Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 12.14.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday December 14, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

~ I know what I really want for Christmas.

I want my childhood back. ...

[I want] a child who is impractical, unrealistic,

simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

~ Robert Fulghum

Speak kind words receive kind echos.

“AA’s Twelve Traditions are little else than a list of sacrifices

which the experience of twenty years has taught us

that we must make, individually and collectively.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1955,

"Hope is like the sun, which,

as we journey toward it,

casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

~Samuel Smiles

"We cannot live only for ourselves.

A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men;

and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads,

our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects."
~Herman Melville

Big Book Quote

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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

12/7 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 Wendell M. (Bothell, WA)…..6

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)…..8

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

12/28 Melissa C. (Acton, MA)…..5

12/31 Aussie Ian (Bangkok)…..25

12/31 Jake R. (Prattville, AL)…..44

12/31 Tabatha J. (Charlotte, NC)…..7

0952 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."

So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power? He made a beginning, we have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol problem. By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster. They simply will not budge; they make him desperately unhappy and threaten his newfound sobriety. Our friend is still victimized by remorse and guilt when he thinks of yesterday. Bitterness still overpowers him when he broods upon those he still envies or hates. His financial insecurity worries him sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to safety that alcohol burned behind him. And how shall he ever straighten out that awful jam that cost him the affection of his family and separated him from them? His lone courage and unaided will cannot do it. Surely he must now depend upon Somebody or Something else.

p. 39

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The way of A.A. is the way of service. Without that, it would
not work. We have been "on the wagon" and hated it. We have
taken the pledge and waited for the time to be up with
impatience. We have tried in all manner of ways to help
ourselves. But not until we begin to help other people do we
get full relief. It is an axiom that the A.A. program has
to be given away in order to be kept. A river flows into the
Dead Sea and stops. A river flows into a clear pool and flows
out again. We get and then we give. If we do not give, we do
not keep. Have I given up all ideas of holding A.A. for myself
alone?

Meditation For The Day

Try to see the life of the spirit as a calm place, shut away
from the turmoil of the world. Think of your spiritual home
as a place full of peace, serenity, and contentment. Go to
this quiet, meditative place for the strength to carry you
through today's duties and problems. Keep coming back here
for refreshment when you are weary of the hubbub of the
outside world. From this quietness and communion comes our
strength.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may keep this resting place where I can commune
with God. I pray that I may find refreshment in meditation on
the Eternal.

Daily Thought

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(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
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Diagnosis

"We do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself. Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 31-2

Thought to Consider . . .

If you want to quit drinking, you are going to have to quit drinking.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

D E A D
Drinking Ends All Dreams

Daily Reflection

REACHING OUT

Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or

spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual looks for

his inspection. Show him how they worked with you.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 95

When I come into contact with a newcomer, do I have a

tendency to look at him from my perceived ingle of

success in A.A.? Do I compare him with the large number

of acquaintances I have made in the Fellowship? Do I

point out to him in a magisterial way the voice of A.A.?

What is my real attitude toward him? I must examine

myself whenever I meet a newcomer to make sure that I

am carrying the message with simplicity, humility and

generosity. The one who still suffers from the terrible disease

of alcoholism must find in me a friend who will allow

him to get to know the A.A. way, because I had such a

friend when I arrived in A.A. Today it is my turn to hold

out my hand, with love, to my sister or brother alcoholic,

and to show her or him the way to happiness.

Pot Luck

I was blessed to hear a teaching on gratitude a number of years ago on a Recovery 2.0 journey to India. The teacher began his lecture with two words, "relent complaint.”

After a long pause allowing the power of those first words to sink in, he continued, “Do not complain about anything ever again.”

“Amazing”, I thought to myself, “Could I actually not complain about anything any more?”

Next, the teacher added, “Everyone speaks about gratitude and seems to want to have it, but one cannot simultaneously complain and be grateful. The two things cannot coexist.”

The power of this idea has stayed with me ever since. I now spend less and less time complaining and more and more time in the tremendously attractive force-field of gratitude.

~Jerry Campbell