Your Daily Reprieve 08.01.20

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday August 1, 2020   From Waynesville, NC

During a meeting one day, I remarked that I was just tickled to death with this A.A. program - all but the spiritual side of it. After the meeting, another member came up to me and said, "I liked that remark you made - about how you like the program - all but the spiritual part of it. We've got a little time. Why don't we talk about the OTHER side of it?" That ended the conversation. ~Modesto, California; "Came To Believe", page 6   “Facing ourselves ... is often more difficult than being honest with another person.” ~Grapevine: Manhattan, NY, December 1980   The greatest gift you can give to another is to allow them to be just as they are. ~Unknown   There is a place that you are to fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do. ~Florence Scovel Shinn

Big Book Quote   "We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as  soon as we are willing and honest enough to try." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 28~

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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).....85   August  2020 Miracles   8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME/Melbourne Bch, FL)…..11 8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ)…..5 8/3 Wayne G. (Sterling, IL)…..34 8/4 Christine, K. (Charlotte, NC)…..10 8/5 Mary OO. (Mountain Brook, AL)…..40 8/6 Catherine K. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..7 8/7 Brandee P. ()…..1 8/7 Johnny D. (Natick, MA)…..12 8/8 Ghris G. (Palm City, FL)…..16 8/9 Debby M. (Naples, FL)…..41 8/9 Vern M. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..20 8/11 Page H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..44 8/14 David L. ()…..15 8/14 Travis V. ()…..3 8/16 Joanne N. (Dorset, UK)…..1 8/17 Deborah, B. ()…..32 8/18 Sherry C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..11 8/25 Helen O’B. (Bristol, UK)…..2 8/27 Mary R. (Mill Neck, NY)…..10 8/26 Johnny I. ()…..11 8/29 Zu J. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..1 8/30 Michael C. ()…..28       0307 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Tradition Two - "For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience." "Almost timidly, one of my friends began to speak. `We know how hard up you are, Bill. It bothers us a lot. We've often wondered what we might do about it. But I think I speak for everyone here when I say that what you now propose bothers us an awful lot more.' The speaker's voice grew more confident. `Don't you realize,' he went on, `that you can never become a professional? As generous as Charlie has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other? You tell us that Charlie's proposal is ethical. Sure, it's ethical, but what we've got won't run on ethics only; it has to be better. Sure, Charlie's idea is good, but it isn't good enough. This is a matter of life and death, Bill, and nothing but the very best will do!' Challengingly, my friends looked at me as their spokesman continued. `Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best? Well, this is a plain case of it. You can't do this thing to us!' pp. 137-138

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. It has taken from these what it wanted and combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The results have been very satisfactory. We do not try to improve on the A.A. program. Its value has been proved by the success it has had in helping thousands of alcoholics to recover. It has everything we alcoholics need to arrest our illness. Do I try to follow the A.A. program just as it is? Meditation For The Day You should strive for a union between your purposes in life and the purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a human soul and God. Priceless beyond all earth's rewards is that union. In merging your heart and mind with the heart and mind of the Higher Power, a oneness of purpose results, which only those who experience it can even dimly realize. That oneness of purpose puts you in harmony with God and with all others who are trying to do His will. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may become attuned to the will of God. I pray that I may be in harmony with the music of the spheres.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Triumph "It is only at the moment when a member ceases to drink that he asserts the right to describe himself as an alcoholic . . . What an unthinking world may look upon as defeat, alcoholics in A.A. know as a triumph of the spirit, a triumph of humility over false pride and self-centeredness. How few human beings ever have the courage to stand up before their neighbors and, in humility, describing themselves truthfully, to say: 'This is what I really am.'"  1985 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 278 Thought to Consider . . . Veni, vidi, velcro . . . I came, I saw, I stuck around. *~*AACRONYMS*~* A. A. Adventurers Anonymous

Daily Reflection   LIVING IT The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83   When new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I'm sober, I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty years. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear.

Pot Luck     Father Leo's Daily Meditation   SOLITUDE   "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." -- Carl Sandburg   I need to be alone. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I need to be alone with me in order to love me, understand me, hear my needs and plan my day.   Also solitude is a spiritual experience because it enables me to center on what God is doing and creating in my life. Solitude enables me to think and cooperate with His will for me in our world.   As an addict I was always running around being "busy". Today I rest within myself in order to be more active and creative.   Let me be still so that I can enjoy my world.

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