Your Daily Reprieve 04.01.21

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday  April 1,  2021   From Jacksonville, FL

“I need my home group to be a place where I can learn to practice the principles embodied in the Twelve Steps with other alcoholics. This sets in motion my willingness to practice these principles in all my affairs, including my home life.” ~Grapevine: Vinton, Iowa, August 2001   A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ~ Michel de Montaigne   Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin   We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship.  It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem that is threatened.    -James Harvey

Big Book Quote   "Some people cannot be seen--we send them an honest letter. And there may be a valid reason for postponement in some cases. But we don't delay if it can be avoided. We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 83~

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12&12   Step Six - "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn. Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!" pp. 68-69

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward becoming more honest? Do I no longer have to lie to my loved ones? Do I try to have meals on time, and do I try to earn what I make at work? Am I trying to be honest? Have I faced myself as I really am and have I admitted to myself that I'm no good by myself, but have to rely on God to help me do the right thing? Am I beginning to find out what it means to be alive and to face the world honestly and without fear? Meditation For The Day God is all around us. His spirit pervades the universe. And yet we often do not let His spirit in. We try to get along without His help and we make a mess of our lives. We can do nothing of any value without God's help. All our human relationships depend on this. When we let God's spirit rule our lives, we learn how to get along with others and how to help them. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may let God run my life. I pray that I will never again make a mess of my life through trying to run it myself.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (     \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Inventory "We continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to look for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear." Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 84 Thought to Consider . . . When I am too busy to pray - I am just too busy. *~*AACRONYMS*~* O D A A T One Day At A Time

Daily Reflection   LOOKING WITHIN Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42     Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities in each of us have been, and are. I want to find exactly how, when, and where my natural desires have warped me. I wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and myself. By discovering what my emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for me. To resolve ambivalent feelings, I need to feel a strong and helpful sense of myself. Such an awareness doesn't happen overnight, and no one's self-awareness is permanent. Everyone has the capacity for growth, and for self-awareness, through an honest encounter with reality. When I don't avoid issues but meet them directly, always trying to resolve them, they become fewer and fewer.

Pot Luck   The several objectives of Step Six and Seven are: 1. To become honest and humble. To willingly seek God's help without reservation. 2. To perfect ourselves in the practice of unselfish prayer. 3. To be aware of our defective character traits. 4. To desire their removal. 5. To surrender completely all defects of character. 6. To believe God CAN remove them. 7. To ask Him to take them ALL AWAY. The results we expect from the pursuit of these objectives are: 1. A reconciliation to God's way of doing business. We become "fed up" with our way and with further practice of trying to run the show ourselves. 2. A willingness to work out a plan for suppression of self-centeredness through faith and conscious contact with God. 3. To experience dissatisfaction as a result of our alcoholic practices and to seek a spiritual inspiration that will bring us an inner sense of peace and security. 4. Increased faith, clean hearts and minds, ability to offer unselfish prayer. 5. A spiritual courage that is fearless in its outlook on life; a desire to make restitution to those our drinking has harmed. 6. A desire to quit bluffing and honestly give God a chance to remove from our lives all that stand in the way of our usefulness to Him and others. True humility. 7. Elimination of our defective character traits, acquisition of peace of mind and sobriety. The Little Red Book page 56

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