Your Daily yReprieve 05.01.21

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for  Saturday  May  1, 2021   From Jacksonville, FL

Recovery is the ability to navigate through life without losing your sense of Grace ~ Mark Ludholm   When God brings a seemingly humbling, degrading responsibility into our life, we should accept it with positive joy. ~Robert Schuler   “Those severe growing pains which invariably follow any radical departure from AA Tradition can be absolutely relied upon to bring an erring group back into line. An AA group need not be coerced by any human government over and above its own members. Their own experience, plus AA opinion in surrounding groups, plus God’s prompting in their group conscience would be sufficient.” ~Grapevine: Bill W., March 1948   It is a sad and pathetic fact that many people find life a dull, lackluster experience.  People get themselves into ruts, which reminds me of a sign an old farmer put up one lovely spring beside a dirt road.  "Choose your rut carefully:  you will be in it for the next twenty-five miles."  A great many people seem to have chosen their rut and have stayed in it for twenty-five years.  One of these ruts is routine; the same procedure day in and day out with little or no variation.  That ought to be broken at any cost.   ~Norman Vincent Peale

Big Book Quote   "Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kill us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~

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Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!     MAY 2021 Anniversaries   5/1 Greg F. (New York, NY)…..5 5/1 Bryan E. (NYC, NY)…..7 5/1 Carol C. ()…..27 5/1 Rhonda B. (Tuscon, AZ)…..20 5/2 Marcia U. (Waynesville, NC)…..25 5/2 Dolores G. ()…..21 5/3 Joe C. (NC)…..13 5/3 Cathy M. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..11 5/4 Regina M. (NYC, NY)…..23 5/6 Joseph T. ()…..15 5/7 Anthony A. (BYOC Mamaroneck, NY)…..25 5/12 Theresa . (Aberystwyth, Wales)…..15 5/13 Gary V. (Portage, IN)…..35 5/15 Judi H. (Oakwood, GA)…..33 5/15 Shelley D. (Bensalem, PA)…..27 5/18 Tony R. ()…..3 5/20 Karen W. ()…..2 5/22 Suzy A. (Toronto, CA)…..11 5/23 Stephen B. ()…..1 5/26 Mark D. (So. Berwick, ME)…..18 5/27 Adam G. (Gallatin, TN)…..17 5/28 Krista D. (Bristol, VT)…..32 5/29 Kathleen S. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..20 5/29 JD S. (Cleveland, OH)…..1 5/30 Bill D. (New York, NY)…..38         0430  Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Step Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all." While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can. Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. Calm, thoughtful reflection upon personal relations can deepen our insight. We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole pattern of our lives. Thoroughness, we have found, will pay--and pay handsomely. p. 80

Twenty-Four Hours      A.A. Thought For The Day The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear fruit some time. We never know the results even a word of ours might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. Do I have real charity? Meditation For The Day All material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes a mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis, matter is thought. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time, cannot know anything firsthand, except material things. But we can deduce that outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought. I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Fear "At heart we had all been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability. The result was the same - all of us had nearly perished in a sea of alcohol." Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 123-124 Thought to Consider . . . I didn't make it all the way to the beach to drown in the sand. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly

Daily Reflection   HEALING HEART AND MIND Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55   Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can experience Him by loving people and allowing people to love me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get in the way. It's the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me. I must be willing to look at the dark side in order to heal my mind and heart because that is the road to freedom. I must walk into darkness to find the light and walk into fear to find peace. By revealing my secrets—and thereby ridding myself of guilt—I can actually change my thinking; by altering my thinking, I can change myself. My thoughts create my future. What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today.

Pot Luck   Today's quotation:   You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention t o the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time. R. Buckminster Fuller   Today's Meditation:   Part of the reason that we don't devote ourselves to others is that we fear that if we don't devote ourselves to ourselves, then we won't be taken care of. We've learned that life isn't to be trusted, that we have to make things happen ourselves if we're to have anything beneficial occur to us or for us.   But the universe is not indifferent. Call it God, call it the Universe, call it the Force, call it what you will--but life is not indifferent. We get from life what we give to life, and if we spend our time giving--even emotionally and spiritually, not just materially--we will be given back to. The trick is not to give just in order to get back--the trick is to give fully and unconditionally, without any expectation of return. Only then will the return be just what we need in life--perhaps not a load of riches, but enough for who we are, where we are, and what we need.   I've had enough experiences in which what I need shows up just when I need it that I'm starting to realize (it takes me a while) that my needs will be met. I don't need to focus all my time and energy on meeting my needs, for when I do that I find that I end up creating more needs for myself! Rather, I can spend time and energy working for others and finding plenty of fulfillment, all the while seeing my needs lessen even as they're met!   I'm convinced that if I sincerely trust life and God and the Universe, if I end up having a million-dollar need (such as a medical bill), that million dollars would be there. As I grow older, though, five or ten bucks here and there will take care of most of my personal needs. Add to that the needs of the kids and other people in my life, and the price adds up, but not by that much. And if I keep my focus on others, my own needs are met, whether I notice that fact at the time or not.

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