Your
Daily Reprieve for Saturday April 4,
2020
From Waynesville, NC
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All those who suffer in the
world do so
because of their desire for
their own happiness.
All those happy in the
world are so
because of their desire for
the happiness of others.
-Bodhicaryavatara
You close your eyes when
you kiss, when you pray, and when you dream.
Because the most beautiful
moments in life are better felt than seen.
~Anonymous
Acceptance is the great
healer of strife, conflict and upset.
It also corrects major
imbalances of perception
and precludes the dominance
of negative feelings.
Everything serves a
purpose."
~David R. Hawkins
“We ought to look toward
God's perfection as our guide
rather than as a goal to be
reached in any foreseeable time.”
~AA Co-Founder, Bill W.,
June 1961
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Big Book Quote
"We avoid
retaliation or argument. We wouldn't treat sick people
that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 67~ |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
SCOTT
R.
Van Nuys, CA
@43rd
Sessions by the Sea
Ocean City,
MD
2000
Wee
Willie’s
Sobriety
First Media
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Literature and tapes
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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here
SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
this :
6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
4/1 Jack D. Hampton, NH)…..51
4/1 Kevin B. (Godshill, UK)…..32
4/1 Cary W. (Palm City, FL)…..13
4/1 Valerie A. (Phoenix, AZ)…..2
4/1 Ron F. (Cincinnati, OH)…..43
4/1 Joyce G. (Haverhill, MA)…..32
4/1 Janie C. (Lynbrook, NY)…..30
4/1 Ray D. (Hot Springs, NC/Exeter, NH)…..34
4/1 Brian N. (Diamondhead, MS)…..7
4/2 Justin L. (Waynesville, NC)…..2
4/2 Julian M. (St. Albans, UK)…..2
4/3 Leigh A. ()…..22
4/4 Tim D. (Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica)…..9
4/4 Bob C. (Akron, OH)…..18
4/5 Mark S. (Southampton, Hants, UK)…..2
4/5 Tim F. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..31
4/6 Eugene R. (Barcelona, Spain)…..6
4/6 Nick E. (East Twickenham, UK)…..21
4/7 Mark V. (Indian Trail NC)…..5
4/7 Thorson R. (Wellington, FL)…..3
4/7 Madeleine M. (Groveland, MA)......37
4/7 Corry P. (New York)…..2
4/7 Walt C. (College Station, TX)…..6
4/8 Paul K. (Akron, OH)…..16
4/8 Maureen K. (New Providence, NJ)…..10
4/9 Travis C. (Eureka, CA)…..1
4/9 Dayton H. (NYC, NY)…..30
4/10 Tony K. (Jacksonville, FL)…..3
4/10 Kevin L. (Cherry Hill, NJ)…..37
4/11 Diane L. (Panama City Beach, FL)…..42
4/11 Diane M. (Waynesville, NC/Jax, FL)…..12
4/11 Jeremy S. (Austin, TX)…..8
4/11 Emily W. (Astoria, NY)…..6
4/11 Jerry W. (Walker, LA)…..47
4/11 Chrissy M. (Succasunna, NJ)…..11
4/12 Kathy McQ. ()…..12
4/12 Lisa S. (Valley Cottage, NY)…..18
4/14 Barbara B. ()…..1
4/14 Sue B. (Waynesville, NC)…..10
4/15 Erin S. (Wayland/Nantucket MA)…..15
4/15 Kelly McG. (Edison, NJ)…..5
4/15 Larry R. (Westchester, NY)…..41
4/16 Angela S. (Dallas, TX)…..1
4/17 Cecily T. (New York, NY)…..11
4/18 Steve Q. (Kauai, HI)…...12
4/18 Brad G. (St. Louis, MO)…..19
4/19 Joanna J. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..39
4/21 Tom Mc. (Leesburg, FL)…..50
4/21 Elizabeth W. (The Main Line, PA)…..14
4/22 Becky S. (Knoxville, TN)…..10
4/22 Jack C. (Conroe, TX)…..1
4/23 Dorothy V. (Placida, FL)…..16
4/23 Steve W. (Syracuse, NY/Indialantic, FL)…..15
4/24 Larry C. (Davenport, FL)…..30
4/24 Sam F. (New York City)…..2
4/24 Paul C. ()…..44
4/24 Fran D. (Randolph, NJ)…..45
4/25 Mark S. (Port Crane, NY)…..5
4/26 Grainne F. (Dublin/Chaing Mai, Thailand)…..10
4/27 Norma D. (Haverhill, MA).....9
4/28 Brian C. (Davenport, FL)…..22
4/28 Bobby S. (South Boston, MA)…..18
4/30 Sandra M. (Airdrie, Scotland)…..31
1136 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Nine - "Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes. There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety. There will be those to whom we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or others more harm than good. There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all. p. 83 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day
When I came into A.A., I found men and women who had been through
the same things I had been through. But now they were thinking more about how they could help others than they were about themselves. They were a lot more unselfish than I ever was. By coming to meetings and associating with them, I began to think a little less about myself and a little more about other people. I also learned that I didn't have to depend on myself alone to get out of the mess I was in. I could get a greater strength than my own. Am I now depending less on myself and more on God? Meditation For The Day
You cannot help others unless you understand the person you are
trying to help. To understand the problems and temptations of others, you must have been through them yourself. You must do all you can to understand others. You must study their backgrounds, their likes and dislikes, their reactions and their prejudices. When you see their weaknesses, do not confront the person with them. Share your own weaknesses, sins, and temptations and let other people find their own convictions. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may serve as a channel for God's power to come into the lives of others. I pray that I may try to understand them. |
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Daily Thought
^*^*^*^*^ (\ ~~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Change "Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better. But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in A.A. as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way." Bill W., Box 1980 The A.A. Grapevine, July 1965 As Bill Sees It, p. 115 Thought to Consider . . . There is no progress without change. *~*AACRONYMS*~* C H A N G E Can Helping Attract New Gifts and Energy? |
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Daily Reflection
CRYING FOR THE MOON
"This very real
feeling of inferiority is magnified by his
childish sensitivity and it
is this state of affairs which
generates in him that
insatiable, abnormal craving for selfapproval
and success in the eyes of
the world. Still a child,
he cries for the moon. And
the moon, it seems, won't have
him!"
LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p.
102
While drinking I seemed to
vacillate between feeling totally
invisible and believing I
was the center of the universe.
Searching for that elusive
balance between the two has
become a major part of my
recovery. The moon I constantly
cried for is, in sobriety,
rarely full; it shows me instead its
many other phases, and
there are lessons in them all. True
learning has often followed
an eclipse, a time of darkness,
but with each cycle of my
recovery, the light grows stronger
and my vision is clearer.
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Pot Luck
Keep
It Simple
Life
is not lost by dying; life is lost by minute, day by day,
in
all the thousands, small, uncaring ways.-
~Stephen
V. Benet
Our
Twelve Step program promises us a new way of life.
But
most of us won’t just wake up one day with a new attitude.
We
only gain this new way of life if we get involved.
The
Twelve Step are tools to build a new life.
The
more we use a tool, the easier it is to use.
The
same goes for the Twelve Steps, just as carpenters depend on their tools.
If
we only wait for the new way of life, it’ll never come.
The
quicker we get involved, the quicker we’ll get fixed.
Prayer
for the Day: Higher Power, help me get involved. Help me build a new way of
life.
Action
for the Day: Today, I’ll look for ways to use the Twelve Steps.
If
I have a problem, I’ll first stop and think of how the Twelve Steps can help
me solve it.
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Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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copies in print (the original text has been revised),
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daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
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