Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 4 ,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“We should question no
one's transformation –
whether it be sudden or
gradual.
Nor should we demand
anyone's special type for ourselves,
because our own experience
suggests that we are apt to receive
whatever may be the most
useful for our needs.”
~ Bill W., July 1962
Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.
Richard Steele
"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
"Until you have
learned to be tolerant
with those who do not
always agree with you;
until you have cultivated
the habit of saying
some kind words of those
whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the
habit of looking for the good
instead of the bad there is
in others,
you will be neither successful nor
happy."
--Napoleon Hill
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Big Book Quote
"Once we have
taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted.
We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 75 |
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Tom B. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30
2/12
Pamela H. (Sparta, TN)…..10
2/12
Julie K. (Wausau, WI)…..8
2/12
Bob J. (Harrison, NY)…..6
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Betty P. Valparaiso, IN)…..36
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Richard B. (North Port, FL)…..10
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David H. (Rye, NH)…..42
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Jim P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18
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Michael P. (Elmont, NY)…..28
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Alex Z. (Houston, TX)…..5
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Michelle T. (Bluffton, SC)…..1
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2/28
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2/29
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1462 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."
The second difficulty is this: what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is. Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was all too plain that they were sorely mistaken. Lacking both practice and humility, they had deluded themselves and were able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them. It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God. Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion. While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves. p. 60 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were not really doing the other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, especially if they happened to be an alcoholic. In A.A., we really try to help other alcoholics. We build them up instead of tearing them down. Drinking created a sort of fellowship. But it really was a false fellowship, because it was based on selfishness. We used our drinking companions for our own pleasure. In A.A., we have real fellowship, based on unselfishness and a desire to help each other. And we make real friends, not fair weather friends. With sobriety, have I got everything that drinking's got, without the headaches? Meditation For The Day I know that God cannot teach anyone who is trusting in a crutch. I will throw away the crutch of alcohol and walk in God's power and spirit. God's power will so invigorate me that I shall indeed walk on to victory. There is never any limit to God's power. I will go step by step, one day at a time. God's will shall be revealed to me as I go forward. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have more and more dependence on God. I pray that I may throw away my alcohol crutch and let God's power take its place. |
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Daily Thought
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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, p. 558
Thought to Consider . . .
The ankle-biters of everyday
struggles will eat away at me unless I go to meetings and call my sponsor.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
R I D
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Daily Reflection
WHEN FAITH IS
MISSING
Sometimes A.A. comes
harder to those who have lost or
rejected faith than
to those who never had any faith at all,
for they think they have
tried faith and found it wanting.
They have tried the
way of faith and the way of no faith.
TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28
I was so sure God
had failed me that I became ultimately
defiant, though I
knew better, and plunged into a final
drinking binge. My
faith turned bitter and that was no
coincidence. Those
who once had great faith hit bottom
harder. It took time
to rekindle my faith, though I came to
A.A. I was grateful
intellectually to have survived such a
great fall, but my
heart felt callous. Still, I stuck with the
A.A. program; the
alternatives were too bleak! I kept
coming back and
gradually my faith was resurrected.
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Pot Luck
A NEW PAIR OF GLASESS
“…Now this is the
problem. Something has to happen that will get
rid of the obsession
of the mind, and that's what this program is
all about. That's what
this book (Alcoholics Anonymous) is all
about, to tell us how
to get rid of the obsessions of the mind that
cause us to drink.
That's what this whole program is all about.
To rid us of the
obsessions of the mind that cause us to drink. So,
why am I not drunk
tonight? Because I have the thing I was looking
for in the bottle, and that's the only
reason I'm not drunk.
Now what is the thing?
The king-size hurt is gone. The Big Hurt –
that's gone. I'm not
fighting me, or you, or life, or God or the devil.
I am at peace with me
and with you and with my very own God.
That's the only reason
I'm not drunk…”
Pgs18 &19 Chuck
Chamberlain "A New Pair of Glasses” (Emphasis
Added)
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