Your Daily Reprieve 10.01.21

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday October 1, 2016

From Waynesvile, NC

If it can be verified, we don't need faith. . . .

Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason.

Faith is what makes life bearable,

with all its tragedies and ambiguities

and sudden, startling joys.

~Madeleine L'Engle

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts.

Healthy questions keep faith dynamic.

In fact, unless we start with doubts

we cannot have a deep-rooted faith.

One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief.

One who has a faith which is not to be shaken

has won it through blood and tears

- -has worked his or her way from doubt to truth

as one who reaches a clearing

through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
~Helen Keller

Challenges make you discover things about yourself

that you never really knew.

They're what makes the instrument stretch,

what makes you go beyond the norm.

~unattributed

Postpone

Action

Until

Serenity

Emerges

Big Book Quote

"Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter

inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 34~

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12&12

Tradition Four - "Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole."

When that lifted, a wonderful thing had happened. The head promoter wrote the Foundation office. He said he wished he'd paid some attention to A.A. experience. Then he did something else that was to become an A.A. classic. It all went on a little card about golf-score size. The cover read: "Middleton Group #1. Rule #62." Once the card was unfolded, a single pungent sentence leaped to the eye: "Don't take yourself too dam* seriously."

p. 149

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

A.A. will lose some of its effectiveness if I do not do my share.

Where am I failing? Are there some things I do not feel like doing?

Am I held back by self-consciousness or fear? Self-consciousness is a form of pride.It is a fear that something may happen to you. What happens to you is not very important. The impression you make on others does not depend so much on the kind of job you do as on your sincerity and honesty of purpose.

Am I holding back because I am afraid of not making a good impression?

Meditation For The Day

Look to God for the true power that will make you effective.

See no other wholly dependable supply of strength. That is the secret of a truly effective life. And you, in your turn, will be used to help many others find effectiveness. Whatever spiritual help you need, whatever spiritual help you desire for others, look to God. Seek that God's will be done in your life and seek that your will conforms to His. Failures come from depending too much on your own strength.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may feel that nothing good is too much for me if I look to God for help. I pray that I may be effective through His guidance.

Daily Thought

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Delusion

"We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we were like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 17

Thought to Consider . . .

There is no such thing as being "a little bit alcoholic."

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D E N I A L
Don't Even Notice I Am Lying

Daily Reflection

LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and

rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for

alcohol is a subtle foe.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85

When I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I

have found in the program. Relief from that pain is

provided in the solutions contained in A.A.'s Twelve Steps.

But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I can

become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and

turn into the problem instead of the solution. I need to get

into action, to take stock: where am I and where am I

going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must change to

regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within

myself, to God and to another human being, keeps me

honest and humble.

Pot Luck

A Day at a Time

Reflection for the Day

Another common denominator among those who slip is failure to use the tools of The Program - the Twelve Steps. The comments heard most often are, "I never did work The Steps," "I never got past the First Step," "I worked The Steps too slow," or, "too fast," or, "too soon." What it boils down to is that these people considered the Steps, but didn't conscientiously and sincerely apply the Steps to their lives.

Am I learning how to protect myself and help others?

Today I Pray

May I be a doer of the Steps and not a hearer only. May I see some of the common mis-Steps which lead to a fall: being too proud to admit Step One; being too tied to everyday earth to feel the presence of a Higher Power; being overwhelmed by the thought of preparing Step Four, a complete moral inventory; being too reticent to share that inventory. Please, God, guide me as I work the Twelve Steps.

Today I Will Remember

To watch my Steps.

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