Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 10.14.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday October 14, 2019

From Waynesville, NC

Mostly the winds of change are blowing you in a better direction.

After all, it's God who makes the wind.

~Anonymous

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat.

And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

~William Shakespeare

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

~Abraham Lincoln

"From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life. "
--Arthur Ashe

Big Book Quote

"When ready, we say something like this: My Creator, I am now
willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you
now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in
the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as
I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen. We have then
completed Step Seven."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 76~

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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

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

10/2 Dave R. (Bedminster, NJ)…..8

10/3 Chris H. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..29

10/3 Charlie E. (Chicago, IL)…..7

10/4 Mary R. (Averill Park, NY)…..22

10/4 Bev V. (Exeter, NH)…..27

10/6 Georgia H. (Kittery, ME)…..23

10/6 Anne M. (East Hampton, NY)…..15

10/6 Dick H. (Milford, MA)…..28

10/6 Russ W. (Milford, CT)…..6

10/6 Annette L. (Dothan, AL)…..27

10/6 Nancy G. (Port Orchard, WA)…..14

10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..44

10/8 Linda G. (Lake Placid, NY)…..41

10/8 Meredith R. (Brunswick, GA)…..7

10/9 Marcel B. (Memramcook, NB, Canada)…..8

10/9 Xavier F. (Greenwich, CT)…..6

10/9 Glen O. (Montague, MA)…..28

10/10 Sharon B. (Clermont, FL)…..2

10/11 Cigar Bob (Hampton Beach, NH/Cocoa Beach, FL)…..22

10/11 Ray H. (Hermitage, TN)…..9

10/12 Chris M. (Clark, NJ)…..32

10/12 Michael C. (Cordes Lakes, AZ)…..30

10/13 Angie T. (Dorset, UK)…..15

10/13 Don C. (Evanston, IL)…..48

10/13 Robert L. (Denver, NC)…..18

10/14 Carol H. (Glen Cove, NY)…..34

10/14 Scott S. (Brookfield, WI)…..8

10/15 Marianne M. (Hampton, NH)…..23

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

10/21 Sue T. (Flanders, NJ)…..6

10/22 Betsy H. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..9

10/22 Doug S. (Brookfield, CT)…..29

10/23 Britton W. (Raleigh, NC)…..2

10/23 James D. (NYC, NY)…..42

10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..30

10/25 David C. (Syracuse, NY)…..13

10/25 Mimi G. (NY,NY)…..10

10/25 Brittney B. (San Diego, CA)…..10

10/25 Charlie p. (Iceland)…..32

10/26 Niall H. (Dublin, Ireland)…..27

10/26 Bryce H. (NYC)…..1

10/26 Sean C. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..10

10/28 Kelly G. (Morristown, NJ)…..2

10/28 Craig B. (Memphis, TN)…..8

10/28 Diane J. (Portland, OR)…..28

10/29 LauraLea K. (Leesburg, FL)…..8

10/30 Bob H. (Barnardsville, NC)…..31

1058 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Tradition Twelve - "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."

This phenomenon of contrast really set us thinking. Squarely before us was the question "How anonymous should an A.A. member be?" Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret society, but it was equally plain that we couldn't be a vaudeville circuit, either. The charting of a safe path between these extremes took a long time.

p. 185

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

How big a part of my life is A.A.? Is it just one of my activities and a small one at that?
Do I only go to A.A. meetings now and then and sometimes never go at all? Do I think of
A.A. only occasionally? Am I reticent about mentioning A.A. to people who might need
help? Or does A.A. fill a large part of my life? Is it the foundation of my whole life?
Where would I be without A.A.? Does everything I have and I do depend on my A.A.
foundation? Is A.A. the foundation on which I build my life?

Meditation For The Day

Lay upon God your failures and mistakes and shortcomings. Do not dwell upon your
failures, upon the fact that in the past you have been nearer a beast than an angel. You
have a mediator between you and God--your growing faith--which can lift you up from the
mire and point you toward the heavens. You can still be reconciled with the spirit of God.
You can still regain your harmony with the Divine Principle of the universe.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not let the beast in me hold me back from my spiritual destiny.

I pray that I may rise and walk upright.

Daily Thought

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Help

"If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 25-6

Thought to Consider . . .

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

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S P O N S O R
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Daily Reflection

A PROGRAM FOR LIVING

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. .

. . On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours

ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our

thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from selfpity,

dishonest or self-seeking motives.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86

I lacked serenity. With more to do than seemed possible, I

fell further behind, no matter how hard I tried. Worries

about things not done yesterday and fear of tomorrow's

deadlines denied me the calm I needed to be effective each

day. Before taking Steps Ten and Eleven, I began to read

passages like the one cited above. I tried to focus on God's

will, not my problems, and to trust that He would manage

my day. It worked! Slowly, but it worked!

Pot Luck

Native American

"So I prayed, but I had to pray from my heart. All of my concentration and thoughts went from my head to my heart. All of my senses - hearing, smell, taste, and feeling - were connected to my heart." --Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA

The heart is the gateway to the Unseen World, to the Spirit World. It takes real concentration to do this. To connect to our own heart is also a mental state. It starts in the head and transitions to the heart. This mental state is our inner stillness. Be still and know. This place of the heart is very joyous and peaceful. It is this place that we become one with God, our Creator.

Great Spirit, teach me to be a heart warrior.

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