Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday September 20, 2019
From Waynesville, NC
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"Good people are good
because they've come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom
from success, you know…
One who doesn't try cannot
fail and become wise."
~William Saroyan
“When I've examined a
situation all ways from Sunday,
and the only thing I can
see are bad consequences, then I can say,
‘God, I don't have the
least idea what to do.’
That seems to be the magic
phrase for me.
Then something happens, and
it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing,
and the result is good for
all.”
~Grapevine: “Irasburg,
Vermont, December 1997
Beware of destination addiction:
the idea that happiness is
in the next place,
the next job, or even the
next partner.
Until you give up the idea
that happiness is somewhere else,
it will never be where you
are.
~Robert Holden
"Be happy in the
moment, that's enough.
each moment is all we need,
not more."
~ Mother Teresa
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Big Book Quote
"...we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future
sex life.
We subjected each relation to this test - was it selfish or not? We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them. We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 69 |
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AA Speaker of
the Day
BOB
K.
San Francisco, CA
@Mendocino,
CA
1997
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6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
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
9/2
Jim H. (Isle of Lewis, UK)…..7
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)…..8
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
Paul W. (Byfield, MA)…..26
9/21
Beth G. (Los Angeles, CA)…..40
9/21
John P. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..4
9/22
Peter H. (Nantucket, MA)…..21
9/23
David A. (New York City, NY)…..18
9/23
Rick B. (Stowe, VT)…..27
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
1321 Total
Years of Sobriety
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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."
The same stern threat applies to the group itself. Unless there is approximate conformity to A.A.'s Twelve Traditions, the group, too, can deteriorate and die. So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings. Great suffering and great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need no others. p. 174 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Step Four is, "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Step Five is, " Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." Step Six is, "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." Step Seven is, "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Step Ten is, "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it." In taking a personal inventory, we have to be absolutely honest with ourselves and with other people. Have I taken an honest inventory of myself? Meditation For The Day God is good. You can often tell whether or not a thing is of God. If it is of God, it must be good. Honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love are all good, unselfish helpfulness is good, and these things all lead to the abundant life. Leave in God's hands the present and the future, knowing only that He is good. The hand that veils the future is the hand of God. He can bring order out of chaos, good out of evil, and peace out of turmoil. We can believe that everything really good comes from God and that He shares His goodness with us. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may reach out for the good. I pray that I may try to choose the best in life. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Grudges "We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really hitting ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it." Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 47 Copyright 1952 A.A.W.S. Inc. Thought to Consider . . . Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
A N G E R Any No Good Energy Rising |
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Daily Reflection
H.P. AS GUIDE
See to it that your
relationship with Him is right, and great
events will come to pass
for you and countless others. This
is the Great Fact for us.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.
164
Having a right relationship
with God seemed to be an
impossible order. My
chaotic past had left me filled with
guilt and remorse and I
wondered how this "God business"
could work. A.A. told me
that I must turn my will and my
life over to the care of
God, as I understand Him. With
nowhere else to turn, I
went down on my knees and cried,
"God, I can't do this.
Please help me!" It was when I admitted
my powerlessness that a
glimmer of light began to
touch my soul, and then a
willingness emerged to let God
control my life. With Him
as my guide, great events began
to happen, and I found the
beginning of sobriety.
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Pot Luck
When you've had a setback,
ask yourself this. what is it attempting to tell you?
Often the setbacks can turn out to be very fortunate occurrences
because they prevent you
from going any further down a dead-end road.
Setbacks force you to re-evaluate your strategy and that will invariably
lead to a much more
successful strategy.
When you've had a setback, challenge yourself to find the positive message in it,
challenge yourself to find
a more effective way to move forward from it.
Use it as an opportunity to step back and get some perspective,
use it as an opportunity to
renew your commitment and realign with your purpose.
See each setback as one more step on the path to achievement
then get back on that path,
for success is closer than ever before.
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