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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday January 8, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“My miracle occurred when I
became willing
to go to any lengths to
take action.
Like the trapeze artist,
it wasn’t the knowledge of
it being there –
it was the action of letting go.”
~Grapevine: Lexington,
Kentucky, April 2002,
"It's one of those
things a person has to do;
sometimes a person has to
go a very long distance out of his way
to come back a short
distance correctly."
~Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
Finish each day and be done
with it.
You have done what you
could;
some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you
can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it well and
serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is no disgrace to
start all over.
It is usually an
opportunity."
George Matthew Adams
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Big Book Quote
"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."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~ |
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1202 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves."
So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else. Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable. These are the first fruits of Step Four. pp. 49-50 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Everyone who comes into A.A. knows from bitter experience that he or she can't drink. I know that drinking has been the cause of all my major troubles or has made them worse. Now that I have found a way out, I will hang on to A.A. with both hands. world, neither powers nor principles, life nor death, could separate him from the love of God. Once I have given my drink problem to God, should anything in the world separate me from my sobriety? Meditation For The Day I know that my new life will not be immune from difficulties, but I will have peace even in difficulties. I know that serenity is the result of faithful, trusting acceptance of God's will, even in the midst of difficulties. which are but for a moment, work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Prayer For The Day I pray that I may welcome difficulties. I pray that they may test my strength and build my character. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Freedom "Through A.A., we can experience freedom from self. After all, it was self (you, me) that stood in our own way, that ran the show and ran ourselves into bankruptcy, that hurt the ones we loved. All Twelve Steps of A.A. are designed to kill the old self (deflate the old ego) and build a new, free self." 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 459 Thought to Consider . . . Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
B S
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Daily Reflection
DO I HAVE A CHOICE?
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure,
have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will
power becomes practically nonexistent.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 24
My powerlessness over alcohol does not cease when I quit
drinking. In sobriety I still have no choice—I can't
drink.
The choice I do have is to pick up and use the
"kit of
spiritual tools" (Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
25). When I do
that, my Higher Power relieves me of my lack of choice—
and keeps me sober one more day. If I could choose not
to
pick up a drink today, where then would be my need for
A.A. or a Higher Power?
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Pot Luck
God Wants Us to Get Better
God wants us to get better. That is why He extended His grace
to us when we admitted we were powerless. He took us in and helped us to
accept our program. He showed us the mercy of His ways.
God
wants us to keep getting better. That’s we why we keep getting examples of
our powerlessness, so that we may learn to turn to God in all our affairs.
God
is very much like us. He wants to be loved. He wants to take part. He wants to
be an active force in our lives. He doesn't want to sit on the sidelines,
kicking the turf. He wants to play.
Each
one of us represents an opportunity for God. When we have trouble on the job,
trouble at home, maybe even trouble in the Fellowship, God is there for us.
God is there to help us ease our anger, and our heartaches and our hurt egos.
He is there to catch us when we let go. He is there to provide us that Good
Orderly Direction, when we say, “I can’t You can. Take Charge.”
Some
days it’s easier to admit our powerlessness than
others. We can always reach out when life bowls us over. But
we have to remember to turn to God in the good times, too. When we get a
raise, when we finish a difficult job, when that other person suddenly
becomes significant in our life - these are the extra special times we have
to remember to thank God for pitching in
No
doubt about it. God helps us to get over all the hurdles, even success.
Stephen Beal,
Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men
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