Your Daily Reprieve 08.01.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday, August 1, 2019

From Waynesville, NC

"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice.

Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice.

Whatever choice you make makes you.

Choose wisely."

~Roy T. Bennett

"Life is lived moment to moment ...

and every moment provides me with an opportunity for growth."

~Grapevine: Madison, Wisconsin, November 2010

“It’s All in Your Mind

Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life.

If you continue to believe as you have always believed,

you will continue to act as you have always acted.

If you continue to act as you have always acted,

you will continue to get what you have always gotten.

If you want different results in your life or your work,

all you have to do is change your mind.

—Anonymous

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures

learn from them and start again."
~Richard Branson,

Big Book Quote

"Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family back. This just isn't so. In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his relationship with God. We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all. We have seen others slip when the family came back too soon."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 99

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SOBER DATE	YOUR NAME	YOUR LOCATION	YEARS SOBER
6/10 (mo/day)	Bob S	Akron, OH	83

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6/10 Bob S. (Akron, OH).....84

AAugust 2019 Miracles

8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..10

8/3 Rosemary B. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..26

8/4 Dan M. (Nantucket, MA)…..16

8/4 Bethany C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1

8/5 Mary OO (Mountain Brook, AL)…..39

8/6 Jason J. (Maggie Valley, NC)…..7

8/7 Scott B. (San Diego, CA)…..8

8/8 Chris G. (Palm City, FL)…..15

8/10 Tracey D. (New York, NY)…..15

8/12 Sally L. (Methuen, MA)…..7

8/14 Bob M. (Waynesville, NC)…..1

8/15 Steve B. ()…..5

8/15 Bill L. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..15

8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH)…..21

8/21 Cheryl L. (Leucadia, CA)…..7

8/23 John B. (Northport, FL)…..27

0205 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Five - "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

Highlighting the wisdom of A.A.'s single purpose, a member tells this story:
"Restless one day, I felt I'd better do some Twelfth Step work. Maybe I should take out some insurance against a slip. But first I'd have to find a drunk to work on.
"So I hopped the subway to Towns Hospital , where I asked Dr. Silkworth if he had a prospect. `Nothing too promising,' the little doc said. `There's just one chap on the third floor who might be a possibility. But he's an awfully tough Irishman. I never saw a man so obstinate. He shouts that if his partner would treat him better, and his wife would leave him alone, he'd soon solve his alcohol problem. He's had a bad case of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, and he's very suspicious of everybody. Doesn't sound too good, does it? But working with him may do something for you, so why don't you have a go at it?'

pp. 151-152

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine,
psychiatry, and religion. It has taken from these what it wanted and
combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the
alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The
results have been very satisfactory. We do not try to improve on the
A.A. program. Its value has been proved by the success it has had in
helping thousands of alcoholics to recover. It has everything we
alcoholics need to arrest our illness. Do I try to follow the A.A.
program just as it is?

Meditation For The Day

You should strive for a union between your purposes in life and the
purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. There is no
bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a human
soul and God. Priceless beyond all earth's rewards is that union. In
merging your heart and mind with the heart and mind of the Higher
Power, a oneness of purpose results, which only those who experience
it can even dimly realize. That oneness of purpose puts you in harmony
with God and with all others who are trying to do His will.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may become attuned to the will of God. I pray that I may
be in harmony with the music of the spheres.

Daily Thought

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Powerless

"I had no problem admitting I was powerless over alcohol, and I certainly agreed that my life had become unmanageable. I had only to reflect on the contrast between the plans I made so many years ago for my life with what really happened to know I couldn't manage my life drunk or sober. A.A. taught me that willingness to believe was enough for a beginning."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 550

Thought to Consider . . .

Life didn't end when I got sober . . . it started.

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S L I P
Sobriety Loses Its Priority

Daily Reflection

LIVING IT

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83

When new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living

the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I'm sober,

I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what

I had been seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given

me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty

years. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I

have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all

my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I

felt only fear.

Pot Luck

Keep It Simple

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. --- Eddie Cantor

Successful people make life look easy. But it's not. Years of hard work, trial and error, and learning probably went on into each success. The key is this: We must choose to do what we really like. If we want to be successful, we'll have to work at it. We'll have letdowns, and we'll get bored at times. But we'll be happy because we're doing what we want, what we know is best for us. Real success has to do with our own happiness.

In our programs, we'll meet many successful people. They've worked hard at recovery, and they are still learning. And they're happy to share their success with us.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, thank-you for the success the program has already given me.

Action for the Day: I'll list three ways I know I am a success today. Number one: I'm sober!

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