Your Daily Reprieve 09.21.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday September  21, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things." --T. S. Eliot There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire. ~Norman Vincent Peale “Alcohol robbed me of my adolescence. But I’ve learned to grow up in AA.” ~Grapevine: Mineola, New York, March 2001 If we do not try, we will not know. -Ayya Khema

Big Book Quote "Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith? For did we not believe in our own reasoning? Did we not have confidence in our ability to think? What was that but a sort of faith? Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason. So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day RUSSEL S. Pathways to Power VII @ Langford Park Jensen Beach, FL 09.07.19 http://bit.ly/2lE9Oo0 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 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 9/2 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

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." It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us. It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart. It is in this spirit of service that we elect the A.A. group's informal rotating committee, the intergroup association for the area, and the General Service Conferences of Alcoholics Anonymous for A.A. as a whole. Even our Foundation, once an independent board, is today directly accountable to our Fellowship. Its trustees are the caretakers and expediters of our world services. pp. 174-175

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Let us continue with Steps Four, Five, Six, Seven and Ten. In taking personal inventory of ourselves, we have to face facts as they really are. We have to stop running away. We must face reality. We must see ourselves as we really are. We must admit our faults openly and try to correct them. We must try to see where we have been dishonest, impure, selfish, and unloving. We do not do this once and forget it. We do it every day of our lives, as long as we live. We are never done with checking up on ourselves. Am I taking a daily inventory of myself? Meditation For The Day In improving our personal lives, we have Unseen help. We were not made so that we could see God. That would be too easy for us and there would be no merit in obeying Him. It takes an act of faith, a venture of belief, to realize the Unseen Power. Yet, we have much evidence of God's existence in the strength that many people have received from the act of faith, the venture of belief. We are in a box of space and time and we can see neither our souls nor God. God and the human spirit are both outside the limitations of space and time. Yet our Unseen help is effective here and now. That has been proved in thousands of changed lives. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may make the great venture of belief. I pray that my vision may not be blocked by intellectual pride.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Dry "Sometimes, we become depressed. I ought to know; I have been a champion dry-bender case myself. While the surface causes were a part of the picture - trigger-events that precipitated depression - the underlying causes, I am satisfied, ran much deeper. Intellectually, I could accept my situation. Emotionally, I could not. To those problems, there are certainly no pat answers. But part of the answer lies in the constant effort to practice all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps." Bill W., Letter 1954 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 30 Thought to Consider . . . The Twelve Steps are but suggestions, as is pulling the rip cord on a parachute. *~*AACRONYMS*~* D R Y Doing Recovery Yourself

Daily Reflection THE LAST PROMISE We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 The last Promise in the Big Book came true for me on the very first day of sobriety. God kept me sober that day, and on every other day I allowed Him to operate in my life. He gives me the strength, courage and guidance to meet my responsibilities in life so that I am then able to reach out and help others stay sober and grow. He manifests within me, making me a channel of His word, thought and deed. He works with my inner self, while I produce in the outer world, for He will not do for me what I can do for myself. I must be willing to do His work, so that He can function through me successfully.

Pot Luck Be Who You Are In recovery, we’re learning a new behavior. It’s called Be Who You Are. For some of us, this can be frightening. What would happen if we felt what we felt, said what we wanted, became firm about our beliefs, and valued what we needed? What would happen if we let go of our camouflage of adaptation? What would happen if we owned our power to be ourselves? Would people still like us? Would they go away? Would they become angry?. There comes a time when we become willing and ready to take that risk. To continue growing, and living with ourselves, we realize we must liberate ourselves. It becomes time to stop allowing ourselves to be so controlled by others and their expectations and be true to ourselves—regardless of the reaction of others. Before long, we begin to understand. Some people may go away, but the relationship would have ended anyway. Some people stay and love and respect us more for taking the risk of being whom we are. We begin to achieve intimacy, and relationships that work. We discover that who we are has always been good enough. It is who we were intended to be. Today, I will own my power to be myself. Today's reading is from the book The Language of Letting Go

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