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Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday January 24,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“AA has taught me that
being ‘a small part of the
great whole’
carries with it a
responsibility and that
there is always something
that I can do
to contribute to ‘our
common welfare.’”
~Grapevine:Piscataway,
N.J., January 1992
"When we generate
compassion for the difficult people in our lives,
we get to see our
prejudices and aversions even more clearly.
It can feel completely unreasonable
to make a compassionate
wish for these irritating, belligerent people.
To wish that those we
dislike and fear
would not suffer can feel
like too big a leap.
This is a good time to
remember
that when we harden our
heart against anyone,
we hurt ourselves."
~Pema Chodron If you want better from others,
be better yourself.
Want better... ~The Universal Force of Good "No one can tell what goes on in between
the person you were and the
person you become.
No one can chart that blue
and lonely section of hell.
There are no maps of the
change.
You just come out the other
side.
Or you don't."
~Stephen King |
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Big Book Quote
"...I would
enter upon a new relationship with my Creator;
that I would
have the elements of a way of living which answered all my
problems. Belief in the power of God,
plus enough
willingness, honesty and humility
to establish and
maintain the new order of
things, were the essential requirements." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, Page 13~ |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
DON
DEMMING
@32nd Kentucky
Conference
Louisville, KY
1983
Wee
Willie’s
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First Media
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Literature and tapes
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(Akron, OH).....84
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1/5 Paola V. (London, UK)….14
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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
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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)…..28
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
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
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 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
Alcoholics who are living in a blind alley refuse to be really honest with themselves or with other people. They're running away from life and won't face things as they are. They won't give up their resentments. They're too sensitive and too easily hurt. They refuse to try to be unselfish. They still want everything for themselves. And no matter how many disastrous experiences they have had with drinking, they still do it over and over again. There's only one way to get out of that blind alley way of living and that's to change your thinking. Have I changed my thinking? Meditation For The Day I know that the vision and power that I receive from God are limitless, as far as spiritual things are concerned. But in temporal and material things, I must submit to limitations. I know that I cannot see the road ahead. I must go just one step at a time, because God does not grant me a longer view. I am in uncharted waters, limited by my temporal and spatial life, but unlimited in my spiritual life. Prayer For The Day I pray that, in spite of my material limitations, I may follow God's way. I pray that I may learn that trying to do His will is perfect freedom. |
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Daily Thought
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Insecurity
The achievement of freedom
from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed.
When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious
insecurity, we shall all react, well or badly, as the case may be. Only the vainglorious
claim perfect freedom from fear, though their very grandiosity is really
rooted in the fears they have temporarily forgotten.
Bill W.,
January 1962
c. 1988 AA
Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 265
Thought to Consider . . . Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
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Daily Reflection
GETTING INVOLVED
There is action and
more action. "Faith without works is
dead." . . . To
be helpful is our only aim.
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, pp. 88-89
I understand that
service is a vital part of recovery but I
often wonder,
"What can I do?" Simply start with what I
have today! I look
around to see where there is a need. Are
the ashtrays full?
Do I have hands and feet to empty them?
Suddenly I'm
involved! The best speaker may make the
worst coffee; the
member who's best with newcomers may
be unable to read;
the one willing to clean up may make a
mess of the bank
account—yet every one of these people
and jobs is
essential to an active group. The miracle of
service is this:
when I use what I have, I find there is more
available to me than I realized before
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Pot Luck
“Every newcomer, every friend
who looks at AA for the first time is vastly puzzled. They see liberty
verging on license, yet they recognize at once that AA has an irresistible
strength of purpose and action. ‘How,’ they ask, ‘can such a crowd of
anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare
first? What, in heaven's name, holds them together?’
“Those who look well soon have
the key to this strange paradox. The AA member has to conform to the
principles of recovery. His life actually depends upon obedience to spiritual
principles. If he deviates too far, the penalty is sure and swift; he sickens
and dies. At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a
way of life he really wants to live. Moreover, he finds he cannot keep this
priceless gift unless he gives it away.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., April 1952, “Tradition
One,”, The Language of the Heart
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daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
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