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Your
Daily Reprieve for Monday January 6, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to
wait until you're ready.
I have this feeling now
that actually no one is ever ready to do anything.
There's almost no such
thing as ready. There's only now.
And you may as well do it
now.
I mean, I say that
confidently
as if I'm about to go
bungee jumping or something - I'm not.
I'm not a crazed risk
taker.
But I do think that
generally speaking,
now is as good a time as
any."
~Hugh Laurie
"Your vision will
become clear only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
~Carl Jung
is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection.
Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great
temptation,
but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are
part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection.
When we have come to believe in the voices that call us
worthless and unlovable,
then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as
attractive solutions.
The real trap, however, is self-rejection.
As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me,
as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned,
I find myself thinking,
"Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody."
...
[My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed
aside,
forgotten, rejected, and abandoned.
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life
because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the
"Beloved."
Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our
existence."
~Henri J.M. Nouwen enri J.M. Nouwen |
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Big Book Quote
"We
feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much
more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 19 |
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1130 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves."
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings--the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. It is not by accident that pride heads the procession. For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress. Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts. When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses. pp. 48-49 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Keeping sober is the most important thing in my life. The most important decision I ever made was my decision to give up drinking. I am convinced that my whole life depends on not taking that first drink. Nothing in the world is as important to me as my own sobriety. Everything I have, my whole life depends on that one thing. Can I afford ever to forget this, even for one minute? Meditation For The Day I will discipline myself. I will do this disciplining now. I will turn out all useless thoughts. I know that the goodness of my life is a necessary foundation for its usefulness. I will welcome this training, for without it God cannot give me his power. I believe that this power is a mighty power when used in the right way. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may face and accept whatever discipline is necessary. I pray that I may be fit to receive God's power in my life. |
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Daily Thought
Thoughts For The Day~
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( \(AA)/ ) ( /AA\ ) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Alternatives If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives. One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could, and the other, to accept spiritual help. This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort. c. 1976 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 25-26 Thought to Consider . . . If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been. *~*AACRONYMS*~*
A B C
Acceptance, Belief, Change. |
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Daily Reflection
THE VICTORY OF SURRENDER
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to
take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our
admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to
be
firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may
be built
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21
When alcohol influenced every facet of my life, when
bottles became the symbol of all my self-indulgence and
permissiveness, when I came to realize that, by myself, I
could do nothing to overcome the power of alcohol, I
realized I had no recourse except surrender. In surrender
I
found victory—victory over my selfish self-indulgence,
victory over my stubborn resistance to life as it was
given
to me. When I stopped fighting anybody or anything, I
started on the path to sobriety, serenity and peace.
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Pot Luck
How About
Okay?
The more I drank the more I disliked myself. The more I
disliked myself the more I drank. In order to justify this self-defeating,
self-hating behavior, I told myself that most people weren’t any
different. If they didn't drink they drugged, and if they didn't drug they
overate and If they didn't overeat, they fooled around, and if they didn't
fool around they were probably dead. Right?
Wrong!
There
are lots of people in this world who are comfortable with themselves. Who
have learned to take care of themselves and the other people in their lives.
Who have learned to live on reasonable terms. Sure, these people have their
faults. There are things in their lives they'd like to change. They’d like to
have more money, or more time, or more more hair. But they don't beat
themselves up about these things. They don’t compensate themselves to the
point of stupor, or terror, or death. Because they haven’t got those things.
They don't say to themselves, you are just as bad as the devil, but because I
have the abilities of a god, I will make you feel just as powerful as me -
until you come to in the morning, when you will feel just as rotten as you
have every right to expect, you nasty devil, you.
Up
and down, and up and down, and up and down, the trials of duality go on.
Good/bad, right/wrong, high/low, in/out, here/there. yes/no.
Hey!
How about okay?
Instead
of feeling like Zeus on Mount Olympus or the lowliest a scum of the earth,
how about feeling like a regular guy? A doer, and a schlepper a guy who gets
things done then relaxes and has a good time and goes to bed and gets up to
get some more things done after which he relaxes and has some more fun. He
does this without subjecting his behavior to the scrutiny of the inquisition.
He doesn't contact Ann Landers or Dr. Ruth, or the Supreme Court to get a
judgment on his every act or thought. He gets to the point of knowing what
makes him feel useful and happy and worthwhile and he tries to stay
with the behavior that produces those effects,
Sometimes
such a guy is a guy on the program depends on well he’s working his program.
Depends if he's willing to settle for okay.
“How About
Okay?” . Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men
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