Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 03.19.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday March 19, 2019

From Middlebury, VT

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Every happening, great and small,

is a parable whereby God speaks to us,

and the art of life is to get the message.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

I am not afraid of tomorrow,

for I have seen yesterday, and I love today.
--- William Allen White

"Too many people overvalue what they are not

and undervalue what they are."
– Malcolm Forbes

To recognize failure intelligently is the first step toward building success.
Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.
You can have anything in life that you really want,

but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it.
God is ready the moment you are.

~Emmet Fox

Big Book Quote

"Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things
alcoholics are not supposed to do. People have said we must not go
where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we must
shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show
drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide
their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be
reminded about alcohol at all. Our experience shows that this is not
necessarily so.

We meet these conditions every day. An alcoholic who cannot meet
them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with
his spiritual status."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 100~

Daily Share!

AA Speaker of the Day

Chuck Chamberlain, Memorial

This recording is a memorial service for the much-loved, early Alcoholics Anonymous member, Chuck Chamberlain. Chuck died on December 14th, 1984 in Laguna Beach, California at the age of 82. This recording was made within the two weeks after his death. The chairman of this meeting is well-known AA speaker, Johnny Harris. Johnny introduces about seven or eight different speakers who take their turns at the podium eulogizing Chuck. The speakers include Chuck’s wife , Elsa, his son Bill Chamberlain, Sybil Corwin, Cecil Corrigal, and Clancy Imislund. There are a lot of heart-felt memories of Chuck C shared by these speakers on this recording. Several times, various speakers hint at the fact that the final speaker is definitely the best. The final speaker ends up being Chuck C himself; a short recording of a Chuck AA talk is played and provides a very emotional ending to this memorial.

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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 2019 Miracles

