Your Daily Reprieve 12.18.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday December 18, 2019 From Jacksonville, FL

"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things." ~Thomas S. Monson ***** "Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert The smarter a man is the more he needs God to protect him from thinking he knows everything." --George Webb Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace within difficulties. C.S. Lewis The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ~A. W. Tozer

Big Book Quote To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. This is particularly true of women. Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33~

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net 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 12/7 Nan G. (Los Altos, CA/Nantucket, MA)…..23 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 12/11 Dawn K. ()…..12 12/11 Brendan B. (At Home)…..1 12/12 Mitch B. (Evanston, IL)…..33 12/12 Linda B. (marylnd, NY)…..6 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 12/15 Bill M. (Goodyear, AZ/Caguas, PR)…..34 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 12/18 John K. (Stuart, FL)…..7 12/19 Autumn M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..2 12/19 Kathleen S. (Haverhill, MA)…..39 12/19 Mary F. (West Newbury, MA)…..21 12/19 Karen G. (Brooklyn, NY)…..7 12/19 Autumn M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..3 12/20 Lory W. (Winchester, UK)…..19 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 Carol H. (Amarillo, TX)…..13 12/23 Cathy B. (Princeton, NJ)…..15 12/23 Lee H. (San Francisco, CA)…..29 12/23 Dave L. ()…..2 12/24 Peter S. (Manhattan, NY)…..19 12/24 Eric O. (Kennebunkport, ME)…..5 12/25 Lynn I. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30 12/26 Chick R. (Oak Forest, IL)…..22 12/27 Zoe R. (Kent, UK)…..1 12/28 Johanna T. (Cobleskill, NY)…..19 12/28 Chris A. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..2 12/28 Melissa C. (Acton, MA)…..5 12/30 Rufus W. (Coppell, TX)…..46 12/31 Aussie Ian (Bangkok)…..25 12/31 Jake R. (Prattville, AL)…..44 12/31 Tabatha J. (Charlotte, NC)…..7 1136  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." Once we have come into agreement with these ideas, it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done." pp. 40-41

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Unless we have the key of faith to unlock to unlock the meaning of life, we are lost. We do not choose faith because it is one way for us, but because it is the only way. Many have failed and will fail. For we cannot live vic- toriously without faith; we are at sea without a rudder or an anchor, drifting on the sea of life. Wayfarers without a home. Our souls are restless until they find rest in God. Without faith, our lives are a meaningless succession of unrelated hap- penings, without rhyme or reason. Have I come to rest in faith? Meditation For The Day This vast universe around us, including this wonder- ful earth on which we live, was once perhaps only a thought in the mind of God. The nearer the astronomers and the physicists get to the ultimate composition of all things, the nearer the universe ap- proaches a mathematical formula, which is thought. The universe may be the thought of the Great Thinker. We must try to think God’s thoughts after Him. We must try to get guidance from the Divine Mind as to what His intention is for the world and what part we can have in carrying out that intention. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not worry over the limitations of my human mind. I pray that I may live as though my mind were a reflection of  the Divine Mind.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Perfection "Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt for failure to achieve His likeness and image by Thursday next. Progress is our aim, and His perfection is the beacon, light-years away, that draws us on." Bill W., Letter, 1966 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It p. 15 Thought to Consider . . . Remember the 3 P's: Perfectionism (leads to) Procrastination (leads to) Paralysis. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P U T Patience, Understanding, Tolerance

Daily Reflection HONESTY WITH NEWCOMERS 'ell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature freely. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 93 The marvel of A.A. is that I tell only what happened to me. I don't waste time offering advice to potential newcomers, for if advice worked, nobody would get to A.A. All I have to do is show what has brought me sobriety and what has changed my life. If I fail to stress the spiritual feature of A.A.'s program, I am being dishonest. The newcomer should not be given a false impression of sobriety. I am sober only through the grace of my Higher Power, and that makes it possible for me to share with others.

Pot Luck “There are many kinds of spiritual experience. Some are like the conversions of the great religious leaders of the past; others seem purely psychological. Some are sudden or instantaneous; others are a gradual learning experience. But all of them, whatever form they take, have one effect: They make a person capable of doing something he could not do before. “As Bill puts it, ‘When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.’” York, Pennsylvania, January 1977, “So That’s a Spiritual Experience!”, Spiritual Awakenings

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