Your Daily Reprieve 02.20.2020

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday February  2, 2020 From Jacksonville, FL

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ~ Saint Augustine Here the way out is in. ~ Heard In A Meeting @heardinameeting 10th Step Daily Inventory - 4 Questions Ask yourself the following questions and write the answers daily. This is best done just before retiring at night. 1. What did I do today that I like and respect myself for? 2. What did I do for someone else today? 3. What happened today that I enjoyed and appreciated that had nothing whatever to do with me? 4. Where did I have problems today? What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Big Book Quote "Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people´s shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 19~

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net 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 Sean D. (Woodbury, NY)…..12 2/1 Brian C. A. (Dallas, TX)…..7 2/2 Brad M. (Westfield, NY)…..37 2/2 Eddie P. ()…..30 2/3 Joe G. (Ponte Vedra, FL)…..4 2/3 Emmanuel Z. (Pensacola, FL)…..6 2/3 Meredith T. (Santa Fe, NM)…..23 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 2/7 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 2/9 Roberta C. (Cape Coral, FL)……6 2/9 Darlene A. (Key Largo, FL)…..26 2/10 Judson G. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)…..51 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 2/13 Tom B. (Madeleine Island, WI)…..31 2/14 Richard B. (North Port, FL)…..10 2/14 Laura C. (basking Ridge, NJ)…..5 2/14 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 2/17 Jamie R. (Cape Cod, MA)…..5 2/17 Pete R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..9 2/17 David H. (Rye, NH)…..42 2/18 Jim P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18 2/18 Michael P. (Elmont, NY)…..28 2/18 Alex Z. (Houston, TX)…..5 2/19 Michelle T. (Bluffton, SC)…..1 2/20 Arch S. (Chicago, IL)…..31 2/20 Jacki M. (basking Ridge, NJ)…..14 2/21 Mike D. (Nantucket, MA)…..27 2/22 Marshall T. (Nantucket/Venice, FL)…..22 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 2/28 Tony T. (Austin, TX)…..1 2/28 Polly S. (Clearwater, FL)…..18 2/29 Royce Mc. ()…..24 1180 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Five - "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." Yet many of us still hung back. We said, "Why can't 'God as we understand Him' tell us where we are astray? If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone wrong. Why don't we make our admissions to Him directly? Why do we need to bring anyone else into this?" p. 59

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning after? In A.A., we get a real kick, not a false feeling of exhilaration, but a real feeling of satisfaction with ourselves and self-respect. And a feeling of friendliness toward the world. We got a sort of pleasure from drinking. For a while we thought we were happy. But it's only an illusion. The hangover the next day is the opposite of pleasure. In A.A., am I getting real pleasure and serenity and peace? Meditation For The Day I will practice love, because lack of love will block the way. I will try to see good in all people, those I like and also those who fret me and go against the grain. They are all children of God. I will try to give love, otherwise how can I dwell in God's spirit, whence nothing unloving can come? I will try to get along with all people, because the more love I give away, the more I will have. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may do all I can to love others, in spite of their many faults. I pray that as I love, so will I be loved.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Fear The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion - well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. Bill W., Grapevine, January 1962 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It,  p. 263  Thought to Consider . . . Courage is the willingness to accept fear and act anyway. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Face Everything And Recover

Daily Reflection RESCUED BY SURRENDERING Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity. . . . Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of his destiny. He will fight to the end to preserve that position. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 311 The great mystery is: "Why do some of us die alcoholic deaths, fighting to preserve the 'independence' of our ego, while others seem to sober up effortlessly in A.A.?" Help from a Higher Power, the gift of sobriety, came to me when an otherwise unexplained desire to stop drinking coincided with my willingness to accept the suggestions of the men and women of A.A. I had to surrender, for only by reaching out to God and my fellows could I be rescued.

Pot Luck    As Bill Sees It Behind Our Excuses, p.267 As excuse-makers and rationalizers, we drunks are champions. It is the business of the psychiatrist to find the deeper causes for our conduct. Though uninstructed in psychiatry, we can, after a little time in A.A., see that our motives have not been what we thought they were, and that we have been motivated by forces previously unknown to us. Therefore we ought to look, with the deepest respect, interest, and profit, upon the example set us by psychiatry. ******************************** "Spiritual growth through the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, plus the aid of a good sponsor, can usually reveal most of the deeper reasons for our character defects, at least to a degree that meets our practical needs. Nevertheless, we should be grateful that our friends in psychiatry have so strongly emphasized the necessity to search for false and often unconscious motivations." 1. A.A. Comes Of Age, p.236 2. Letter, 1966

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