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Your
Daily Reprieve for Sunday June 21, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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HAPPY
FATHERS’ DAY
“Dads are most ordinary men
turned by love into heroes,
adventurers,
storytellers and singers of
song.”
—Unknown
“A dad is someone who wants
to catch you when you fall.
Instead he picks you up,
brushes you off and lets you try again.”
—Unknown
“I cannot think of any need
in childhood
as strong as the need for a
father’s protection.”
—Sigmund Freud
“It doesn’t matter who my
father was;
it matters who I remember
he was.”
—Anne Sexton
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Big Book Quote
"The fact is
that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice
in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are
unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient
force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month
ago. We are without defense against the first drink."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 24~ |
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DANNY B
Spring, TX
Acceptance
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Solution
Shawnee KS
03.26.20
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SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!
Send your sober date to txm1@comcast.net
It will look like
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6/10 Bob S.
(Akron, OH).....84
6/1 Bob S. (Fallbrook, CA)…..35
6/1 Kathy S. (Groveland, FL)…..7
6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX)…..17
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
6/3 Barbara P. (New Rochelle, NY)…..25
6/4 Bob G. (Peapack, NJ)…..5
6/5 Patricia B. (Woodstock, NY)…..33
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 Jack D. (Larchmont, NY)…..27
6/19 Rich P. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..8
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
6/21 Mark L. (Bellevue, WA)…..19
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
6/23 Reggie R. (Nantucket, MA)…..33
6/24 Betsy F. (Stuart, FL)…..2
6/25 David C. (Martinsville, NJ)…..33
6/25 Patricia A. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..8
6/25 Bill L. (Houston, TX)…..21
6/26 Phyllis Mc. (Tulsa, OK)…..44
6/27 Jim C. (Nantucket, MA)…..13
6/27 Steve V. (Jacksonville, FL)…..44
6/27 Gary k. (Stuart, FL)…..6
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
1418 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."
As we made spiritual progress, we saw through these fallacies. It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us. We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demands for repayment. When we persistently did this we gradually found that people were attracted to us as never before. And even if they failed us, we could be understanding and not too seriously affected. pp. 115-116 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
Intelligent faith in that Power greater than ourselves can be counted on to stabilize our emotions. It has an incomparable capacity to help us look at life in balanced perspective. We look up, around, and away from ourselves, and we see that nine out of ten things that at the moment upset us will shortly disappear. Problems solve themselves, criticism and unkindness vanish as though they had never been. Have I got the proper perspective toward life? Meditation For The Day A truly spiritual man or woman would like to have a serene mind. The only way to keep calm in this troubled world is to have a serene mind. The calm and sane mind sees spiritual things as the true realities and material things as only temporary and fleeting. That sort of mind you can never obtain by reasoning, because your reasoning powers are limited by space and time. That kind of a mind you can never obtain by reading, because other minds are also limited in the same way. You can only have that mind by an act of faith, by making the venture of belief. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have a calm and sane mind. I pray that I may look up, around, and away from myself. |
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Daily Thought
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Why Worry?
"There are many short phrases and expressions in A.A. which make sound sense; 'First Things First: solving our immediate problems before we try to solve all the others.' 'Easy Does it.' 'Relax a little.' 'Try for inner contentment.' 'No one individual can carry all the burdens of the world.' 'Everyone has problems. Getting drunk won't solve them.' 'Twenty-four hours a day.' 'Today is the day. Doing our best, living each day to the fullest is the art of living.' 'Yesterday is gone, and we don't know whether we will be here tomorrow.' 'If we do a good job of living today, and if tomorrow comes for us, then the chances are we will do a good job when it arrives - so why worry about it?'" 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 382 Thought to Consider . . . Every day is a gift. That is why we call it the present. *~*AACRONYMS*~* S I T Stay In Today |
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Daily Reflection
Fear and Faith
The achievement of
freedom from fear is a lifetime
undertaking, one that can
never be wholly completed. When
under heavy attack, acute
illness, or in other conditions of
serious insecurity, we
shall all act to this emotion—well or
badly, as the case may
be. Only the self-deceived will claim
perfect freedom from
fear.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 263
Fear has caused suffering
when I could have had more
faith. There are times
when fear suddenly tears me apart,
just when I'm
experiencing feelings of joy, happiness and a
lightness of heart.
Faith— and a feeling of self-worth
toward a Higher
Power—helps me endure tragedy and
ecstasy. When I choose to
give all of my fears over to my
Higher Power, I will be
free.
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Pot Luck
Prayer for
the Promises
God help me to know a new
freedom and a new happiness.
Teach me to not regret the
past nor wish to shut the door on it, so others may benefit from my
experience.
Let me comprehend the word
Serenity and know peace so that this feeling of uselessness and self-pity
will disappear.
Embrace me that I may lose
interest in selfish things and gain interest in my fellows.
Guide me so that self-seeking
will slip away and my whole outlook on life will change.
Love me so that fear of
people and of economic insecurity will leave me.
Direct me so that I will
intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle me.
Be always with me, O Lord, so
that by your Presence I will one day realize that you are doing for me what I
could not do for myself.
Frank P.
Santa Cruz,
California
November 5, 1999.
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