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Your
Daily Reprieve for Monday January 13, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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After joining AA , I gained
a bit of weight.
A friend told me it was
because
I didn't get as much
exercise as I used to.
" But I never
exercised while I was drinking " I protested .
" Sure you did"
he countered
"the exercise program
you were on had a number of routines":
Hitting the bottle
Bending the rules
Stretching the truth
Running into trouble
Jumping to conclusions
Stepping on toes
Dodging responsibilities
Pushing your luck
Carrying a grudge
Throwing fits and
Picking up the pieces.
(thanks Tory H.)
“We meet ourselves time and
time again
in a thousand disguises on
the path of life.”
~ Carl Jung
“Let the world know you as
you are,
not as you think you should
be,
because sooner or later, if
you are posing,
you will forget the pose,
and then where are you?”
- Fanny Brice
“The roads to recovery are
many ....
AA has no monopoly on reviving
alcoholics.”
~ Bill W., September 1944
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Big Book Quote
"God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors,
psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 133~ |
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12&12
Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves."
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security. pp. 51-52 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day When we were drinking, we were living an unnatural life physically and mentally. We were punishing our bodies by loading them with alcohol. We didn't eat enough and we ate the wrong things. We didn't get enough sleep or the right kind of rest. We were ruining ourselves physically. We had an alcoholic obsession and we couldn't imagine life without alcohol. We kept imagining all kinds of crazy things about ourselves and about other people. We were ruining ourselves mentally. Since I came into A.A., am I getting better physically and mentally? Meditation For The Day I believe that my life is being refined like gold in a crucible. Gold does not stay in the crucible, only until it is refined. I will never despair or be despondent. I now have friends who long for me to conquer. If I should err or fail, it would cause pain and disappointment to them. I will keep trying to live a better life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may always call on God's strength, while the gold of my life is being refined. I pray that I may see it through, with God's help. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Broad Highway We can only clear the ground a bit. If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself, then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad Highway. With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55 Thought to Consider . . . The joy is in the journey, so enjoy the ride! *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment |
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Daily Reflection
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a
daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our
spiritual condition.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85
The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: "If I
just
don't drink, everything will be all right." Once the
fog
cleared for me, I saw—for the first time—the mess my life
had become. I had family, work, financial and legal
problems; I was hung up on old religious ideas; there were
sides of my character to which I was inclined to stay
blind
because they easily could have convinced me that I was
hopeless and pushed me toward escape again. The Big
Book guided me in resolving all of my problems. But
it
didn't happen overnight—and certainly not automatically—
with no effort on my part. I need always to recognize
God's
mercy and blessings that shine through any problem I have
to face.
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Pot Luck
Hope
begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do
the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work. You don't
give up…Anne Lamott
In
life, the difficult periods are the best periods to gain experience and shore
up determination. As a result, my mental status is much improved because of
them…The Dalai Lama
Life
is a process of meeting and solving problems. Solving problems is a way that
we test and develop our spiritual muscle. Think of outstanding people such as
Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Helen Keller. Lincoln faced the problem
of a divided country; Gandhi, an oppressed India; Keller, her personal
handicaps in being both blind and totally deaf.
In
rising to meet their vision, courage, fortitude, and compassion, they became
great…not in spite of, but because of their problems.
Problems
often come to us in the form of crisis. The Chinese glyph for the word crisis
contains two symbols; one means danger and the other opportunity. When an
obstacle is before you, use it to create a beneficial result. As with
Lincoln, Gandhi, and Keller, let your problems bring out your greatness.
So…here’s
an example of what we’re speaking of…about three years ago, one of our home
group members, 30 years sober at that time, was sitting in a meeting and got
a text from the spouse…asking for a divorce…this person was
shocked…no…not shocked…speechless, without a clue as to why…then a bit
later…that person’s parent died within days of signing the final divorce
papers…several years have gone by…our home group member is doing the
deal…working…paying bills…sponsoring…taking and enjoying vacations in
Northern Italy and the US, and keeping busy with the holiday season…and
chairs our noon meeting from time to time…
You
see…life happens to all of us…no matter the years of sobriety or clean
time…life happens…nonresistance is often the answer…it is what it is…we
accept…forgive…move on…
So…my
dearest ones…rather than pray for a life that is problem-free, ask for one
that is solution-full. Instead of requesting that GOOD GOD remove the
mountain before you…seek the strength to climb it. Remember that the best
students always get the toughest problems. Love the problems you have, and
their priceless solutions and gifts will be yours.
LOVE…above all things,
Patti
Locascio
02/08/77,
until now one day at a time
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