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Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday January 21,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“Beaten into complete
defeat by alcohol,
confronted by the living
proof of release,
and surrounded by those who
can speak to us from the heart,
we have finally
surrendered.
And then, paradoxically,
we have found ourselves in
a new dimension,
the real world of spirit
and of faith.
Enough willingness, enough open-mindedness
-- and there it is!”
~AA Co-Founder, Bill W.,
June 1960
"All the art of living
lies in a fine mingling
of letting go and holding
on."
~Havelock Ellis
When you own your own
story,
you can write a brave new
ending.
~Brene Brown
“Once you realize that the
road is the goal,
and that you are always on
the road,
not to reach a goal but to
enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task
and becomes natural and simple.
In itself an ecstasy.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Big Book Quote
"We feel as
though we had been placed in a position of neutrality safe and
protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem
has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 85~ |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
MARY MONKRESS
Houston, TX
@Omaha, NE
November,
1999
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SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
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6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
1/1 Bob V. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..36
1/1 Severine W. (Sacramento, CA)…..3
1/1 Elena C. (NYC, NY)…..4
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1/5 Donna M. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..46
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1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX)…..8
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1/6 Ann OK-B (Stuart FL/Greenwich, CT)…..41
1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..8
1/6 Karen F. (Clinton, NJ)…..2
1/7 Alexis E. (East Twickenham, UK)…..18
1/7 Ray W. (Long Island)…..8
1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..22
1/7 Luke T. (Nantucket, MA)…..1
1/7 Liz O. (New York, NY)…..16
1/8 Alan J. (Stone Ridge, NY)…..12
1/8 Lou S. Sarasota, FL)…..7
1/9 Tefft W. (Washington, DC)…..35
1/9 Ginger E. (Southern Pines, NC)…..11
1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY)…..20
1/10 Paula B. (Charleston, SC)…..37
1/10 Janice E. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..20
1/10 Tom D. (Dallas, TX)…..29
1/12 Padraic O. (Whistler, BC, Canada)…..7
1/12 David F. (Windermere, BC, CA)…..7
1/12 Shabab N. (Bethesda, MD)…..17
1/12 Lynne C. (Three Bridges, NJ)…..14
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
1/13 David S. (Boston, MA)…..34
1/14 Maria H. (New York, NY)…..26
1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..7
1/14 Nick M. (Asheville, NC/Denver.CO)…..26
1/14 Glenda Mc. (Leesburg, FL)…..42
1/15 Bob W. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..37
1/15 Sue J. (Palm Coast, FL)…..10
1/15 Mike R. (Englewood, NJ)…..29
1/15 Steve D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..8
1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO)…..15
1/16 Tree A. (San Anselmo, CA)…..31
1/17 Helen C. (Folkestone, UK)…..48
1/17 Scott M. (New York, NY)…..6
1/19 Rob W. (St Mary’s . GA) …..3
1/19 Rhonda L. (Stuart, FL)…..18
1/19 Carol L. (Aspen, CO)…..29
1/19 Alan S. (Hiawassee. GA)…..7
1/20 Paul M. (Shediac, NB, Canada)…..39
1/20 Peter G. (Scoudouc, NB, Canada)…..39
1/21 Levi
S. (London, UK)…..5
1/21 Shane
S. (Methuen, MA)…..1
1/21
Heather N. (Wylie,TX)…..23
1/21 Brian
Mc. (Mahwah, NJ)…..36
1/22 Stacey C. (Austin, TX)…..13
1/22 Keith B. (Stuart, FL)…..22
1/22 Paul S. (Exeter, NH)…..2
1/23 Mike C. (Solon, OH)…..5
1/23 Susie S. (Legarto, TX)…..25
1/24 Paul B. (Newburyport, MA)…..34
1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..
1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air, 28MD)…..5
1/25 Steve L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..2
1/25 Thomas Mac. (Airdrie, Scotland)…..31
1/26 Dana R. (Madison, CT)…..5
1/27 Iris M. F. (Naples, FL)…..22
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
1/30 Collen S. (Bedminster, NJ)…..2
1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..36
1/31 Diane B. (Cape Cod, MA)…..27
1/31 Sandy W,
(East Hampton, NY)…..25
1/31 Kim J. (Streator, IL)…..9
1706 Total
Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Five - "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five. We search for an easier way--which usually consists of the general and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors. Then, for good measure, we add dramatic descriptions of that part of our drinking behavior which our friends probably know about anyhow. p. 55 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
To grasp the A.A. program, we have to think things out. said: "They are transformed by the renewing of their minds." We have to learn to think straight. We have to change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must build up a new way of looking at things. Before we came into A.A., we wanted an artificial life of excitement and everything that goes with drinking. That kind of life looked normal to us then. But as we look back now, that life looks the exact opposite of normal. In fact, it looks most abnormal. We must reeducate our minds. Am I changing from an abnormal thinker to a normal thinker? Meditation For The Day I will take the most crowded day without fear. I believe that God is with me and controlling all. I will let confidence be the motif running through all the crowded day. I will not get worried, because I know that God is my helper. Underneath are the everlasting arms. I will rest in them, even though the day be full of things crowded in upon me. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be calm and let nothing upset me. I pray that I may not let material things control me and choke out spiritual things. |
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Daily Thought
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Joyous
We have been speaking to you of serious, sometimes tragic things. We have been dealing with alcohol in its worst aspects. But we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life. We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
c. 2001
AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 132
Thought
to Consider . . .
Laughter is the sound of recovery
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
H J F Happy, Joyous, Free |
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Daily Reflection
SERVING MY
BROTHER
The member talks to
the newcomer not in a spirit of power
but in a spirit of
humility and weakness.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
COMES OF AGE p. 279
As the days pass in
A.A., I ask God to guide my thoughts
and the words that I
speak. In this labor of continuous
participation in the
Fellowship, I have numerous
opportunities to
speak. So I frequently ask God to help me
watch over my
thoughts and my words, that they may be the
true and proper
reflections of our program; to focus my
aspirations once
again to seek His guidance; to help me be
truly kind and
loving, helpful and healing, yet always filled
with humility, and
free from any trace of arrogance.
Today I may very
well have to deal with disagreeable
attitudes or utterances—the
typical stock-in-trade attitude of
the still-suffering
alcoholic. If this should happen, I will
take a moment to
center myself in God, so that I will be able
to respond from a
perspective of composure, strength and
sensibility.
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Pot Luck
I came to this
workshop to learn how to control my controlling.
~
Barbara
Aren't we a hoot! Our illusion of control dies
hard. We get a modicum of sobriety and we get cocky. We finally get the
idea that we are controllers and believe that we can control our controlling.
It takes a while to realize that we're also powerless over our controlling ….
too.
~
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When I try to control my need to control, I better
get to a meeting
by Anne Wilson Schaef
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