..4 6/6 Sue M. (The Villages, FL)…..30 6/7 Stephen B. (Somerset, MA)…..43 6/7 Bill K. (Carle Place, NY)…..24 6/7 Loraine G. (Cedar Grove, NJ)…..9 6/8 Michael L. (Scarsdale, NY (Bronxville-Asbury))…..3 6/9 Eileen G. (New York, NY)…..46 6/9 Walter B. (New York)…..39 6/10 Clarke J. (Pepper Pike, OH/Ocean Ridge, FL)…..12 6/10 Peter B. (Cape Coral, FL)…..28 6/10 Dave McD. (Hudson, FL)…..42 6/10 Hank G. (Tortola, BVI)…..9 6/10 Pierre L. (Thorndale, PA)…..10 6/10 Bruce V. (Middletown, RI)…..28 6/11 Cathy W. (Huntersville, NC)…..12 6/11 Brook W. (Starke, FL)…..8 6/12 Mark K. (Glenmont, NY)…..28 6/12 Robert R. (NYC)…..31 6/13 Rob B. (Rumson, NJ)…..4 6/13 Chuck A. (Candler, NC)…..23 6/15 Dennis K. (new York, NY)…..10 6/15 Sherry R. (Northport, FL)…..43 6/15 Fran F. (Dover, DE)…..30 6/15 Russ S. (Succasunna, NJ)…..4 6/15 Jamie W. (Huntington, NY)…..7 6/16 Rich H. (Larchmont, NY)…..4 6/16 Suzanne C. (Berwyn, PA)…..5 6/16 Rob W. (St Mary’s, GA)…..2 6/17 Margo H. (Rothesay, Scotland)…..52 6/17 Patsy C-P (Port Chralotte, FL)…..43 6/17 Vinnie F. (Astoria, NY)…..6 6/18 Jane T. (New York, NY)…..39 6/18 Erin U. (Astoria/Port Washington, NY)…..4 6/18 Claire P. (Evanston, IL)…..21 6/18 Diane T. (Boca Raton, FL)…..9 6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC)…..24 6/19 Jack D. (Larchmont, NY)…..26 6/19 Debbie W. (Polk City, FL)…..14 6/20 Casey C. (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)…..33 6/20 Joe R. (Ridgewood, NJ)…..13 6/20 Chris G. (Montauk, LI, NY)…..9 6/20 Chandler G. (SF, CA)…..9 6/20 John M. (Portsmouth, NH)…..44 6/21 Mark L. (Bellevue, WA)……18 6/21 Jude G. (Mandeville, LA)…..30 6/21 Laura R. (Sedona, AZ)…..37 6/22 Robin P. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..33 6/22 Bobby Y. (Long Island City, NY)…..5 6/23 Chris B. (East Quoque, NY/Rockville, MD)…..6 6/23 Fred H. (NY, NY)…..10 6/23 Reggie R. (Nantucket, MA)…..32 6/24 Leslie J. (Northport, FL)…..13 6/25 Patty A. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..7 6/25 Bo F. (Cambridge, MA)…..22 6/25 Bill L. (Houston, TX)…..20 6/25 Ronn F. (Akron, OH)…..14 6/26 Michael A. (Williams Bay, WI)…..3 6/26 Phyllis McC. (Tulsa, OK)…..43 6/27 Jean K. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..40 6/27 Gary K. (Stuart, FL)…..5 6/28 Anthony A. (Prattville, AL)…..4 6/28 Mark Mc (Northport, FL)…..29 6/28 Chuck D. (Leesburg, FL)…..8 6/29 Mary Kate O”. (Dublin, Ireland)…..4 6/29 Steve T. ()…..7 6/30 Peter K. (Vancouver, BC)…..23 1606 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Tradition Two - "For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience." "So spoke the group conscience. The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God. Here was the true voice, welling up out of my friends. I listened, and - thank God - I obeyed." p. 138

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Alcoholics are unable or unwilling, during their addiction to alcohol, to live in the present. The result is that they live in a constant state of remorse and fear because of their unholy past and its morbid attraction, or the uncertain future and its vague foreboding. So the only real hope for the alcoholic is to face the present. Now is the time. Now is ours. The past is beyond recall. The future is as uncertain as life itself. Only the now belongs to us. Am I living in the now? Meditation For The Day I must forget the past as much as possible. The past is over and gone forever. Nothing can be done about the past, except to make what restitution I can. I must not carry the burden of my past failures. I must go on in faith. The clouds will clear and the way will lighten. The path will become less stony with every forward step I take. God has no reproach for anything that He has healed. I can be made whole and free, even though I have wrecked my life in the past. Remember the saying: "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not carry the burden of the past. I pray that I may cast it off and press on in faith.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \ (AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Obsession "The alcoholic has obsessions to an exaggerated degree. Over a period of time he has built up self-pity, resentments toward anyone or anything that interferes with his drinking. Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually creep in and become a part of his life. Living with fear and tension inevitably results in wanting to ease that tension, which alcohol seems to do temporarily. It took me some time to realize that the Twelve Steps of A.A. were designed to help correct these defects of character and so help remove the obsession to drink." Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 380-1 Thought to Consider . . . "Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession." Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 139 *~*AACRONYMS*~* B S Before Sobriety

Daily Reflection SACRIFICE = UNITY = SURVIVAL The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and survival for the group and for A.A. 's entire Fellowship. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 220 I have learned that I must sacrifice some of my personality traits for the good of A.A. and, as a result, I have been rewarded with many gifts. False pride can be inflated through prestige but, by living Tradition Six, I receive the gift of humility instead. Cooperation without affiliation is often deceiving. If I remain unrelated to outside interests, I am free to keep A.A. autonomous. Then the Fellowship will be here, healthy and strong for generations to come.

Pot Luck Look around you…everything changes…everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing and changing…you were not put on this earth to remain stagnant…Dr. Steve Mataboli We seek the answer. Sometimes we think we have found a central truth and later learn that beneath it is another truth. Or…what seemed so crucial as a guiding principle for our lives last year is still true but not as crucial. It is like trying to take a snapshot of a changing world while the camera itself is changing. Some of us in our hunger for security grab for "absolute" truths, which are not absolute. We must continue forever to be eager learners. In stepping across a stream from one floating log to another, we must resist the temptation to become overcommitted to staying in an especially secure looking place, or we will never reach the opposite shore. Even the 10th Step begs us continue…continue…continue. It is a program that works because it takes us out of our rigid ways. We are continually made new. That is the vitality of the spiritual life. God, help me to be open to new opinions…to things I had never thought of on my own. LOVE…above all things, Patti Locascio

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