Your Daily Reprieve 05.01.20





Your Daily Reprieve for Friday May 1, 2020

From Waynesville, NC


"Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone,
especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
It takes a lot of courage to release
the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new.
But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
To grow, you must be willing
to let your present and future
be totally unlike your past.
Your history is not your destiny."
Alan Cohen

You can't stop the waves
but you can learn to surf
~Unknown

As a tree with strong uninjured roots,
though cut down, grows up again, so,
when deep craving is not rooted out,
suffering arises again and again.
-Dhammapada

In great measure, we AAs have really found peace.
However haltingly, we have managed
to attain an increasing humility
whose dividends have been serenity and legitimate joy.”
~ Bill W., June 1961


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“Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?

Well, thats exactly what this book is about."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 45





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 5/1 Stacey E. (Dothan, AL)…..14
5/1 Becky W. ()…..11
5/1 Rhonda B. (Texas)…..19
5/1 Bryan E. (NYC, NY)…..6
5/4 Regina M. (New York, NY)…..22
5/8 Elizabeth H. (Brick, NJ)…..10
5/10 Randy Y. (Chattanooga, TN)…..1
5/10 Steven N. (Northport, FL)…..8
5/10 Rick P. (Seabrook, NH)…..13
5/11 Sarah D. (New York City)…..1
5/14 Kathy S. (Atkinson, NH)…..31
5/14 Orry M. (Norwalk, CT)…..1
5/16 Donna K. ()…..1
5/17 Deanna P. (Ellsworth, ME)…..4
5/17 Sanjay C. (Astoria, NY)…..2
5/18 Jessica H. (Boca Raton, FL)…..2
5/19 Rachelle S. ()…..27
5/20 Kay W. ()…..1
5/26 Drew P. (Huntersville, NC)…..5
5/27 Ryan W. (Nantucket, MA)…..2
5/28 Phil K. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..45
5/29 Harvey P. (Burlington, VT)…..12




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Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

We "constructively criticized" someone who needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument. Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down. We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish. We were depressed and complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.

pp. 94-95

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 A.A. Thought For The Day

The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of
the word charity is to care enough about other people to really
want to help them. To get the full benefit of the program, we
must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help somebody
and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear
fruit some time. We never know the results even a word of ours
might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others,
a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. Do I
have real charity?

Meditation For The Day

All material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies,
may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more
the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes
a mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis,
matter is thought. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within
the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts,
within the box of space and time, cannot know anything firsthand,
except material things. But we can deduce that outside the box of
space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought.
I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts.




Daily Thought
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Selfishness

"Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

Thought to Consider . . .

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pirituality is the ability to get our minds off ourselves.

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Daily Reflection

HEALING HEART AND MIND
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55

Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can
see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at
a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can
experience Him by loving people and allowing people to
love me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my
secrets to get in the way.
It's the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules
me. I must be willing to look at the dark side in order to
heal my mind and heart because that is the road to freedom.
I must walk into darkness to find the light and walk into
fear to find peace.
By revealing my secrets—and thereby ridding myself of
guilt—I can actually change my thinking; by altering my
thinking, I can change myself. My thoughts create my
future. What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I
think today.



Pot Luck  

Life is God's Novel

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

                              So many times we have  had all our hopes  pinned to the success of a specific plan for the day or particular outcome to some episode in our daily drama. Too often we were certain that if we didn't get our way, we would be devastated. And just as often, God had other plans — for which we can now feel gratitude.

               Most of us wouldn't be here if we had authored the novel of our life.  We would have gone too far in our pursuit of drugs, excitement, the “good life”. There's little doubt we would have gone beyond our limits. Fortunately, God intervened, getting our life stories back on course while there were chapters yet to live.

               Letting God be in charge of these remaining chapters as they unfold takes away our fears about what's coming. We know God's plan for us will take us where we need to go. We know that God's care will keep us serene.


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          I'll rest today and let God be in charge.

Casey, Carey and Pyle, Homer, In God’s Care c1991 April 15





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