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Your
Daily Reprieve for Sunday February 16,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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"If the grass looks
greener on the other side...
Stop staring. Stop
comparing. Stop complaining.
Start watering the grass
that you're standing on."
~Angel Chernoff
“Every sponsor is
necessarily a leader.
The stakes are huge. A human life,
and usually the happiness
of a whole family, hangs in the balance.
What the sponsor does and
says,
how well he estimates the
reactions of his prospects,
how well he times and makes
his presentation,
how well he handles
criticisms and how well
he leads his prospect on by
personal spiritual example -- well,
these attributes of
leadership can make all the difference,
often the difference
between life and death.”
~ Bill W., April 1959, The
Language of the Heart
"You can't just sit
down and talk about the truth.
It doesn't work that way.
You have to live it and be
part of it
and you might get to know
it."
--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE
“Trying to understand God's
miracles
and why he performs them,
at least for this alcoholic,
is something better left to
God.
I need only say ‘Thank
you.’”
~Grapevine: New Haven,
Conn., April 1992
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Big Book Quote
3rd Step Prayer:
"God, I offer myself to Thee— to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 63 |
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12&12
Step Six - "Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character."
Since most people are born with an abundance of natural desires,
It isn’t strange that we often let these far exceed
Their intended purpose. When they drive us blindly, or we
Willfully demand that they supply us with more satisfactions
or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the point at
which we depart from the degree of perfection that God
wishes for us here on earth. That is the measure of our char-
acter defects, or, if you wish, of our sins.
p.65
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
One drink started a train of thought that became an obsession, and from then on, we couldn't stop drinking. We developed a mental compulsion to keep drinking until we got good and drunk. People generally make two mistakes about alcoholism. One mistake is that it can be cured by physical treatment only. The other mistake is that it can be cured by willpower only. Most alcoholics have tried both of these and have found that they don't work. But we members of A.A. have found a way to arrest alcoholism. Have I got over my obsession by following the A.A. program? Meditation For The Day I will try to be unruffled, no matter what happens. I will keep my emotions in check, although others about me are letting theirs go. I will keep calm in the face of disturbance, keep that deep, inner calm through all the experiences of the day. In the rush of work and worry, the deep, inner silence is necessary to keep me on an even keel. I must learn to take the calm with me into the most hurried days. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be still and commune with God. I pray that I may learn patience, humility, and peace. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^
Solution
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25 Thought to Consider . . . The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual. *~*AACRONYMS*~*
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Daily Reflection
COMMITMENT
Understanding is the
key to right principles and attitudes,
and right action is
the key to good living.
TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125
There came a time in
my program of recovery when the
third stanza of the
Serenity Prayer—"The wisdom to know
the
difference"—became indelibly imprinted in my mind.
From that time on, I
had to face the ever-present
knowledge that my
every action, word and thought was
within, or outside,
the principles of the program. I could no
longer hide behind
self-rationalization, nor behind the
insanity of my
disease. The only course open to me, if I
was to attain a
joyous life for myself (and subsequently for
those I love), was
one in which I imposed on myself an
effort of
commitment, discipline, and responsibility.
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Pot Luck
The Program in a Nutshell
I heard this at a meeting the other night, “The first three
Steps are a gift. The last three Steps are maintenance (and growth). The
Steps in between turn us into people who won’t use again.” I can’t quibble
with that. Step 1 and Step 2 came to me the instant I asked for help: (1) I
admitted I couldn’t handle my life any more, and (2). God took over through
treatment and AA.
Step
3 is a gift because it represents the bestowal of grace, but it was
nevertheless a gift I had to work for. I had to break down and renounce
a lot of the old attitudes before the willingness to do God’s will came to
me. Oftentimes Step 3 remains a gift I have to work for because there is no
guarantee I will wake up willing every day. In this respect, I often work
Steps 3 and 11 simultaneously, praying for the willingness to work God’s will
and the power to do so.
Steps
4 through 9 are the Action Steps and each one hurt, though not in any way
that I could not stand. Each Step helped me get rid of some of the old me.
Steps 4 and 5 represent getting right with self; Steps 6 and 7 represent
getting right with God and Steps 8 and 9 represent getting right others.
In
each of these Action Steps I am working to define, understand, excise and
make amends for behavior which resulted from the uncontrolled exercise of
character defects. By writing out and admitting what I have done wrong I am
asking for help and for forgiveness from myself. By becoming willing to have
God remove my character defects and asking Him to do so, I am am asking God
for help and forgiveness. By listing and making amends to the people I have
harmed, I am am asking them for help and forgiveness.
Remember
that passage from the Twelve and Twelve, that we’re never been able to form a
true relationship with another human being? Here in the Action Steps we are
forming new partnerships - with self, with God, with others. We are saying we
are willing to work together, not skate by on illusions and unrealistic
dreams.
We
are saying we are willing to try again, and Steps 10 through 12 help us
make our efforts stick by encouraging good relations with self in Step 10,
good relations with God in Step 11, and good relations with others in Step
12.
It
works.
Stephen Beal,
Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men
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