Your Daily Reprieve 09.10.20

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday September 10, 2020   From Waynesville, NC

I slept, and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. ~Khalil Gibran     "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." --Lily Tomlin   “Grace is not a do-it-yourself project.” ~Grapevine: “Ontario, August 1962   Many people tend to think of giving only in terms of grand gestures. They miss the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone. We can say hello to someone everybody ignores. We can offer help to a neighbor. We can buy a bouquet of flowers and take it to a nursing home, or spend an extra minute talking to someone who needs our time. We can take ten dollars out of our pocket and give it to someone on the street. No praise, no hushed tones of holy generosity. Just give, smile, and walk away. -Kent Nerburn   Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy. -Gretta Brooker Palmer

Big Book Quote     "You are going to meet these new friends in your own community. Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly like people in a sinking ship. If you live in a large place, there are hundreds. High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous. Among them you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey. Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life. You will learn the full meaning of 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.'" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 152~

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date to sober@yourdailyreprieve.com     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   September  2020 Miracles   9/1 Billy K. (Cutchogue, NY)…..20 9/1 George M. (AZ)……36 9/1 Jack B. ()…..34 9/1 Arline R. (Stuart, FL)…..40 9/1 Patrick C. (Middlesex, NJ)…..34 9/2 Leslie Z. (Valley Village, CA)…..39 9/3 Patti D. (The Villages, FL)…..35 9/3 Trisha B. (NYC)…..12 9/3 Edward H. (Andover, MA)…..37 9/3 Deniece P. (Lexington, SC)…..41 9/4 Sean B. (Montclair, CA)…..34 9/4 Cathy H. (Los Angeles, CA)…..36 9/4 Michael H. ()…..2 9/5 Chris L. (Bristol, RI)…..32 9/5 Edna A. (St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada)…..21 9/5 David N. (Mooresville, NC)…..15 9/5 Hilda M. (NYC)…..1 9/6 Madeleine B. (Lakeville, CT)…..2 9/7 George D. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..36 9/7 Christine (Exeter, NH)…..33 9/7 April (NJ)…..8 9/8 Carol B. (Bedminster, NJ)…..24 9/8 Julie N. (NY)…..2 9/9 Kris K. (New York, NY)…..35 9/10 Brian O. (Cushendall, Ireland)…..31 9/10 Kevin D. (Nantucket, MA)…..31 9/10 Debra V. (Jacksonville, FL)…..32 9/10 Sue B. (Haiku, HI/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..9 9/10 Juan G.L. (Passaic, NJ)…..15 9/11 Jenn W. (Liverpool, UK)…..4 9/11 Steve F. (Nyack, NY)…..37 9/14 Tom K. ()…..22 9/14 Linda B. (Stuart, FL)…..6 9/14 Gretchen G. (Stewart Manor, NY)…..1 9/15 Fiona B. (Hampshire, UK)…..1 9/15 Hillary A. (Brooklyn, NY)…..3 9/15 Sue B. (Montpelier, VT/Gulfport, FL)…..7 9/16 Richard D. ()…..3 9/17 Margaret C. (Birmingham, AL)…..1 9/17 Zeta S. (Nova Scotia, Canada)…..31 9/17 Jim W. (Methuen, MA)…..43 9/17 Leslie N. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…22 9/18 Heather B. (Nantucket, MA)…..4 9/18 Jim H. (Houston, TX)…..10 9/18 George P. (London, UK)…..35 9/19 Elaina C. (New York City)…..9 9/19 John P. (Rochester, IN)…..3 9/19 John A. (Gainesville, GA)…..9 9/20 Steve G. (Ladera Ranch, CA)…..11 9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..9 9/20 Pete C. (Charlotte, NC)…..1 9/20 Dawn D. (New York, NY)…..11 9/20 Lisa M. ()…..13 9/20 Donald P. (Rockland, ME)…..25 9/21 Lisa O. (Roundhill, VA)…..6 9/22 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..18 9/23 Bill G. (Marblehead, MA)…..35 9/23 Diana T. (Albuquerque, NM)…..44 9/23 David A. (NYC)…..19 9/23 Lori H. (Miami, FL)…..5 9/24 Katie S. (New Vernon, NJ)…..20 9/24 Tim B. (Raleigh, NC)…..15 9/24 Missy O. (NYC, NY)…..3 9/27 Michael Z. (Boeme, TX)…..13 9/27 Sarah D. (NJ)…..3 9/28 Mike C. (Pam Coast , FL)…..18 9/28 Holly D. (Jacksonville, FL)…..24 9/28 Paul W. (Springfield, NJ)…..31 9/29 Joan F. (Westhampton, NY/Palm Beach Gardens, FL)…..10 9/29 Sinead G. (Walsall, UK)…..10 9/30 Sheree H. (Bellevue, WA)…..6   1199 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Tradition Six - "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose." Here are some of the things we dreamed. Hospitals didn't like alcoholics, so we thought we'd build a hospital chain of our own. People needed to be told what alcoholism was, so we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks. We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement. Maybe these places would make large sums of money to carry on our other good works. We seriously thought of rewriting the laws of the land, and having it declared that alcoholics are sick people. No more would they be jailed; judges would parole them in our custody. We'd spill A.A. into the dark regions of dope addiction and criminality. We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd like it. It stood to reason that if alcoholism could be licked, so could any problem. pp. 155-156

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Here are answers to the question of how a person can live without liquor and be happy: "The things we put in place of drinking are more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Among other A.A.s you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties." Does life mean something to me now? Meditation For The Day Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that you find in serving God and all the satisfactions of the world also? It is not easy to serve both God and the world. It is difficult to claim the rewards of both. If you work for God, you will still have great rewards in the world. But you must be prepared to sometimes stand apart from the world. You cannot always turn to the world and expect all the rewards that life has to offer. If you are trying sincerely to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than the world has to offer. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not expect too much from the world. I pray that I may also be content with the rewards that come from serving God.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \ (AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Responsibility "I Am Responsible . . . When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible." Declaration of 30th Anniversary International Convention, 1965 Thought to Consider . . . Service is spirituality in action. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H A L T Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

Daily Reflection   RECOVERY BY PROXY? They [the Promises] will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84   Sometimes I think: "Making these amends is going too far! No one should have to humble himself like that!" However, it is this very humbling of myself that brings me that much closer to the sunlight of the spirit. A.A. is the only hope I have if I am to continue healing and gain a life of happiness, friendship and harmony.

Pot Luck   "You grow, or you go."   Years ago, when I was new to the program, I heard someone say that if you got a horse thief sober, all you had was a sober horse thief. I couldn’t for the life of me understand what that meant. At the time, I thought that if someone got sober, then everything else would change, too. All the problems would go away, situations would get better, and life would improve in general. How wrong I was. When I got sober, I still had a lot of old ideas that I acted on. I still felt like I deserved more than most people, and now that I wasn’t drinking anymore, I felt that the world owed me even more. Getting a normal job still seemed beneath me, so I used that as a rationalization to continue my illegal activities. My sense of entitlement led me to keep cheating in other ways as well, and soon I was even more miserable than I had been while drinking.   When I confronted my sponsor and asked why I wasn’t feeling better now that I was sober, he said it was because I was refusing to recover. He said just putting the plug in the jug but not changing anything else meant I was just another sober horse thief. He explained that recovery meant working the Twelve Steps and growing past my old self. Only by discarding the old and having a spiritual experience would I change and feel better. As I watched others refuse to do this and go back out, I realized the wisdom in the saying: You grow, or you go.

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