Your
Daily Reprieve for Saturday March 28,
2020
From Jacksonville, FL
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“I must learn to open my
mind as well as my eyes.”
~Grapevine: Lincoln, Rhode
Island, July 1992
"It's no good knowing
your values
if you don't live your
values."
~Tim Brownson
We must light the path and
boot the ass with equal kindness…
~Dave Trumbull
Don’t let anyone snatch
your joy - guard it with your life.
May God bless you with
daily delight.
May you take great
pleasure in tiny moments and
you will find it's simple
to protect your happiness from now to always.
~Prayables
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Big Book Quote
"If we are
planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation
of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33~ |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
CLANCY
I.
Where Do We Go
From Here?
Woodstock of the South
2014
Wee
Willie’s
Sobriety
First Media
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Literature and tapes
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Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
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6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
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,
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(Naples, FL)…..1
3/3 Steven H.
(Atlantic Heights, NJ)…..14
3/3 Kelly T.
(Newmarket, NH)…..29
3/3Michael Z.
Sarasota, FL)…..39
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
3/11 Bridget M. (Moriches,
NY)…..11
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
3/15 Joe H. (St
Albans, VT)…..28
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
3/20 Michele O. (Palm
Springs, CA)…..21
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
3/22 Bobby C. (Prospect,
KY)…..14
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
3/24 Deb K. (Hampton,
NH)…..31
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
3/27 Cathy C-T. (Palm
City, FL)…..12
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
3/30 Wendy B.
(Wanaque, NJ)…..30
3/31 Joyce G.
(Michigan/Florida)…..10
3/31 Jackson R.
(Daytona, FL)…..3
1634 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all."
This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions. p. 79 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
When you come into an A.A. meeting, you're not just coming into a meeting, you're coming into a new life. I'm always impressed by the change I see in people after they've been in A.A. for a while. I sometimes take an inventory of myself, to see whether I have changed and if so, in what way. Before I met A.A., I was very selfish. I wanted my own way in everything. I don't believe I ever grew up. When things went wrong, I sulked like a spoiled child and often went out and got drunk. Am I still all get and no give? Meditation For The Day There are two things we must have if we are going to change our way of life. One is faith, the confidence in things unseen, that fundamental goodness and purpose in the universe. The other is obedience, that is living according to our faith, living each day as we believe God wants us to live, with gratitude, humility, honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. Faith and obedience, these two, will give us all the strength we need to overcome sin and temptation and to live a new and more abundant life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have more faith and obedience. I pray that I may live a more abundant life as a result of these things. |
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Daily Thought
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The Light
"To what extent I was personally responsible for my drinking, I don't know. Yet I'm not one to take complete refuge in the idea that I was a sick man only. In earlier years, I certainly had some degree of free will. That free will I used badly, to the great misery of my mother and countless others. I am deeply ashamed. As one who knows me a little, you may have heard how, ten years ago, a friend, himself a liberated alcoholic, came to me bearing the light which finally led me out of the toils. There will come a day like that for you and yours - I'm so confident!"
Bill W.,
Letter to the Mother of an Alcoholic,
Dec. Language of the Heart, p. 102 Thought to Consider . . . It's impossible for me to love God and hate myself. *~*AACRONYMS*~* A L C O H O L I C S A Life Centered On Helping Others Live In Complete Sobriety |
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Daily Reflection
EQUALITY
Our membership ought to
include all who suffer from
alcoholism Hence we may
refuse none who wish to recover.
Nor ought A.A. membership
ever depend upon money or
conformity. Any two or
three alcoholics gathered together
for sobriety may call
themselves an A.A. group, provided
that, as a group, they
have no other affiliation.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.
565
Prior to A.A., I often
felt that I didn't "fit in" with the
people around me. Usually
"they" had more/ less money
than I did, and my points
of view didn't jibe with "theirs."
The amount of prejudice I
had experienced in society only
proved to me just how
phony some self-righteous people
were. After joining A.
A., I found the way of life I had been
searching for. In A.A. no
member is better than any other
member; we're just
alcoholics trying to recover from
alcoholism.
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Pot Luck
The program is education without graduation.
~
Anonymous
Our entire Program rests on the principle of
mutual trust. We trust our Higher Power, we trust the Program and we trust
each other.
When we we were using, we trusted no one. We
lied about everything, even the smallest thing, so how could we trust what
anyone else told us? Cheating was a way of life. Finding reasons for
our actions kept us busy rationalizing our lives.’
So how could we trust anyone? We couldn’t
even trust ourselves to keep track of our lies. They were so big and so confusing that we just drowned our
denial in chemicals. Then it didn’t matter anymore.
The only thing we thought we could trust was
our addiction. When we discovered that it was the biggest lie of all, we lost
trust in everything. We had nowhere to go. And that was the greatest day of
our lives.
We’ve put our trust in the Program, the Steps, our sponsor,
our group, and our Higher Power, and little by little we’re learning to
trust again.
Stephen Beal, Editor, Stepping Stones to
Recovery for Men
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