Your Daily Reprieve 10.01.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday October 1, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

"There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.” ~Robert Greene Put God first and you’ll never be last. ~Anonymous Everyone thinks of changing the  world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape,  shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ~John Dryden

Big Book Quote "To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, Page 44~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day OLE O. Gold Coast Roundup 09.10.1988 http://bit.ly/2mjIV9b 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 October 2019 Miracles 10/1 Jigar D. (Mumbai, India)…..1 10/1 Mary H. (Andover, MA)…..31 10/1 Michael B. (Fort Salonga, NY)…..14 10/1 Michael A. (Shelter Island, NY)…..9 10/2 Armand the Chicken Man (Smithfield, RI)…..61 10/3 Chris H. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..29 10/4 Mary R. (Averill Park, NY)…..22 10/4 Bev V. (Exeter, NH)…..27 10/6 Georgia H. (Kittery, ME)…..23 10/6 Dick H. (Milford, MA)…..28 10/6 Annette L. (Dothan, AL)…..27 10/6 Nancy G. (Port Orchard, NY)…..14 10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..44 10/8 Linda G. (lake Placid, NY)…..41 10/8 Meredith R. (Brunswick, GA)…..7 10/11 Cigar Bob (Hampton Beach, NH/Cocoa Beach, FL)…..22 10/13 Angie T. (Dorset, UK)…..15 10/14 Carol H. (Glen Cove, NY)…..34 10/14 Scott S. (Brookfield, WI)…..7 10/17 Michele F. (Moultrie, GA)…..14 10/19 Ray S. (Covington, LA)…..31 10/19 Don T. (National City, MI)…..19 10/20 Caroline J. (Stuart, FL)…..2 10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..30 10/25 David C. (Syracuse, NY)…..13 10/25 Mimi G. (NY,NY)…..10 10/28 Kelly G. (Morristown, NJ)…..2 10/28 Diane J. (Portland, OR)…..28 10/26 Bryce H. (NYC)…..1 0606 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Tradition Eleven - "Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films." The inquiring voices are not all alcoholics or their families. Doctors read medical papers about Alcoholics Anonymous and call for more information. Clergymen see articles in their church journals and also make inquiries. Employers learn that great corporations have set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done about alcoholism in their own firms. p. 180

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day A.A. will lose some of its effectiveness if I do not do my share. Where am I failing? Are there some things I do not feel like doing? Am I held back by self-consciousness or fear? Self-consciousness is a form of pride. It is a fear that something may happen to you. What happens to you is not very important. The impression you make on others does not depend so much on the kind of job you do as on your sincerity and honesty of purpose. Am I holding back because I am afraid of not making a good impression? Meditation For The Day Look to God for the true power that will make you effective. See no other wholly dependable supply of strength. That is the secret of a truly effective life. And you, in your turn, will be used to help many others find effectiveness. Whatever spiritual help you need, whatever spiritual help you desire for others, look to God. Seek that God's will be done in your life and seek that your will conforms to His.    Failures come from depending too much on your own strength. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may feel that nothing good is too much for me if I look to God for help. I pray that I may be effective through His guidance.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Trouble "There was a time when we ignored trouble, hoping it would go away. Or, in fear and in depression, we ran from it, but found it was still with us. Often, full of unreason, bitterness, and blame, we fought back. These mistaken attitudes, powered by alcohol, guaranteed our destruction, unless they were altered. Then came A.A. Here we learned that trouble was really a fact of life for everybody - a fact that had to be understood and dealt with. Surprisingly, we found that our troubles could, under God's grace, be converted into unimagined blessings." Bill W., Letter, 1966 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 110 Thought to Consider . . . Through adversity, we find strength. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H Facing All In Trusting Him

Daily Reflection LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 When I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I have found in the program. Relief from that pain is provided in the solutions contained in A.A.'s Twelve Steps. But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I can become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and turn into the problem instead of the solution. I need to get into action, to take stock: where am I and where am I going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must change to regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within myself, to God and to another human being, keeps me honest and humble.

Pot Luck Working All the Steps                Over the years, these are some of the ways I’ve heard people “qualify” their program.                 Is there such a thing as a “partial recovery”? Can we work just a few Steps and leave the rest? Can we just “sort of” do a Fourth Step, like in our minds? Do we really have to write it down as instructed? Can we do a Fifth Step with our dog or our cat?                       Can we make an amend just in our minds? Can we ask someone to make an amend for us? If  a person who we can’t stand asks us to be his sponsor can we say no?                We feel much better about our lives now that we are in recovery, but we really can’t do some of these Steps because they’re too hard.                After hearing such questions and listening to such declarations, I  know the facts are quite simple. Those that didn’t work all the Steps DIDN’T make it. Those that do work all the Steps DO make it. Stephen Beal, Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men c1992

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Resources Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE: http://www.whytehou se.com/big_ book_search/ Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/ NEW! Twisted Thinking Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Change Happens by Changing Your Perception by Georgia Hughes amazon.com/author/georgiahughes AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/ Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/ The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee Prayables http://prayables.org/ As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/ Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm {Under Reconstruction} Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

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