Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 12.15.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday December 15, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas
if you stop opening presents and listen.
~ Unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,

moving at different speeds.

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

-Clive James

"Placing the blame or judgment on someone else

leaves you powerless to change your experience.

Taking responsability for your beliefs and judgments

gives you the power to change them."

~Byron Katie

To a student who was forever complaining about others the Teacher said,

"If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people.

It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole world.
~Anthony de Mello

“AA is no set of tablets handed down to some latter-day Moses –

but a continuing creative process in which we all take part,

a perpetual journey from the known to the unknown,

a truth ever-arriving through experience.”

~New York, New York, November 1994

Big Book Quote

When people presented us with spiritual approaches,

how frequently did we all say, "I wish I had what that man has. I'm sure it
would work if I could only believe as he believes. But I cannot
accept as surely true the many articles of faith which are so plain
to him." So it was comforting to learn that we could commence at a
simpler level.

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 47~

Daily Share!

AA Speaker of the Day

JOE & CHARLIE

Big Book Comes Alive

2013

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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

12/4 Fred E. (Stuttgart, DE)…..8

12/4 Mike K. (Floral Park, NY)…..1

12/4 Lisa B. (Trenton, MI)…..24

12/5 Bob H. ()…..35

12/6 Dave B. (Venice, FL)…..28

12/8 Lynne L. (Portland, OR)…..46

12/8 Ed B. (Lawrenceville, NJ)…..18

12/10 Susan M. (Mendham, NJ)…..1

12/11 Dawn K. ()…..12

12/11 Brendan B. (At Home)…..1

12/14 Linda M. (Salem, NH)…..7

12/15 John M. (Paros, Greece)…..17

12/16 Mike S. (Raleigh, NC)…..3

12/17 Joe K. (North Port, FL)…..36

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

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

12/19 Mary F. (West Newbury, MA)…..21

12/27 Zoe R. (Kent, UK)…..1

0361 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."

At first that "somebody" is likely to be his closest A.A. friend. He relies upon the assurance that his many troubles, now made more acute because he cannot use alcohol to kill the pain, can be solved, too. Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made. More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life. That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in. Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.

pp. 39-40

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Service to others makes the world a good place. Civilization
would cease if all of us were always and only for ourselves. We
alcoholics have a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the
well-being of the world. We have a common problem. We find
a common answer. We are uniquely equipped to help others
with the same problem. What a wonderful world it would be
if everybody took their own greatest problem and found the
answer to it and spent the rest of their lives helping
others with the same problem, in their spare time. Soon we
would have the right kind of a world. Do I appreciate my unique
opportunity to be of service?

Meditation For The Day

Today can be lived in the consciousness of God's contact,
upholding you in all good thoughts, words and deeds. If
sometimes there seems to be a shadow on your life and you
feel out of sorts, remember that this is not the withdrawal
of God's presence, but only your own temporary unwillingness
to realize it. The quiet gray days are the days for doing
what you must do, but know that the consciousness of God's
nearness will return and be with you again, when the gray
days are past.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may face the dull days with courage. I pray
that I may have faith that the bright days will return.

Daily Thought

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Forgive

"Just like you, I have often thought myself the victim of what other people say and do. Yet every time I confessed the sins of such people, especially those whose sins did not correspond exactly with my own, I found that I only increased the total damage . . . Under very trying circumstances, I have had, again and again, to forgive others - also myself. Have you recently tried this?"
Bill W., Letter, 1946
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 268

Thought to Consider . . .

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

F E E L
Feel, Experience, Express, Let go!

Daily Reflection

DOING ANYTHING TO HELP

Offer him [the alcoholic] friendship and fellowship. Tell

him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to

help.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 95

I remember how attracted I was to the two men from A.A.

who Twelfth-Stepped me. They said I could have what

they had, with no conditions attached, that all I had to do

was make my own decision to join them on the pathway to

recovery. When I start convincing a newcomer to do things

my way, I forget how helpful those two men were to me in

their open-minded generosity.

Pot Luck

Letting Go of Fear

     Fear is at the core of codependency. It can motivate us to control situations or neglect ourselves.

     Many of us have been afraid for so long that we don't label our feelings fear. We're used to feeling upset and anxious. It feels normal.

     Peace and serenity may be uncomfortable.

     At one time, fear may have been appropriate and useful. We may have relied on fear to protect ourselves, much the way soldiers in a war rely on fear to help them survive. But now, in recovery, we're living life differently.

     It's time to thank our own old fears for helping us survive, then wave good-bye to them. Welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety. We don't need that much fear anymore. We can listen to our healthy fears, and let go of the rest.

     We can create a feeling of safety for ourselves, now. We are safe, now. We've made a commitment to take care of ourselves. We can trust and love ourselves.

God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. Replace it with a need to be at peace. Help me listen to my healthy fears and relinquish the rest.