Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 12.07.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday December 7, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

"We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide example for others.

We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange,

perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves,

to the great mosaic of being.

As the gods intended,

we are here to become more and more ourselves."
~James Hollis,

Conscience is, in most men,

an anticipation of the opinion of others.

~ Sir Henry Taylor

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker

what he thinks into it.

~Ernest Holmes

Believing anything is possible is the foundation of faith.

Each morning in bed before you open your eyes,

commit yourself to making the day a good one.

It's not the events of the day that affect your happiness,

it is the choice you make in the time between waking up and getting up.

May God bless you to accept the charge. Choose happy.

~ Prayables

Big Book Quote

So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking, if we
have a legitimate reason for being there. That includes bars,
nightclubs, dances, receptions, weddings, even plain ordinary whoopee parties.

To a person who has had experience with an alcoholic,

this may seem like tempting Providence, but it isn't.

You will note that we made an important qualification. Therefore,
ask yourself on each occasion, Have I any good social, business, or
personal reason for going to this place? Or am I expecting to steal a little vicarious pleasure from the atmosphere of such places?' If you answer these questions satisfactorily, you need have no
apprehension. Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure
you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your
motive in going is thoroughly good. Do not think of what you will
get out of the occasion. Think of what you can bring to it. But if
you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 101

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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

December 2019 Miracles

12/1 Beth S. (Albuquerque, NM/Madison, NH)…..24

12/2 Wendy M. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..30

12/3 Ancil D. (Bloomington, IN)…..1

13/3 Walter S. (Jacksonville, FL)…..26

12/4 Fred E. (Stuttgart, DE)…..8

12/4 Mike K. (Floral Park, NY)…..1

12/4 Lisa B. (Trenton, MI)…..24

12/5 Sophie G. (Larchmont, NY)…..7

12/5 Bob H. ()…..35

12/5 Matt G. (Colts Neck, NJ)…..11

12/6 Dave B. (Venice, FL)…..28

12/6 Nikki G. (Flemington, NJ)…..9

12/7 Steve O. (Osteen, FL)…..27

12/8 Lynne L. (Portland, OR)…..46

12/8 Ed B. (Lawrenceville, NJ)…..18

12/10 Susan M. (Mendham, NJ)…..1

12/10 Paul K/ Gypsy (Nantucket MA / Anguilla)…..13

12/10 Kathy R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..9

12/13 Wendell M. (Bothell, WA)…..6

12/11 Dawn K. ()…..12

12/11 Brendan B. (At Home)…..1

12/12 Mitch B. (Evanston, IL)…..33

12/13 Tom O. (Milwaukee WI_.....13

12/14 Linda M. (Salem, NH)…..7

12/14 Bob P. (Cullman, AL)…..29

12/15 John M. (Paros, Greece)…..17

12/15 Taleah M. (NY, N Y)…..2

12/16 Mike S. (Raleigh, NC)…..3

12/16 Carrie F. (Selinsgrove, PA)…..15

12/16 Heather V. (Nantucket, MA)…..2

12/17 Joe K. (North Port, FL)…..36

12/18 Chris V. (Nashville, TN)…..12

12/18 Kevin T. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..27

12/19 Autumn M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..2

12/19 Kathleen S. (Haverhill, MA)…..39

12/19 Mary F. (West Newbury, MA)…..21

12/21 Bridget C. (Albany, NY)…..17

12/22 Dick McD. (New York, NY)…..42

12/23 Pete G. (Larchmont, NY)…..39

12/23 Cathy B. (Princeton, NJ)…..15

12/23 Lee H. (San Francisco, CA)…..29

12/24 Peter S. (Manhattan, NY)…..19

12/26 Chick R. (Oak Forest, IL)…..22

12/27 Zoe R. (Kent, UK)…..1

12/28 Johanna T. (Cobleskill, NY)…..19

12/31 Aussie Ian (Bangkok)…..25

12/31 Jake R. (Prattville, AL)…..44

12/31 Tabatha J. (Charlotte, NC)…..7

0877 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Three - "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

But suppose that instinct still cries out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting alcohol, I guess I have to be dependent upon A.A., but in all other matters I must still maintain my independence. Nothing is going to turn me into a nonentity. If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me? I'll look like the hole in the doughnut." This, of course, is the process by which instinct and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate spiritual development. The trouble is that this kind of thinking takes no real account of the facts. And the facts seem to be these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit.

pp. 35-36

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the
temptation is strong to say nothing about it. No other
A.A. member should force them to declare themselves. It is
entirely up to them. If they are well-grounded in A.A., they
will realize that it's up to them to speak up at the
next meeting and tell about their slip. There is no
possible evasion of this duty, if they are thoroughly honest
and really desirous of living the A.A. way again. When they
have done it, their old confidence returns. They are home again.
Their slip should not be mentioned again by others. They are
again a good member of A.A. Am I tolerant of other
peoples' mistakes?

Meditation For The Day

It is in the union of a soul with God that strength, new
life and spiritual power come. Bread sustains the body but
we cannot live by bread alone. To try to do God's will is
the meat and support of true living. We feed on that
spiritual food. Soul starvation comes from failing to do
so. The world talks about bodies that are undernourished.
What of the souls that are undernourished? Strength and
peace come from partaking of spiritual food.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not try to live by bread alone.
I pray that my spirit may live by trying to do the will
of God as I understand it.

Daily Thought

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Commitment

"No matter how much one wishes to try, how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? A beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed. Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock, and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more."
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 122

Thought to Consider . . .

If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.

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O U R
Openly Using Recovery

Daily Reflection

TRUE AMBITION

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition

is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under

the grace of God.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 124-25

During my drinking years, my one and only concern was to

have my fellow man think highly of me. My ambition in

everything I did was to have the power to be at the top. My

inner self kept telling me something else but I couldn't

accept it. I didn't even allow myself to realize that I wore a

mask continually. Finally, when the mask came off and I

cried out to the only God I could conceive, the Fellowship

of A.A., my group and the Twelve Steps were there. I

learned how to change resentments into acceptance, fear

into hope and anger into love. I have learned also, through

loving without undue expectations, through sharing my

concerns and caring for my fellow man, that each day can

be joyous and fruitful. I begin and end my day with thanks

to God, who has so generously shed His grace on me.

Pot Luck

YOUR OWN VALUATION

     The world will take you at your own valuation. Your body will take you at your own valuation. Your business will take you at your own valuation; for the value that you really put upon yourself is the one that manifests. You may say, "But that cannot be true, because I know several people who are always boasting and pretending and yet no one ever takes them seriously."

     Please note that I said the value you really put upon yourself. People who boast, bluff, and pretend have really a poor opinion of themselves--or why would they pretend? And it is this poor opinion or sense of inferiority that is demonstrated in the failure that such people always make of their lives.

     The man who really believes that his wares are excellent does not dream of lying about them. The man who is satisfied with what he is has no incentive to pretend to be something he is not. The man who is conscious of substantial achievement has no desire to boast.

     Nature always takes you at your own evaluation. Believe that you are the child of God. Believe that you express live, Truth, and Love. Better that wisdom guides you. Believe that you are a special enterprise on the part of God--and what you really believe that you will

demonstrate.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, ad it doth not yet appear what we shall be . . .(1 John 3:2)
To any one of these we must say, "And this is more than enough!"
~Emmet Fox