Your
Daily Reprieve for Monday April 27 , 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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"The world is going
through a period of crisis,
but whether we look at it
as a crisis or as
an opportunity to reshape
our thinking, depends on us.
So use this period as a
lesson on how to live life
with a concern for all of
humankind."
~ Abhijit Naskar
“Once we believe in
ourselves,
we can risk curiosity,
wonder, spontaneous delight,
or any experience that
reveals the human spirit.“
e. e. cummings
“Resilience is accepting
your new reality,
even if it’s less good than
the one you had before.
You can fight it, you can
do nothing
but scream about what
you’ve lost,
or you can accept that and
try
to put together something
that’s good.”
— Elizabeth Edwards
Gratitude is the vision to
see
that WE have been
Gifted
- Ernest Kurtz |
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Big Book Quote
"When the
spiritual malady is overcome,
we straighten out
mentally and physically."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Page 64~ |
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Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
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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
4/13 J.C. Donna S. (Little Egg Hbr, NJ)...33
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
4/18 Babs J. (Cannon Beach, OR)…..1
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 Mary D. (Evansville, IN)…..35
4/22 Jack C. (Conroe, TX)…..1
4/22 Ken D. (Dover Plains, NY)…..2
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
4/24 Paul G. (Exeter, NH)…..17
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 Margie 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
4/28 John S. (Little Silver, NJ) ....33
4/29 Paul C. (New York/Florida)…..44
4/30 Sandra M. (Airdrie, Scotland)…..31
1717 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."
We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit
it--to ourselves always, and to them also, when the admission would be
helpful. Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we
may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always
pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often
ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to
me--today?"
p. 93 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no comparison. This release gives us serenity and peace with the world. Have I been released from the power of alcohol? Meditation For The Day We know God by spiritual vision. We feel that He is beside us. We feel His presence. Contact with God is not made by the senses. Spirit-consciousness replaces sight. Since we cannot see God, we have to perceive Him by spiritual perception. God has to span the physical and the spiritual with the gift to us of spiritual vision. Many persons, though they cannot see God, have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Him. We are inside a box of space and time, but we know there must be something outside of that box, limitless space, eternity of time, and God. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have a consciousness of God's presence. I pray that God will give me spiritual vision. |
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Daily Thought
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Earnestness
"An alcoholic in his cups is an unlovely creature. Our struggles with them are variously strenuous, comic, and tragic. One poor chap committed suicide in my home. He could not, or would not, see our way of life. There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish." Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 16 Thought to Consider.... Laughter is the sound effect of recovery. *~*AACRONYMS*~* D E A D Drinking Ends All Dreams |
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Daily Reflection
JOYFUL DISCOVERIES
We realize we know only a
little. God will constantly
disclose more to you and to
us. Ask Him in your morning
meditation what you can do
each day for the man who is
still sick. The answers
will come, if your own house is in
order. But obviously you
cannot transmit something you
haven't got. See to it that
your relationship with Him is
right, and great events
will come to pass for you and
countless others. This is
the Great Fact for us.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.
164
Sobriety is a journey of
joyful discovery. Each day brings
new experience, awareness,
greater hope, deeper faith,
broader tolerance. I must
maintain these attributes or I will
have nothing to pass on.
Great events for this
recovering alcoholic are the normal
everyday joys found in
being able to live another day in
God's grace.
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Pot Luck
Our
very imperfections
-
what religion labels our "sins",
what
therapy calls our "sickness",
what
philosophy labels our "errors"
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are precisely what bring us closer to the reality
that
no matter how hard we try to deny it,
we are not the ones in control here.
And
this realization,
inevitably and joyously, brings us closer to
"God".
One of the disconcerting - and delightful
-
teachings of Meister Eckhart was:
"God
is closer to sinners than to saints."
This
is how he explained it:
"God
in heaven holds each person by a string.
When
you sin, you cut the string.
Then
God ties it up again, making a knot
-
and thereby bringing you a little closer to Him.
Again
and again your sins cut the string
- and with each further knot God keeps
drawing you closer and closer."
The Spirituality of Imperfection |
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