Your Daily Reprieve 10.28.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday October 28, 2019 From Waynesville, NC

“From cradle to grave, the drunk and the potential alcoholic will have to be completely surrounded by true and deep understanding and by a continuous barrage of information: the facts about his illness, its symptoms, its grim seriousness. Why should an alcoholic have to wait until he is 55 and be horribly mangled to find out that he is a very sick man, when enough education of the right kind might have convinced him at 30 or 35?” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1958 By charity, goodness, restraint, and self-control men and woman alike can store up a well-hidden treasure – a treasure which cannot be given to others and which robbers cannot steal. A wise person should do good -- that is the treasure which will not leave one. -"Khuddhaka Patha" When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer When we begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them…. ~Katherine Mansfield

Big Book Quote "We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us..." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 88~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day DANNY TREJO Serenity by the Sea 2006 http://bit.ly/32h20ZQ 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 The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself. p. 16

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day What other rewards have come to me as a result of my new way of living? Each one of us can answer this question in many ways. My relationship with my husband or my wife is on an entirely new plane. The total selfishness is gone and more cooperation has taken its place. My home is a home again. Understanding has taken the place of misunderstanding recriminations, bickering, and resentment. A new companionship has developed which bodes well for the future. "There are homes where fires burn and there is bread, lamps are lit and prayers are said. Though people falter through the dark and nations grope, with God Himself back of these little homes, we still can hope." Have I come home? Meditation For The Day We can bow to God's will in anticipation of the thing happening which will, in the long run, be the best for all concerned. It may not always seem the best thing at the present time, but we cannot see as far ahead as God can. We do not know how His plans are laid, we only need to believe that if we trust Him and accept whatever happens as His will in a spirit of faith, everything will work out for the best in the end. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not ask to see the distant scene. I pray that one step may be enough for me.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Sponsorship "No satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done. To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives - these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic." c.1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 110 Thought to Consider . . . A recovering alcoholic without a sponsor is much like a ship without a rudder. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H E A R T Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together

Daily Reflection AN UNBROKEN TRADITION We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 How much it means to me that an unbroken tradition of more than half a century is a thread that connects me to Bill W. and Dr. Bob. How much more grounded I feel to be in a Fellowship whose aims are constant and unflagging. I am grateful that the energies of A.A. have never been scattered, but focused instead on our members and on individual sobriety. My beliefs are what make me human; I am free to hold any opinion, but A.A.'s purpose—so clearly stated fifty years ago—is for me to keep sober. That purpose has promoted round-the-clock meeting schedules, and the thousands of intergroup and central service offices, with their thousands of volunteers. Like the sun focused through a magnifying glass, A.A.'s single vision has lit a fire of faith in sobriety in millions of hearts, including mine.

Pot Luck Sanskrit Proverb: Look to this Day Look to this day, The very life of life, In its brief course lies all, The realities and verities of existence, The bliss of growth, The splendor of action, The glory of power. For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived, Makes every yesterday A dream of happiness And every tomorrow A vision of hope. Look well, therefore, To this day. Preface Twenty Four Hours A day Richmond Walker

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