Your Daily Reprieve 03.01.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday March 1, 2020

From Jacksonville, FL

Let the painful assist you.
Get intimate with what hurts and bugs you.
Date your loneliness, cuddle your grief,
dance with your anger, cradle your shame.
Stop making such a virtue out of comfort.
Stop expecting spiritual practice to make you feel better.
Get intimate with discomfort,
without becoming an ascetic or
devotee of diseased renunciation.
~Robert Augustus Masters

Yesterday is done, so be done with it.

You did what you could.

You made some mistakes,

but you were "you" being "you" and that's good enough...for now.

May God bless you to learn and grow,

and to be the best "you" you can be.

~Prayables

It isn't the mountain ahead of you that wears you out;

it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
~ Robert W. Service

“The Twelve Traditions were slowly evolved during an era

when large-scale publicity was causing new groups to spring up

like popcorn on a hot griddle.

Many a power-driven ego ran hog-wild among us in those days,

and it was the Traditions which finally brought order,

coherence, and effective functioning out of the noisy anarchy

which for a time threatened us with collapse.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1960

Big Book Quote

"Thus we grow. And so can you, though you be but one man with this
book in your hand. We believe and hope it contains all you will need
to begin."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 162

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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

MARCH 2020 Miracles

3/1 Crispin H. (London, UK)…..38

3/1 Newfie Dave D. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)…..22

3/1 Donnie M. (Springfield, WV)…..20

3/1 Rich W. (Astoria, NY)…..5

3/3 Curtis C. (Parrsboro, N.S. )…..1

3/3 Daniel J. (Naples, FL)…..1

3/3 Stephen H. (Atlantic Heights, NJ)…..14

3/4 Adam L. (NY,NY / SOMA, NJ)…..6

3/5 Tom M. Waynesville, NC/Jacksonville, FL)…..26

3/5 Deirdre C. (Cornelius, NC)…..24

3/6 Julie D. (Ajijic. Jalisco, Mexico)…..38

3/8 William the Wanderer (NH)…..31

3/10 Mark B. (Portland, ME)…..34

3/13 Tom V. (Morristown, NJ)…..13

3/14 Frank G. (San Francisco, CA)…..29

3/14 Barbara B. (Watson, LA)…..1

3/15 Zvi B. (Brooklyn, NY)…..1

3/16 Eli S. (Waynesville, NC)…..1

3/16 Bill I. (Islington, MA)…..35

3/17 Anna D. (Delaware)…..1

3/17 Dan D. (Vero Beach, FL)…..41

3/18 Glenn M. (Indialantic, FL)…..1

3/19 Rebecca S. (London, UK)…..2

3/20 Kathleen G. (Cavan Lodge, Ireland)…..18

3/21 Lee H (Devon, PA)…..3

3/21 Kate A. (Nyack, NY)…..32

3/24 Amy BS (New York ,NY)…..32

3/24 Joan O. (Keaau, HI)…..3

3/24 Wendy R. (Nyack, NY)…..34

3/25 Ashley G. ()…..4

3/26 Christina U. (Palm Coast, FL)…..7

3/26 Rudy T. (Santa Fe, NM)…..2

3/27 Steve H. (East Hampton, NY)…..33

3/27 Jonelle A. ()…..32

3/28 Collen S. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..31

3/28 Michelle E. (Grand Rapids, MI)…..1

3/28 Sam S. (Houston, TX)…..7

3/30 Barbara K. (Melville, NY)…..15

3/31 Joyce G. (Michigan/Florida)…..10

0648 Total Years of Sobriety

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

The moment we say, "No, never!" our minds close against the grace of God. Delay is dangerous, and rebellion may be fatal. This is the exact point at which we abandon limited objectives, and move toward God's will for us. Haunting me through each day's stupor---and there were eighteen or nineteen such days in this man's home---was the thought: Where do I go when his family comes home? When the day of their return was almost upon me, and suicide was the only answer I had been able to think of, I went inot Ralph's room one evening and told him the t

p. 69

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I find myself thinking about taking a drink, I say to myself.
"Don't reach out and take that problem back. You've given it to God
and there's nothing you can do about it." So I forget about the
drink. One of the most important parts of the A.A. program is to give
our drink problem to God honestly and fully and never to reach out
and take the problem back to ourselves. If we let God have it and
keep it for good and then cooperate with Him, we'll stay sober. Have
I determined not to take the drink problem back to myself?

Meditation For The Day

Constant effort is necessary if I am to grow spiritually and develop
my spiritual life. I must keep the spiritual rules persistently,
perseveringly, lovingly, patiently, and hopefully. By keeping them, every
mountain of difficulty shall be laid low, the rough places of poverty of
spirit shall be made smooth, and all who know me shall know that God is
the Lord of all my ways. To get close to the spirit of God is to find
life and healing and strength.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that God's spirit may be everything to my soul. I pray that
God's spirit may grow within me.

Daily Thought

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Faith

We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn't true. Actually, we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55

Thought to Consider . . .

We found the Great Reality deep down within us.

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F A I T H
Found Always In Trusting Him

Daily Reflection

IT WORKS

It works—it really does.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 88

When I got sober I initially had faith only in the program of

Alcoholics Anonymous. Desperation and fear kept me

sober (and maybe a caring and/or tough sponsor helped!).

Faith in a Higher Power came much later. This faith came

slowly at first, after I began listening to others share at

meetings about their experiences—experiences that I had

never faced sober, but that they were facing with strength

from a Higher Power. Out of their sharing came hope that I

too would—and could—"get" a Higher Power. In time, I

learned that a Higher Power—a faith that works under all

conditions—is possible. Today this faith, plus the honesty,

open-mindedness and willingness to work the Steps of the

program, gives me the serenity that I seek. It works—it

really does.

Pot Luck

On Pain

By Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

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