Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday December 10, 2019
From West Palm Beach, FL
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“Two things define you.
Your patience when you have
nothing,
your attitude when you have
everything.”
~Unknown
"The wisdom you
acquire with the passage of time
is a useless gift unless
you share it."
-Esther Williams
Prejudice is a learned
trait.
You're not born prejudiced;
you're taught it.
~Charles H. Swindoll
"When you encounter
difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them,
but bend them with gentleness
and time."
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Big Book Quote
Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness.
We
must, or it kill us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~ |
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6/10 Bob S.
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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
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12/5 Sophie G. (Larchmont, NY)…..7
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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
12/7 Georgia O. (Stuart, FL)…..41
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
12/18 Melissa B. (Cape Cod, MA)…..1
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
12/21 Moira N. (New Rochelle, NY)…..7
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
0946 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Three - "Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency. Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments. Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong." Every such pressure group, if it is strong enough, self-righteously imposes its will upon the rest. And everywhere the same thing is being done on an individual basis. The sum of all this mighty effort is less peace and less brotherhood than before. The philosophy of self-sufficiency is not paying off. Plainly enough, it is a bone-crushing juggernaut whose final achievement is ruin. p. 37 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Our drinking fellowship was a substitute one, for lack of something better. At the time, we did not realize what real fellowship could be. Drinking fellowship has a fatal fault. It is not based on a firm foundation. Most of it is on the surface. It is based mostly on the desire to use your companions for your own pleasure and using others is a false foundation. Drinking fellowship has been praised in song and story. The "cup that cheers" has become famous as a means of companionship. But we realize that the higher centers of our brains are dulled by alcohol and such fellowship cannot be on the highest plane. It is at best only a substitute. Do I see my drinking fellowship in its proper light? Meditation For The Day Set for yourself the task of growing daily more and more into the consciousness of a Higher Power. We must keep trying to improve our conscious contact with God. This is done by prayer, quiet times, and communion. Often all you need to do is sit silent before God and let Him speak to you through your thought. Try to think God's thoughts after Him. When the guidance comes, you must not hesitate, but go out and follow that guidance in your daily work, doing what you believe to be the right thing. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be still and know God is with me. I pray that I may open my mind to the leading of Divine Mind. |
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Daily Thought
^*^*^*^*^ (\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Gratitude "A complete change takes place in our approach to life. Where we used to run from responsibility, we find ourselves accepting it with gratitude that we can successfully shoulder it. Instead of wanting to escape some perplexing problem, we experience a thrill of challenge in the opportunity it affords for another application of A.A. techniques, and we find ourselves tackling it with surprising vigor." c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 311-12 Thought to Consider . . . When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. Bill W., March 1962 *~*AACRONYMS*~* T H I N K The Happiness I Never Knew |
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Daily Reflection
CARRYING THE MESSAGE
Now, what about the rest of
the Twelfth Step? The
wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which
it carries our message to
the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates
the Twelve Steps into action upon
all our affairs is the
payoff, the magnificent reality, of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 109
To renounce the alcoholic world is not to abandon it, but to
act upon principles I have
come to love and cherish, and to
restore in others who still
suffer the serenity I have come to
know. When I am truly
committed to this purpose, it
matters little what clothes
I wear or how I make a living.
My task is to carry the
message, and to lead by example,
not design.
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Pot Luck
When a
person drowns himself in negative thinking, he is committing an unspeakable
crime against himself. ~Maxwell Maltz
Negative thoughts can rule
our lives as compulsively as an addiction. The feelings of power we get from
holding a dismal and gloomy outlook deprive us of the positive and pleasant
parts of life. Some of us have said, "If I expect the worst, I won't be
disappointed. If I think the worst about myself, no one else can cut me
down." It is like taking a driving trip and looking only for trash and
garbage in the ditches, ignoring the beauty beyond. Indeed, what we see may
be real, but it is a very limited piece of the picture.
When we have relied on
negative thinking, it feels risky to give it up. We cannot do it in one day.
We can begin by imagining ourselves with a more open attitude toward the
world and ourselves. Then we can try it out as an experiment in little ways,
with no commitment. Finally we reach the point where we can take a risk and
entrust our Higher Power with the outcome.
Today, I will experiment
with hopeful and positive thoughts about what happens.
Today's reading is from the book Touchstones
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Twenty Four Hours a Day
Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics
throughout the world. With over nine million
copies in print (the original text has been revised),
this "little black book" offers
daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
applications to fit our daily lives.
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