Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday March 18,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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Peace requires us to
surrender our illusions of control.
We can love and care for
others but we cannot possess
our children, lovers,
family, or friends.
We can assist them, pray
for them, and wish them well,
yet in the end their
happiness and suffering depend
on their thoughts and
actions, not on our wishes…
~Jack Kornfield
"Each one of us here today
will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask
the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is
needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we
don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part
we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should
know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely
without complete understanding."
~Norman Maclean
“I have learned through
crises and through joy.”
~Grapevine: Santa Rosa,
California, December 2001
As soon as you get some
sense of contact,
you want to be teachers of others.
This is a big mistake.
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Big Book Quote
"We do not like
to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can
quickly diagnose yourself, Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 31~ |
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(Delaware)…..1
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3/20 Kathleen G.
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,NY)…..32
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(Fernandina Beach, FL)…..32
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(Summit, NJ)…..10
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(Randolph, NJ)…..2
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York, NY)…..27
3/30 Barbara K.
(Melville, NY)…..15
3/30 Ralph B. (Port
St Lucie, FL)…..38
3/31 Joyce G.
(Michigan/Florida)…..10
3/31 Jackson R.
(Daytona, FL)…..3
1429 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Seven - "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
We saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering. A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. It marked the time when we could commence to see the full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." p. 75 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day When alcoholics first come into A.A. and we face the fact that we must spend the rest of our life without liquor, it often seems like an impossibility for us. So A.A. tells us to forget about the future and take it one day at a time. All we really have is now. We have no past time and no future time. As the saying goes: "Yesterday is gone, forget it; tomorrow never comes, don't worry; today is here, get busy." All we have is the present. The past is gone forever and the future never comes. When tomorrow gets here, it will be today. Am I living one day at a time? Meditation For The Day Persistence is necessary if you are to advance in spiritual things. By persistent prayer, persistent firm and simple trust, you achieve the treasures of the spirit. By persistent practice, you can eventually obtain joy, peace, assurance, security, health, happiness and serenity. Nothing is too great, in the spiritual realm, for you to obtain, if you persistently prepare yourself for it. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may persistently carry out my spiritual exercises every day. I pray that I may strive for peace and serenity. |
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Daily Thought
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Foundation
There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 98 Thought to Consider . . . Prayer is asking a question. Meditation is listening for the answer.
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Daily Reflection
REAL INDEPENDENCE
The more we become
willing to depend upon a Higher
Power, the more
independent we actually are.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 36
I start with a little
willingness to trust God and He causes
that willingness to grow.
The more willingness I have, the
more trust I gain, and
the more trust I gain, the more
willingness I have. My
dependence on God grows as my
trust in Him grows.
Before I became willing, I depended on
myself for all my needs
and I was restricted by my incompleteness.
Through my willingness to
depend upon my
Higher Power, whom I choose
to call God, all my needs are
provided for by Someone
Who knows me better than I
know myself—even the
needs I may not realize, as well as
the ones yet to come.
Only Someone Who knows me that
well could bring me to be
myself and to help me fill the
need in someone else that
only I am meant to fill. There
never will be another
exactly like me. And that is real
independence.
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Pot Luck
1. To become honest and humble. To willingly seek God's help without reservation. 2. To perfect ourselves in the practice of unselfish prayer. 3. To be aware of our defective character traits. 4. To desire their removal. 5. To surrender completely all defects of character. 6. To believe God CAN remove them. 7. To ask Him to take them ALL AWAY. The results we expect from the pursuit of these objectives are: 1. A reconciliation to God's way of doing business. We become "fed up" with our way and with further practice of trying to run the show ourselves. 2. A willingness to work out a plan for suppression of self-centeredness through faith and conscious contact with God. 3. To experience dissatisfaction as a result of our alcoholic practices and to seek a spiritual inspiration that will bring us an inner sense of peace and security. 4. Increased faith, clean hearts and minds, ability to offer unselfish prayer. 5. A spiritual courage that is fearless in its outlook on life; a desire to make restitution to those our drinking has harmed. 6. A desire to quit bluffing and honestly give God a chance to remove from our lives all that stand in the way of our usefulness to him and others. True humility. 7. Elimination of our defective character traits, acquisition of peace of mind and sobriety. The Little Red Book page 56 |
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