Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 02.23.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday February 23, 2020

From Jacksonville, FL

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

~William James

Gratefulness is the keeper of a happy heart.

Barbara Waque

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

--John Cotton Dana

I have lived in this world just long enough

to look carefully the second time into things

that I am most certain of the first time.

--Josh Billings

The goal in marriage is not to think alike,

but to think together.

--Robert C. Dodds

Big Book Quote

"We families of Alcoholics Anonymous keep few skeletons in the
closet. Everyone knows about the others' alcoholic troubles. This
is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief;
there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of other
people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
Among us, these are rare occurrences. We do talk about each other a
great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of
love and tolerance."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 125~

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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

2/2 Ryan D. (Phoenixville, PA)…..1

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

2/10 Kay H. (Palmyra, VA)…..31

2/11 Steve B. (Wenham, MA)…..40

2/12 Gary S. (New York, NY)…..37

2/12 Huston A. (Houston, TX)…..2

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

2/12 Scott H. (New York, NY)…..4

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

2/15 John T. (Connecticut)…..33

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

2/9 Joe R (Astoria, NY)…..3

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

2/20 Mary S. (Apex, NC)…..18

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

2/23 Scott J. (Victorville, CA)…..6

2/24 Betsy W. (Sarasota, FL)…..31

2/25 Judy S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..39

2/25 Bonnie A. (Cape Cod, MA)…..40

2/26 John G. (Stuart, FL)…..35

2/26 Jose R. (Sarasota, FL)…..26

2/26 Vaiva (Monterey, CA)…..19

2/27 David H. (Rye, NY)…..31

2/27 Julie M. (Amelia Island, FL)…..8

2/27 Neil R. (Queens, NY)…6

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

1825 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Six - "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."

Self-righteous anger also can be very enjoyable. In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority. Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness.

p. 67

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Besides our jobs, our families, our friends and our
sobriety, we have something else which many of us found
through A.A. That's faith in a Power greater than
ourselves, to which we can turn for help: faith in that
Divine Principle in the universe which we call God and
which is on our side as long as we do the right thing.
There have been many days in the past when, if we
had taken an inventory, we'd have found ourselves very
much in the red, without sobriety and therefore without
jobs, families, friends or faith in God. We now have
these things because we're sober. Do I make one
resolution every day of my life--to stay sober?

Meditation For The Day

Love the busy life. It is a joy-filled life. Take your
fill of joy in the Spring. Live outdoors whenever
possible. Sun and air are nature's great healing forces.
That inward joy changes poisoned blood into pure,
healthy, life-giving flow. But never forget that the
real healing of the spirit comes from within, from the
close, loving contact of your spirit with God's spirit.
Keep in close communion with God's spirit day by day.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may learn to live the abundant life.
I pray that I may enjoy a close contact with God this
day and be glad in it.

Daily Thought

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Faith

People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about. Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever. We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
c. 2002 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 49

Thought to Consider . . .

Feed your faith and starve your doubts.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B I G B O O K
Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowledge

Daily Reflection

MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES

Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising

out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old

life as a condition for finding a new one.

A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46

What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not

compute, yet when recognized and accepted, they reaffirm

something in the universe beyond human logic. When I

face a fear, I am given courage; when I support a brother or

sister, my capacity to love myself is increased; when I

accept pain as part of the growing experience of life, I

realize a greater happiness; when I look at my dark side, I

am brought into new light; when I accept my vulnerabilities

and surrender to a Higher Power, I am graced with

unforeseen strength. I stumbled through the doors of A.A.

in disgrace, expecting nothing from life, and I have been

given hope and dignity. Miraculously, the only way to keep

the gifts of the program is to pass them on.

Pot Luck

THE SURVIVOR’S PRAYER FOR STRENGTH

Dear God, give me the strength to get thru the day.
Give me the words to know what to say.
Your love sustains me along the way.
Just give me wisdom for all my days.
In times of sorrow, times of distress, give me a word for those depressed.
In times of pain or serious illness, God, let me minister to those who are weakest.
God, if THY WILL for me, if my life is required for what I can’t see.
I pray YOUR will, not MINE to be, in times of trouble no matter how big it may be.
God, help me your will to discern, so I can trust your love govern.
And when I complain while going through the storm
Make my will to your will conform.