Your Daily Reprieve 11.01.21

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday November 1, 2016

From Waynesvile, NC

We are far more liable

to catch the vices than the virtues

of our associates.

~ Denis Diderot

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Several things help us let go and live,

including honesty and openness.

I am totally honest in the way I live.

I can’t control what someone else does;

I can’t make him or her change.

All I can create is my own behavior.

I can say that someone did something

that made me feel uncomfortable,

but then I let it go.

~Anne Wilson Schaef

You can never leave footprints that last

if you are always walking on tiptoe.
~Leymah Gbowee

"Not what we say about our blessings,

but how we use them

is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

-- W.T. Purkiser

Big Book Quote

"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. I saw that growth could start from that point."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 12~

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Total Years of Sobriety

11/1 Pat P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..14

11/1 Darren P. (Kildare,Ireland)…..1

11/1 Rick B. (Dyersburg, TN)…..3

11/1 Craig F. (Langhorne, PA)…..7

11/1 Trish H. (Brick, NJ)…..30

11/1 Sophie M. (NYC)…..6

11/2 Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..14

11/3 Dewey D. …..22

11/3 Danny B. …..4

11/3 Maggie M. (Denver, CO)…..26

11/4 Lou L. (Smithtown, NY)…..25

11/4 James F. …..25

11/4 Mikki …..29

11/5 Brian A. (Charlotte, NC)…..1

11/5 Peter D. …..5

11/5 Ray (East Hampton, NY)…..37

11/5 Kent L. (Silverdale,WA)…..36

11/5 Donna M. (Methuen, MA)…..15

11/6 Ronnie R. (New York, NY)…..34

11/7 Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)……30

11/10 Russ S. (Palm City, FL)…..36

11/11 Jake M. …..1

11/12 Billy M. (Port Chester, NY)…..5

11/13 Dan S. (Carbondale, IL)…..31

11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..16

11/14 Chris M. (Fareham, UK)…..1

11/16 Lana Lynn D. …..2

11/21 Dianne S. (Claude, TX)…..2

11/22 Kevin M. …..1

11/22 Tomas R. …..1

11/22 Terry S. (Maui, HI)…..4

11/23 Elaine J. (Newport Beach, CA)…..36

11/23 Colleen M. (Clayton, NC)…..4

11/23 Kyle G. (Boca Raton, FL)…..2

11/23 Donna B. (Hampton, NH)…..41

11/26 Pam B. (Summerfield, FL)…..37

11/29 Johnny D. (Somerville, MA)…..7

0559 Total Years of Sobriety

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Tradition Seven - "Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions."

"The meeting that night was at New York's old 24th Street Clubhouse. During the intermission, the treasurer gave a timid talk on how broke the club was. (That was in the period when you couldn't mix money and A.A.) But finally he said it--the landlord would put us out if we didn't pay up. He concluded his remarks by saying, "Now boys, please go heavier on the hat tonight, will you?"

p. 163

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

I have hope. That magic thing that I had lost or misplaced. T

he future looks dark no more. I do not even look at it, except when necessary to make plans. I try to let the future take care of itself. The future will be made up of todays and todays, stretching out as short as now and as long as eternity. Hope is justified by many right nows, by the rightness of the present. Nothing can happen to me that God does not will for me. I can
hope for the best, as long as I have what I have and it is good. Have I hope?

Meditation For The Day

Faith is the messenger that bears your prayers to God.

Prayer can be like incense, rising ever higher and higher.

The prayer of faith is the prayer of trust that feels the presence
of God which it rises to meet. It can be sure of some response from God. We can say a prayer of thanks to God every day for His grace, which has kept us on the right way and allowed us to start living the good life.

So we should pray to God with faith and trust and
gratitude.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may feel sure of some response to my prayers.

I pray that I may be content with whatever form that response takes.

Daily Thought

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Emotional Sobriety

"If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to twelfth-step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional sobriety."
Bill. W., AA Grapevine, January 1958
c.1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 288

Thought to Consider . . .

We live life in the moment but understand
it looking back with the tool of gratitude.

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D E T A C H
Don't Even Think About Changing Him/Her

Daily Reflection

I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND

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

My first sponsor told me there were two things to say about

prayer and meditation: first, I had to start and second, I had

to continue. When I came to A.A. my spiritual life was

bankrupt; if I considered God at all, He was to be called

upon only when my self-will was incapable of a task or

when overwhelming fears had eroded my ego.

Today I am grateful for a new life, one in which my

prayers are those of thanksgiving. My prayer time is more

for listening than for talking. I know today that if I cannot

change the wind, I can adjust my sail. I know the difference

between superstition and spirituality. I know there is a

graceful way of being right, and many ways to be wrong.

Pot Luck

Thomas Merton's

Prayer of Abandonment

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.

And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road although I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my troubles all alone.

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