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Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday June 17, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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Heaven is under our feet as
well as over our heads.
~Henry David Thoreau
Rebellion against your
handicaps gets you nowhere.
Self-pity gets you nowhere.
One must have the
adventurous daring
to accept oneself as a
bundle of possibilities
and undertake the most
interesting game in the world –
making the most of one's
best.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
When self-will is running
riot,
hit the brakes, take time
out, talk to God.
Reconnect with God to
refresh,
renew, restore yourself
with Him.
--Tammy B.
“Not all of the problems
created during the days
when I hid in the fog of
booze have straightened out,
but I now have enough
courage to face them squarely.”
~Grapevine: Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, December 1978
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Big Book Quote
"Simple, but not
easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I
must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us
all."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~ |
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6/10 Bob S.
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6/1 Bob S. (Fallbrook, CA)…..35
6/1 Kathy S. (Groveland, FL)…..7
6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX)…..17
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6/6 Carolina L. (Astoria, NY).....5
6/7 Pete M (Rockport, ON, Canada)…..13
6/7 Stephen B. (Somerset, MA)…..44
6/7 Bill K. (Carle Place, NY)…..25
6/7 David A. (Concord, NH)……11
6/7 Lorraine G. (Cedar Grove, NJ)…..10
6/8 Steve H. (Cocoa, FL)…..3
6/8 Michael L. (Dobbs Ferry, NY)…..4
6/8 Joanne L. (Peapack, NJ)…..6
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
6/12 Robert R. (NY, NY)…..32
6/13 Eileen H. (Danvers, MA)…..33
6/13 Rob B. (Little Silver, NJ)…..5
6/13 Chuck A. (Calabash, NC)…..24
6/15 Fran F. (Dover, DE)…..31
6/15 Jamie W. (Huntington, NY)…..8
6/15 Russ S. (Succasunna, N.J.) 5
6/16 Eli L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..1
6/16 Jenny P. (So. Berwick, ME)…..28
6/16 Rich H. (Rye/Harrison, NY)…..5
6/16 Jeff B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..8
6/17 Margo H. (Rothesay, Scotland)…..53
6/17 Bruce S. (Squamish, BC, Canada)…..?
6/17 Vinnie F. (Astoria, NY).....7
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
6/18 Claire P. (Evanston, IL)…..22
6/18 Polly (St Louis, MO)…..3
6/18Erin U. (Astoria, NY)…..5
6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC)…..25
6/19 John D. (Larchmont, NY)…..27
6/20 Joe R. (Ridgewood NJ)…..14
6/20 Casey (Tequesta, FL)…..34
6/20 Chris G. (Montauk, NY)…..10
6/20 Chandler G. (San Francisco)…..10
6/20 Phillip O. ()…..42
6/22 Robin P. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..34
6/22 John F. (Melis Beach, Quebec)…..10
6/23 Fred H. (NY, NY)…..11
6/23 Chris B. (E. Quogue, NY/Rockville, MD)…..7
6/24 Betsy F. (Stuart, FL)…..2
6/25 David C. (Martinsville, NJ)…..33
6/25 Patricia A. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..8
6/26 Phyllis Mc. (Tulsa, OK)…..44
6/27 Jim C. (Nantucket, MA)…..13
6/27 Steve V. (Jacksonville, FL)…..44
6/28 Paul D. (Orlando, FL)…..37
6/28 Eileen M. (NYC, NY)…..30
6/28 Chuck D. (Leesburg, FL)…..9
6/29 Ashley F. (Fayetteville, AR)…..4
6/30 Karen B. (Lincolnton, NC)……6
6/30 Peter K. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..24
1306 Total Years of Sobriety
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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."
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses. Ordinarily we see these situations met with fortitude and faith. p. 114 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
We in A.A. have the privilege of living two lives in one lifetime. One life of drunkenness, failure, and defeat. Then, through A.A., another life of sobriety, peace of mind, and usefulness. We who have recovered our sobriety are modern miracles. And we're living on borrowed time. Some of us might have been dead long ago. But we have been given another chance to live. Do I owe a debt of gratitude to A.A. that I can never repay as long as I live? Meditation For The Day Thinking about God in love and worship drives away evil. It is the thought before that the hosts of evil flee. The thought of a Power greater than yourself is the call for a life-line to rescue you from temptation. The thought of God banishes loneliness and dispels gloom. It summons help to conquer your faults. Think of God as often as possible. Use the thought prayerfully and purposefully. It will carry your thoughts away from material things and toward the spiritual things that make life worthwhile. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may think of God often. I pray that I may rest in peace at the thought of His love and care. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Unity "Practically never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among A.A. members. So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall publicly.' As by some deep instinct, we A.A.'s have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly take sides in any fight, even a worthy one . . . . . . We do not enter into public controversy, because we know that our Society will perish if it does. We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause." 1952AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 176-77
Thought to Consider . . .
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
B U T Being Unconvinced Totally |
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Daily Reflection
"DEEP DOWN WITHIN
US"
We found the Great
Reality deep down within us. In the last
analysis it is only there
that He may be found. . . . search
diligently within
yourself. . . . With this attitude you cannot
fail. The consciousness
of your belief is sure to come to
you.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.
55
It was out of the depths
of loneliness, depression and
despair that I sought the
help of A.A. As I recovered and
began to face the
emptiness and ruin of my life, I began to
open myself to the
possibility of the healing that recovery
offers through the A.A.
program. By coining to meetings,
staying sober, and taking
the Steps, I had the opportunity to
listen with increasing
attentiveness to the depths of my
soul. Daily I waited, in
hope and gratitude, for that sure
belief and steadfast love
I had longed for in my life. In this
process, I met my God, as
I understand Him.
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Pot Luck
"But
by the grace of God, there go I."
In early sobriety I sometimes had trouble identifying with
other people’s alcoholism, and often wondered whether I belonged. After all,
I had never been to prison for manslaughter while driving drunk. I never
robbed a liquor store in a blackout or woke up in a different state—or
country—not knowing how I got there. There were countless other things that
had never happened to me either. As I discussed this with my sponsor, he said
I hadn’t experienced these things—yet.
As I started working the Steps and writing inventories, I began to see what he meant. First of all, I actually had crashed a car while drunk, and I had been arrested for it when I was a minor. Thankfully, I hit an unoccupied parked car, and no one in my vehicle was injured. Other inventories revealed plenty of times I blacked out and came to in strange circumstances. As I looked deeper, I identified more with the stories I heard, and I felt the gravity of the word “yet.” Today, I know my stories could have ended very differently if I had continued drinking, and any of the outcomes I heard others share could easily have been my fate as well. Moreover, I also know that any of these terrifying endings could be in my future also—they are only one drink away. Today, when I see or hear these stories, I say a quiet prayer of gratitude, for I know that “but by the grace of God, there go I." |
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Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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throughout the world. With over nine million
copies in print (the original text has been revised),
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daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.
A spiritual resource with practical
applications to fit our daily lives.
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