Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday May 26, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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“It would be virtually
impossible
to experience the Twelve
Steps
and not learn something of
love.
I believe that love is the
willingness
to extend oneself for
spiritual growth.
When we answer a call for
help,
we are extending ourselves
for the purpose of
spiritual growth.
Someone once said that
there are three steps
to becoming a loving
person:
love yourself, be yourself,
forget yourself.”
~Grapevine: Brentwood, New
York, December 1998
"It's really important
that you feel good.
Because this feeling good
is what goes out
as a signal into the
universe
and starts to attract more
of itself to you.
So, the more you can feel
good,
the more you will attract
the things that help you feel good
and that will keep bringing
you up higher and higher."
~Joe Vitale: Speaker, author, co-star of The Secret
Only when normal things are
not normal anymore
do we realize how special
normal things are.
~Unknown
"Unless our desire for
human compassion
is stronger than our desire
to be right,
to be secure or to belong,
love will elude us."
--Marsha Sinetar |
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Big Book Quote
"Most of us
sense that real tolerance of other people´s shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 19~ |
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MAGGIE
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Atlanta, GA
@Shamrock Group
1981
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1305 Total Years of Sobriety
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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."
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken re pp. 104-105 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
In twelfth-step work, the fourth thing is conversion. Conversion means change. Prospects must learn to change their way of thinking. Until now, everything they've done has been connected with drinking. Now they must face a new kind of life, without liquor. They must see and admit that they cannot overcome drinking by their own willpower, so they must turn to a Higher Power for help. They must start each day by asking this Higher Power for the strength to stay sober. This conversion to belief in a Higher Power comes gradually, as they try it and find that it works. Do I care enough about other alcoholics to help them to make this conversion? Meditation For The Day Discipline of yourself is absolutely necessary before the power of God is given to you. When you see others manifesting the power of God, you probably have not seen the discipline that went before. They made themselves ready. All your life is a preparation for more good to be accomplished when God knows that you are ready for it. So keep disciplining yourself in the spiritual life every day. Learn so much of the spiritual laws that your life cannot again be a failure. Others will see the outward manifestation of the inward discipline in your daily living. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may manifest God's power in my daily living. I pray that I may discipline myself so as to be ready to meet every opportunity. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Anonymity "We have denied ourselves personal government, professionalism, and the right to say who our members shall be. We have abandoned do-goodism, reform, and paternalism. We refuse charitable money and prefer to pay our own way. We will cooperate with practically everybody, yet we decline to marry our Society to anyone. We abstain from public controversy and will not quarrel among ourselves about those things that so rip society asunder - religion, politics, and reform. We have but one purpose; to carry the A.A. message to the sick alcoholic who wants it." Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p. 211 Thought to Consider . . . A.A. is not something you join, it's a way of life. *~*AACRONYMS*~* A N O N Y M O U S Actions Not Our Names Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service |
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Daily Reflection
TURNING NEGATIVE TO
POSITIVE
Our spiritual and emotional
growth in A.A. does not depend
so deeply upon success as
it does upon our failures and
setbacks. If you will bear
this in mind, I think that your slip
will have the effect of
kicking you upstairs, instead of down.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 184
In keeping with the pain
and adversity which our founders
encountered and overcame in
establishing A.A., Bill W.
sent us a clear message: a
relapse can provide a positive
experience toward
abstinence and a lifetime of recovery. A
relapse brings truth to
what we hear repeatedly in
meetings—"Don't take
that first drink!" It reinforces the
belief in the progressive
nature of the disease, and it drives
home the need for, and
beauty of, humility in our spiritual
program. Simple truths come
in complicated ways to me
when I become ego driven.
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Pot Luck
Temporary Setbacks
Sometimes, after we begin
recovery, things in our life seem to get worse for a time.
Our finances, our
relationships, or our health may seem to deteriorate.
This is temporary; this is
a normal part of recovery and healing. It may be the way things will be for a
time, but not for long.
Keep working at recovery,
and the trend will reverse. Before too long, things, and us, will be better
than they were before. This time, the foundation will be solid.
God, help me trust You and
recovery, even when I have setbacks.
Help me remember that the
problems are temporary, and when they are solved,
I will be on more solid
ground.
Today's reading is from the
book The Language of Letting Go
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