Your Daily Reprieve 09.01.21

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday September 1, 2021   From Waynesvile, NC

There are two types of people. Those who come into a room and say;  Well, here I am!  and those who come in and say; ~Ah, there you are! Fredrick L. Collins   Allow yourself to dream again.  If I were your fairy godmother and I could sprinkle fairy dust on you and grant you one wish, what would it be?  It's time to stop talking about not having a dream and start figuring out what it is and how to achieve it.  Be your own fairy godmother.   ~Linda Bassett       It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.    ~Albert Einstein      Dreams are renewable.  No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. ~Dale E. Turner

Big Book Quote   "We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation. Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, 'We don't know.'"   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~

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18   Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!     I always thought that posting our locations with our anniversaries was a great way to show newcomers that AA is all over the world. So I wish you would send your locations with your anniversary dates. We don't celebrate for our own benefit. We celebrate anniversaries to show the program works. If we add our locations we get to show that AA works EVERYWHERE!     September 2021 Anniversaries   9/1 Elle F. (Nantucket, MA)…..15 9/1 George M. (Scottsdale, Arizona)…..37 9/1 Sandra L. (San Diego, CA)…..17 9/1 Brendan M. (Birmingham, UK)…..23 9/1 Tim G. (Lakewood, CA)…..7 9/2 Leslie Z. (Valley Village, CA)…..40 9/3 Edward H. (Andover MA)…..38 9/3 Patti D. (The Villages, FL)…..36 9/4 Melanie R. (Minneapolis, MN)…..25 9/5 Chris L. (Bristol, RI)…..33 9/5 James O’K. (Portland, ME)…..8 9/5 Edna A. (St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada)…..22 9/6 Karen M. (Peekskill, NY)…..29 9/7 Douglas W. (Hampsire, UK)…..34 9/8 Tobi L.R. …..4 9/9 Bill P. (Newburyport, MA)…..32 9/10 Sue B. (Haiku, HI/MelbourneBeach, FL)…..10 9/11 Gillian J. …..7 9/14 Mitchell W. …..1 9/15 Fiona B. (Hampshire, UK)…..2 9/15 Michael F. …..1 9/17 Leslie N. (Miramichi, N.B. Canada)…..23 9/17 Jan R. …..2 9/17 Jan R. (Chapala, Mexico)…..2 9/18 George P. (London, UK)…..36 9/18 John P. (Rochester, IN)…..4 9/19 Jim H. (New Rochelle, NY)…..40 9/20 Donald P. (Portsmouth, VA)…..26 9/21 Michelle W. (Portsmouth, NH)…..8 9/21 Paul W. (Byfield, MA)…..28 9/22 Wally E. (Birmingham, AL)…..21 9/22 Lauren B. (NYC)…..8 9/23 Diana O’D. …..45 9/25 Cate McH. (Hendersonville, NC)…..39 9/25 Dale M. (Chatham, ON, Canada)…..28 9/25 Jesse N. …..1 9/26 Kristin W. (Torrington, CT)…..5 9/27 Paul M. (Plymouth, MA)…..35 9/30 Ann K. (Aquebogue, NY)…..13 9/30 Lyn S. (Maui)…..1   0656 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Tradition Two - "For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience." "I was bowled over. There were a few twinges of conscience until I saw how really ethical Charlie's proposal was. There was nothing wrong whatever with becoming a lay therapist. I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board. I thought of the large sum of money still owing my Wall Street creditors. I thought of a few of my alcoholic friends, who were making as much money as ever. Why shouldn't I do as well as they? pp. 136-137

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Be careful not to brand new prospects as alcoholics. Let them draw their own conclusion. But talk to them about the hopelessness of alcoholism. Tell them exactly what happened to you and how you recovered. Stress the spiritual feature freely. If they are agnostics or atheists, make it emphatic that they do not have to agree with your concept of God. They can choose any concept they like, provided it makes sense to them. The main thing is that they be willing to believe in a power greater than themselves and that they live by spiritual principles." Do I hold back too much in speaking of the spiritual principles of the program? Meditation For The Day "I will never leave or forsake thee." Down through the centuries, thousands have believed in God's constancy, untiringness, and unfailing love. God has love. Then forever you are sure of His love. God has power. Then forever you are sure, in every difficulty and temptation, of His strength. God has patience. Then always there is One who can never tire. God has understanding. Then always you will understand and be understood. Unless you want Him to go, God will never leave you. He is always ready with power. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may feel that God's love will never fail. I pray that I may have confidence in His unfailing power.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Higher Power "My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, 'Why don't you choose your own conception of God?' That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning." Bill W. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12 Thought to Consider . . . Willpower . . . our willingness to use a Higher Power. *~*AACRONYMS*~* E G O Edging God Out

Daily Reflection   WILLINGNESS TO GROW If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 8   Sobriety fills the painful "hole in the soul" that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my work is done. However, joy is not just the absence of pain; it is the gift of continued spiritual awakening. Joy comes from ongoing and active study, as well as application of the principles of recovery in my everyday life, and from sharing that experience with others. My Higher Power presents many opportunities for deeper spiritual awakening. I need only to bring into my recovery the willingness to grow. Today I am ready to grow.

Pot Luck   Doing Service            Karl Reiland and once said, “In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy”. The service we’re called to do in Step Twelve is a result of our spiritual awakening. When most of us thought of service, we thought of restaurant help, chores around the house, washing windows. The thought of service was burdensome if not downright irritating. We probably schemed throughout our lives to do as little service as possible. Every moment we gave to someone else was one less moment we could spend on ourselves. This stands to reason, for we were totally self-centered. Even those of us who “act as if” we cared normally received much more than we ever gave.             The Twelve Step way of life produces “other centeredness”. We, by the grace of God, care less about ourselves and more about our fellows.             When I pass on my recovery, I keep it. This spiritual paradox becomes an all-determining reality for me, that to keep what I found, I must give it away. Service becomes a way of life.   “Don’t Give Up” . Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men

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