Your Daily Reprieve 01.02.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday January  2, 2020 From Jacksonville, FL

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven. ~Johannes Gaertner Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in thisworld that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? ~Anonymous Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. ~Sammy Davis, Jr. “The realization that I had experienced something spiritual was in itself a spiritual experience, and I am only slowly understanding its implications. What happened in the past, without my knowledge, is probably continuing now. And in the future, when tomorrow becomes today, it can go on and on. All that is required is a desire to stop drinking, and to stay stopped.” ~Grapevine: York, Pennsylvania, January 1977

Big Book Quote "At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 77~

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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 January 2020 Miracles 1/1 Bob V. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..36 1/1 Severine W. (Sacramento, CA)…..3 1/1 Elena C. (NYC, NY)…..4 1/1 Nancy W. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..32 1/1 Joan B. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..31 1/1 Jessica C. (NYC, NY)…..6 1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison, NJ)…..15 1/1 John C. (Los Alamitos, CA)…..15 1/1 Ray A. (Surrey, BC, Canada)…..2 1/2 Joe B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..6 1/2 Robbie H. (White Rock, BC)…..7 1/2 Brian C. (Port Washington, NY)…..4 1/2 Mercedes G. (Tampa. FL)…..1 1/3 Billy M. (Louisville, KY)…..41 1/3 Johnyr (Stuart, FL)…..42 1/4 Nicola H. (Hertfordshire, UK)…..1 1/4 Kevin J. (RI)…..29 1/5 Donna M. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..46 1/5 Gwen F. (Key West, FL)…..12 1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..14 1/7 Alexis E. (East Twickenham, UK)…..18 1/7 Ray W. (Long Island)…..8 1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..22 1/7 Luke T. (Nantucket, MA)…..1 1/9 Tefft W. (Washington, DC)…..35 1/12 David F. (Windermere, BC, CA)…..7 1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..7 1/13 Robbie H. (FL/VA)…..38 1/13 Ken R. (Norfolk, MA)…..17 1/13 John E. (Reading, UK)….5 1/14 Maria H. (New York, NY)…..26 1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..7 1/14 Nick M. (Asheville, NC/Denver.CO)…..26 1/15 Bob W. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..37 1/15 Sue J. (Palm Coast, FL)…..10 1/15 Mike R. (Englewood, NJ)…..29 1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO)…..15 1/19 Rob W. (St Mary’s . GA) …..3 1/19 Rhonda L. (Stuart, FL)…..18 1/21 Levi S. (London, UK)…..5 1/21 Shane S. (Methuen, MA)…..1 1/22 Stacey C. (Austin, TX)…..13 1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air,MD)…..5 1/28 Karen Ann B. (Stuart, FL)…..1 1/29 Sandra C. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..44 1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..36 0735  Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride. We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. p. 47

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day What makes A.A. work? The first thing is to have a revulsion against myself and my way of living. Then I must admit I was helpless, that alcohol had me licked and I couldn't do anything about it. The next thing is to honestly want to quit the old life. Then I must surrender my life to a Higher Power, put my drinking problem in His hands and leave it there. After these things are done, I should attend meetings regularly for fellowship and sharing. I should also try to help other alcoholics. Am I doing these things? Meditation For The Day You are so made that you can only carry the weight of twenty-four hours, no more. If you weigh yourself down with the years behind and the days ahead, your back breaks. God has promised to help with the burdens of the day only. If you are foolish enough to gather again that burden of the past and carry it, then indeed you cannot expect God to help you bear it. So forget that which lies behind you and breathe in the blessing of each new day. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may realize that, for good or bad, past days have ended. I pray that I may face each new day, the coming twenty-four hours, with hope and courage.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Pride We scarcely need to be reminded that excessive guilt or rebellion leads to spiritual poverty. But it was a very long time before we knew we could go even more broke on spiritual pride. When we early A.A.'s got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: "Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!" That old-time admonition may look like another of those handy alibis that can excuse us from trying our best. Yet a closer view reveals just the contrary. This is our A.A. way of warning against pride-blindness, and the imaginary perfection's that we do not possess.  Bill W., June 1961 c. 1988 AA Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 255 Thought to Consider . . . Pride without gratitude is arrogance. *~*AACRONYMS*~* L E T  G O Leave Everything To God, Okay?

Daily Reflection FIRST, THE FOUNDATION Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 8 Practicing the A.A. program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, was the equivalent of stopping drinking. But it's pretty uncomfortable living on a concrete slab, unprotected and exposed to the heat, cold, wind and rain. So I built a room on the slab by starting to practice the program. The first room was rickety because I wasn't used to the work. But as time passed, as I practiced the program, I learned to build better rooms. The more I practiced, and the more I built, the more comfortable, and happy, was the home I now have to live in.

Pot Luck    Father Leo's Daily Meditation TEMPTATION "What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is that they don't want to discourage it completely." --Franklin P. Jones Usually I am tempted because I want to be. I allow myself to get too close to the object of my desire or I invite the problem into my life knowing that I will not resist it. Then I use my "imperfection" as an excuse! In this way I manipulate my spiritual program and become dishonest. When I first got sober, I did not allow alcohol in my house; I did not go to bars; I did not spend time with heavy drinkers; I avoided airplanes or places that I would associate with alcohol. This disciplined approach to sobriety worked. If you don't invite the enemy in, you won't get beaten up. I need to continue to remember these simple rules and not get complacent in my sobriety. Let me keep temptation out of my life by avoiding it.

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