Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 11.12.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday November 12, 2019

From Waynesville, NC

The best apology is changed behavior.

~Anonymous

"Never discourage anyone who makes continual progress,

no matter how slow."

~Anonymous

“I don’t foresee outgrowing my need for help.”

~Grapevine: Harrisonburg, Virginia

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.

It is more important than the past, than education,

than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes,

than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.

It will make or break a company, a group, a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day

regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past and we cannot change the fact

that people will act in a certain way.

We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,

and that is our attitude...

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me

and 90% how I react to it.
~Chuck Swindoll

Big Book Quote

“When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the
model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things. Afterward,
his revulsion will be terrible. Nearly always, these antics indicate
nothing more than temporary conditions.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, To Employers, pg. 140~

Daily Share!

AA Speaker of the Day

WALLACE BRYANT

Sanford, NC

Florida State Convention

2005

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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

November 2019 Miracles

11/1 Trish H. (Brick, NJ)…..28

11/2 Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..12

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

11/3 Lori Z. (Milford, NH)…..21

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

11/7 Sandi A. (Bristol, UK)…..45

11/8 Brian R. (Olney, MD)…..4

11/9 Matt K. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..9

11/9 Joanne B. (Danvers, MA)…..14

11/9 Jessie R. (Carmel. NY)…..13

11/10 Russ S. (Palm City, FL)…..34

11/10 Donna P. (Chelmsford, MA)…..18

11/10 Aaron M. (Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica)…..1

11/11 Jay D. (Danbury, CT/Stuart, FL)…..38

11/11 Judie J. (Peterborough, NH)…..16

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

11/15 Ned W. (Portland , ME)…..34

11/16 Monte M. (Conway, NH)…..15

11/16 Jayne W. (Algarve, Portugal)…..34

11/17 Danny K. (Astoria, NY)…..10

11/18 Alex S. (NY, NY)…..6

11/19 Eva B-E. (North Port, FL)…..21

11/19 Jarryd K. (Bridgewater, NJ)…..3

11/19 Jennifer S. (Rockaway, NJ)…..2

11/20 Joseph H. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1

11/22 Kelly B. (St. Pete Beach, FL).....37

11/22 Terry S. (Maui, HI)…..2

11/22 Anne T-F. (Madison, CT)…..44

11/22 Brandi S. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..6

11/22 Art K. (Vernon, BC, Canada)…..26

11/23 Alan P. (West Palm Beach, FL)…..49

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

11/28 Hendy H. (Islington, MA)…..46

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

1192 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.

p. 24

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

I am less critical of other people, inside and outside of A.A. I used to run people
down all the time. I realize now that it was because I wanted unconsciously to build
myself up. I was envious of people who lived normal lives. I couldn't understand why
I couldn't be like them. And so I ran them down. I called them sissies or hypocrites.
I was always looking for faults in the other person. I loved to tear down what I
called "a stuff shirt" or "a snob." I have found that I can never make a person any
better by criticism. A.A. has taught me this. Am I less critical of people?

Meditation For The Day

You must admit your helplessness before your prayer for help will be heard by God.
Your own need must be recognized before you can ask God for the strength to meet
that need. But once that need is recognized, your prayer is heard above all the music
of heaven. It is not theological arguments that solve the problems of the questing
soul, but the sincere cry of that soul to God for strength and the certainty of that
soul that the cry will be heard and answered.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may send my voiceless cry for help out into the void.

I pray that I may feel certain that it will be heard somewhere, somehow.

Daily Thought

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The Group

"Over the years, every conceivable deviation from our Twelve Steps and Traditions have been tried. That was sure to be, since we are so largely a band of ego-driven individuals. Children of chaos, we have defiantly played with every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we think, wiser. These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error, which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today . . . We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival."
c.1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 146

Thought to Consider . . .

Working with alcoholics in committees is like trying to herd cats.

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E G O
Easing God Out

Daily Reflection

MORNING THOUGHTS

Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each

day for the man who is still sick

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164

For many years I pondered over God's will for me,

believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for

my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith,

hadn't I been told early that I was "chosen"? It finally

occurred to me, as I considered the above passage, that

God's will for me was simply that I practice Step Twelve

on a daily basis. Furthermore, I realized I should do this to

the best of my ability. I soon learned that the practice aids

me in keeping my life in the context of the day at hand.

Pot Luck

"I don’t believe in miracles. I depend upon them!"

If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. “Look at my life!” I would have said. “There are certainly no miracles happening here.” On hindsight, I wasn’t aware of how miraculous it was I hadn’t, through drunk driving alone, killed myself or anybody else yet, or how the miracle of recovery was about to happen for me.

During the first few years of recovery, the occurrence of miracles was subtle, and I sometimes missed them. My physical sobriety was something I struggled with and then eventually took for granted, but it was surely my first miracle. Later, the grace of emotional recovery and the emerging awareness of and appreciation for my spiritual self were also examples of the miracles taking place in my life. And, of course, I was always surrounded by the many miracles happening for others in the rooms as well.

These days, I have plenty of experience and evidence in my life, and in the lives around me, to believe in the existence of miracles. They may not always look like I expect them to, but they are unfolding in and around me constantly. Today, I realize it’s enough to just believe in their occurrence, and then to suit up and show up and work hard for them, and let God do the rest. Then I watch in wonderment as the miracles happen. Today, I not only believe in miracles, but I realize I am one.

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