Your Daily Reprieve.01.01.22

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday January 1, 2022

From Jacksonville, FL

Happy New Year!!!

2020

Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.
~Jonathan Huie

“As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility and His wisdom!” – Peggy Toney Horton

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past,

not from the abandonment of the past.”

– Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Tennyson

“This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!”
― Pablo

"What the new year brings to you

will depend a great deal

on what you bring to the new year."
– Vern McLellan

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

– Neil Gaiman

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big Book Quote

“Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the

greatest possession you have; the key to life and happiness for

others. With it you can avert death and misery for them.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 124~

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CHARLIE PARMLEY

Maysville, AR

35^th Florida State Convention

July 1991

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January 2022 Anniversaries

1/1 Kay S. (Palm Bay, FL)…..55

1/1 Bob V. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..38

1/1 Joan B. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..33

1/1 Severine H. (Sacramento, CA)…..5

1/1 Joseph K. (Daphne, AL)…..1

1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison, NJ)…..17

1/1 Gerry K. (Purcellville, VA)…..22

1/1 Lauren B. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..4

1/2 Tara H. (New York.NY)…..7

1/3 Roger (Eelground First Nation)…..46

1/4 Kejinhp (Rhode Island)…..21

1/4 Michael M.(Huntersville, NC)…..1

1/4 Nick M. (Asheville, NC)…..26

1/6 Ann O’K. (Stuart, FL/Greenwich, CT)…..43

1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..16

1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..10

1/7 Michelle S. (Canton, MI)…..1

1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..24

1/7 Patrick M. (Bermuda, HM/Boston)…..10

1/7 Liz O. (NYC)…..18

1/8 Lisa B. (Watertown, MA)…..1

1/8 Alan J. (Woodstock, NY)…..14

1/10 Kelly S. (Methuen, MA)…..33

1/11 Alex M. (Ft. Worth, TX)…..2

1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..9

1/13Robbie H. (VA/FL)…..40

1/14 Glenda Mc (Leesburg,FL)…..44

1/15 Martha B. (Palm Coast, FL)…..33

1/15 Steve D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..10

1/16 Bonni S. (Charleston, SC)…..37

1/23 Richard S. …..45

1/23 Sandra S. …..17

1/23 Susie S. (Lagarto, TX)…..27

1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..30

1/23 Jay OD (East Milton, MA)…..12

1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air,MD)…..7

1/29 Sandra C. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..46

1/29 Regina M. (Sea Cliff, NY)…..12

1/31 Pat B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..34

1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..38

1/31 Kim J. (Streator, IL)…..11

0862 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Foreword

There is, too, a rising interest in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Students of human relations are beginning to wonder how and why A.A. functions as a society. Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen? How can a set of traditional principles, having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in unity and effectiveness? The second section of this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.

p. 16

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I came into A.A., was I a desperate person? Did I have a
soul-sickness? Was I so sick of myself and my way of living that I
couldn't stand looking at myself in a mirror? Was I ready for A.A.?
Was I ready to try anything that would help me to get sober and to get
over my soul-sickness? Should I ever forget the condition I was in?

Meditation For The Day

In the new year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one
of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past or
the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future, all
thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments,
my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my
gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go
forward, in this new year, into a new life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that God will guide me one day at a time in the new year. I pray
that for each day, God will supply the wisdom and the strength that I
need.

Daily Thought

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/AA\
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Serenity

"So, here I am, sober. Successful. Serene. Just a few of the gifts of the program for surrendering, suiting up, and showing up for life every day. Good days and bad days, reality is a wild ride, and I wouldn't miss it for the world. I don't question how this program works. I trust in my God, stay involved in A.A. service, go to lots of meetings, work with others, and practice the principles of the Steps to the best of my willingness each day. I don't know which of these keeps me sober, and I'm not about to try to find out. It's worked for quite a few days now, so I think I'll try it again tomorrow."
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous
Fourth Edition p. 337

Thought to Consider . . .

Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

L O V E
Living Our Valuable Experiences

Daily Reflection

"I AM A MIRACLE"

The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty

that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a

way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to

accomplish those things for us which we could never do by

ourselves.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25

This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle. I

always believed in God, but could never put that belief

meaningfully into my life. Today, because of Alcoholics

Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand

Him; I am sober today because of that! Learning to trust

and rely on God was something I could never have done

alone. I now believe in miracles because I am one!

Pot Luck

A Day at a Time

Reflection for the Day

Fear may have originally brought some of us to The Program. In the beginning, fear alone may help some of us stay away from the first drink, pill, joint or whatever. But a fearful state is hardly conducive to comfort and happiness - not for long. We have to find alternatives to fear to get us through those first empty hours, days or even weeks. For most of us, the answer has been to become active in and around The Program. In no time, we feel that we truly belong; for the first time in a long time, we begin to feel a "part of" rather than "apart from."

Am I willing to take the initiative?

Today I Pray

May God please help me find alternatives to fear - that watchdog of my earliest abstinence. I thank Him for directing me to a place where I can meet others who have experienced the same compulsions and fears. I am grateful for my feeling of belonging.

Today I Will Remember

I am "a part of," not "apart from."

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