Your Daily Reprieve 07.01.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday July 1, 2020 From Waynesville, NC

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. ~Peyton Conway March "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." – Buddha "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --Paul Boese "Home is not where you live but where they understand you." ~Christian Morgenstern

Big Book Quote "We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 17~

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day MARK S New South Wales, Australia 04.11.20 https://bit.ly/3fosezt 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 July  2020 Miracles 7/1 Jean l. (Morristown, NJ)……25 7/1 Ida C. (Jensen Beach, FL)…..12 7/2 Craig C. (Eureka, CA)…..12 7/4 Deanne L. ()…..3 7/4 Gary G. (Utah/NH)…..31 7/4 Jim M. (Waynesville, NC)…..30 7/4 Walter L. (Wells, MA)…..12 7/4 Elizabeth S. (Apopka, FL)…..5 7/4 Sanford M. (Apopka, FL)…..5 7/5 Michelle W. (NYC, NY)…..9 7/5 Wes P. (Silver Lake, OH)…..7 7/6 Brian S. (Boston/Nantucket)…..30 7/6 Frances G. (Dallas, TX)…..33 7/6 Don T. (Plymouth, MA)…..25 7/6 Ron L. (Amesbury, MA)…..34 7/7 Melissa T. (Port St  John, FL)…..2 7/7 Pascale E. (Tampa, FL; MA&NH)…..4 7/8 Brendan S. (Boston, MA)….3 7/8 Dustin G. (Eureka, CA)…..3 7/8 Damian D, (New York, NY)…..6 7/9 Dave S. (Commack, NY)…..5 7/10 Richie S. (NY)…..45 7/10 Bill B. (Scituate, MA)…..3 7/11 Joanie T. (NYC, NY)…..37 7/12 Dena G. ()…..2 7/12 Jan K. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..22 7/13 Big Book Paul ()…..23 7/15 Dave L. ()…..3 7/15 Stacey Z. ()…..1 7/17 Bob B. (Dracut, MA)…..58 7/19 Tara W. (Lititz, PA)…..32 7/22 Eddie B. (Burlington, VT)…..36 7/22 Sandy ()….. 7/23 (Miami Beach/Stowe, VT)…..14 7/23 Jamie G. (Louisville, KY/WPB, FL)…..3 7/24 Mike Chase E. ()…..14 7/26 Travis F. (St Cloud, FL)…..2 7/27 Janie M. ()…..39 7/29 Linda WS. (Oberlin, OH)…..36 0633 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." Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change. With a few exceptions, all of us had been spendthrifts. We threw money about in every direction with the purpose of pleasing ourselves and impressing other people. In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly. Without realizing it we were just accumulating funds for the next spree. Money was the symbol of pleasure and self-importance. When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought. p. 120

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day In following the A.A. program with its twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits, normal habits. As each twenty-four-hour period ends, we find that the business of staying sober is a much less trying and fearsome ordeal than it seemed in the beginning. Do I find it easier as I go along? Meditation For The Day Learn daily the lesson of trust and calm in the midst of the storms of life. Whatever of sorrow or difficulty the day may bring, God's command to you is the same. Be grateful, humble, calm, and loving to all people. Leave each soul the better for having met you or heard you. For all kinds of people, this should be your attitude: a loving desire to help and an infectious spirit of calmness and trust in God. You have the answer to loneliness and fear, which is calm faith in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be calm in the midst of storms. I pray that I may pass on this calmness to others who are lonely and full of fear.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Traditions "The Twelve Traditions point straight at many of our individual defects. By implication they ask each of us to lay aside pride and resentments. They ask for personal as well as group sacrifice. They ask us never to use the A.A. name in any quest for personal power or distinction or money. The Traditions guarantee the equality of all members and the independence of all groups. They show how we may best relate ourselves to each other and to the world outside." Bill W., 1967 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 96 Thought to Consider . . . If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P U S H Pray Until Something Happens

Daily Reflection THE BEST FOR TODAY The principles we have set down are guides to progress ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with life's problems, and how much more work needs to be done. I let myself be comforted in knowing that my life is now in the hands of my Higher Power, a master craftsman who is shaping each part of my life into a unique work of art. By working my program I can be satisfied, knowing that "in doing the best that we can for today, we are doing all that God asks of us."

Pot Luck            Drunks Jack McCarthy We died of pneumonia in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell. We died against bridge abutments and nobody knew if it was suicide and we probably didn't know either except in the sense that it was always suicide. We died in hospitals, our stomachs huge, distended and there was nothing they could do. We died in cells, never knowing whether we were guilty or not. We went to priests, they gave us pledges, they told us to pray, they told us to go and sin no more, but go. We tried and we died. We died of overdoses, we died in bed (but usually not the Big Bed) We died in straitjackets, in the DT's seeing God knows what, creeping skittering slithering shuffling things. And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. We went to doctors and they gave us stuff to take that would make us sick when we drank on the principle of so crazy, it just might work, I guess, or maybe they just shook their heads and sent us to places like Dropkick Murphy's. And when we got out we were hooked on paraldehyde or maybe we lied to the doctors and they told us not to drink so much, just drink like me. And we tried, and we died. We drowned in our own vomit or choked on it, our broken jaws wired shut. We died playing Russian roulette and people thought we'd lost, but we knew better. We died under the hoofs of horses, under the wheels of vehicles, under the knives and boot heels of our brother drunks. We died in shame. And you know what was even worse, was that we couldn't believe it ourselves, that we had tried. We figured we just thought we tried and we died believing that we hadn't tried, believing that we didn't know what it meant to try. When we were desperate enough or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them, never suspecting the terrifying truth, that the right words, as simple as they were, had not been written yet. We died falling off girders on high buildings, because of course ironworkers drink, of course they do. We died with a shotgun in our mouth, or jumping off a bridge, and everybody knew it was suicide. We died under the Southeast Expressway, with our hands tied behind us and a bullet in the back of our head, because this time the people that we disappointed were the wrong people. We died in convulsions, or of "insult to the brain", we died incontinent, and in disgrace, abandoned . If we were women, we died degraded, because women have so much more to live up to. We tried and we died and nobody cried. And the very worst thing was that for every one of us that died, there were another hundred of us, or another thousand, who wished that we could die, who went to sleep praying we would not have to wake up because what we were enduring was intolerable and we knew in our hearts it wasn't ever gonna change. One day in a hospital room in New York City, one of us had what the books call a transforming spiritual experience, and he said to himself "I've got it ." (no, you haven't you've only got part of it) " and I have to share it." (now you've ALMOST got it) and he kept trying to give it away, but we couldn't hear it. We tried and we died. We died of one last cigarette, the comfort of its glowing in the dark. We passed out and the bed caught fire. They said we suffocated before our body burned, they said we never felt a thing , that was the best way maybe that we died, except sometimes we took our family with us. And the man in New York was so sure he had it, he tried to love us into sobriety, but that didn't work either, love confuses drunks and he tried and we still died. One after another we got his hopes up and we broke his heart, Because that's what we do. And the worst thing was that every time we thought we knew what the worst thing was something happened that was worse. Until a day came in a hotel lobby and it wasn't in Rome, or Jerusalem, Or Mecca or even Dublin, or South Boston, it was in Akron, Ohio, for Christ's sake. A day came when the man said I have to find a drunk because I need him As much as he needs me (NOW you've got it). And the transmission line, after all those years, was open, the transmission line was open. And now we don't go to priests, and we don't go to doctors and people with letters after their names. We come to people who have been there, we come to each other. We come to try and we don't have to die.........

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