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Your
Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 16, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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I shall continue to
believe.
In hope there is faith,
miracles do happen,
in God I trust.
~Shelley Brown
"Whatever you do, you
need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to
tell you that you are wrong.
There are always
difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe
your critics are right.
To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end
requires some of the same
courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories,
but it takes brave men and
women to win them."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Joy is the holy fire
that keeps our purpose warm
and our intelligence
aglow."
– Helen Keller
When we relinquish trying
to get somewhere,
we naturally start to
arrive fully where we are.
~Adyashanti
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Big Book Quote
"Our description
of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and
our personal adventure before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That God could and would if He were sought."
Big Book Pp 60
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RALPH
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Seattle, WA
@Toronto Conference
of AA
1965
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12&12
Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves."
But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. Either we insist upon dominating the people we know, or we depend upon them far too much. If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands. In this way our insecurity grows and festers. When we habitually try to manipulate others to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily. Then we develop hurt feelings, a sense of persecution, and a desire to retaliate. As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant. We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. This self-centered behavior blocked a partnership relation with any one of those about us. Of true brotherhood we had small comprehension. p. 53 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
The A.A. program is more a way of building a new life than just a way of getting over drinking, because in A.A. we don't just stop drinking. We did that plenty of times in the old days when we went "on the wagon." And, of course, we always started to drink again, because we were only waiting for the time when we could fall off. Once we've gotten sober through the A.A. program, we start going uphill. In our drinking days, we were going downhill, getting worse and worse. We either go down or up. Am I going uphill, getting better and better? Meditation For The Day I will try to obey God's will day in and day out, in the wilderness plains as well as on the mountaintops of experience. It is in the daily strivings that perseverance counts. I believe that God is Lord of little things, the Divine Controller of little happenings. I will persevere in this new way of life. I know that nothing in the day is too small to be a part of God's scheme. Prayer For The Day I pray that the little stones which I put into the mosaic of my life may make a worthwhile pattern. I pray that I may persevere and so find harmony and beauty. |
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Daily Thought
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\(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/ AA \
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Motives
We were depressed and
complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for
sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind and emotion, this
perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates
human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of
self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or
thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is
the essence of character building and good living. An honest regret for
harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a
willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent
assets we shall seek.
c. 1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 94-95
Thought
to Consider . . .
The best things in life
aren't things
*~*AACRONYMS*~* O U R
Openly Using Recovery
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Daily Reflection
HITTING BOTTOM
Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom
first?
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to
practice
the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For
practicing A. A. 's remaining eleven Steps means the
adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic
who is still drinking can dream of taking.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24
Hitting bottom opened my mind and I became willing to try
something different. What I tried was A.A. My new life in
the Fellowship was a little like learning how to ride a
bike
for the first time: A.A. became my training wheels and my
supporting hand. It's not that I wanted the help so much
at
the time; I simply did not want to hurt like that again.
My
desire to avoid hitting bottom again was more powerful
than my desire to drink. In the beginning that was what
kept
me sober. But after a while I found myself working the
Steps to the best of my ability. I soon realized that my
attitudes and actions were changing—if ever so slightly.
One Day at a Time, I became comfortable with myself, and
others, and my hurting started to heal. Thank God for the
training wheels and supporting hand that I choose to call
Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Pot Luck
Today…always today…take the path that opens to
you…not the one littered with obstacles…
For me, January signifies the wonder and the
excitement and the liberation of “starting over.” The Old Year is behind me
and the New Year has just begun; the blackboard has been erased, I’ve got a
clean slate. There’s something metaphysical about all that; there’s a message
in the folds of that experience that comes directly from GOOD GOD.
The message is: no matter how badly things may have gone, no matter how bad I may have been, that was ‘Then’ and this is ‘Now.’ A New Day has dawned, a New Moment has arrived. It is the Golden Moment of Now, wherein all things are possible, all things are made new. This is the opportunity that Life presents…the path that opens to you…we are invited to move to the next level…to take the next step, to make the next quantum leap into new understanding, new awareness, a new experience of ourselves, and of what it means to be fully Divine by being fully human. Let’s use this onset of the New Year as the onset of the New Self…of the New You. Let’s forget everything we think we know about ourselves, let’s forgive everything we think we’ve done that is “bad,” and let’s start over, recreating ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are…as a species, as an individual, and as an Aspect of Divinity.
And…in the name that all that is HOLY…please
remember today that you are not your Yesterdays.
Remember today that you are not your weaknesses,
not your foibles, not your offenses, not your failures, not your losses.
Remember today Who You Really Are, and claim that.
LOVE…above all things,
Patti Locascio
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