3/1 Crispin H. (London, UK)…..38

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

3/1 Donnie M. (Springfield, WV)…..21

3/1 Rich W. (Astoria, NY)…..5

3/1 Wyman B. (Augusta, GA)…..6

3/2 Liz C. (White Plains, NY)…..11

3/3 Curtis C. (Parrsboro, N.S. )…..1

3/3 Daniel J. (Naples, FL)…..1

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

3/3 Kelly T. (Newmarket, NH)…..29

3/4 Adam L. (NY,NY / SOMA, NJ)…..6

3/4 Chris A. (Bristol, UK)…..50

3/5 Bill E. (Portsmouth, RI)…..35

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

3/5 Deirdre C. (Cornelius, NC)…..24

3/5 Joan T. (Princeton, NJ)…..31

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

3/7 Adam S. (Tampa)…..3

3/7 Dave G. (White Rock. B.C./Merida. Mex)…..17

3/7 George H. (Milwaukee, WI)…..12

3/8 William the Wanderer (NH)…..31

3/9 Andy W. (Harbor Island, BYOC)…..33

3/9 Sheila J. (New York, NY)…..34

3/9 Patti K. (Baiting Hollow)…..36

3/9 Tony C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..41

3/9 Phil S. (Santa Fe, NM)…..10

3/10 Mark B. (Portland, ME)…..34

3/11 John M. (Succasunna, NJ)…..11

3/11 Eleni N. (Portland, ME)…..1

3/12 Ned W. (Melbourne, FL)…..23

3/12 Carol S. (Farmington Hills, MI)…..17

3/13 Tom V. (Morristown, NJ)…..13

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

3/15 Steven A. (Southampton, NY)…..12

3/14 Barbara B. (Watson, LA)…..1

3/14 Suzanne S. (NYC)…..40

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 Judy D. (Camel, CA)…..5

3/17 Dan D. (Vero Beach, FL)…..41

3/17 Susan P. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30

3/18 Glenn M. (Indialantic, FL)…..1

3/18 Rachel P. (London, UK)…..6

3/19 Rebecca S. (London, UK)…..2

3/19 Mike B. (Purchase, NY)…..20

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

3/20 Molly D. (Rockport, MA)…..19

3/21 Lee H (Devon, PA)…..3

3/21 Norm A. (Boston, MA)…..31

3/21 Tucker H. (Nantucket, MA)…..3

3/21 Scott M. (Boston, MA)…..9

3/21 Kate A. (Nyack, NY)…..32

3/21 Pamela B. (Clinton, NJ)…..37

3/22 Sally S. (Nantucket/Spring Island)…..32

3/22 Terri L. (Goodyear, AZ)…..1

3/23 Donna L. (Pearl River,NY )…..22

3/23 Jesse R. ()…..10

3/24 Amy BS (New York ,NY)…..32

3/24 Joan O. (Keaau, HI)…..3

3/24 Wendy R. (Nyack, NY)…..34

3/24 Julie P. (Anglesey, Wales)…..8

3/25 Ashley G. ()…..4

3/25 Tim F. (River Edge, NJ)…..6

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

3/27 Chuck L. (Key Largo, FL)…33

3/28 Collen S. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..32

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

3/28 Sam S. (Houston, TX)…..7

3/28 Steven S. (Summit, NJ)…..10

3/28 Shane S. (Randolph, NJ)…..2

3/29 Robin S. (New 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

1448 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

Disagreeable or unexpected problems are not the only ones that call for self-control. We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material success. For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated. When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of still greater victories over people and circumstances. Thus blinded by prideful self confidence, we were apt to play the big shot. Of course, people turned away from us, bored or hurt.

pp. 91-92

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we were drinking, we used to be ashamed of the past. Remorse
is terrible mental punishment: ashamed of ourselves for the things
we've said and done, afraid to face people because of what they might
think of us, afraid of the consequences of what we did when we were
drunk. In A.A. we forget about the past. Do I believe that God has
forgiven me for everything I've done in the past, no matter how black
it was, provided I'm honestly trying to do the right thing today?

Meditation For The Day

God's spirit is all about you all day long. You have no thoughts, no
plans, no impulses, no emotions, that He does not know about. You can
hide nothing from Him. Do not make your conduct conform only to
that of the world and do not depend on the approval or disapproval of
others. God sees in secret, but He rewards openly. If you are in
harmony with the Divine Spirit, doing your best to live the way you
believe God wants you to live, you will be at peace.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may always feel God's presence. I pray that I may realize
this Presence constantly all through the day.

Daily Thought

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Honesty

"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 58

Thought to Consider . . .

Half measures availed us nothing.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

H O W
Honest, Open-minded and Willing

Daily Reflection

PRAYER: IT WORKS

It has been well said that "almost the only scoffers at

prayer are those who never tried it enough."

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 97

Having grown up in an agnostic household, I felt somewhat

foolish when I first tried praying. I knew there was a

Higher Power working in my life—how else was I staying

sober?—but I certainly wasn't convinced he/she/it wanted

to hear my prayers. People who had what I wanted said

prayer was an important part of practicing the program, so I

persevered. With a commitment to daily prayer, I was

amazed to find myself becoming more serene and

comfortable with my place in the world. In other words, life

became easier and less of a struggle. I'm still not sure who,

or what, listens to my prayers, but I'd never stop saying

them for the simple reason that they work.

Pot Luck

Letting Guilt Go

We could do very little in our lives while our disease ran unchecked. We hurt ourselves more than we did anyone, We did things we did not mean to do. We put off things we were going to do. We offended people we did not mean to offend. We were used to carrying such guilt and regret that is a wonder that more of us didn’t take our own lives.

In recovery, we learn to free ourselves from old guilt. We learn how to make our apologies, repay debts and clean up mistakes through our Steps. We receive an unconditional forgiveness for our past life. We are not unworthy. What we are left with when the guilt is removed is gratitude. We become grateful for a chance to live a good life. We learn we do not have to live with new guilt because we do not have to do things for which we will feel guilty.

In the past, we did the best we could. Now we can do better. We’d rather stand on the mountain top with our arms extended in gratitude rather than in a hole holding a bucket of guilt.

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