Your Daily Reprieve 06.02.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday June 2, 2020 From Waynesville, NC

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. ~Jennifer Louden “I cannot do great things; but I can finish what I start.” ~Grapevine: Lombard, Illinois, March 1979 Separation is an illusion. No one is separate from anyone else. Therefore, what I do for you I do for me, and what I fail to do for you, I fail to do for me. What I give to you I give to me, and what I fail to give to you, I fail to give to me. What goes around comes around… ~Neale Donald Walsch Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. ~Unknown

Big Book Quote "We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: 'Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day JEANNIE D Zoomer Lafayette, LA Women Wisdom Weekend https://bit.ly/2ZeelPF 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 6/2 David E. (Conway, NH)…..20 6/2 Sabrina R. (Larchmont, NY)…..5 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 6/7 Bill K. (Carle Place, NY)…..25 6/8 Steve H. (Cocoa, FL)…..3 6/8 Michael L. (Dobbs Ferry, NY)…..4 6/9 Walter B. NY, NY…..40 6/9 Eileen G. NY, NY….47 6/10 Clarke J. (Delray Beach, FL/Cleveland, OH)…..13 6/10 Dave McD. (Hudson, FL)…..43 6/10 Peter B. (Cape Coral, FL)…..29 6/10 Hank G. (BVI/NJ)…..10 6/11 Cathy W. (Huntersville, NC)…..13 6/11 Lisa B. (Queens, NY)…..5 6/11 Kathy M. (Amesbury, MA)…..13 6/11 J. Brooke W. (Starke, FL)…..9 6/13 Eileen H. (Danvers, MA)…..33 6/13 Rob B. (Little Silver, NJ)…..5 6/15 Fran F. (Dover, DE)…..31 6/16 Eli L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..1 6/17 Margo H. (Rothesay, Sotland)…..53 6/17 Bruce S. (Squamish, BC, Canada)…..? 6/18 Annie T. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..1 6/18 Diane T. (Boca Raton, FL)…..10 6/18 Jane T. NY, NY….40 6/18 Jack H. NY, NY….10 6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC)…..25 6/20 Casey (Tequesta, FL)…..34 6/22 Robin P. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..34 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 Jim C. (Nantucket, MA)…..13 6/27 Steve V. (Jacksonville, FL)…..44 6/28 Eileen M. (NYC, NY)…..30 6/30 Karen B. (Lincolnton, NC)……6 0858  Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program. So let's consider briefly what we have been trying to do up to this point: Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it. In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity, some Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to survive. Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. For the time being, we who were atheist or agnostic discovered that our own group, or A.A. as a whole, would suffice as a higher power. Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory. Looking at Step Five, we decided that an inventory, taken alone, wouldn't be enough. We knew we would have to quit the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being. At Step Six, many of us balked--for the practical reason that we did not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much. Yet we knew we had to make a settlement with the fundamental principle of Step Six. So we decided that while we still had some flaws of character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to them. We said to ourselves, "This I cannot do today, perhaps, but I can stop crying out `No, never!' " Then, in Step Seven, we humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings such as He could or would under the conditions of the day we asked. pp. 107-108

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: wondering if the car is in the garage and how I got home; struggling to remember where I was and what I did since my last conscious moment; trying to delay getting off to work, and wondering how I will look when I get there; dreading the day ahead of me. I'm quite sure that I don't miss these things, am I not? Meditation For The Day You cannot believe in God and keep your selfish ways. The old self shrivels up and dies, and upon the reborn soul God's image becomes stamped. The gradual elimination of selfishness in the growth of love for God and your fellow human beings is the goal of life. At first, you have only a faint likeness to the Divine, but the picture grows and takes on more and more of the likeness of God until those who see you can see in you some of the power of God's grace at work in a human life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may develop that faint likeness I have to the Divine. I pray that others may see in me some of the power of God's grace at work

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) ( /AA\ ) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Martyrdom "Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford." Bill W., Letter, 1966 As Bill Sees It, p. 238 Thought to Consider . . . I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P E A C E Praying Energetically Always Creates Ease

Daily Reflection THE UPWARD PATH Here are the steps we took. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 These are the words that lead into the Twelve Steps. In their direct simplicity they sweep aside all psychological and philosophical considerations about the lightness of the Steps. They describe what I did: I took the Steps and sobriety was the result. These words do not imply that I should walk the well-trodden path of those who went before, but rather that there is a way for me to become sober and that it is a way I shall have to find. It is a new path, one that leads to infinite light at the top of the mountain. The Steps advise me about the footholds that are safe and about chasms to avoid. They provide me with the tools I need during the many parts of the solitary journey of my soul. When I speak of this journey, I share my experience, strength and hope with others.

Pot Luck   As Bill Sees It Freedom to Choose "Looking back, we see that our freedom to choose badly was not, after all, a very real freedom. When we choose because we 'must', this was not a free choice, either. But it got us started in the right direction. When we choose because we 'ought to', we were really doing better. This time we were earning some freedom, making ourselves ready for more. But when, now and then, we could gladly make right choices without rebellion, hold-out, or conflict, then we had our first view of what perfect freedom under God's will could be like." GRAPEVINE, MAY 1960

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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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