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Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday January 10, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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"I learned that
courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it
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~Nelson Mandela
"Each group, as well
as each individual,
is a special entity, not
quite like any other ...
each group does have its
own special atmosphere,
its own peculiar state of
development."
~Grapevine: AA Co-Founder,
Bill W., January 1948
There is in each of us a
God-shaped vacuum
that only God can fill.
~Blaise Pascal "Gossip is a sort of smoke
that comes from the dirty
tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it;
it proves nothing but the
bad taste of the smoker."
~George Eliot
Do not overrate what you
have received,
nor envy others.
He who envies others does
not obtain peace of mind.
--Buddha |
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Big Book Quote
"Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia.
We have it with us right here and now."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 16~ |
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1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX)…..8
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1/7 Alexis E. (East Twickenham, UK)…..18
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1/8 Alan J. (Stone Ridge, NY)…..12
1/8 Lou S. Sarasota, FL)…..7
1/9 Tefft W. (Washington, DC)…..35
1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY)…..20
1/10 Paula
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1/10
Janice E. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..20
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1/12 Shabab N. (Bethesda, MD)…..17
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
1/13 Brian G. (Ridgewood, NJ)…..30
1/13 Rick H. (Vero Beach, FL)…..2
1/13 Dennis B. (Northport, FL)…..31
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
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1/15 Mike R. (Englewood, NJ)…..29
1/15 Steve D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..8
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1/17 Helen C. (Folkestone, UK)…..48
1/17 Scott M. (New York, NY)…..6
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1/20 Peter G. (Scoudouc, NB, Canada)…..39
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1/21 Brian Mc. (Mahwah, NJ)…..36
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1/22 Paul S. (Exeter, NH)…..2
1/23 Mike C. (Solon, OH)…..5
1/23 Susie S. (Legarto, TX)…..25
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1/25 Steve L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..2
1/26 Dana R. (Madison, CT)…..5
1/28 Karen Ann B. (Stuart, FL)…..1
1/29 Sandra C. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..44
1/30 Keith C. (Denham Springs, LA)…..11
1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..36
1/31 Diane B. (Cape Cod, MA)…..27
1390 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves."
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and fairly obvious. Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society. Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these: When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me? What people were hurt, and how badly? Did I spoil my marriage and injure my children? Did I jeopardize my standing in the community? Just how did I react to these situations at the time? Did I burn with a guilt that nothing could extinguish? Or did I insist that I was the pursued and not the pursuer, and thus absolve myself? How have I reacted to frustration in sexual matters? When denied, did I become vengeful or depressed? Did I take it out on other people? If there was rejection or coldness at home, did I use this as a reason for promiscuity? pp. 50-51 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day When we were drinking most of us were full of pride and selfishness. We believed we could handle our own affairs, even though we were making a mess of our lives. We were very stubborn and didn't like to take advice. We resented being told what to do. To us, humility looked like weakness. But when we came into A.A., we began to be humble. And we found out that humility gave us the power we needed to overcome drinking. Have I learned that there is power in humility? Meditation For The Day I will come to God in faith and He will give me a new way of life. This new way of life will alter my whole existence, the words I speak, the influence I have. They will spring from the life within me. I see how important is the work of a person who has this new way of life. The words and the example of such a person can have a whole influence for good in the world. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may learn the principles of the good life. I pray that I may meditate upon them and work at them, because they are eternal. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Letting Go Letting go of everything at once was both painful and terrifying. I could never have accomplished this alone. It took the help, understanding and wonderful companionship that was given so freely to me by my ex-alkie friends. This and the program of recovery embodied in the Twelve Steps. In learning to practice these steps in my daily living, I began to acquire faith and a philosophy to live by. Whole new vistas were opened up for me, new avenues of experience to be explored, and life began to take on color and interest. c. 2001 AAWS, Big Book, p. 275 Thought to Consider . . . The peaks and valleys of my life have become gentle rolling hills. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing |
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Daily Reflection
UNITED WE STAND
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost
selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in
recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or
presently may be, has to be smashed.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 30
I came to Alcoholics Anonymous because I was no longer
able to control my drinking. It was either my wife's
complaining about my drinking, or maybe the sheriff forced
me to go to A.A. meetings, or perhaps I knew, deep down
inside, that I couldn't drink like others, but I was
unwilling
to admit it because the alternative terrified me.
Alcoholics
Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women united
against a common, fatal disease. Each one of our lives is
linked to every other, much like the survivors on a life
raft
at sea. If we all work together, we can get safely to
shore.
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Pot Luck
Finding Ourselves
During my first months of recovery I couldn't stop
saying, “That's me.”
Yes
I would think, at almost every disclosure about themselves that people at
meetings made. “I understand why you did that,” I tell them afterward.
“That's the same kind a lot so thing used to do”.
During
those disclosures I felt like an orphan who has found his family of origin,
or like the hero of the song “Country Roads” who comes home to a place
he’s never been before. I also felt a little like an adventurer who stumbles
on a magic realm, Shangri-La, or an ancient city of the Incas. I can't
feeling I found a treasure. These people were just like me.
Sure
I had hard days once in a while. I get angry with the traffic, angry with my
boss, angry with the family. But always at the center my being is the
knowledge that I can go away and get calm. I can go away and get calm at a
meeting. A good quiet time is one where I allow myself really to get
down into my meditation, Down out of the wanna that distinguish my life, Down
into the universals that unite all our lives. Bad quiet times, by contrast,
are those what I just go through the paces, read-my-reading-say-my-prayers-and-think-okay-that’s-done.)
Finding
the people who are just like me at meetings is enabling me to find the
spirituality at the center of my being, this spiritual creature is, I think,
the real me. This spiritual creature can do many things that the old material
being could not do. He can stay late at work without feeling
resentful. He can give up the shortcut home in favor of just driving
along. He can say okay when the family proposes doing something at night he
had not planned on doing. He does not have to go to a special place to feel
it is being fully himself. He five cities fully himself when he says yes.
When he goes along with the spirit of things instead of trying to fit the
spirit of things into his own self-conditioned ruts.
So
what am I saying? That I am most me when I am least concerned with what I
want (or what I think I want.) That I am happiest when I seized the
inspiration of the moment. That I am closest to my fellows, and my God, when
I let go.
Walk
softly and carry a big stick? Not this guy. I walk softly and carry no stick
it
all.
“Finding Ourselves” . Stepping Stones to
Recovery for Men
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A spiritual resource with practical
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