Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 09.15.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday September 15, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

"No problem can be solved

from the same level of consciousness that created it"
~Albert Einstein

When we listen, God speaks and guides.

--Paul K. McAfee

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; a

n enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can.
Anger is our real enemy.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“In the first six months of my own sobriety,

I worked hard with many alcoholics.

Not a one responded.

Yet this work kept me sober.”

~AA Cofounder Bill W., January 1958,

Big Book Quote

"Our liquor was but a symptom."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 64~

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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)…..17

9/1 Billy K. (Cutchogue, NY)…..19

9/1 George M. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..35

9/1 Richie S. (Plainview, NY)…..28

9/1 Craig G. ()…..26

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

9/6 Lisa L. (Stuart, FL)…..10

9/7 Christine L. (Exeter, NH)…..32

9/7 George D. (Port Salerno, FL)…..35

9/7 Robert M. (Guam)…..31

9/7 April/Ginger C. (Hillsdale, NJ) 7 years.

9/8 Javier M. (London, UK)…..2

9/9 Julie K. (Portsmouth, OH)…..18

9/9 Kris K. (New York, NY)…..34

9/10 Kevin D. (Nantucket, MA)…..30

9/10 Sue B. (Haiku, H8I)…..

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

9/11 Steve F. (Nyack, NY)…..36

9/11 Deck H. (Oldwick, NJ)…..33

9/12 Sherri C. (Starke, FL)…..1

9/12 Phil C. (Austin, TX)…..9

9/13 Lisa N. (Paramus, NJ)…..8

9/14 Teresa T. (Orlando, FL)…..2

9/14 Linda B. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..5

9/15 Hillary A. (New York, NY)…..2

9/15 Alicia S. (Albany, NY)…..2

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

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

9/16 Heidi L. (Waynesville, NC)…..13

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

9/17 Maureen B. (Plymouth, MA)…..44

9/17 Jim W. (Methuen, MA)…..42

9/18 Jim H. (Houston, TX)…..9

9/19 John A. (Gainseville, GA)…..8

9/19 Diana D. (Newport, RI)…..25

9/19 Elaina C. (NYC, NY)…..11

9/20 Donald P. (Rockland, ME)…..24

9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..8

9/20 Dawn D. (New York, NY)…..10

9/20 Linda K. (Toronto/Port Charlotte, FL)…..7

9/21 Lisa O. (Roundhill, VA)…..5

9/21 Beth G. (Los Angeles, CA)…..40

9/21 John P. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..4

9/23 David A. (New York City, NY)…..18

9/23 Bill G. (Marblehead, MA)…..34

9/24 Larry C. (Davenport, FL)…..29

9/24 Adam T. (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)…..34

9/24 Katie S. (New Vernon, NJ)…..19

9/24 Tim B. (Raleigh, NC)…..14

9/25 Cate M. (Weaverville, NC)…..37

9/25 Mary D. (New Rochelle, NY)…..2

9/26 Ari B. (New York, NY)…..1

9/27 Sheila C. (Falmouth, MA)…..5

9/27 Sarah M. D. (NJ)…..2

9/28 Paul W. (Springfield, NJ)…..30

9/28 Scott B. (Epping, NH)…..23

9/28 June T. (Palm Desert, CA/Nantucket,MA)…..13

9/29 Judy F. (Nantucket/ Marathon, FL)…..27

9/29 Joan F. (Westhampton, NY/PBG, FL)…..9

9/30 Shannon L. (Garfield, NJ)…..2

9/30 Sheree H. (Bellevue, WA)…..5

9/30 Dominick N. (NY)…..37

1180 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Nine - "A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve."

WHEN Tradition Nine was first written, it said that "Alcoholics Anonymous needs that least possible organization." In years since then, we have changed our minds about that. Today, we are able to say with assurance that Alcoholics Anonymous--A.A. as a whole--should never be organized at all. Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create special service boards and committees which in themselves are organized. How, then, can we have an unorganized movement which can and does create a service organization for itself? Scanning this puzzler, people say, "What do they mean, no organization?"

p. 172

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

"We all realize that we know only a little. God will
constantly disclose more to all of us. Ask Him in your
morning meditations what you can do today for the
person who is still sick. The answers will come, if
your own house is in order. See to it that your
relationship with God is right and great events will
come to pass for you and countless others. Give freely
of what you find in A.A. But, obviously, you cannot
transmit something which you haven't got. So make a
life-study of A.A." Am I always looking for ways of
presenting the A.A. Program?

Meditation For The Day

"In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.:
Confidence means to have faith in something. We could
not live without confidence in others. When you have
confidence in God's grace, you can face whatever comes.
When you have confidence in God's love, you can be
serene and at peace. You can rest in the faith that God
will take care of you. Try to rest in God's presence
until His life-power flows through you. Be still and in
that stillness the still, small Voice will come. It
speaks in quietness to the human mind that is attuned
to its influence.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may find strength today in quietness.
I pray that I may be content today that God will take care of me.

Daily Thought

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Self-appraisal

"I used to be a champ at unrealistic self-appraisal. I wanted to look only at the part of my life which seemed good. Then I would greatly exaggerate whatever virtues I supposed I had attained. Next I would congratulate myself on the grand job I was doing. So my unconscious self-deception never failed to turn my few good assets into serious liabilities. This astonishing process was always a pleasant one . . . I was falling straight back into the pattern of my drinking days . . . I shall forever regret the damage I did to people around me. Indeed, I still tremble when I realize what I might have done to A.A. and to its future."
Bill W., June 1961
1988 AA Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, pp. 256-7

Thought to Consider . . .

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A. A.
Attitude Adjustment

Daily Reflection

SEPTEMBER 15

A NEW LIFE

Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is

a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. . . . Life will mean

something at last

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 152

Life is better without alcohol. A.A. and the presence of a

Higher Power keeps me sober, but the grace of God does

even better; it brings service into my life. Contact with the

A.A. program teaches me a new and greater understanding

of what Alcoholics Anonymous is and what it does, but

most importantly, it helps to show me who I am: an alcoholic

who needs the constant experience of the Alcoholics

Anonymous program so that I may live a life given to me

by my Higher Power.

Pot Luck

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve...
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do greater things...
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy...
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men...
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need for God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life...
I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men, richly blessed.
--This prayer was found on an unidentified Civil War soldier

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