Friday, June 19, 2020

Your Daily Reprieve 06.20.20





Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday June 20, 2020

From Waynesville, NC


"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

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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Coshocton, OH
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Affton, MO
04.13.20



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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
6/1 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



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

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.


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. 

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B E S T
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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.


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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