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Your
Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 23, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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"If you start now you
will begin seeing the result
one day earlier than if you
wait until tomorrow."
~Anonymous
"The more anger
towards the past you carry in your heart,
the less capable you are of
loving in the present."
~Barbara de Angelis
"It is a defining
moment when someone in authority
finally reaches the
conclusion that
leadership is not about
using people
~ it's about serving
them."
--Neil Eskelin
“I was, am, and always will
be powerless over alcohol.
My life was, is, and always
will be unmanageable.
Today, because I'm a
recovering alcoholic, that's okay.”
~Grapevine: Hartland, Wis.,
January 2009
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Big Book Quote
"For a brief
moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a humble willingness
to have Him with me -- and He came.
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, Page 12~ |
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CASEY CRANE
05.25.2002
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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
1/1 Severine W. (Sacramento, CA)…..3
1/1 Elena C. (NYC, NY)…..4
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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 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
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1/14 Glenda Mc. (Leesburg, FL)…..42
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
1/16 Jeff W. (Lake City, CO)…..15
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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
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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 Steve F. (Winter Park, FL)…..41
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
1/28 Sianna C. (Fargo, ND)……4
1/29 Jill M. (Alsip, IL)…..2
1/29 Sandra C. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..44
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
1753 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 ust 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
Alcoholics are people whose drinking got them into a "blind alley." They haven't been able to learn anything from their drinking experiences. They are always making the same mistakes and suffering the same consequences over and over again. They refuse to admit they're alcoholic. They still think they can handle the stuff. They won't swallow their pride and admit that they're different from ordinary drinkers. They won't face the fact that they must spend the rest of their lives without liquor. They can't visualize life without ever taking a drink. Am I out of this blind alley? Meditation For The Day I believe that God has all power. It is His to give and His to withhold. But He will not withhold it from the person who dwells near Him, because then it passes insensibly from God to that person. It is breathed in by the person who lives in God's presence. I will learn to live in God's presence and then I will have those things which I desire of Him: strength, power, and joy. God's power is available to all who need it and are willing to accept it. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may get myself out of the way, so that God's power may flow in. I pray that I may surrender myself to that power. |
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Daily Thought
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Resentments
Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well - nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds of disturbance - jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride - did the same thing.
c. 1952
AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 90
Thought to Consider . . .
Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
C A L M Can Anger Leave Me? |
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Daily Reflection
HAVING FUN YET?
. . . we aren't a
glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or
fun 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
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, p. 132
When my own house is
in order, I find the different parts of
my life are more
manageable. Stripped from the guilt and
remorse that cloaked
my drinking years, I am free to
assume my proper
role in the universe, but this condition
requires
maintenance. I should stop and ask myself, Am I
having fun yet? If I find answering that question difficult or
painful, perhaps I'm
taking myself too seriously—and finding
it difficult to
admit that I've strayed from my practice of
working the program
to keep my house in order. I think the
pain I experience is
one way my Higher Power has to get
my attention,
coaxing me to take stock of my performance.
The slight time and
effort it takes to work the program—a
spot-check
inventory, for example, or the making of
amends, whatever is
appropriate—are well worth the effort.
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Pot Luck
A New Year's Prayer
May God make your year a happy one!
Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain,
But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;
Not by making your path easy,
But by making you sturdy to travel any path;
Not by taking hardships from you,
But by taking fear from your heart;
Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,
But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;
Not by making your life always pleasant,
But by showing you when people and their causes need
you most,
and by making you anxious to be there to help.
God's love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year
ahead.
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