Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 02.08.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday February , 2020

From Jacksonville, FL

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;

it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

~Thomas Paine

DO not trouble about results, or be anxious as to the future;

but be troubled about personal shortcomings, and be anxious to remove them ;

for know this simple truth—wrong does not result from right,

and a good present cannot give birth to a bad future.

You are the custodian of your deeds,

but not of the results which flow from them.

The deeds of to-day bring the happiness or sorrow of to-morrow.

Be therefore concerned about what you think and do,

rather than about what may or may not come to you;

for he whose deeds are good does not concern himself about results,

and is freed from fear of future ill.
~James Allen

"Judge Not..unless you can walk on water."

~Anonymous

“It never ceases to amaze me:

we all love ourselves more than other people,

but care more about their opinion than our own.”

~Marcus Aurelius

Big Book Quote

"We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: 'Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period
of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33

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SOBER DATE	YOUR NAME	YOUR LOCATION	YEARS SOBER
6/10 (mo/day)	Bob S	Akron, OH	83

It will look like this :

6/10 Bob S. (Akron, OH).....84

February 2020 Miracles

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 Allan C. (No. Andover, MA)…..9

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

1642 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Five - "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.

p. 62

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out
of bed, we're thankful to God that we feel well and happy instead of
sick and disgusted. Serenity and happiness have become much more
important to us than the excitement of drinking, which lifts us up for a
short while, but lets us way down in the end. Of course, all of us
alcoholics had a lot of fun with drinking. We might as well admit it. We
can look back on a lot of good times, before we became alcoholics. But
the time comes for all of us alcoholics when drinking ceases to be fun
and becomes trouble. Have I learned that drinking can never again be
anything but trouble for me?

Meditation For The Day

I must rely on God. I must trust Him to the limit. I must depend on
the Divine Power in all human relationships. I will wait and trust and hope,
until God shows me the way. I will wait for guidance on each
important decision. I will meet the test of waiting until a thing seems right
before I do it. Every work for God must meet this test of time. The
guidance will come, if I wait for it.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may meet the test of waiting for God's guidance. I pray
that I will not go off on my own.

Daily Thought

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Illusion

No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
c. 1976, 2001 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30

Thought to Consider . . . .

The two most dangerous words in a recovering alcoholic's vocabulary are, "I'm different."

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A S K
Ass-Saving Kit

Daily Reflection

CONVINCING "MR. HYDE"

Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude

us. That's the place so many of us A. A. oldsters have come

to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our

unconscious—from which so many of our fears,

compulsions and phony aspirations still stream —be

brought into line with what we actually believe, know and

want! How to convince our dumb, raging and hidden "Mr.

Hyde" becomes our main task.

THE BEST OF BILL, pp. 42-43

Regular attendance at meetings, serving and helping others

is the recipe that many have tried and found to be

successful. Whenever I stray from these basic principles,

my old habits resurface and my old self also comes back

with all its fears and defects. The ultimate goal of each A.A.

member is permanent sobriety, achieved One Day at a

Time.

Pot Luck

Keep It Simple

Sex, like all else between human beings, is never prefect.
--- Theodore Isaac Rubin

Addiction made our sex lives a mess. Maybe we wanted prefect sex or we wanted no sex.

We were afraid. Maybe we wanted a high from sex we just couldn't seem to get it. Some of us had lots of sex partners; some of us had none. What now?

We're doing what we need to do by being in recovery. We're getting to know ourselves. We're living by our real values. We’re being honest with ourselves and others. We're learning to love and care about others. It's open, honest caring we express with our bodies. Thus, sex can be trusting and safe.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I turn over my sex life and my will to You---Just for today. I know You want me to be happy.

Action for the Day: What do I believe about sex? How does it match with what's said in the third paragraph above?

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