Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 09.28.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday September 28, 2019

From Waynesville, NC

“If we dwell on the past or the future,

we put ourselves back into the torture chamber.

We stop changing. Boredom, pain, and futility take over again.

We have been ... We will be ... We no longer are.

The 24-hour program disappears.

Anxiety, anger, and a desire for revenge replace spiritual experience.

Awareness and surrender cease. We are on a dry drunk.”

~Grapevine: 1974

Chains of habit are too light to be felt

until they are too heavy to be broken.

~Warren Buffet

All the faults of our mind our selfishness, ignorance, anger,

attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts are temporary,

not permanent and everlasting.

And since the cause of our suffering

our disturbing thoughts and obscurations is temporary,

our suffering is also temporary.
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche

You never know when your unanswered prayers save you from an even worse fate.

May you be blessed with the power of prayer, and the humility to know;

only the Holy One knows exactly what you need.

~Prayables

Big Book Quote

“We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to
grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight
matter. It should continue for our lifetime.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 84~

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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

9/1 Patrick C. (Middlesex, NJ)…..33

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

9/8 Javier M. (London, UK)…..2

9/8 Carol Ann B. (Bedminster, NJ)…..23

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)…..20

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

9/30 Jack M. (Plymouth, mA)…..6

1383 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Ten - "Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy."

The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism. At first, the society was composed entirely of alcoholics trying to help one another. The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves to this sole aim. In many respects, the Washingtonians were akin to A.A. of today. Their membership passed the hundred thousand mark. Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the rest of the answer. But this didn't happen. Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians and reformers, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic, to use the society for their own purposes. Abolition of slavery, for example, was a stormy political issue then. Soon, Washingtonian speakers violently and publicly took sides on this question. Maybe the society could have survived the abolition controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it determined to reform America's drinking habits. When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.

p. 178

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

For the past two months we have been studying passages
and steps from the Big Book. Now why not read the book
itself again? It is essential that the A.A. program become
part of us. We must have its essentials at our finger tips.
We cannot study the big book too much or too often. The
more we read it and study it, the better equipped we are
to think A.A., act A.A., and live A.A. We cannot know too
much about the program. The chances are that we will never
know enough. But we can make as much of it our own as
possible. How much of the Big Book have I thoroughly mastered?

Meditation For The Day

We need to accept the difficulties and disciplines of life
so as to fully share the common life of other people. Many
things that we must accept in life are not to be taken so
much as being necessary for us personally, as to be experienced
in order that we may share in the sufferings and problems of
humanity. We need sympathy and understanding. We must share
many of the experiences of life, in order to understand and
sympathize with others. Unless we have been through the same
experiences, we cannot understand other people or their makeup
well enough to be able to help them.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may accept everything that comes my way as part
of life. I pray that I may make use of it in helping my fellow men.

Daily Thought

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( \(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
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Surrender

"There are two things I've learned from this program. First, to surrender completely. I was fighting a losing battle with the bottle. I gave up, and through defeat, I won. Second, to change myself, because the world isn't going to change to suit 'poor little old me.' It's just this simple - whatever it is in me that led me down the alcoholic road to misery, I no longer want any part of it."
c.1976 AA for the Woman
(AA Pamphlet P-5), p. 17

Thought to Consider . . .

Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A S A P
Always Say A Prayer

Daily Reflection

LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS

Practical experience shows that nothing will so much

insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other

alcoholics.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89

Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my

sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude

was more like love. They wanted me to be happy, to grow

and remain sober. Knowing how they felt kept me from

drinking more than once. Second, I discovered that I was

able to love someone else responsibly, with respectful and

genuine concern for that person's growth. Before that time,

I had thought that my ability to care sincerely about

another's well-being had atrophied from lack of use. To

learn that I can love, without greed or anxiety, has been

one of the deepest gifts the program has given me.

Gratitude for that gift has kept me sober many times.

Pot Luck

"How come you don't drink anymore?" a renewed acquaintance from long ago asked the other day.
"Anymore than who?, I asked.
"I mean any longer. How come you don't drink anything these days?"
"Drink? I drink...coffee, milk, juice, tea, soda pop, water..."
"I mean drink" he said, "you know, booze."
"Oh, booze, no I don't drink booze any more, you're right," I said, "I couldn't trust it anymore. It turned on me. Once my friend, it became my enemy."
"Maybe you got a bad batch." he said.
"No the sauce is the same. I changed. Because I have this illness of alcoholism, my tolerance weakened. Alcoholism doesn't come in bottles, it comes in people."
"Sounds pretty confusing" the fellow said.
"You think you're confused," I said, "You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy. I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be outgoing and became self-centered. I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely. I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. I drank for friendship and made enemies. I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity. I drank for sleep and wakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and I lost my job. I drank for relaxation and got the shakes. I drank for confidence and became uncertain. I drank for courage and became afraid. I drank for assurance and became doubtful. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and it tied my tongue. I drank for warmth and lost my cool. I drank for coolness and lost my warmth. I drank to feel heaven and came to know hell. I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom and became a slave. I drank to erase problems and saw them multiply. I drank to cope with life and invited death, or worse. I drank because I had the right and everything turned out wrong."
"Gosh!" My friend exclaimed, "That must have taken a bunch of booze to get you in that shape."
"Just one" I told him, "The first one. For me one is too many, and a thousand is not enough."