Your Daily Reprieve 07.01.21

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday  July  1, 2021   From Waynesvile, NC

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all? -Dale Carnegie   One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem. -Willis H. Carrier   Humility is that virtue which reduces me to the proper size without degrading me, and increases me in statue without inflating me. ~ Pocket Sponsor     When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. ~Mary Oliver

Big Book Quote   "...with us, to drink is to die."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~

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18   Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!     JULY  2021 Anniversaries   7/1 Jean L. (Morristown, NJ)…..26 7/2 Estelle L……1 7/2 Valerie McM. (Vancouver, Canada)…..31 7/2 Rosann McD. (New York/Mayo, Ireland)…..27 7/4 Jim M. (Waynesville, NC)…..31 7/4 Chuck M. (Manchester, ME)…..39 7/4 Walter L. (Wells, ME)…..13 7/4 Terry H.…..34 7/4 Myra W. (Ajijic, MX)…..15 7/4 Dave S. (Gulf Breeze, FL)…..36 7/5 Tom M……1 7/5 Walter W.…..46 7/6 Don T. (Plymouth, MA)…..26 7/6 Frances G. (Dallas, TX)…..34 7/7 Pascale E. (Tamp/NH)…..5 7/7 Ancil D. (Bloomington, IN)…..1 7/8 Lulu P. (Brandon, MS)…..37 7/8 Lynn S……33 7/8 Sammy D. (NYC/Watermill)…..1 7/9 Richie S. (New Palz, NY)…..46 7/9 Dave S. (Commack, NY)…..6 7/10 Bill B. (Scituate, MA)…..4 7/10 Nick T……1 7/14 Bobby G. (Arlington, VA)…..29 7/14 Kate P……1 7/15 Robin G. (Edison, NJ)…..4 7/15 Erika S. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..15 7/16 Jack S. (Franklin Square, NY)…..26 7/20 Ron E.….. 17 7/23 Frank K. (Budd Lake, NJ)…..9 7/23 Jamie G. (WPB, FL/Lou, KY)…..4 7/24 Ric R. (Danbury, CT)…..12 7/24 Michael C-E……15 7/27 Heather B……3 7/28 JDK (Newport, RI)…..14 7/29 Judy F. (MA)…..30 7/31 Kate M.…..33   0703 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." The joy of living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step, and action is its key word. Here we turn outward toward our fellow alcoholics who are still in distress. Here we experience the kind of giving that asks no rewards. Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety. When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it. p. 106

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day In following the A.A. program with its twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits, normal habits. As each twenty-four-hour period ends, we find that the business of staying sober is a much less trying and fearsome ordeal than it seemed in the beginning. Do I find it easier as I go along? Meditation For The Day Learn daily the lesson of trust and calm in the midst of the storms of life. Whatever of sorrow or difficulty the day may bring, God's command to you is the same. Be grateful, humble, calm, and loving to all people. Leave each soul the better for having met you or heard you. For all kinds of people, this should be your attitude: a loving desire to help and an infectious spirit of calmness and trust in God. You have the answer to loneliness and fear, which is calm faith in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be calm in the midst of storms. I pray that I may pass on this calmness to others who are lonely and full of fear.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Wants or Needs? "We are taught to differentiate between our wants (which are never satisfied) and our needs (which are always provided for). We cast off the burdens of the past and the anxieties of the future, as we begin to live in the present, one day at a time. We are granted 'the serenity to accept the things we cannot change' - and thus lose our quickness to anger and our sensitivity to criticism." 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 560 Thought to consider . . . Don't quit before the miracle happens! *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

Daily Reflection   THE BEST FOR TODAY The principles we have set down are guides to progress ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60   Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with life's problems, and how much more work needs to be done. I let myself be comforted in knowing that my life is now in the hands of my Higher Power, a master craftsman who is shaping each part of my life into a unique work of art. By working my program I can be satisfied, knowing that "in doing the best that we can for today, we are doing all that God asks of us."

Pot Luck   History of the AA Preamble Part 3   We are gathered here because we are faced with the fact that we are powerless over alcohol and unable to do anything about it without the help of a Power greater than ourselves. We feel that each person's religious views, if any, are his own affair. The simple purpose of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous is to show what may be done to enlist the aid of a Power greater than ourselves, regardless of what our individual conception of that Power may be. In order to form a habit of depending upon and referring all we do to that Power, we must at first apply ourselves with some diligence. By often repeating these acts, they become habitual and the help rendered becomes natural to us. We have all come to know that as alcoholics we are suffering from a serious illness for which medicine has no cure. Our condition may be the result of an allergy which makes us different from other people. It has never been by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently cured. The only relief we have to offer is absolute abstinence, the second meaning of A.A. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Each member squares his debt by helping others to recover. An Alcoholics Anonymous is an alcoholic who through application and adherence to the A.A. program has forsworn the use of any and all alcoholic beverage in any form. The moment he takes so much as one drop of beer, wine, spirits or any other alcoholic beverage he automatically loses all status as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. A.A. is not interested in sobering up drunks who are not sincere in their desire to remain sober for all time. Not being reformers, we offer our experience only to those who want it. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree and on which we can join in harmonious action. Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our program. Those who do not recover are people who will not or simply cannot give themselves to this simple program. Now you may like this program or you may not, but the fact remains, it works. It is our only chance to recover. There is a vast amount of fun in the A.A. fellowship. Some people might be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity but just underneath there lies a deadly earnestness and a full realization that we must put first things first and with each of us the first thing is our alcoholic problem. To drink is to die. Faith must work twenty-four hours a day in and through us or we perish. In order to set our tone for this meeting I ask that we bow our heads in a few moments of silent prayer and meditation. I wish to remind you that whatever is said at this meeting expresses our own individual opinion as of today and as of up to this moment. We do not speak for A.A. as a whole and you are free to agree or disagree as you see fit, in fact, it is suggested that you pay no attention to anything which might not be reconciled with what is in the A.A. Big Book. If you don't have a Big Book, it's time you bought you one. Read it, study it, live with it, loan it, scatter it, and then learn from it what it means to be an A.A.

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