Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday November 19, 2019
From Waynesville, NC
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Big Book Quote
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually
becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 87~ |
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the Day
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Petersburgh FL
@
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11.16.2019
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SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
this :
6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
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
Chip B. (Destin, FL and Thereabouts)…..32
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
1159 Total
Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity."
"Then I woke up. I had to admit that A.A. showed results, prodigious results. I saw that my attitude regarding these had been anything but scientific. It wasn't A.A. that had the closed mind, it was me. The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could. p. 27 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
In A.A. we do not speak much of sex. And yet putting sex in its proper place in our lives is one of the rewards that has come to us as a result of our new way of living. The big book says that many of us needed an overhauling there. It also says that we subjected each sex relation to this test -- was it selfish or not? "We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly, nor to be despised or loathed." We can ask God to mold our ideals and to help us to live up to them. We can act accordingly. Have I got my sex life under proper control? Meditation For The Day "I will lift up my eyes unto the heights whence cometh my help." Try to raise your thoughts from the depths of the sordid and mean and impure things of the earth to the heights of goodness and decency and beauty. Train your insight by trying to take the higher view. Train it more and more until distant heights become more familiar. The heights of the Lord, whence cometh your help, will become nearer and dearer and the false values of the earth will seem farther away. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not keep my eyes forever downcast. I pray that I may set my sights on higher things. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Companionship "Letting go of everything at once was both painful and terrifying. I could never have accomplished this alone. It took the help, understanding and wonderful companionship that was given so freely to me by my 'ex-alkie' friends. This and the program of recovery embodied in the Twelve Steps . . . Whole new vistas were opened up for me, new avenues of experience to be explored, and life began to take on color and interest." c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 311 Thought to Consider . . . This is a great day to be sober, patient, tolerant, kindly and loving. *~*AACRONYMS*~* C A R E Comforting And Reassuring Each other |
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Daily Reflection
"I WAS SLIPPING FAST"
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of
dealing with the realities of life, . . . So it isn't surprising
that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as
something not really necessary.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96
I had been slipping away from the program for some time,
but it took a death threat from a terminal disease to bring
me back, and particularly to the practice of the Eleventh
Step of our blessed Fellowship. Although I had fifteen years
of sobriety and was still very active in the program, I knew
that the quality of my sobriety had slipped badly. Eighteen
months later, a checkup revealed a malignant tumor and a
prognosis of certain death within six months. Despair
settled in when I enrolled in a rehab program, after which I
suffered two small strokes which revealed two large brain
tumors. As I kept hitting new bottoms I had to ask myself
why this was happening to me. God allowed me to recognize
my dishonesty and to become teachable again.
Miracles began to happen. But primarily I relearned the
whole meaning of the Eleventh Step. My physical condition
has improved dramatically, but my illness is minor
compared to what I almost lost completely.
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Pot Luck
It is necessary to
cultivate some discipline of mind,
for an undisciplined mind
always finds excuses to act selfishly and thoughtlessly.
When the mind is
undisciplined, the body is also undisciplined,
and so is speech and
action.
-Anguttara Nikaya
Beauty fades, but dumb is
forever.
~Judge Judy Sheindlin
“I spent the first thirty
years making a mess of the life I was given,
the next thirty trying to
figure out this simple program,
and now I can try in the
last thirty to loosen up,
let life happen, and try to
have a little fun.”
~Grapevine: White Rock,
British Columbia, May 2005
“Blessings. They are
everywhere. Take time to enjoy them.”
~Anonymous
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