Your Daily Reprieve 08.16.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday August 16, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

"I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted." ~Steve Goodier "The little things that happen, the spoken word, the kind smile, the nod of encouragement – the fellowship that goes with the program -- these things I will never forget." ~Grapevine: Benoni, January 1988 Emotions/Gratitude https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/09/make-you-happy-2/ "Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." --Thomas Merton Heard at a Meeting *I drew a line but always woke up on the other side of that line. *If I focus on what I want to get out of life I will never get enough. (*Never Heard at a Meeting) *I went back out and it is great. I am just here because I miss you guys.* @heardinameeting

Big Book Quote "An illness of this sort— and we have come to believe it an illness—, involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. If a person has cancer all are sorry for him and no one is angry or hurt. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 18~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day POLLY P The Family Afterward Chapters to Recovery http://bit.ly/2KpPhw8 Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

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 AAugust 2019 Miracles 8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..10 8/2 Gary K. (Kelowna, BC)…..50 8/2 Melissa S. (Center Moriches, NY)…..4 8/3 Rosemary B. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..26 8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ )…..4 8/4 Dan M. (Nantucket, MA)…..17 8/4 Bethany C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1 8/4 Bob M. (NY,NY)…..31 8/5 Jonathan P. ()…..7 8/5 Mary OO (Mountain Brook, AL)…..39 8/6 Jason J. (Maggie Valley, NC)…..7 8/6 Cathy W. (Champaign, IL)…..37 8/7 Scott B. (San Diego, CA)…..8 8/8 Chris G. (Palm City, FL)…..15 8/8 Chuck H. (Portsmouth, RI)…..1 8/8 Louise M. (Danville, VA)…..10 8/8 Leslie N. (Tinton Falls, NJ)…..31 8/8 David T. (Newmarket, NH)…..37 8/10 Tracey D. (New York, NY)…..15 8/10 Doug W. (Houston, TX)…..8 8/11 Page H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..43 8/11 Bert R. (Nantucket, MA)…..22 8/11 Caroline O. (Leicestershire, UK)…..10 8/12 Chip D. (Nantucket, MA)…..14 8/12 John K. (Jacksonville, FL)…..21 8/12 Sally L. (Methuen, MA)…..7 8/12 Carolyn K. (Wrentham, MA)…..14 8/13 Matt K. (Westboro, MA)…..30 8/13 Gerry S. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..14 8/13 Tom O’C. (Miami Beach, FL)…..34 8/14 Dottie Lou W. (St Simons Island, GA)…..34 8/14 Bob M. (Waynesville, NC)…..1 8/14 Spence B. (Gambier, OH)…..25 8/14 Mary H. (NYC, NY)…..30 8/15 Mark C. ()…..28 8/15 Clif G. (Oklahoma City, OK)…..18 8/15 Steve B. ()…..5 8/15 Siobhan M. (NYC, NY)…..20 8/15 Bill L. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..15 8/15 Michael C. (Sarasota, FL)…..31 8/16 Madeline V. (Bozeman, MT)…...32 8/16 Charlotte C. (New York, NY)…..10 8/16 Shawn R. (Toronto)…..4 8/16 Tracy N. (Stuart, FL)…..13 8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH)…..21 8/18 Carolyn D. (Palm City, FL)…..6 8/18 Chris A. (Montreal, Quebec)…..20 8/18 Steve C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1 8/19 Carol B. (Nantucket, MA)…..11 8/20 Larry B. (Kansas City, KS)…..18 8/20 Yog F. (Lake City, CO)…..36 8/21 Cheryl L. (Leucadia, CA)…..7 8/23 John B. (Northport, FL)…..27 8/24 Claire S. (Garnersville, NY)…..32 8/24 Mike R. (RI)…..3 8/27 Greg R. (NYC, NY)…..12 8/27 Stuart W. (Old Tappan, NJ)…..18 8/28 GregH. (Morristown, NJ)…..1 8/29 Lynn H. (San Diego, CA)…..5 8/30 Chris B. (Sandwich, NH)…..27 8/30 Jeff G. (Warren, NJ)…..6 1069 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Tradition Six - "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose." Soon they'd spotted their man, an A.A. with the necessary experience. Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking, "Is there anything in our tradition that suggests I shouldn't take a job like this one? The kind of education seems good to me, and is not too controversial. Do you headquarters folks see any bugs in it?" pp. 157-158

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day "The alcoholic is absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. We must admit we can do nothing about it ourselves. Willpower and self-knowledge will never help in the strange mental blank spots when we are tempted to drink. An alcoholic mentally is in a very sick condition. The last flicker of conviction that we can do the job ourselves must be snuffed out. The spiritual answer and the program of action are the only hope. Only spiritual principles will solve our problems. We are completely helpless apart from Divine help. Our defense against drinking must come from a Higher Power." Have I accepted the spiritual answer and the program of action? Meditation For The Day Rest now until life, eternal life, flowing through your veins and heart and mind, bids you to bestir yourself. Then glad work will follow. Tired work is never effective. The strength of God's spirit is always available to the tired mind and body. He is your physician and your healer. Look to these quiet times of communion with God for rest, for peace, for cure. Then rise refreshed in spirit and go out to work, knowing that your strength is able to meet any problems because it is reinforced by God's power. Prayer For The Day I pray that the peace I have found will make me effective. I pray that I may be relieved of all strain during this day.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Daybreak "On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 86 Thought to Consider . . . At first, I thought the "God thing" was a crutch. Turns out to be stilts. *~*AACRONYMS*~* D E T A C H Don't Even Think About Changing Him/Her

Daily Reflection "I HAD DROPPED OUT" We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have "harmed" other people. What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway? To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 80 I had been to Eighth Step meetings, always thinking, "I really haven't harmed many people, mostly myself." But the time came when I wrote my list out and it was not as short as I thought it would be. I either liked you, disliked you, or needed something from you—it was that simple. People hadn't done what I wanted them to do and intimate relationships were out of hand because of my partners' unreasonable demands. Were these "sins of omission"? Because of my drinking, I had "dropped out"—never sending cards, returning calls, being there for other people, or taking part in their lives. What a grace it has been to look at these relationships, to make my inventories in quiet, alone with the God of my understanding, and to go forth daily, with a willingness to be honest and forthright in my relationships.

Pot Luck Word Of Mouth, p. 120 "In my view, there isn't the slightest objection to groups who wish to remain strictly anonymous, or to people who think they would not like their membership in A.A. known at all. That is their business, and this is a very natural reaction. "However, most people find that anonymity to this degree is not necessary, or even desirable. Once one is fairly sober, and sure of this, there seems no reason for talking about A.A. membership in the right places. This has a tendency to bring in other people. Word of mouth is one of our most important communications. "So we should criticize neither the people who wish to remain silent, nor even the people who wish to talk too much about belonging to A.A., provided they do not do so at the public level and thus compromise our whole Society." Letter, 1962 As Bill Sees It p.120

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