Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 09.16.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday September 16, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

“AA’s message promises

healing and wholeness for any alcoholic

who will pay the price.

The price is simply to accept

the help that will save our lives.”

~Grapevine: Riverside, Illinois, August 1977

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas

as in escaping from old ones."

~John Maynard Keynes

Each day is a little life:

every waking and rising a little birth,

every fresh morning a little youth,

every going to rest and sleep a little death.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

“You don’t have a soul.

You are a soul.

You have a body.”

—C.S. Lewis

Big Book Quote

"Actually, we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man,
woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 55~

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BOB M

Greenville, SC

@Atlanta GA

1994

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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

9/12 Joe C. (Palm Coast/Waynesville)…..29

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

9/18 George P. (London, England)…..34

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

1243 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."

Well, let's see. Did anyone ever hear of a nation, a church, a political party, even a benevolent association that had no membership rules? Did anyone ever hear of a society which couldn't somehow discipline its members and enforce obedience to necessary rules and regulations? Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders? Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings. Power to direct or govern is the essence of organization everywhere.

p. 172

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Today, let us begin a short study of The Twelve Suggested Steps of
A.A. These Twelve Suggested Steps seem to embody five principles.
The first step is the membership requirement step. The second, third,
and eleventh steps are the spiritual steps of the program. The fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh and tenth steps are the personal inventory steps.
The eighth and ninth steps are the restitution steps. The twelfth step
is the passing on of the program, or helping others, step. So the five
principles are membership requirement, spiritual basis, personal
inventory, restitution, and helping others. Have I made all these steps
a part of me?

Meditation For The Day

We seem to live not only in time but also in eternity. If we abide with
God and He abides with us, we may bring forth spiritual fruit which
will last for eternity. If we live with God, our lives can flow as some
calm river through the dry land of earth. It can cause the trees and
flowers of the spiritual life--love and service--to spring forth and yield
abundantly. Spiritual work may be done for eternity, not just for now.
Even here on earth we can live as though our real lives were eternal.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may try to make my life like a cool river in a thirsty land.
I pray that I may give freely to all who ask my help.

Daily Thought

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Step One

"No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now becomes the rapacious creditor, bleeds us all of self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built."
1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 21

Thought to Consider . . .

Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

S T E P S
Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

Daily Reflection

WE STAND—OR FALL—TOGETHER

. . . no society of men and women ever had a more urgent

need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity. We

alcoholics see that we must work together and hang

together, else most of us will finally die alone.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 562

Just as the Twelve Steps of A.A. are written in a specific

sequence for a reason, so it is with the Twelve Traditions.

The First Step and the First Tradition attempt to instill in

me enough humility to allow me a chance at survival.

Together they are the basic foundation upon which the

Steps and Traditions that follow are built. It is a process of

ego deflation which allows me to grow as an individual

through the Steps, and as a contributing member of a group

through the Traditions. Full acceptance of the First

Tradition allows me to set aside personal ambitions, fears

and anger when they are in conflict with the common good,

thus permitting me to work with others for our mutual

survival. Without Tradition One I stand little chance of

maintaining the unity required to work with others

effectively, and I also stand to lose the remaining

Traditions, the Fellowship, and my life.

Pot Luck

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it…Orlando A. Battista

In our lives, we have always been drawn to extremes. If it isn't white, it must be black.

If a little bit feels good, we take a lot.

If we are going to do something, only perfection is good enough.

So…if we don't win, we lose, and if we can't do it perfectly, we feel like a failure.

In Our Spiritual Program of Action, we learn how to live in a new way…and thank GOOD GOD…it doesn't just happen all at once.

So…we go to meetings on a regular basis…we get a sponsor…we pray and meditate…we read and study our Big Book and 12 and 12…we take our Steps…we learn our Traditions and our Concepts of Service…we become active members in Recovery…we form new friends and relationships and strengthen old relationships…we learn…and when we think we know…we find out something new about ourselves…something wonderful happens…a whole new Patti Ann appears…WOW…when did that happen…

Today…just today Dear GOOD GOD… when I begin to understand my errors…my misjudgments…my mistakes…and agree to learn from them…I become stronger…and kinder than I have ever been…thank you, Dear GOOD GOD…for my precious gifts…

LOVE…above all things,

Patti Locascio