Your Daily Reprieve 11.17.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday November 17 , 2019 From Waynesville, NC

There are 44 days left in the year and this decade. ~Shocking “Serenely remarking to his attendant, ‘I think this is it,’ Dr. Bob passed out of our sight and hearing November sixteenth at noonday. So ended the consuming malady wherein he had so well shown us how high faith can rise over grievous distress. As he had lived, so he had died, supremely aware that in his Father's House are many Mansions.” AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1951 Let everyone try and find, that as a result of daily prayer.  he adds something new to his life,  something with which nothing can be compared. --Mahatma Gandhi "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." --Robert Brault As human beings we have good qualities as well as bad ones. Now, anger, attachment, jealousy, hatred, are the bad side; these are the real enemy… The true troublemaker is inside. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama “I am grateful today that God’s voice is stronger and surer than my occasional negative whispers, comforting me through difficult times, letting me know that I am part of the whole.” ~Grapevine: St. Louis, Missouri, October 1997

Big Book Quote Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom. Many an alcoholic who entered there came away with an answer. He succumbed to that gay crowd inside, who laughed at their own misfortunes and understood his. Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own. The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 160

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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 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 Mike S. (Danvers, MA)…..28 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 11/28 Jane W. (Vermont)…..2 11/29 Debbie M. (Bedford, MA)…..5 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 1127  Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." “That,” agrees the sponsor, “is a very good question indeed. I think I can tell you exactly how to relax. You won’t have to work very hard, either. Listen, if you will, to these three statements. First, Alcoholics Anonymous does not demand that you believe anything. All of its twelve Steps are but suggestions. Second, to get sober and stay soberr, you don’t have to swallow all of Step Two right now. Looking back, I find that I took it piecemeal myself. Third, all you really need is a truly open mind. Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the chicken or the egg that came first. Again, I say, all you need is the open mind.” p.26

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought for the Day Everyone has two personalities, a good and a bad. We are all dual personalities to some extent. When we were drinking, the bad personality was in control. We did things when we were drunk that we would never do when we were sober. When we sober up, we are different people. Then we wonder how we could have done the things we did. But we drink again, and again our bad side comes out. So we are back and forth, always in conflict with our other selves, always in a stew. This division of our selves is not good; we must somehow become unified. We do this by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to A.A. and to sobriety. Have I become unified? Meditation for the Day "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of Thy Lord." These words are for many ordinary people, whom the world may pass by, unrecognizing. Not to the world-famed, the proud, the wealthy, are these words spoken, but to the quiet followers who serve God unobtrusively yet faithfully, who bear their crosses bravely and put a smiling face to the world. "Enter into the joy of Thy Lord." Pass into that fuller spiritual life, which is a life of joy and peace. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may not desire the world's applause. I pray that I may not seek rewards for doing what I believe is right.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Principles "Experience shows that few alcoholics will long stay away from a group just because they don't like the way it is run. Most return and adjust themselves to whatever conditions they must. Some go to a different group, or form a new one. In other words, once an alcoholic fully realizes that he cannot get well alone, he will somehow find a way to get well and stay well in the company of others." Bill W., Letter, 1943 c.1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 312 Thought to Consider . . . It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill - just add a little dirt. *~*AACRONYMS*~* I S M I, Self, Me

Daily Reflection OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less and less frequently in my life today. I have learned to cope with solitude. It is only when I am alone and calm that I am able to communicate with God, for He cannot reach me when I am in turmoil. It is good to maintain contact with God at all times, but it is absolutely essential that, when everything seems to go wrong, I maintain that contact through prayer and meditation.

Pot Luck We should learn not to grow impatient with the slow healing process of time. ~Joshua Loth Liebman Recovery is a process. It is a gradual process, a healing process, and a spiritual process—a journey rather than a destination. Just as codependency takes on a life of its own and is progressive, so recovery progresses. One thing leads to another and things—as well as us—get better. We can relax, do our part, and let the rest happen. Today, I will trust this process and this journey that I have undertaken. Today's reading is from the book The Language of Letting Go

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