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Your
Daily Reprieve for Saturday April 18 ,
2020
From Waynesville, NC
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“Today I refuse to stress
myself out
about the things I cannot
control or change.”
~~Anonymous
A spiritual path boiled
down to five words.
Please practice daily the
five H's:
Happy Hopeful Humble Helpful Honest
~Anonymous
"The problem is not
that there are problems.
The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking
that having problems is a
problem."
--Theodore Rubin
A straight oar looks bent in the water.
What matters is not merely
that we see things
but how we see them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
“As I carried the Fourth
Step into the next directional action, the Fifth
... I began to gain by
pain, to win by losing,
to get control by letting
go of control.
And good feelings poured in
from all sides.
I discovered how many words
that I had been fond of using
were actually traps,
setting off negative thinking –
‘If only...,’ ‘You
always...,’ ‘never,’ ‘forever,’ ‘If you would only...,’ and so on.
I dug in and tried
desperately to change word habits,
to share time instead of
spending it.”
~Grapevine: Pompano Beach,
Florida, June 1978
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Big Book Quote
"...the main
problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than
in his body." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, Page 23~ |
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1596 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."
Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is,
let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can
do its work.
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed,
no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about "justifiable" anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous folk? For us of A.A. these are dangerous exceptions. We have found that justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it. p. 90 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
As I look back over my drinking career, have I learned that you take out of life what you put into it? When I put drinking into my life, did I take out a lot of bad things? Hospitals with the D.T.'s? Jails for drunken driving? Loss of job? Loss of home and family? When I put drinking into my life, was almost everything I took out bad? Meditation For The Day I should strive for a friendliness and helpfulness that will affect all who come near to me. I should try to see something to love in them. I should welcome them, bestow little courtesies and understandings on them, and help them if they ask for help. I must send no one away without a word of cheer, a feeling that I really care about them. God may have put the impulse in some despairing one's mind to come to me. I must not fail God by repulsing that person. They may not want to communicate with me unless they are sure of a warm welcome. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may warmly welcome all who come to me for help. I pray that I may make them feel that I really care. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Prayer "In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question. They are matters of knowledge and experience. All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own. They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability. And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances." Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 104 As Bill Sees It, p. 127 Thought to Consider . . . Trying to pray is praying. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P U S H Pray Until Something Happens |
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Daily Reflection
SELF-HONESTY
The deception of others is
nearly always rooted in the
deception of ourselves. . .
. When we are honest with
another person, it confirms
that we have been honest with
ourselves and with God.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 17
When I was drinking, I
deceived myself about reality,
rewriting it to what I
wanted it to be. Deceiving others is a
character defect—even if it
is just stretching the truth a bit
or cleaning up my motives
so others would think well of
me. My Higher Power can
remove this character defect, but
first I have to help myself
become willing to receive that
help by not practicing
deception. I need to remember each
day that deceiving myself
about myself is setting myself up
for failure or
disappointment in life and in Alcoholics
Anonymous. A close, honest
relationship with a Higher
Power is the only solid
foundation I've found for honesty
with self and with others.
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Pot Luck
Finding
Ourselves
During my first months of recovery I couldn't stop saying,
“That's me.”
Yes,
I would think, at almost every disclosure about themselves that people at
meetings made. “I understand why you did that,” I tell them afterward.
“That's the same kind a lot so thing used to do”.
During
those disclosures I felt like an orphan who has found his family of origin,
or like the hero of the song “Country Roads” who comes home to a place
he’s never been before. I also felt a little like an adventurer who stumbles
on a magic realm, Shangri-La, or an ancient city of the Incas. I can't
feeling I found a treasure. These people were just like me.
Sure
I had hard days once in a while. I get angry with the traffic, angry with my
boss, angry with the family. But always at the center my being is the
knowledge that I can go away and get calm. I can go away and get calm at a
meeting. A good quiet time is one where I allow myself really to get
down into my meditation, Down out of the wanna that distinguish my life, Down
into the universals that unite all our lives. Bad quiet times, by contrast,
are those what I just go through the paces,
read-my-reading-say-my-prayers-and-think-okay-that’s-done.
Finding
the people who are just like me at meetings is enabling me to find the
spirituality at the center of my being, this spiritual creature is, I think,
the real me. This spiritual creature can do many things that the old material
being could not do. He can stay late at work without feeling resentful.
He can give up the shortcut home in favor of just driving along. He can say
okay when the family proposes doing something at night he had not planned on
doing. He does not have to go to a special place to feel it is being fully
himself. He five cities fully himself when he says yes. When he goes along
with the spirit of things instead of trying to fit the spirit of things into
his own self-conditioned ruts.
So
what am I saying? That I am most me when I am least concerned with what I
want (or what I think I want) .That I am happiest when I seized the
inspiration of the moment. That I am closest to my fellows, and my God, when
I let go.
Walk
softly and carry a big stick? Not this guy. I walk softly and carry no stick
it all.
“Finding
Ourselves” . Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men
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