Your Daily Reprieve 06.01.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday June 1, 2020 From Waynesville, NC

“When I took the Fifth Step with all the thoroughness I could muster, the part of me that I feared the most no longer frightened me.” ~Grapevine: July 1980, “Short Takes,”, Step By Step "The great malady of the twentieth century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially is 'loss of soul.' When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, and loss of meaning." ~Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed..... ~POE When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extra-ordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. ~Patanjali

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 NORM ALPI Fresno, CA D.O.S. 1954 https://bit.ly/2ybiecZ 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 June  2020 Miracles 6/1 Bob S. (Fallbrook, CA)…..35 6/2 Linda B. (Dallas, TX)…..40 6/2 Stan B. (Dallas, TX)…..40 6/4 Bob G. (Peapack, NJ)…..5 6/5 Patricia B. (Woodstock, NY)…..33 6/7 June 7 (Rockport, ON, Canada)…..13 6/7 Stephen B. (Somerset, MA)…..44 6/8 Steve H. (Cocoa, FL)…..3 6/09 Walter B. NY, NY…..40 6/09 Eileen G. NY, NY….47 6/10 Dave McD. (Hudson, FL)…..43 6/10 Peter B. (Cape Coral, FL)…..29 6/11 Cathy W. (Huntersville, NC)…..13 6/11 Lisa B. (Queens, NY)…..5 6/11 Kathy M. (Amesbury, MA)…..13 6/13 Eileen H. (Danvers, MA)…..33 5/15 Fran F. (Dover, DE)…..31 6/16 Eli L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..1 6/17 Bruce S. (Squamish, BC, Canada)…..? 6/18 Annie T. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..1 6/18 Jane T. NY, NY….40 6/18 Jack H. NY, NY….10 6/23 Chris B. (E. Quogue, NY/Rockville, MD)…..7 6/24 Betsy F. (Stuart, FL)…..2 6/25 David C. (Martinsville, NJ)…..33 6/27 Steve V. (Jacksonville, FL)…..44 6/28 Eileen M. (NYC, NY)…..30 6/30 Karen B. (Lincolnton, NC)……6 0598 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Maybe there are as many definitions of spiritual awakening as there are people who have had them. But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others. And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand. When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered. In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable. What he has received is a free gift, and yet usually, at least in some small part, he has made himself ready to receive it. pp. 106-107

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Some things I do not miss since becoming dry: that overall awful feeling physically, including the shakes, a splitting headache, pains in my arms and legs, bleary eyes, fluttering stomach, droopy shoulders, weak knees, a three-day beard, and a flushed complexion. Also, facing my loved one at breakfast. Also, composing the alibi and sticking to it. Also, trying to shave or put on make-up with a shaky hand. Also, opening up my wallet to find it empty. I don't miss these things, do I? Meditation For The Day You were born with a spark of the Divine within you. It had been all but smothered by the life you were living. That celestial fire has to be tended and fed so that it will grow eventually into a real desire to live the right way. By trying to do the will of God, you grow more and more in the new way of life. By thinking of God, praying to Him, and having communion with Him, you gradually grow more like Him. The way of your transformation from the material to the spiritual is the way of Divine Companionship. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may tend the spark of the Divine within me so that it will grow. I pray that I may be gradually transformed from the old life to the new life.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (   \(AA)/   ) ( /AA\ ) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Conflict "My conflicts went right on mounting because I was simply loaded with excuses and refusals. When these troubles had finally exhausted me enough, there was yet another escape. I would commence to wallow in the bog of guilt. Here pride and rebellion would give way to depression. My main theme always was, 'How god-awful I am.' There was never a decent regret for the harms I had done, nor was there any serious thought of making such restitution as I could. The idea of asking God's forgiveness, let alone any forgiveness of myself, never occurred to me. My really big liability - spiritual pride and arrogance - was not examined at all. I had shut out the light by which I might have seen it." Bill W. The Language of the Heart, p. 257-258 Thought to Consider . . . Simply asking for help seems to be a help in itself. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H O W Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness; that's how WE do it!

Daily Reflection A CHANGED OUTLOOK Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 When I was drinking, my attitude was totally selfish, totally self-centered; my pleasure and my comfort came first. Now that I am sober, self-seeking has started to slip away. My whole attitude toward life and other people is changing. For me, the first "A" in our name stands for attitude. My attitude is changed by the second "A" in our name, which stands for action. By working the Steps, attending meetings, and carrying the message, I can be restored to sanity. Action is the magic word! With a positive, helpful attitude and regular A.A. action, I can stay sober and help others to achieve sobriety. My attitude now is that I am willing to go to any length to stay sober!

Pot Luck   “My self-analysis has frequently been faulty. Sometimes I've failed to share my defects with the right people; at other times, I've confessed their defects, rather than my own; and at still other times, my confession of defects has been more in the nature of loud complaints about my circumstances and my problems. “Nevertheless, I think I've usually been able to make a fairly thorough and searching job of finding and admitting my personal defects ... Yet this pretty well-ventilated condition is nothing for self-congratulation. Long ago I was lucky enough to see that I'd have to keep up my self-analysis or else blow my top completely. Though driven by stark necessity, this continuous self-revelation -- to myself and to others -- was rough medicine to take. But years of repetition has made this job far easier.” AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1958, “Take Step Eleven,”, The Language of the Heart

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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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