Your Daily Reprieve 08.01.21

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday  August 1 , 2021   From Waynesvile, NC

"one of the primary differences between alcoholics and non-alcoholics is that non-alcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals to meet their behavior" ~ Window Of Opportunity - page 423 - 4th edition Big Book     An apology never spoken is no apology at all. Negiel Bigpond   If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.      -Max Ehrmann     “I opened the door and walked into the warmth, the laughter, the acceptance, and the love that is AA. No one asked me who I was or what I wanted; no one asked me how much money I had or what I did for a living; no one asked me where I did my drinking or what my sexual preferences were. The smiling man who greeted me told me that night that if I thought I had a drinking problem, I was in the right place.” ~Grapevine: Toledo, Ohio, September 1982

Big Book Quote   "There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others..."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~

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18   Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!     AUGUST 2021 Anniversaries   8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME)…..12 8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ)…..6 8/3 Wayne G. (Sterling, IL)…..35 8/4 Sari H. …..23 8/4 Dan M. (Nantucket, MA)…..19 8/7 Glad H. (Atlantic Beach, FL)…..25 8/8 Donna F. (Rockledge, FL)…..13 8/8 Lisa L. (Canton, NC)…..6 8/11 Rachel K. (Boston, MA)…..1 8/12 Mary L. …..39 8/13 Tommy O’C. …..36 8/14 Tim D. (Newburyport, MA)…..28 8/14 Sally W. …..12 8/15 Dave O. (Everett, MA)…..2 8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH/Bonita Springs, FL)…..23 8/17 Brien W. (Portsmouth, RI)…..24 8/18 David R. …..3 8/18 Haley T. …..2 8/18 Deb W. …..18 8/22 Betsy H. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..10 8/23 Bernadette D. …..1 8/24 Catherine S. …..6 8/24 Jim H. …..31 8/24 Willi H. (Maine)…..1 8/24  Jim H. …..31 8/27 John G. …..9 8/30 Andrea R. (Coconut Creek, FL)…..5 8/31 Anita McN. (Fanwood, NJ)…..34       0455 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." Compatibility, of course, can be so impossibly damaged that a separation may be necessary. But those cases are the unusual ones. The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't. He persistently tries all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps in his home, often with fine results. At this point he firmly but lovingly commences to behave like a partner instead of like a bad boy. And above all he is finally convinced that reckless romancing is not a way of life for him. p. 119

Twenty-Four Hours     A.A. Thought For The Day The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. It has taken from these what it wanted and combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The results have been very satisfactory. We do not try to improve on the A.A. program. Its value has been proved by the success it has had in helping thousands of alcoholics to recover. It has everything we alcoholics need to arrest our illness. Do I try to follow the A.A. program just as it is? Meditation For The Day You should strive for a union between your purposes in life and the purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a human soul and God. Priceless beyond all earth's rewards is that union. In merging your heart and mind with the heart and mind of the Higher Power, a oneness of purpose results, which only those who experience it can even dimly realize. That oneness of purpose puts you in harmony with God and with all others who are trying to do His will. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may become attuned to the will of God. I pray that I may be in harmony with the music of the spheres.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Anger "It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about 'justifiable' anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous folk? For us in A.A. these are dangerous exceptions. We have found that justifiable anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it." 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 90  Thought to Consider . . . Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason. *~*AACRONYMS*~* A N G E R Any No Good Energy Rising

Daily Reflection   LIVING IT The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83   When new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I'm sober, I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty years. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear.

Pot Luck    Today's quotation: A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.     Today's Meditation:   "The world gives back to you exactly what you give to it." "Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." Quotation books are full of platitudes such as these, and believe it or not, they're true. They aren't written by people who are miserable and who want to spread their misery--they're written by people who have found happiness and joy in life and who want to help others to experience similar happiness.   I learned this lesson much later than I would have liked to have learned it, but I'm grateful that I did learn it. I constantly meet people who are much older than I who go around trying to spread judgment and criticism and harsh words, and it's very obvious that they're just trying to hide their fears and insecurities. They make me very sad, but I'm sure that they've been exposed to these lessons and have rejected them. Sometimes it's easier to hold on to our fears and then blame others for our misery than it is to take responsibility and admit that the world is treating us exactly like we treat the world.   And most of us don't want to treat the world badly--we get so used to acting through the filters of our fears, though, that we come across as fearful people, and we're harsher than we intend to be, or more intolerant, or more judgmental. And then we use our logic to rationalize just why people don't want to be around us. Perhaps they don't like it when others tell them the truth about themselves, or maybe they're in denial about their own faults and don't want to hear about them.  But what if I spread love and encouragement and hope and peace of mind? What if I help others to see the good sides of themselves and compliment their accomplishments? What will the world give back to me then? And what will my life be like?

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