Your Daily Reprieve 10.26.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday  October 26, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

You can go forty days without food. Three days without water. Eight minutes without air. But you can't go a single second without God. ~Prayables "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." ~Oscar Wilde “The future belongs to you.” ~ Bill W., April 1958 There are things I can't force.  I must adjust.  T here are times when the greatest change needed is a change in my viewpoint. ~ Denis Diderot

Big Book Quote “Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly. Yet is is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.” ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Foreword To Second Edition,

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day CLIFF BISHOP Fort Worth Texas 2007 http://bit.ly/2B3XcL9 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 10/1  Henry S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..37 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 10/11 Harriett B. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..31 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 10/13 Deb B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..24 10/14 Carol H. (Glen Cove, NY)…..34 10/14 Scott S. (Brookfield, WI)…..8 10/15 Marianne M. (Hampton, NH)…..23 10/15 CJ D. (Waynesville, NC)…..41 10/17 Jim T. (Palm Coast, FL)…..10 10/17 Michele F. (Moultrie, GA)…..14 10/18 Lisa H. (Monaco & La Quinta, CA)…..10 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 10/23 Bill B. (Stratham, NH)….31 10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..30 10/25 David C. (Syracuse, NY)…..13 10/25 Keely S. (Azalea, OR)…..37 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 10/30 Estelle R. (New York, NY)…..43 10/31 Clint H. (Pittsburgh, PA)…..21 1342 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Foreword There is, too, a rising interest in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Students of human relations are beginning to wonder how and why A.A. functions as a society. Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen? How can a set of traditional principles, having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in unity and effectiveness? The second section of this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible. p. 16

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Sixth, I have A.A. meetings to go to, thank God. Where would I go without them? Where would I be without them? Where would I find the sympathy, the understanding, the fellowship, the companionship? Nowhere else in the world. I have come home. I have found the place where I belong. I no longer wander alone over the face of the earth.  I am at peace and at rest. What a great gift has been given me by A.A.! I do not deserve it. But it is nevertheless mine. I have a home at last. I am content. Do I thank God everyday for the A.A. Fellowship? Meditation For The Day Walk all the way with another person and with God. Do not go part of the way and then stop. Do not push God so far into the background that He has no effect on your life.  Walk all the way with Him. Make a good companion of God, by praying to Him often during the day. Do not let your contact with Him be broken for too long a period. Work all the way with God and with other people, along the path of life, wherever it may lead you. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may walk in companionship with God along the way. I pray that I may keep my feet upon the path that leads upward.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Single Purpose "We enjoy certain advantages which should make our task of self-restraint relatively easy. There is really no good reason for anyone to object if a great many drunks get sober. Nearly everyone can agree that this is a good thing. If, in the process, we are forced to develop a certain amount of honesty, humility, and tolerance, who is going to kick about that? If we recognize that religion is the province of the clergy and the practice of medicine is for doctors, we can helpfully cooperate with both. Certainly there is little basis for controversy in these areas. It is a fact that A.A. has not the slightest reform or political complexion. We try to pay our own expenses, and we strictly mind our single purpose." Bill. W. c.1962 AAWS Twelve Concepts for World Service, 26th printing, p. 69 Thought to Consider . . . While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works. *~*AACRONYMS*~* G O D Group Of Drunks

Daily Reflection ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority— a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132 When I am chosen to carry some small responsibility for my fellows, I ask that God grant me the patience, openmindedness, and willingness to listen to those I would lead. I must remind myself that I am the trusted servant of others, not their "governor," "teacher," or "instructor." God guides my words and my actions, and my responsibility is to heed His suggestions. Trust is my watchword, I trust others who lead. In the Fellowship of A.A., I entrust God with the ultimate authority of "running the show."

Pot Luck How To Act Like You’re Still Using 1. Never miss a chance to take yourself seriously. 2. Cherish your resentments. 3. Treat your partner as a sex object. 4. Treat your children and your friends as extensions of your ego. 5. Reserve deep affection for your pet or your car or someone who lives far away. 6. Isolate rather than engage, quit rather than negotiate. 7. Fantasize about the ultimate humiliation against everyone whom you cherish a resentment.  8. Don’t do today what you can blame someone else for not having done tomorrow.  9. Employ behind-the-scenes manipulation wherever possible. 10. Feel sorry for yourself at least three times a day. 11. Be sure to point out other peoples’ faults and failures, for their own good of course. 12. Accept no authority but your own.

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