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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 5, 2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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What a world this would be
if we could forget our
troubles
as easily as we forget our
blessings.
Diane Aschoff
“If I am truly going to
grow along spiritual lines,
I’m going to have to walk
with the truest spirit
of human compassion for
others
that I can muster in all of
my affairs.”
~Grapevine: Shreveport,
La., August 2012
"Life's most
persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for
others?'"
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything I experience
serves a purpose.
Today, my past is healed;
I am alive, awake, and
free.
I have the courage to
change.
~Joan Larkin |
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Big Book Quote
"Neither could
we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or
trying on our own power. We had to have God's help." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62 |
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the Day
CYNDI
M
Louisville,
KY
@Great River Roundup
Grafton,
IL
03/2016
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SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
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(Akron, OH).....84
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2/1
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Macs S. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..32
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Vance H. (Jacksonville, AR)…..15
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2/10
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2/11
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2/12
Gary S. (New York, NY)…..37
2/12
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
2/12
Betty P. Valparaiso, IN)…..36
2/12
Nancy O. (South Jersey)…..8
2/13
Tom B. (Madeleine Island, WI)…..31
2/14
Richard B. (North Port, FL)…..10
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Laura C. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..5
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Zach G. (Plymouth, MA)…..10
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Josh D. (Bath, UK)…..15
2/15
Daniel H. (Tampa/Brandon, FL)…..34
2/16
Joanne L. (Waynesville, NC)…..14
2/16
Clarence Mc (Port Charlotte, FL)…..45
2/16
Nancy B. (North Port, FL)…..37
2/17
Jamie R. (Cape Cod, MA)…..5
2/17
Noel S. (Harrison, NY)…..11
2/17
Pete R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..9
2/17
Luke R. (Bluffton, SC)…..19
2/17
David H. (Rye, NH)…..42
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Greg J. (New York, NY)…..3
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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
2/20
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Cami M. (Minden, LA)…..10
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Jackie M. (basking Ridge, NJ)…..14
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Michael W. (Key West, FL)…..13
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Judy S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..39
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2/27
David H. (Rye, NY)…..31
2/27
Julie M. (Amelia Island, FL)…..8
2/28
Tony T. (Austin, TX)…..1
2/28
Polly S. (Clearwater, FL)…..28
2/28
Matt M. (Pelham, NY)…..10
2/29
Royce Mc. (Unicoi, TN)…..24
1538 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."
Our next problem will be to discover the person in whom we are to confide. Here we ought to take much care, remembering that prudence is a virtue which carries a high rating. Perhaps we shall need to share with this person facts about ourselves which no others ought to know. We shall want to speak with someone who is experienced, who not only has stayed dry but has been able to surmount other serious difficulties. Difficulties, perhaps, like our own. This person may turn out to be one's sponsor, but not necessarily so. If you have developed a high confidence in him, and his temperament and problems are close to your own, then such a choice will be good. Besides, your sponsor already has the advantage of knowing something about your case. pp. 60-61 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us, than we did about the consequences which would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good from the short view. When we look in a package store window, we see liquor dressed up in its best wrappings, with fancy labels and decorations. They look swell. But have I learned that what's inside those beautiful bottles is just plain poison to me? Meditation For The Day I believe that life is a school in which I must learn spiritual things. I must trust in God and He will teach me. I must listen to God and He will speak through my mind. I must commune with Him in spite of all opposition and every obstacle. There will be days when I will hear no voice in my mind and when there will come no intimate heart to heart communion. But if I persist, and make a life habit of schooling myself in spiritual things, God will reveal Himself to me in many ways. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may regularly go to school in things of the spirit. I pray that I may grow spiritually by making a practice of these things. |
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Daily Thought
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(_ /AA\ _)
/ AA \
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Housecleaning
If we skip this vital step [Step Five], we may not overcome drinking. Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk. Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 72-3 Thought to Consider . . . There's no elevator, you have to take the Steps. *~*AACRONYMS*~* KISS Keeping It Simple, Spiritually |
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Daily Reflection
A GLORIOUS
RELEASE
"The minute I
stopped arguing, I could begin to see and
feel Right there,
Step Two gently and very gradually began
to infiltrate my
life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon
what day I came to
believe in a Power greater than myself,
but I certainly have
that belief now. To acquire it, I had
only to stop
fighting and practice the rest of A.A. 's program
as enthusiastically
as I could."
TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27
After years of
indulging in a "self-will run riot," Step Two
became for me a
glorious release from being all alone.
Nothing is so
painful or insurmountable in my journey
now. Someone is
always there to share life's burdens with
me. Step Two became
a reinforcement with God, and I
now realize that my
insanity and ego were curiously linked.
To rid myself of the
former, I must give up the latter to one
with far broader
shoulders than my own.
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Pot Luck
“When finally my household
went quite broke, I woke up to the fact that I hadn't been able to face the
prospect of going back to work. So I returned to Wall Street after all. And I
have ever since been glad that I did ... Indeed, there was one colossal
dividend that resulted directly from my grudging decision to reenter the
market place. It was a Wall Street business trip to Akron, Ohio, in 1935,
that first brought me face to face with Dr. Bob -- AA's co-founder-to-be. So
the birth of AA itself actually hinged on the fact that I had been trying to
meet my bread-and-butter responsibilities.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August
1961, “This Matter of Honesty,”, The Language of the Heart
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