Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday November 5, 2019
From Waynesville, NC
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"Learn to get in touch
with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in
life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no
coincidences,
all events are blessings
given to us to learn from."
~Elisabeth Kubler Ross
"We don't develop
courage by being happy every day.
We develop it by surviving
difficult times and challenging adversity."
Barbara de Angelis
“Loving yourself has
nothing to do with being selfish,
self-centered or self-engrossed.
It means that you accept
yourself for what you are.
Loving yourself means that
you accept responsibility
for your own development,
growth and happiness.
When you love yourself, you
pave the way
for all you want and need
to come to you a
t the right time in the
perfect way.”
~Iyanla Vanzant
Happiness is the new rich.
Inner peace is the new
success.
Health is the new wealth.
Kindness is the new cool.
May God bless you
with an abundance of assets
both old and new.
~Prayables
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Big Book Quote
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship
and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt and one more failure. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 151~ |
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6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
11/1
Trish H. (Brick, NJ)…..28
11/2 Liz
L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..12
11/2
Lori Z. (Milford, NH)…..21
11/2
Ruth H. (Brielle, NJ/Key Largo, FL)…..1
11/2
Joyce C. (Sasn Diego, CA)…..9
11/3
Katy R. (Portland, OR)…..28
11/3 MaryBeth
F. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..5
11/4 Pat
O’D. (Boston,MA)…..39
11/4 Lou
L. (Smithtown, NY)…..23
11/5 Kent L. (Silverdale, WA)…..34
11/5 Donna M. (Methuen, MA)…..13
11/5 Chrissie R. (Hilton Head, SC)…..1
11/7
Leslie E. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..13
11/7
Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)…..28
11/7
Craig S. (Vero Beach, FL)…..14
11/8
Brian R. (Olney, MD)…..4
11/9
Matt K. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..9
11/10
Russ S. (Palm City, FL)…..34
11/10
Aaron M. (Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica)…..1
11/11
Jay D. (Danbury, CT/Stuart, FL)…..38
11/11
Lee J. (Waikiki, HI)…..30
11/12
Ray G. (Massillon, OH)…..7
11/12
Billy M. (NY, NY)…..3
11/13
Zack A. (NY, NY)…..5
11/13
Henry E. (Marlboro, MA)…..27
11/13 Paul
M. (Aberystwyth, Wales)…..10
11/13 Joe J.
(Ludlow, VT)…..14
11/15
Jamie G. (Seymour, CT)…..4
11/16
Monte M. (Conway, NH)…..15
11/18
Alex S. (NY, NY)…..6
11/19
Eva B-E. (North Port, FL)…..21
11/20
Joseph H. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1
11/22
Terry S. (Maui, HI)…..2
11/22
Brandi S. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..6
11/22
Art K. (Vernon, BC, Canada)…..26
11/23
Elaine J. (Newport Beach, CA)…..34
11/23
Donna B. (Hampton, NH)…..39
11/23
Mark B. (Boston, MA)…..1
11/23
Colleen M. (Raleigh, NC)…..2
11/24
Ray G. (Bangor, ME)…..51
11/24
Tony da Brooklyn Buddha/Mastic Beach…..17
11/24
Karen P. (Waynesville, NC)…..31
11/24
Imogen B, (London, UK)…..16
11/25
Ronni J. (Michigan City, IN)…..23
11/26
Pam B. (Mukwonago WI/ Summerfield FL)…..35
11/29
Deleano S. (Virgin Gorda, BVI)…..7
11/30
Dave C. (Methuen, MA)…..22
11/30
Peter V. (Kittery, ME)…..39
11/30
Ted D. (Whitefish Bay, WI)…..8
0827
Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that
our lives had become unmanageable."
No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. p. 21 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
During our thoughts about the rewards that have come to us as a result of our new way of living, we find that we have new kinds of homes, new relationships with our spouses and with our children. Also, peace, contentment, hope, faith, charity, and new ambition. What are some of the things we have lost? Each one of us can answer this question in many ways. I have lost much of my fear. It used to control me; it was my master. It paralyzed my efforts. Fear always got me down. It made me an introvert, an ingrown person. When fear was replaced by faith, I got well. Have I lost some of my fears? Meditation For The Day The world would sooner be brought close to God. His will would sooner be done on earth, if all who acknowledge Him gave themselves unreservedly to being used by Him. God can use every human being as a channel for divine love and power. What delays the bringing of the world closer to God is the backwardness of His followers. If each one lived each day for God and allowed God to work through him, then the world would soon be drawn much closer to God, its Founder and Preserver. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be used as a channel to express the Divine Love. I pray that I may so live as to bring God's spirit closer to the world. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Touchy "Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things make us bristle with antagonism. This sort of thinking had to be abandoned. Though some of us resisted, we found no great difficulty in casting aside such feelings. Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect alcohol was a great persuader. It finally beat us into a state of reasonableness. Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will prejudiced for as long as some of us were." c.1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 48 Thought to Consider . . . The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual. *~*AACRONYMS*~* B O G G L E Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone |
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Daily Reflection
"THE QUALITY OF FAITH"
This . . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep
or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. .
. . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said,
"Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be
done."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 32
God does not grant me material possessions, take away my
suffering, or spare me from disasters, but He does give me
a good life, the ability to cope, and peace of mind. My
prayers are simple: first, they express my gratitude for the
good things in my life, regardless of how hard I have to
search for them; and second, I ask only for the strength and
the wisdom to do His will. He answers with solutions to my
problems, sustaining my ability to live through daily
frustrations with a serenity I did not believe existed, and
with the strength to practice the principles of A.A. in all of
my everyday affairs.
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Pot Luck
The concept of God was one that I
struggled with during
my early years of sobriety. The images that came to me, conjured from my past, were heavy with fear, rejection and condemnation. Then I heard my friend Ed's image of a Higher Power: As a boy he had been allowed a Utter of puppies, provided that he assume responsibility for their care. Each morning he would find the unavoidable "byproducts" of the puppies on the kitchen floor. Despite frustration, Ed said he couldn't get angry because "that's the nature of puppies." Ed felt that God viewed our defects and shortcomings with a similar understanding and warmth. I've often found solace from my personal confusion in Ed's calming concept of God. |
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