Your Daily Reprieve 05.03.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday May  3, 2020 From Waynesville, NC

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." Janos Arnay Life does not consist mainly -- or even largely – of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.. ~Mark Twain Never forget to appreciate your freedom. You are free to enjoy the blessings of prayer, work, and play. You are free to give blessings of kind thoughts, words, and deeds. You are free to love God, God's people, creatures, and all of nature. God blesses you; you are free. ~Prayables How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Big Book Quote "It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day TARA R Stuart, FL Her Story 4th Annual Gratitude Dayze Stuart, FL 11.17 https://bit.ly/3euy7LX Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net SOBER DATE YOUR NAME YOUR LOCATION YEARS SOBER 6/10 (mo/day) Bob S Akron, OH 83 It will look like this : 6/10 Bob S. (Akron, OH).....84 MAY  2020 Miracles 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 5/2 Eddie C. (Southampton, UK)…..20 5/2 Steve W. (Cape Cod)…..5 5/2 Marcia U. (Waynesville, NV)…..24 5/4 Regina M. (New York, NY)…..22 5/4 Jim L. (Waynesville, NC)…..1 5/4 Patrick R. (Happy Valley, MA)…..9 5/5 Ricky M. (Palm Coast, FL)…..6 5/5 Denny M. (Leesburg, FL)…..38 5/7 Leo H. (South Wales, UK).....15 5/7 Anthony A. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..24 5/8 Elizabeth H. (Brick, NJ)…..10 5/8 Mark C. (Kodak, TN)…..6 5/8 Rossana G. (East Lansing, MI)…..26 5/9 Stuart, O. (Springfield, VA)…..8 5/10 Randy Y. (Chattanooga, TN)…..1 5/10 Steven N. (Northport, FL)…..8 5/10 Rick P. (Seabrook, NH)…..13 5/10 John H. (Miami, FL)…..38 5/11 Sarah D. (New York City)…..1 5/13 Gary V. (Portage, IN)…..34 5/14 Kathy S. (Atkinson, NH)…..31 5/15 Orry M. (Norwalk, CT)…..1 5/15 Bill O. (East Hampton, NY)…..16 5/16 Donna K. ()…..1 5/17 Deanna P. (Ellsworth, ME)…..4 5/17 Sanjay C. (Astoria, NY)…..2 5/17 Alan T. (University Park, FL)…..27 5/17 Kimberly K. (Bridgewater, NJ)…..2 5/18 Jessica H. (Boca Raton, FL)…..2 5/19 Rachelle S. ()…..27 5/20 Kay W. ()…..1 5/24 Harry K. (Velez, Spain)…..27 5/26 Mark D. (South Berwick, ME)…..17 5/26 Drew P. (Huntersville, NC)…..5 5/26 Kate W. (Cape Cod)…..5 5/27 Ryan W. (Nantucket, MA)…..2 5/28 Phil K. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..45 5/29 Harvey P. (Burlington, VT)…..12 5/29 Allen V. (Phoenicia/Astoria. NY)…..12 5/29 Kathleen S. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..19 5/29 B.S. Billy (Portsmouth, RI)…..22 5/31 Art D. (Mequon, WI)…..36 0607 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." Prayer and meditation are our principal means of conscious contact with God. We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along. So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit. Or perhaps we don't believe in these things at all. p. 96

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day A.A. teaches us to take it easy. We learn how to relax and to stop worrying about the past or the future, to give up our resentments and hates and tempers, to stop being critical of people, and to try to help them instead. That's what "Easy Does It" means. So in the time that's left to me to live, I'm going to try to take it easy, to relax and not to worry, to try to be helpful to others, and to trust God. For what's left of my life, is my motto going to be "Easy Does It"? Meditation For The Day I must overcome myself before I can truly forgive other people for injuries done to me. The self in me cannot forgive injuries. The very thought of wrongs means that my self is in the foreground. Since the self cannot forgive, I must overcome my selfishness. I must cease trying to forgive those who fretted and wronged me. It is a mistake for me even to think about these injuries. I must aim at overcoming myself in my daily life and then I will find there is nothing in me that remembers injury, because the only thing injured, my selfishness, is gone. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may hold no resentments. I pray that my mind may be washed clean of all past hates and fears.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \ (AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Responsibility "I Am Responsible . . . When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible." Declaration of 30th Anniversary International Convention, 1965 Thought to Consider . . . Service is spirituality in action. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H A L T Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

Daily Reflection CLEANING HOUSE 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. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 60 It wasn't unusual for me to talk to God, and myself, about my character defects. But to sit down, face to face, and openly discuss these intimacies with another person was much more difficult. I recognized in the experience, however, a similar relief to the one I had experienced when I first admitted I was an alcoholic. I began to appreciate the spiritual significance of the program and that this Step was just an introduction to what was yet to come in the remaining seven Steps.

Pot Luck   As Bill Sees It Leadership In A.A., p. 224 No society can function well without able leadership at all its levels, and A.A. can be no exception. But we A.A.'s sometimes cherish the thought that we can do without much personal leadership at all. We are apt to warp the traditional idea of "principles before personalities" around to such a point that there would be no "personality" in a leadership whatever. This would imply rather faceless robots trying to please everybody. A leader in A.A. service is a man (woman) who can personally put principles, plans, and policies into such dedicated and effective action that the rest of us naturally want to back him up and help him with his job. When a leader power-drives us badly, we rebel; but when he too meekly becomes an order-taker and he exercises no judgment of his own--well, he really isn't a leader at all. Twelve Concepts, pp. 38-39

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Resources Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE: http://www.whytehou se.com/big_ book_search/ 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. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/ NEW! Twisted Thinking Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Change Happens by Changing Your Perception by Georgia Hughes amazon.com/author/georgiahughes AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/ Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/ The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee Prayables http://prayables.org/ As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/ Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm {Under Reconstruction} Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

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