YOUR dAILY rEPRIEVE 08.02.20

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for  Sunday August2 , 2020   From Waynesville, NC

Life may not be all we want, but it’s all we have, as my old school precept said, and it’s high time we have it. We shall not find its secrets or its possible riches in the advice of others, however wise, unless we complete that counsel with our own grit, gumption, and common sense. -Mary Ellen Chase   "Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." --Arthur Rubinstein God doesn't need my permission to change my life; but He does need my cooperation Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. -Matthew Flickstein, "Journey To The Center"     "Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." ~Adyashanti

Big Book Quote   "If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   BIG BOOK LIVE First Session Spring 2020   https://youtu.be/MKwHLFsoLzQ https://youtu.be/MKwHLFsoLzQ 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).....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 Jason J. (Maggie Valley, NC)…..8 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 8/13 Kate (Hampton, NH)…..31 8/14 David L. ()…..15 8/14 Travis V. ()…..3 8/16 Dan W. (NY, NY)…..5 8/16 Joanne N. (Dorset, UK)…..1 8/16 Charlotte C. (New York NY)…..11 8/17 Deborah, B. ()…..32 8/18 Carolyn D. (Palm City, FL)…..7 8/18 Melissa K. (NYC)…..13 8/18 Sherry C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..11 8/21 Mary D. (Jacksonville, FL)…..13 8/25 Helen O’B. (Bristol, UK)…..2 8/27 Mary R. (Mill Neck, NY)…..10 8/26 Johnny I. ()…..11 8/27 Stuart W. (Old Tappan, NJ)…..19 8/29 Zu J. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..1 8/30 Michael C. ()…..28 8/30 Chris B. (Sandwich, NH)…..28 8/31 Sarah M. ()…..12       0454 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." "So spoke the group conscience. The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God. Here was the true voice, welling up out of my friends. I listened, and - thank God - I obeyed." p. 138

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Alcoholics Anonymous has no quarrel with medicine, psychiatry, or religion. We have great respect for the methods of each. And we are glad for any success they may have had with alcoholics. We are desirous always of cooperating with them in every way. The more doctors, the more psychiatrists, the more clergy and rabbis we can get to work with us, the better we like it. We have many who take a real interest in our program and we would like many more. Am I ready to cooperate with those who take a sincere interest in A.A.? Meditation For The Day God is always ready to pour His blessings into our hearts in generous measure. But like the seed-sowing, the ground must be prepared before the seed is dropped in. It is our task to prepare the soil. It is God's to drop the seed. This preparation of the soil means many days of right living, choosing the right and avoiding the wrong. As you go along, each day you are better prepared for God's planting, until you reach the time of harvest. Then you share the harvest with God -- the harvest of a useful and more abundant life. Prayer For The Day I pray that my way of living may be properly prepared day by day. I pray that I may strive to make myself ready for the harvest which God has planted in my heart.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Wonders "Out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does 'move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.'" 1953 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 105 Thought to Consider . . . Joy is the infallible presence of God. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H O P E Hang On! Peace Exists . . .

Daily Reflection     WE BECOME WILLING . . . At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 77   How easily I can become misdirected in approaching the Eighth Step! I wish to be free, somehow transformed by my Sixth and Seventh Step work. Now, more than ever, I am vulnerable to my own self-interest and hidden agenda. I am careful to remember that self-satisfaction, which sometimes comes through the spoken forgiveness of those I have harmed, is not my true objective. I become willing to make amends, knowing that through this process I am mended and made fit to move forward, to know and desire God's will for me.

Pot Luck     Today's quotation: Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Margaret Collier Graham Today's Meditation: May my conscience be my guide, but only if I trust it and follow it truly.  My conscience knows what's right and what's wrong, but my rational mind tends to play around with all that my conscience tells me is right and true.  "It's right to do this," my mind says, "but doing it doesn't help me financially; not doing it holds financial rewards that may benefit my entire family."  So by not doing it, I help my whole family, even if I'm not doing what I know is right. When we try to judge the differences between right and wrong, we fall into the trap of passing judgment, and that rarely helps us out.  Margaret puts it simply:  conscience is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right.  If we leave the idea there, many of our decisions become much simpler, less bogged down in the right/wrong argument.  We don't have to define our terms, and the grey areas are fewer and less foggy. What is the right thing?  Sometimes we do the right thing and we see disastrous results; perhaps the disaster was the most important thing that's happened to the people involved.  Sometimes we do the right thing and see no results at all, but we never know how our actions will affect other people years down the road.  The question becomes much simpler when we don't have to define "right" and "wrong," when we trust ourselves to do what we know inside is right.

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