Your Daily Reprieve 07.18.20

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday July 18, 2020 From Waynesville, NC

As yesterday is history, and tomorrow may never come,  I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. ~Robert Louis Stevenson “Sanity begins with the admission of reality into the mind.” ~Grapevine: April 1976 This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~John Muir If your happiness depends on what somebody else does,  I guess you have a problem. ~Richard Bach

Big Book Quote "There may be some wrongs we can never fully right. We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would right them if we could." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg 83

Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day Big Book Live Recordings https://bigbooklive.com/recordings/ JEFF B. Tampa, FL Step 4 AA On The Rocks St Louis MO https://bit.ly/2BnHRsL 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 L. (Jensen Beach, FL)…..12 7/1 Matt S. (Chicago, IL)…..2 7/2 Craig C. (Eureka, CA)…..12 7/2 Allison M. (Panama)…..26 7/4 Deanne L. ()…..3 7/4 Gary G. (Utah/NH)…..31 7/4 Chris D. (Bristol, VT)…..32 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 7/4 Judy R. (Stuart, FL)…..16 7/4 Rob F. (Mineola, NY)…..16 7/4 Dave S. (Gulf Breeze, FL)…..35 7/5 Michelle W. (NYC, NY)…..9 7/5 Theresa D. (Muskego, WI)…..10 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 7/7 Susan M. (Palm City, FL)…..13 7/7 Susan G. (Portland, OR)…..13 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 7/10 Laura A. (Columbus, OH)…..3 7/10 Richie S. (New Palz, NY)…..45 7/10 Kendall H. (Key Largo, FL)…..2 7/11 Joanie T. (NYC, NY)…..37 7/11 Alicia A. (Pittsburgh, PA)…..25 7/12 Dena G. ()…..2 7/12 Jan K. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..22 7/13 Dan K. (Cleveland, OH)…..36 7/13 Big Book Paul ()…..23 7/13 Diana H. (Scottsdale, AZ)…..4 7/13 Eleanor M. (Far Hills, NJ)…..8 7/13 Rick S. (Victor, ID)…..30 7/14 Petermac (Coolangatta, Australia)…..21 7/15 Dave L. ()…..3 7/15 Stacey Z. ()…..1 7/15 Michelle A. (New Hyde Park, NY)…..16 7/15 Don D. (Port Jefferson, NY)…..10 7/15 JB B. (Monterey, CA)…..28 7/16 Jack S. (Franklin Sq. , NY)…..25 7/17 Bob B. (Dracut, MA)…..58 7/17 Damian D. (Bloomington, IN)…..30 7/17 Max N. (Newport, RI)…..3 7/19 Tara W. (Lititz, PA)…..32 7/19 Murielle I. (Richmond, BC , Canada)…..15 7/21 Andy B. (Seacoast , NH)…..16 7/22 Eddie B. (Burlington, VT)…..36 7/22 Sandy ()…..3 7/23 Sue S. (Randolph, NJ)…..37 7/23 (Miami Beach/Stowe, VT)…..14 7/23 Jamie G. (Louisville, KY/WPB, FL)…..3 7/23 Aled H. (Aberystwyth, Wales)…..4 7/24 Krista A. (Charlotte, NC)…..14 7/24 Mike Chase E. ()…..14 7/24 Chris F. (Princeton, NJ)…..34 7/24 Ric R. (Danbury, CT)…..11 7/26 Travis F. (St Cloud, FL)…..2 7/27 David M. (San Francisco, CA)…..15 7/27 Don K. (Bedminster, NJ)…..33 7/27 Janie M. ()…..39 7/27 Noel C. (Paradise Valley, AZ)…..37 7/27 Mark L. (Lamoine, ME)…..28 7/27 Tammy C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..21 7/27 Chris K. (NYC, NY)…..14 7/28 Chris F. (Princeton, NJ)…..36 7/28 JDK (Newport, RI)…..12 7/28 Tom L. (Hampton, NH)…..5 7/28 Cindy H. (Belleville, IL)…..31 7/29 Kevin T. (Clearwater, FL)…..36 7/29 Linda WS. (Oberlin, OH)…..36 7/29 Judy F. (Whitinsville, MA)…..29 7/29 Judy F. (MA)…..29 7/29 Mark G. (Randolph, NJ)……7 7/31 Marcia M. New York, NY)…..33 1582 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12 Tradition One - "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. Unity." So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question. In the world about us we saw personalities destroying whole peoples. The struggle for wealth, power, and prestige was tearing humanity apart as never before. If strong people were stalemated in the search for peace and harmony, what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics? As we had once struggled and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which A.A. itself might survive. on anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. pp. 130-131

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Two things can spoil group unity--gossip and criticism. To avoid these divisive things, we must realize that we're all in the same boat. We're like a group of people in a life-boat after the steamer has sunk. If we're going to be saved, we've got to pull together. It's a matter of life or death for us. Gossip and criticism are sure ways of disrupting any A.A. group. We're all in A.A. to keep sober ourselves and to help each other to keep sober. And neither gossip nor criticism helps anyone to stay sober. Am I guilty of gossip or criticism? Meditation For The Day We should try to be grateful for all the blessings we have received and which we do not deserve. Gratitude to God for all His blessings will make us humble. Remember that we could do little by ourselves, and now we must rely largely on God's grace in helping ourselves and others. People do not care much for those who are smug and self-satisfied or those who gossip and criticize. But people are impressed by true humility. So we should try to walk humbly at all times. Gratitude to God and true humility are what make us effective. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may walk humbly with God. I pray that I may rely on His grace to carry me through.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Skeletons "Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for the drinking career of almost every alcoholic has been marked by escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful or tragic. The first impulse will be to bury these skeletons in a dark closet and padlock the door. The family may be possessed by the idea that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past. We think that such a view is self-centered and in direct conflict with the new way of living." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 123-4 Thought to Consider . . . It's not making a mistake that will kill me. It's defending it that does the damage. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Forever Escaping And Retreating

Daily Reflection GRATEFUL FOR WHAT I HAVE During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 75 Today my prayers consist mostly of saying thank you to my Higher Power for my sobriety and for the wonder of God's abundance, but I need to ask also for help and the power to carry out His will for me. I no longer need God each minute to rescue me from the situations I get myself into by not doing His will. Now my gratitude seems to be directly linked to humility. As long as I have the humility to be grateful for what I have, God continues to provide for me.

Pot Luck   Being Right I spent so many years being right that I didn’t have the time to notice that my rightness was wrong for me. —- AWS Sometimes we get so focused on being right that it doesn't even matter what the issue is, we have to be right about it. Sometimes we even forgot what the issue is. Our righteousness is often wrong for us, but we are so invested in the righteousness of wrongness that we don't see that wrongness may be more right for us at that moment. Whew! & Give me the serenity to understand this meditation for myself today. LAUGH I THOUGHT’D I’D DIE (IF I DIDN’T) Daily Meditations on Healing through Humor by Anne Wilson Schaef

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