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Your
Daily Reprieve for Thursday February 6,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“Sobriety for me was the
complete life change
that occurred after I fully
invested myself in the AA program.”
~Grapevine: August 2012
You will get nothing out of
life
unless you make the
decision to go after it.
Persistence is the key to
winning.
~unknown Do not look for rest in any pleasure,
because you were not
created for pleasure, but for Joy.
If you don't know the
difference you have not yet begun to live.
~Unknown "There's no point in burying a hatchet
if you're going to put up a
marker on the site."
~Sydney Harris |
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Big Book Quote
"Lack of power,
that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by
which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that's exactly what this book is about." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 45 |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
DIANA
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Tampa,
FL
@43rd Springtime in the
Ozarks
Eureka
Springs, AR
04.20.2019
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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
2/1 Gillian L. (Brighton, UK)…..20
2/1
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2/7
Chick B. (Salt Lake City, UT)…..20
2/7
Macs S. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..32
2/7
Vance H. (Jacksonville, AR)…..15
2/7
Lorin C. (East Sandwich, MA)…..23
2/8
Patti L. (Tampa. FL)…..43
2/8
Kelly H. (Morristown, NJ)…..10
2/9
Roberta C. (Cape Coral, FL)……6
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Jeff S. (Hillsdale, NJ)…..29
2/9
Jason G. (Dominical, Costa Rica)…..6
2/10
Judson G. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)…..51
2/10
Howard S. (Colonia, NJ)…..6
2/11
Steve B. (Wenham, MA)…..40
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
2/14
Laura C. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..5
2/14
Charles V. (Morristown, NJ)…..2
2/14
Zach G. (Plymouth, MA)…..10
2/15
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
2/17
Greg J. (New York, NY)…..3
2/18
Jim P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18
2/18
Michael P. (Elmont, NY)…..28
2/18
Alex Z. (Houston, TX)…..5
2/18
Marcia T. ()…..35
2/19
Debi K. East Norwich, NY)…..17
2/19
Michelle T. (Bluffton, SC)…..1
2/20
Arch S. (Chicago, IL)…..31
2/20
Cami M. (Minden, LA)…..10
2/20
Jackie M. (basking Ridge, NJ)…..14
2/21
Mike D. (Nantucket, MA)…..27
2/22
Marshall T. (Nantucket/Venice, FL)…..22
2/22
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2/22
Michael W. (Key West, FL)…..13
2/23
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2/24
Betsy W. (Sarasota, FL)…..31
2/25
Judy S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..39
2/26
John G. (Stuart, FL)…..35
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
1604 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."
Perhaps, though, your relation to him is such that you would care to reveal only a part of your story. If this is the situation, by all means do so, for you ought to make a beginning as soon as you can. It may turn out, however, that you'll choose someone else for the more difficult and deeper revelations. This individual may be entirely outside of A.A.--for example, your clergyman or your doctor. For some of us, a complete stranger may prove the best bet. p. 61 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
On a dark night,
the bright lights of the
corner tavern
look mighty inviting. Inside, there
seems to be warmth and good cheer. But we don't stop to think that
if we go in there we'll probably end up
drunk, with our money spent and an
awful hangover.
A long mahogany bar in the tropical moonlight looks like a very gay place.
But you should see the place the next morning. The chairs are piled on the
tables and the place stinks of stale beer and cigarette stubs. And often we
are there too, trying to cure the shakes by gulping down straight whiskey.
Can I look straight through the night before and see the morning
after? Meditation For The Day God finds, amid the crowd, a few people who follow Him, just to be near Him,
just to dwell in His presence. A longing in
the Eternal Heart may be satisfied by these few people. I will let God know
that I seek just to dwell in His presence, to be near Him, not so much for
teaching or a message, as just for Him. It may be that the longing of the
human heart to be loved for itself is something caught from the Great Divine
Heart.
Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have a listening ear, so that God may speak to me.
I pray that I
may have a waiting heart, so that God may come to me.
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Daily Thought
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Choice
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 24 Thought to Consider . . . Just for today, I choose not to drink. ~*AACRONYMS*~ A.A. Absolute Abstinence |
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Daily Reflection
A RALLYING POINT
Therefore, Step Two
is the rallying point for all of us.
Whether agnostic,
atheist, or former believer, we can stand
together on this
Step.
TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
I feel that A.A. is
a God-inspired program and that God is
at every A.A.
meeting. I see, believe, and have come to
know that A.A.
works, because I have stayed sober today. I
am turning my life
over to A.A. and to God by going to an
A.A. meeting. If God
is in my heart and everyone else's,
then I am a small
part of a whole and I am not unique. If
God is in my heart
and He speaks to me through other
people, then I must
be a channel of God to other people. I
should seek to do
His will by living spiritual principles and
my reward will be
sanity and emotional sobriety.
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Pot Luck
Seventh Step Prayer
My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
I pray that you now remove from me every single defect
of character
which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my
fellows.
Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your
bidding. Amen.
Sandy B. used to remind us a lot that not being ready to change,
and not asking for the power to change
ONLY leaves the daily practice of trying my best
to manage and control my character defects and
shortcomings!
Today, it's all about spotting my own S-D-R-F (Selfishness, Dishonesty, Resentment, & Fear)
as quickly as possible, then pausing and asking that I
receive the necessary power
to change my thinking, my feelings and my behaviors,
so that I might more quickly become free from that
bondage of self.
~Just Love
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Great Minds Quotes
BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE:
Twenty Four Hours a Day
Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics
throughout the world. With over nine million
copies in print (the original text has been revised),
this "little black book" offers
daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
applications to fit our daily lives.
Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation
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