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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday January 22,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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The difference between
genius and stupidity
is that genius has its
limits.
~ Anonymous
Better to lose count while
naming your blessings
than to lose your blessings
while counting your troubles.
~Maltbie D. Babcock
"There are only two
days a year that nothing can be done.
One is called yesterday and
the other is called tomorrow,
so today is the right day
to love, believe, do and mostly, live."
~Dalai Lama
“Believing that I was
powerless
ultimately reduced the size
of my world
-- down to me in the
moment.”
~Grapevine: Gainesville,
Fla., September 1994
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Big Book Quote
"Remember that
we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is
too much for us.
But there is One who
has all power that One is God.
May you find Him
now!"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Page 58~ |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
SAM
R
Lancaster , PA
Spiritual
Tools
Acts
of Recovery
Boca
Raton, FL
01.14.2012
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Willie’s
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First Media
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SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
this :
6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
1/1 Bob V. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..36
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1/8 Lou S. Sarasota, FL)…..7
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1/9 Ginger E. (Southern Pines, NC)…..11
1/9 Jason M. (Rye, NY)…..20
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1/10 Tom D. (Dallas, TX)…..29
1/12 Padraic O. (Whistler, BC, Canada)…..7
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1/12 Shabab N. (Bethesda, MD)…..17
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1/13 Robbie H. (FL/VA)…..38
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1/13 John E. (Reading, UK)….5
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1/13 Rick H. (Vero Beach, FL)…..2
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1/14 Maria H. (New York, NY)…..26
1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..7
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1/14 Glenda Mc. (Leesburg, FL)…..42
1/15 Bob W. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..37
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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
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1/19 Carol L. (Aspen, CO)…..29
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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 Jill M. (Alsip, IL)…..2
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1/30 Keith C. (Denham Springs, LA)…..11
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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
1708 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."
But of the things which really bother and burn us, we say nothing. Certain distressing or humiliating memories, we tell ourselves, ought not be shared with anyone. These will remain our secret. Not a soul must ever know. We hope they'll go to the grave with us. pp. 55-56 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
In the beginning, you want to get sober, but you're helpless, so you turn to a Power greater than yourself and by trusting in that Power, you get the strength to stop drinking. From then on, you want to keep sober, and that's a matter of reeducating your mind. After a while, you get so that you really enjoy simple, healthy, normal living. You really get a kick out of life without the artificial stimulus of alcohol. All you have to do is look around at the members of any A.A. group and you will see how their outlook has changed. Is my outlook on life changing? Meditation For The Day I will never forget to say thank you to God, even on the greyest days. My attitude will be one of humility and gratitude. Saying thank you to God is a daily practice that is absolutely necessary. If a day is not one of thankfulness, the practice has to be repeated until it becomes so. Gratitude is a necessity for those who are seeking a better life. Prayer For The Day I pray that gratitude will bring humility. I pray that humility will bring me to live a better life. |
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Daily Thought
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\(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/ AA \
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Coping God willing, we members of A.A. may never again have to deal with drinking, but we have to deal with sobriety every day. How do we do it? By learning - through practicing the Twelve Steps and through sharing at meetings - how to cope with the problems that we looked to booze to solve, back in our drinking days . . . We learn how to level out the emotional swings that got us into trouble both when we were up and when we were down.
c. 2001
AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 558-559
Thought
to Consider . . .
The peaks and valleys of my
life have become gentle rolling hills.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
C A R D S
Call your
sponsor
Ask for
help from your Higher Power
Read the
Big Book
Do the Twelve Steps
Stay active
in your group
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Daily Reflection
"LET'S KEEP
IT SIMPLE"
A few hours later I
took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . . The
wonderful, old,
broad smile was on his face as he said
almost jokingly,
"Remember, Bill, let's not louse this thing
up. Let's keep it
simple!" I turned away, unable to say a
word. That was the
last time I ever saw him.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
COMES OF AGE, p. 214
After years of sobriety
I occasionally ask myself: "Can it be
this simple?"
Then, at meetings, I see former cynics and
skeptics who have
walked the A. A. path out of hell by
packaging their
lives, without alcohol, into twenty-four
hour segments,
during which they practice a few principles
to the best of their
individual abilities. And then I know
again that, while it
isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it
works.
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Pot Luck
It would be wonderful if teams didn’t cheat and refs always
got the calls right. It’d be wonderful if people in the media knew what they
were talking about and didn’t stake out positions just to be controversial or
contrarian. It’d be wonderful if other politicians operated in good faith and
put country above partisanship. It’d be wonderful if drivers were courteous
and followed all the rules of the road.
But
we know that this is simply not how things go. They never have, and they
never will.
So
where does that leave us? It leaves us to focus on the one thing we can
control. As Marcus Aurelius wrote, it doesn’t matter what other people say or
think, it only matters what you do.
An
athlete doesn’t control the weather or the conditions on the field. They only
control how they play. A politician doesn’t control the game of politics,
only how they choose to play it. We don’t control whether we get credit for
our good deeds, or whether our hard work is noticed. We don’t control the
economy. We don’t control whether we were born rich or poor. What we control
is what we do in response. What you control is how you play.
You
control how you play.
Not
whether you win.
You
control how you play.
Not
if people like you.
You
control how you play.
Not
if the crowd cheers you on.
You
control how you play.
That’s
it.
The
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