Your
Daily Reprieve for Saturday June 20, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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"The greatest
happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
- loved for ourselves, or
rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
~Victor Hugo There is no passion to be found playing small
- in settling for a life
that is less
than the one you are
capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men and
women. D
o not pray for tasks equal
to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to
your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,
but you shall be the
miracle.
~Phillips Brooks
“The things that used to
keep me awake nights
now no longer bother me,
because I can put them
against the backdrop of eternity.
The long, lonely winter that
was alcoholism
has turned into spring –
the rebirth, the renewal of my life.”
~Grapevine: Seattle,
Washington, June 1968
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Big Book Quote
"First of all,
we had to quit playing God. It didn't work."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works,
pg. 62~
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Daily Share!
AA Speaker of
the Day
CHRIS
C
Coshocton, OH
One Day At A
Time
Affton, MO
04.13.20
Wee
Willie’s
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First Media
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Literature and tapes
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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here
SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
this :
6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
6/1 Bob
S. (Fallbrook, CA)…..35
6/1
Kathy S. ()…..7
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
6/18 Claire P. (Evanston, IL)…..22
6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC)…..25
6/19 John D. (Larchmont, NY)…..27
6/20 Casey (Tequesta, FL)…..34
6/20 Chris G. (Montauk, NY)…..10
6/20 Chandler G. (San Francisco)…..10
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
0935 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."
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had been equally unfortunate. This often caused the people we had loved most to push us aside or perhaps desert us entirely. Our disillusionment had been hard to bear. We couldn't imagine people acting that way toward us. We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody--friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself--into protective parents. We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable. p. 115 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
You should be ready and willing to carry the A.A. message when called upon to do so. Live for some purpose greater than yourself. Each day you will have something to work for. You have received so much from this program that you should have a vision that gives your life a direction and a purpose that gives meaning to each new day. Let us not slide along through life. Let us have a purpose for each day and let us make that purpose for something greater than just ourselves. What is my purpose for today? Meditation For The Day To see God with eyes of faith is to cause God's power to manifest itself in the material world. God cannot do His work because of unbelief. In response to your belief, God can work a miracle in your personality. All miracles happen in the realm of personality and all are caused by and based on belief in God's never-failing power. But God's power cannot manifest itself in personalities unless those personalities make His power available by their faith. We can only see God with the eyes of faith, but this kind of seeing produces a great change in our way of living. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may see God with the eyes of faith. I pray that this seeing will produce a change in my personality. |
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Daily Thought
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Happiness
"I feel myself a useful member of the human race at last. I have something to contribute to humanity, since I am peculiarly qualified, as a fellow-sufferer, to give aid and comfort to those who have stumbled and fallen over this business of meeting life. I get my greatest thrill of accomplishment from the knowledge that I have played a part in the new happiness achieved by countless others like myself." 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 229 Thought to Consider . . . The joy is in the journey, so enjoy the ride. *~*AACRONYMS*~* B E S T Been Enjoying Sobriety Today? |
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Daily Reflection
RELEASE FROM FEAR
The problem of resolving
fear has two aspects. We shall
have to try for all the
freedom from fear that is possible for
us to attain. Then we
shall need to find both the courage
and grace to deal
constructively with whatever fears
remain.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61
Most of my decisions were
based on fear. Alcohol made
life easier to face, but
the time came when alcohol was no
longer an alternative to
fear. One of the greatest gifts in
A.A. for me has been the
courage to take action, which I
can do with God's help.
After five years of sobriety I had to
deal with a heavy dose of
fear. God put the people in my
life to help me do that
and, through my working the Twelve
Steps, I am becoming the
whole person I wish to be and,
for that, I am deeply
grateful.
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Pot Luck
Father
Leo's Daily Meditation
TOGETHERNESS
"A man who thinks of
himself as
belonging to a particular
national
group in Americas has not
yet
become an American."
-- Woodrow Wilson
Today I know that I belong.
I am not alone. I do not exist outside of
the human race. I am an
important part of this world.
Addiction makes us feel
different, separated and isolated. It keeps us
divided within ourselves,
our family and relationships. So long as it can
do this, it wins.
Now I know that I belong. I
make up a part of the whole. Something of
this universe is mine.
I am not an island unto
myself. I am an essential part of the human
race. I am at home in my
world.
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Great Minds Quotes
BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE:
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
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C
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