Your Daily Reprieve 08.05.20

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday August 5, 2020   From Waynesville, NC

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. ~Sydney J. Harris     Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. ~Jamie Anderson     It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~ Alan Cohen     “Following a spiritual path has become increasingly essential to me. Contrary to my fear that taking Step Three would condemn me to a life of brave self-sacrifice, I find instead that it frees me to think and act as my truest self.” ~Grapevine: Thompson, Pennsylvania, March 1997

Big Book Quote   "Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much. So let each family play together or separately as much as their circumstances warrant. We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 132~

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   GARY B. Indianapolis., IN 04.30.20   https://bit.ly/3jcWkcc     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 8/2 Melissa S. (E. Moriches, NY)…..5 8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ)…..5 8/3 Wayne G. (Sterling, IL)…..34 8/4 Christine, K. (Charlotte, NC)…..10 8/4 Bob M. (NYC/Stanfordville, NY)…..32 8/5 Mary OO. (Mountain Brook, AL)…..40 8/5 Stanley P. (West Greenwich)…..29 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 8/16 Tracy N. (Stuart, FL)…..14 8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH)…..22 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 8/24 Claire S. (Garnersville, NY)…..33 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 8/27 Kim S. (Port Chalotte, FL)…..25 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       0621 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." A member gives us a vivid glimpse of those days. "At one time," he says, "every A.A. group had many membership rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat and dump us all back into the drink. Our Foundation office* asked each group to send in its list of `protective' regulations. The total list was a mile long. If all those rules had been in effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear. pp. 139-140 *In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day We in A.A. are offering a spiritual program. The fundamental basis of A.A. is belief in some Power greater than ourselves. This belief takes us off the center of the universe and allows us to transfer our problems to some power outside of ourselves. We turn to this Power for the strength we need to get sober and stay sober. We put our drink problem in God's hands and leave it there. We stop trying to run our own life and seek to let God run it for us. Do I do my best to give spiritual help? Meditation For The Day God is your healer and your strength. You do not have to ask Him to come to you. He is always with you in spirit. At your moment of need He is there to help you. Could you know God's love and His desire to help you, you would know that He needs no pleading for help. Your need is God's opportunity. You must learn to rely on God's strength whenever you need it. Whenever you feel inadequate to any situation, you should realize that the feeling of inadequacy is disloyalty to God. Just say to yourself: I know that God is with me and will help me to think and say and do the right thing. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may never feel inadequate to any situation. I pray that I may be buoyed up by the feeling that God is with me.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Selfishness   "So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible . . . We had to have God's help."  1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62   Thought to Consider . . .   The smallest package in the world is an alcoholic wrapped up in just themselves.   *~*AACRONYMS*~*   P R I D E Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything

Daily Reflection   LISTENING DEEPLY How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 37   If I accept and act upon the advice of those who have made the program work for themselves, I have a chance to outgrow the limits of the past. Some problems will shrink to nothingness, while others may require patient, wellthought- out action. Listening deeply when others share can develop intuition in handling problems which arise unexpectedly. It is usually best for me to avoid impetuous action. Attending a meeting or calling a fellow A.A. member will usually reduce tension enough to bring relief to a desperate sufferer like me. Sharing problems at meetings with other alcoholics to whom I relate, or privately with my sponsor, can change aspects of the positions in which I find myself. Character defects are identified and I begin to see how they work against me. When I put my faith in the spiritual power of the program, when I trust others to teach me what I need to do to have a better life, I find that I can trust myself to do what is necessary.

Pot Luck     Father Leo's Daily Meditation   HUMILITY   "Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon   To see yourself as a good person is part of the program of humility. To see your gifts and recognize your achievements is what it is to be a humble person. "God does not make junk." Therefore, we should not act or behave towards ourselves in a way that would indicate anything other than that we are "special".   All addicts and alcoholics need to accept this because for years we had felt guilty, lonely and ashamed. These attitudes helped to keep us sick.   Sobriety and serenity is recognizing our God-given uniqueness that makes us "special". We can achieve great things as long as we continue to believe in ourselves.   Thank You for loving me enough to become a part of me.

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