Your
Daily Reprieve for Sunday April 19, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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“God didn’t give me this
gift of sobriety
to sit in a rocking chair...”
~Grapevine: Spring Hill,
Florida, September 1995
“Patience is not the
ability to wait,
but the ability to keep a
good attitude while waiting..”
~Bob Proctor
Overcome your uncertainties
and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow.
If you delight in existence, you will become
a guide to those who need you,
revealing the path to many.
-Sutra Piñata
Faith is the one power
against which fear cannot stand.
~Norman Vincent Peale |
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Big Book Quote
"The delusion
that we are like other people, or presently may be, has
to be smashed." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, |
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
EARL
H.
Steps 6 &
7
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Willie’s
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First Media
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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
4/1 Sherry G. (Princeton, NJ)…..32
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
4/7 Jane T. (Vancouver, BC)…..34
4/8 Paul K. (Akron, OH)…..16
4/8 Ashley G. (Miami, FL)…..8
4/8 Maureen K. (New Providence, NJ)…..10
4/9 Travis C. (Eureka, CA)…..1
4/9 Dayton H. (NYC, NY)…..30
4/9 Keith R. (Ixtlahaucan MX)…..1
4/9 Bobby M. (Smithtown, NY)…..5
4/10 Tony K. (Jacksonville, FL)…..3
4/10 Kevin L. (Cherry Hill, NJ)…..37
4/10 Chas T. (Aiken, SC)…..8
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 Kathleen M. (Kentucky)…..32
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
4/16 Lindsay P. (Minneapolis, MN)…..4
4/17 Jay M. (Cleveland. OH)…..6
4/17 Cecily T. (New York, NY)…..11
4/17 Vicky M. (Waynesville, NC)…..39
4/17 Frank T. (Rocky Point, NY)…..11
4/17 Vince K. (Palm City, FL)…..38
4/17 Rich W. (Evanston, IL)…..3
4/18 Steve Q. (Kauai, HI)…...12
4/18 Brad G. (St. Louis, MO)…..19
4/18 Liz A. (Westfield, NJ)…..9
4/19 Joanna J. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..39
4/19 Lynn H. (Springfield, IL)…..38
4/19 Rex R. (Eureka, CA)…..6
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 Jeannie C. (Nantucket, MA)…..28
4/22 Jack C. (Conroe, TX)…..1
4/23 Dorothy V. (Placida, FL)…..16
4/23 Tom K. (Tampa FL/Canton, OH)…..25
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 Fran D. (Randolph, NJ)…..45
4/25 Mark S. (Port Crane, NY)…..5
4/25 Rourke H. (St Maarten, Dutch West Indies))…..21
4/26 Grainne F. (Dublin/Chaing Mai, Thailand)…..10
4/26 Margi W. ()…..3
4/26 Cliff M. (Newburyport, MA)…..10
4/27 Norma D. (Haverhill, MA).....9
4/27 Kathy C. (Princeton, NJ)…..12
4/27 Maureen (Port Charlotte, FL)…..31
4/27 Nesem G. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..2
4/28 Brian C. (Davenport, FL)…..22
4/28 Laurie M. (new Jersey)…..35
4/28 Julie T. (Morristown, NJ)…..7
4/28 Bobby S. (South Boston, MA)…..18
4/28 Amanda S. (Newburgh, NY)…..2
4/29 Paul C. (New York/Florida)…..44
4/30 Sandra M. (Airdrie, Scotland)…..31
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."
Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds of disturbances--jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride--did the same thing. p. 90 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put sobriety into my life, almost everything I take out is good. The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things. You have the ambition to do things you didn't feel like doing when you were drinking. Am I getting satisfaction out of living a sober life? Meditation For The Day It is a glorious way - the upward way. There are wonderful discoveries in the realm of the spirit. There are tender intimacies in the quiet times of communion with God. There is an amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding of the other person. On the upward way, you can have all the strength you need from that Higher Power. You cannot make too many demands on Him for strength. He gives you all the power you need, as long as you are moving along the upward way. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may see the beautiful horizons ahead on the upward way. I pray that I may keep going forward to the more abundant life. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Humility "Our A.A. program is spiritually centered. Most of us have found enough humility to believe in and depend upon God. We have found that humility by facing the fact that alcoholism is a fatal malady over which we are individually powerless." Bill W., Box 1980: The A.A. Grapevine, September 1945 The Language of the Heart, p. 7 Thought to Consider . . . Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. *~*AACRONYMS*~* Y E T You'll End up There |
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Daily Reflection
BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS
We recovered alcoholics are
not so much brothers in virtue
as we are brothers in our
defects, and in our common
strivings to overcome them
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167
The identification that one
alcoholic has with another is
mysterious,
spiritual—almost incomprehensible. But it is
there. I "feel"
it. Today I feel that I can help people and that
they can help me.
It is a new and exciting
feeling for me to care for
someone; to care what they
are feeling, hoping for, praying
for; to know their sadness,
joy, horror, sorrow, grief; to
want to share those feelings
so that someone can have
relief. I never knew how to
do this—or how to try. I never
even cared. The Fellowship
of A.A., and God, are teaching
me how to care about
others.
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Pot Luck
Believing
When we surrender to our Higher Power, the journey began. Many
of us had trouble believing that God existed when we begin our recovery
program, because for years we thought we were the master of our own affairs.
We paid attention to no desires or wishes but our own.
When
we realize how much help we needed, we first looked to other members and our
group for support. By rejecting at first the idea of a Power higher
than ourselves, many of us did accept the idea of a power other than
ourselves. As we have made spiritual progress, most of us now have a clear
and ongoing belief in a Higher Power that we call God.
It
is important to our recovery to rely on God, as our own belief in a Higher
Power is what can and does save us from our addiction. Only two of the steps
talk about addiction. The other ten talk about spiritual growth.
In
recovery, we have a firm foundation for spiritual health and spiritual
progress when we continue to believe in our Higher Power.
Stephen Beal,
Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men
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Twenty Four Hours a Day
Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics
throughout the world. With over nine million
copies in print (the original text has been revised),
this "little black book" offers
daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
applications to fit our daily lives.
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