Your Daily Reprieve 08.03.20

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday August 3, 2020   From Waynesville, NC

“It is very difficult to steer a parked car and make much progress toward any destination ... In short, I had to be going somewhere  before I could be guided.” ~Grapevine: Rochester, NY, October 1979     We can do anything for one day.  So, just for today, let us be unafraid of life, unafraid of death which is the shadow of life; unafraid to be happy, to enjoy the beautiful, to believe the best. . . . Just for today, let us be agreeable, responsive, cheerful, charitable; be our best , dress our best, walk softly, praise people for what they do, n ot criticize them for what they cannot do.  And if we find fault, let us forgive and forget it.    -Joseph Fort Newton   Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.   -unattributed   Life is tension.  Without tension, there could be no life.  Too little tension or too much tension interferes with the process of life in the same way a string of a guitar interferes with the melody when it is either too loose or too tight. ~Bruno Geba

Big Book Quote   "Some drinkers have excuses with which they are satisfied part of the time. But in their hearts they really do not know why they do it. Once this malady has a real hold, they are a baffled lot. There is the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game. But they often suspect they are down for the count." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 23~

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   BILL J. Webster Grove, MO Speaker Jam 06.13.2020   https://bit.ly/2OqcMaT   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 8/15 Mark S. (Austin, TX)…..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 8/30 Jeff G. (Warren, NJ)…..7 8/31 Sarah M. ()…..12       0461 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." This Tradition is packed with meaning. For A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so. You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications - even your crimes - we still can't deny you A.A. We don't want to keep you out. We aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may be. We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety that we've had. So you're an A.A. member the minute you declare yourself." p. 139

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day We in A.A. must remember that we are offering something intangible. We are offering a psychological and spiritual program. We are not offering a medical program. If people need medical treatment, we call in a doctor. If they need a medical prescription, we let the doctor prescribe for them. If they need hospital treatment, we let the hospital take care of them. Our vital A.A. work begins when a person is physically able to receive it. Am I willing to leave medical care to the doctors? Meditation For The Day Each moment of your day which you devote to this new way of life is a gift to God. The gift of the moments. Even when your desire to serve God is sincere, it is not an easy thing to give Him many of these moments: the daily things you had planned to do, given up gladly so that you can perform a good service or say a kind word. If you can see Gods purpose in many situations, it will be easier to give Him many moments of your day. Every situation has two interpretations -- your own and God's. Try to handle each situation in the way you believe God would have it handled. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may make my day count somewhat for God. I pray that I may not spend it all selfishly.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Powerless "I had no problem admitting I was powerless over alcohol, and I certainly agreed that my life had become unmanageable. I had only to reflect on the contrast between the plans I made so many years ago for my life with what really happened to know I couldn't manage my life drunk or sober. A.A. taught me that willingness to believe was enough for a beginning."  1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 550 Thought to Consider . . . Life didn't end when I got sober . . . it started. *~*AACRONYMS*~* S L I P Sobriety Loses Its Priority

Daily Reflection     . . . TO BE OF SERVICE Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 77   It is clear that God's plan for me is expressed through love. God loved me enough to take me from alleys and jails so that I could be made a useful participant in His world. My response is to love all of His children through service and by example. I ask God to help me imitate His love for me through my love for others.

Pot Luck     "The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice."   By the end of my drinking, I was all alone. Unlike some of the stories I hear about people drinking in bars, I preferred to drink alone in my home. My friends were gone, my family wasn’t inviting me over, and it was just me and my alcohol. After months of listening to my own best thinking, I had run out of options and was at the end of my rope. By some miracle, I was able to reach out for help, and my journey in recovery began. While I have worked the Twelve Steps several times over the years and labored hard to turn my character defects over to God, I still find that my default mode is to isolate. I stay in, turn off my phone, and binge-watch movies I’ve seen a hundred times. When I do, I am cut off from others and from my Higher Power, and that’s when my best alcoholic thinking starts again. What I’ve learned is that it never has anything good to say. Today, I do the things I learned to do early in sobriety to keep from isolating: I have a sponsor, I get commitments at meetings, and I say yes when asked to participate. I also answer the phone these days and am willing to help another. In other words, I continue to take contrary action because, as they say, “An alcoholic’s best thinking treats loneliness with isolating.” And when I’m isolating, the advice I get is all bad.

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Resources   Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes   BIG BOOK SEARCH ENGINE: http://www.whytehou se.com/big_ book_search/   Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation   Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/   NEW! Twisted Thinking Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Change Happens by Changing Your Perception by Georgia Hughes amazon.com/author/georgiahughes     AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm   Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting   Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home   MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/   Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/   The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee   Prayables http://prayables.org/   Daily Reflections Link https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/daily-reflection    24 Hours A Day Book Link  https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/thought-for-the-day/twenty-four-hours-a-day     As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/     Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations     Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily   Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm {Under Reconstruction}   Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

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