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Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday February 7,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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"Never give up on what
you really want to do.
The person with big dreams
is more powerful
than one with all the
facts."
~Albert Einstein
Shall we make a new rule of
life from now on:
always try to be a little
kinder than is necessary.
~J.M. Barrie
“Change happens in sobriety
and, big or small,
I try to see where God
wants me to fit in each day.”
~Grapevine: Monaca, Pa.,
April 2011
"In discussing an
approach to bringing about positive changes within oneself,
Learning is only the first
step. There are other factors as well:
conviction, determination, action
and effort."
--Dalai Lama
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Big Book Quote
"It is plain
that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to
futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66 |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
LARRY
T.
Lakewood, CA
@33rd
Fall Classic
St.
Louis, MO
September
2015
Wee
Willie’s
Sobriety
First Media
AA CD’s
Literature and tapes
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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here
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
Diane O’D. (Buffalo, NY)…..7
2/1Mike
P. (Floral Park, NY)…..32
2/1
Rachel B. (Hertfordshire, UK)…..5
2/1
Carol S. ()…..33
2/1
Mary Lou M. (Stuart, FL)…..27
2/1
Sean D. (Woodbury, NY)…..12
2/1
Briar C. A. (Dallas, TX)…..7
2/2
Brad M. (Westfield, NY)…..37
2/2
Maureen B. (Locust Valley, NY)…..31
2/2
Edie P. (Methuen, MA)…..30
2/2
Jennifer W. (St. Mary’s, GA)…..4
2/3 Joe
G. (Ponte Vedra, FL)…..4
2/3
Emmanuel Z. (Pensacola, FL)…..6
2/3
Meredith T. (Santa Fe, NM)…..23
2/3
Fred W. (Honolulu, HI)…..29
2/4 Bob
F. (New Rochelle, NY)…..5
2/5
Alan B. ()…..1
2/5
Rick J. (Rye, NY)…..28
2/5
Jane S. (Newfound Lake, NH)…..11
2/6
Nick D. (New York, NY)…..21
2/6
Paul K. (Key Largo, FL/Cape Cod)…..36
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
2/9
Darlene A. (Key Largo, FL)…..26
2/9
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. (Sag Harbor, NY)…..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
2/20
Dorothy (New York, NY)…..28
2/21
Mike D. (Nantucket, MA)…..27
2/22
Marshall T. (Nantucket/Venice, FL)…..22
2/22
Casey Q. (Manchvegas, NH)…..27
2/22
Michael W. (Key West, FL)…..13
2/23
Daniel R. ()…..3
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
1632 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 real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey. Even when you've found the person, it frequently takes great resolution to approach him or her. No one ought to say the A.A. program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you've got. Happily, though, the chances are that you will be in for a very pleasant surprise. When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager. Before long, your listener may well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more at ease. Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquillity takes its place. And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur. Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God. And even those who had faith already often become conscious of God as they never were before. pp. 61-62 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
A night club crowded with men and
women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a
very festive place. But you should see the rest rooms of that night club
the next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the
place and does it smell! The glamour of the night before is all gone and only
the stink of the morning after is left. In A.A. we learn to take a long view of drinking instead of
a short view. We learn to think less about the pleasure of the moment and
more about the consequences. Has the night before become
less important to me and the morning after more important? Meditation For The Day Only a few more steps and then God's power shall
be seen and known in my life. I am now
walking in darkness, surrounded by the limitations of space and time.
But even in this darkness, I can have faith and can be a light to
guide feet that are afraid. I believe that God's power will break through the
darkness and my prayers will pierce even to the ears of God Himself. But only
a cry from the heart, a trusting cry, ever pierces that darkness and reaches
to the divine ear of God.
Prayer For The Day I pray that the divine power of God will help my human weakness.
I pray that my prayer may reach through the darkness to the ear
of God.
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Daily Thought
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Communication
From the beginning, communication in A.A. has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes. Because of our kinship in suffering, and because our common means of deliverance are effective for ourselves only when constantly carried to others, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 195 Thought to Consider . . . Listening feeds the spirit.
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Daily Reflection
A PATH TO FAITH
True humility and an
open mind can lead us to faith, and
every A.A. meeting
is an assurance that God will restore us
to sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves to Him.
TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
My last drunk had
landed me in the hospital, totally broken.
It was then that I
was able to see my past float in front of
me. I realized that,
through drinking, I had lived every
nightmare I had ever
had. My own self-will and obsession
to drink had driven
me into a dark pit of hallucinations,
blackouts and
despair. Finally beaten, I asked for God's
help. His presence
told me to believe. My obsession for
alcohol was taken
away and my paranoia has since been
lifted. I am no
longer afraid. I know my life is healthy and
sane.
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Pot Luck
Here to Serve
- Sponsorship II
“The most useless words a sponsor can utter are
advice.”
This
is the second guideline my sponsor gave me and it reinforces his conviction
that our program is one of humility. It’s a program of learning from each
other and working things out together and always being willing to change our
minds.
When
it comes to this program the only thing I know for certain is DD>M
(Don’t Drink & Go To Meetings). The rest - changing our character- takes
time. The rest is a process, a development. Our problems can not be fixed by
one word, and certainly not by one person. In other words - and it’s
sometimes been a shock to me, especially in my early days - the sponsor is
not God.
The
sponsor is a humble servant. When I serve as sponsor, I have to remember that
I know very little indeed. I am not a marriage counselor. I’m not trained in
child development. I know nothing about job placement. I am not a lawyer nor
a financial professional. The only reason I am dealing with a sponsee
is because he wants to stay clean and sober, because he wants to keep working
his program.
Thus
when a sponsee and I get together, we discuss aspects of his life that
affects his program. in such discussions I have two main areas of knowledge.
I know about mistakes and I know about solutions. My mistakes and my
solutions. I know the wrongheaded things I did when I was drinking and I
know and I know the ways I have been trying to work the Twelve Steps.
That’s
it! That’s what I can share. My experience strength and hope as a
recovering alcoholic. If he’s having a problem with his wife, I can tell him
about a problem I had with my wife. If he’s having a problem with his boss, I
can tell him about a problem I had with my boss. but I can’t tell him about
the problem with his wife.
Ditto about his problem with his boss. Those problems are his
not mine.
If
he’s having a problem with acceptance I can talk about that. If he’s having a
problem with fear I can talk about that. I can talk about the emotional and
spiritual rehabilitation of this alcoholic.
But
I can’t tell a sponsee what to do. As in my sponsor’s first sponsorship
guideline I can not threaten or impede the development of ‘a sponsee’s
relationship with his God within. What I can do is to encourage that
relationship to grow.
“Here to
Serve Sponsorship II”
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Twenty Four Hours a Day
Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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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.
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