Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 12.24.19

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday December 24, 2019

From Jacksonville, FL

“T’was the night before Christmas,

when all through the house,

not a creature was stirring,

not even a mouse.”

– Clement Clarke Moore

“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations,

compounded by December’s bad weather,

it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives

who are worth this aggravation,

and people to whom we are worth the same.”

– Donald E. Westlake

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The dice of God are always loaded - in your favor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s an easier way to go when you tell someone what they want to hear

rather than telling them what they need to hear.

But it’s a missed opportunity.

May you be blessed to speak kind truths that promote growth and authenticity.

~Prayables

"There are no mistakes in life,

just lessons to be learned and lived.

One can focus on regret in decisions

or on gratitude for what is right in front of them.

So many possibilities.

Choose to see the possibilities of what is there for you.

If you expect to see the good, it will be there."

~Cyndee Young

"Don't look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future.

You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

--Henry Ward Beecher

Big Book Quote

To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Foreword To First Edition, pg.
xiii~

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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

12/3 Debra A. (Tampa, FL)…..37

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

12/19 Brian K. (Ossipee, NH)…..8

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. (Raleigh, NC)…..2

12/24 Peter S. (Manhattan, NY)…..19

12/24 Eric O. (Kennebunkport, ME)…..5

12/24 Niki T. (Lake Worth, FL)…..3

12/25 Lynn I. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30

12/26 Chick R. (Oak Forest, IL)…..22

12/26 Jamie C. (Nantucket/West Palm Beach)…..3

12/27 Zoe R. (Kent, UK)…..1

12/27 Trish H. (UK)…..3

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

1190 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows. These people often throw to the winds every chance for legitimate security and a happy family life. Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace.

pp. 43-44

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

We have been given a new life, just because we happened to become alcoholics. We
certainly don't deserve the new life that has been given us. There is little in our past to
warrant the life we have now. Many people live good lives from their youth on, not getting into serious trouble, being well adjusted to life, and yet they have not found all that
we drunks have found. We had the good fortune to find Alcoholics Anonymous and with it a new life. We are among the lucky few in the world who have learned a new way of life. Am I deeply grateful for the new life that I have learned in A.A.?

Meditation For The Day

A deep gratitude to the Higher Power for all the blessings which we have and which we
don't deserve has come to us. We thank God and mean it. Then comes service to our
fellow men, out of gratitude for what we have received. This entails some sacrifice of
ourselves and our own affairs. But we are glad to do it. Gratitude, service, and then
sacrifice are the steps that lead to good A.A. work. They open the door to a new life for
us.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may gladly serve others, out of deep gratitude for what I have received. I
pray that I may keep a deep sense of obligation.

Daily Thought

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A New Life

"Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever."
Bill W., Grapevine, December 1957
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It p.8

Thought to Consider . . .

Action conquers fear.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

F A I T H
Fear Ain't In This House

Daily Reflection

A "SANE AND HAPPY USEFULNESS"

We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads

in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly

planted on earth. That is where our fellow travelers are,

and that is where our work must be done. These are the

realities for us. We have found nothing incompatible

between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane

and happy usefulness

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 130

All the prayer and meditation in the world will not help me

unless they are accompanied by action. Practicing the

principles in all my affairs shows me the care that God

takes in all parts of my life. God appears in my world when

I move aside, and allow Him to step into it.

Pot Luck

AA's First Christmas

Between noon of Wednesday, December 24, 1952 and midnight of Thursday, January 1st, 1953, some 120,000 members of AA will have seen their dreams of a dry holiday and their hopes of a sane New Year's come safely true.

The first Christmas for AA was the depression year of 1935. There were three old timers to mark it ... hardly a dozen newcomers to share it with them. In Akron, Dr. Bob and Bill D. were going on their second six months, four recruits had from four months to two months. In New York, Bill W. had thirteen months since his last drink, seven months since his historic trip to Akron and the start of AA.

In Akron, the six gathered with their families at Dr. Bob's. There was no ceremony ... no exchange of presents. The Twelve Steps had not yet been formulated. The Big Book was only a vague stirring that would not even be in manuscript until three more Christmases had been achieved. But there was joy that this most dangerous of times for the alcoholic had arrived ... and twenty-four hours by twenty-four hours was being mastered.

"There was thanks," remembers one of the two who survives that first Akron Christmas, "that we had come this far. However, I am certain that there was still considerable fear and trembling ... not fear that this new way would not work, but doubt and uncertainty that we would be able to hold on to it.

Bill W. recalls only a quiet day in New York that Yule of 1935 where there were very few involved. Five years later, there was a place in New York for an AA Christmas party ... the first AA clubhouse. And about the 24th Street Club there hangs a real Santa Claus story!

Or rather, it is a Saint Nicholas story. Just one hundred years before, in 1840, the building was erected at Number 334 1/2 West 24th Street ... the property of a family named Moore who were large landowners in Manhattan Island's Chelsea section. And driving across the snow-covered lawn, Dr. Clement Clarke Moore began to compose (some say just as his sled runners touched what is now the meeting room of AA's first clubhouse!) his immortal gift to children of all ages ... " 'Twas the night before Christmas."

Grapevine, December, 1952

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