Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday September 1, 2019

From Waynesville, NC

"AA may or may not get me to heaven,

but it surely got me out of he!!."

--unknown

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Look past the body, past the personality, past the behavior,

into the window of one another's souls.

There we make a connection.

The God in me recognizes and honors the God in you.

--Mary Manin Morrissey

"What I have learned in the past twelve years

is that my relationship with God and my spiritual practice is the only answer,

even when I'm not sure of the question."

~Grapevine: North Hollywood, California, September 2005

Big Book Quote

"I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and Levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 16~

Daily Share!

AA Speaker of the Day

KARL M.

Covina, CA

Step Ashore

Ocean Shores, WA

2019

Opening Speaker

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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

September 2019 Miracles

9/1 Julia C. (Dorset, UK)…..18

9/1 Billy K. (Cutchogue, NY)…..19

9/1 George M. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..35

9/1 Richie S. (Plainview, NY)…..28

9/3 Edward H. (Andover, MA)…..36

9/4 LeeAnn N. (New York, NY)…..7

9/4 David F. (new York, NY)…..6

9/5 Chris L. (Bristol, RI)…..31

9/5 James l. ()…..27

9/7 George D. (Port Salerno, FL)…..35

9/8 Javier M. (London, UK)…..2

9/9 Julie K. (Portsmouth, OH)…..18

9/10 Kevin D. (Nantucket, MA)…..30

9/10 Brian O. (Cushendall, Ireland)…..30

9/11 Steve F. (Nyack, NY)…..36

9/12 Sherri C. (Starke, FL)…..1

9/14 Teresa T. (Orlando, FL)…..2

9/15 Hillary A. (New York, NY)…..2

9/15 Stanley R. (Grand Rapids, MN)…..40

9/15 Sue B. (Montpelier, VT/Gulfport, FL)…..6

9/17 Leslie N. (Cassilis, NB, Canada)…..21

9/20 Donald P. (Rockland, ME)…..24

9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..8

9/21 Lisa O. (Roundhill, VA)…..5

9/24 Larry C. (Davenport, FL)…..29

9/25 Cate M. (Weaverville, NC)…..37

9/27 Sheila C. (Falmouth, MA)…..5

9/30 Shannon L. (Garfield, NJ)…..2

9/30 Sheree H. (Bellevue, WA)…..5

9/30 Dominick N. (NY)…..37

0558 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Seven - "Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions."

Then our trustees wrote a bright page of A.A. history. They declared for the principle that A.A. must always stay poor. Bare running expenses plus a prudent reserve would henceforth be the Foundations financial policy. Difficult as it was, they officially declined that ten thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight resolution that all such future gifts would be similarly declined. At that moment, we believe, the principle of corporate poverty was firmly and finally embedded in A. A. tradition.

p.165

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Be careful not to brand new prospects as alcoholics. Let them draw
their own conclusion. But talk to them about the hopelessness of
alcoholism. Tell them exactly what happened to you and how you
recovered. Stress the spiritual feature freely. If they are agnostics
or atheists, make it emphatic that they do not have to agree with
your concept of God. They can choose any concept they like,
provided it makes sense to them. The main thing is that they be
willing to believe in a power greater than themselves and that they
live by spiritual principles." Do I hold back too much in speaking
of the spiritual principles of the program?

Meditation For The Day

"I will never leave or forsake thee." Down through the centuries,
thousands have believed in God's constancy, untiringness, and
unfailing love. God has love. Then forever you are sure of His
love. God has power. Then forever you are sure, in every
difficulty and temptation, of His strength. God has patience. Then
always there is One who can never tire. God has understanding.
Then always you will understand and be understood. Unless you want
Him to go, God will never leave you. He is always ready with
power.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may feel that God's love will never fail. I pray that I
may have confidence in His unfailing power.

Daily Thought

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Hangovers

"When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion - anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers."
1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 88

Thought to Consider . . .

I'd rather be better than bitter.

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A. A.
Altered Attitudes

Daily Reflection

WILLINGNESS TO GROW

If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go

on.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 8

Sobriety fills the painful "hole in the soul" that my

alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I

believe my work is done. However, joy is not just the

absence of pain; it is the gift of continued spiritual

awakening. Joy comes from ongoing and active study, as

well as application of the principles of recovery in my

everyday life, and from sharing that experience with others.

My Higher Power presents many opportunities for deeper

spiritual awakening. I need only to bring into my recovery

the willingness to grow. Today I am ready to grow.

Pot Luck

Saying No

For many of us, the most difficult word to say is one of the shortest and easiest in the vocabulary: No. Go ahead, say it aloud: No.

No—simple to pronounce, hard to say. We’re afraid people won’t like us, or we feel guilty. We may believe that a “good” employee, child, parent, spouse, or Christian never says no.

The problem is, if we don’t learn to say no, we stop liking ourselves and the people we always try to please. We may even punish others out of resentment.

When do we say no? When no is what we really mean.

When we learn to say no, we stop lying. People can trust us, and we can trust ourselves. All sorts of good things happen when we start saying what we mean.

If we’re scared to say no, we can buy some time. We can take a break, rehearse the word, and go back and say no. We don’t have to offer long explanations for our decisions.

When we can say no, we can say yes to the good. Our no’s and our yes’s begin to be taken seriously. We gain control of ourselves. And we learn a secret: “No” isn’t really that hard to say.

Today, I will say no if that is what I mean.