Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday April 15,
2020
From Waynesville, NC
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"Don't resent troubles
when they come.
Pray for wisdom; God will
supply all you need
to face persecution or
adversity.
He will give you patience
and keep you strong
in times of trial."
~Life Application Study
Bible
"We are all angels
with only one wing.
We can only fly while
embracing each other."
--Luciano De Crescenzo
"The difference
between perseverance and obstinacy
is that one often comes
from a strong will,
and the other from a strong
won't."
~Henry Ward Beecher
“As I’ve moved along in
sobriety,
I’ve learned that I cannot
change others, only myself.
So I did that and got
healthier.”
~Grapevine: Arusha,
Tanzania, March 2006
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Big Book Quote
"A word about
sex relations. Alcohol is so sexually stimulating to
some men that they have over-indulged. Couples are occasionally dismayed to find that when drinking is stopped the man tends to be impotent. Unless the reason is understood, there may be an emotional upset. Some of us had this experience, only to enjoy, in a few months, a finer intimacy than ever. There should be no hesitancy in consulting a doctor or psychologist if the condition persists. We do not know of many cases where this difficulty lasted long." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 134~ |
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4/11 Chrissy M. (Succasunna, NJ)…..11
4/12 Kathy McQ. ()…..12
4/12 Kathleen M. (Kentusky)…..32
4/12 Lisa S. (Valley Cottage, NY)…..18
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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
4/16 Lindsay P. (Minneapolis, MN)…..4
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4/17 Cecily T. (New York, NY)…..11
4/17 Vicky M. (Waynesville, NC)…..39
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4/17 Vince K. (Palm City, FL)…..38
4/17 Rich W. (Evanston, IL)…..3
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4/22 Jack C. (Conroe, TX)…..1
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4/28 Amanda S. (Newburgh, NY)…..2
4/29 Paul C. (New York/Florida)…..44
4/30 Sandra M. (Airdrie, Scotland)…..31
1586 Total Years of Sobriety
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12&12
Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when
we were wrong promptly admitted it."
When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion--anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers. This doesn't mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past. It requires an admission and correction of errors now. Our inventory enables us to settle with the past. When this is done, we are really able to leave it behind us. When our inventory is carefully taken, and we have made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can be met as they come. pp. 88-89 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Terrible things could have happened to any one of us. We never will know what might have happened to us when we were drunk. We usually thought: "That couldn't happen to me." But any one of us could have killed somebody or have been killed ourselves, if we were drunk enough. But fear of these things never kept us from drinking. Do I believe that in A.A. we have something more effective than fear? Meditation For The Day I must keep calm and unmoved in the vicissitudes of life. I must go back into the silence of communion with God to recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. I will accomplish more by this calmness than by all the activities of a long day. At all cost I will keep calm. I can solve nothing when I am agitated. I should keep away from things that are upsetting emotionally. I should run on an even keel and not get tipped over by emotional upsets. I should seek for things that are calm and good and true and stick to those things. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not argue nor contend, but merely state calmly what I believe to be true. I pray that I may keep myself in that state of calmness that comes from faith in God's purpose for the world. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Housecleaning "Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God." Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 60 Thought to Consider . . . If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 *~*AACRONYMS*~*
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Daily Reflection
THE BONDAGE OF RESENTMENTS
. . . harboring resentment
is infinitely grave. For then we
shut ourselves off from the
sunlight of the spirit.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5
It has been said, "Anger
is a luxury I cannot afford." Does
this suggest I ignore this
human emotion? I believe not.
Before I learned of the
A.A. program, I was a slave to the
behavior patterns of
alcoholism. I was chained to
negativity, with no hope of
cutting loose.
The Steps offered me an
alternative. Step Four was the
beginning of the end of my
bondage. The process of
"letting go"
started with an inventory. I needed not be
frightened, for the
previous Steps assured me I was not
alone. My Higher Power led
me to this door and gave me
the gift of choice. Today I
can choose to open the door to
freedom and rejoice in the
sunlight of the Steps, as they
cleanse the spirit within
me.
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Pot Luck
Gratitude as Virtue Virtues are qualities that support the inherent goodness that re sides within each human being. Gratitude is both a social and a theological virtue. The Hebrew scriptures, the New Testament, and the Qur'an all cite gratitude as central among virtues. Centuries ago, the philosopher Cicero argued that gratitude is the parent of all virtues, a virtue that begets other virtues. The cultivation of gratitude develops character, the embodiment of desired virtues. The advice to cultivate character by expanding one's capacity for gratitude is time-honored wisdom. The art of maintaining a grateful disposition engenders other virtues such as generosity, humility, compassion, wisdom, joy, integrity, and trust. This disposition of mindfulness, of being aware of and thankful for our blessings, helps cultivate our virtues and significantly diminishes, or can even eradicate, any obstacles to gratitude we may face. Living in Gratitude, a book by Angeles Arrien, PhD |
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