Your Daily Reprieve 03.01.22

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday March 1, 2022   From Jacksonville, FL

“Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate.” ~Grapevine: Bellevue, Washington, January 1975     Have compassion for yourself and others. Everyone is doing the best they can based on their life experiences. Everyone is learning and growing, and so are you. --HeartMath Discovery Program, Doc Childre and Sara Paddison     Maybe you're trying too hard to find the sunshine when you're in the middle of a storm. Some storms just take a while to pass over. Have faith. The sun will come out. May you be blessed to weather your storm with trust in God. ~Prayables     The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~ Stephen King

Big Book Quote   "When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn't."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   PEGGY BERN Pacific Group Los Angeles 02.15.89   https://bit.ly/3sFHr7s     Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst       ZOOM MEETINGS   Loose Garment Group https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518 M-F 12:00 EST (NY) Monday…BB Friday….12 & 12 T-W-TH….Discussion Saturday ….Pot Luck…0900 ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394

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12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows. These people often throw to the winds every chance for legitimate security and a happy family life. Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace. pp. 43-44

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day When I find myself thinking about taking a drink, I say to myself. "Don't reach out and take that problem back. You've given it to God and there's nothing you can do about it." So I forget about the drink. One of the most important parts of the A.A. program is to give our drink problem to God honestly and fully and never to reach out and take the problem back to ourselves. If we let God have it and keep it for good and then cooperate with Him, we'll stay sober. Have I determined not to take the drink problem back to myself? Meditation For The Day Constant effort is necessary if I am to grow spiritually and develop my spiritual life. I must keep the spiritual rules persistently, perseveringly, lovingly, patiently, and hopefully. By keeping them, every mountain of difficulty shall be laid low, the rough places of poverty of spirit shall be made smooth, and all who know me shall know that God is the Lord of all my ways. To get close to the spirit of God is to find life and healing and strength. Prayer For The Day I pray that God's spirit may be everything to my soul. I pray that God's spirit may grow within me.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Money Matters Money gradually became our servant and not our master. It became a means of exchanging love and service with those about us. When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 122 Thought to Consider . . . It's more important to feel happy about who I am than who I think I should be. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H A L T Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

Daily Reflection   IT WORKS It works—it really does. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 88   When I got sober I initially had faith only in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Desperation and fear kept me sober (and maybe a caring and/or tough sponsor helped!). Faith in a Higher Power came much later. This faith came slowly at first, after I began listening to others share at meetings about their experiences—experiences that I had never faced sober, but that they were facing with strength from a Higher Power. Out of their sharing came hope that I too would—and could—"get" a Higher Power. In time, I learned that a Higher Power—a faith that works under all conditions—is possible. Today this faith, plus the honesty, open-mindedness and willingness to work the Steps of the program, gives me the serenity that I seek. It works—it really does.

Pot Luck     Father Leo's Daily Meditation     IDEAS     "Ideas shape the course of history." --John Maynard Keynes     I get so excited about my sobriety because it has given me ideas. Today I can think, ponder and create. God is such a big idea today -- every thing is involved.     For years I had made God a prisoner of the Church or an idea in history, but in my sobriety I have discovered Him in art, poetry, music and literature. God is found in friendship, advice, sharing and sexuality. God is forcibly experienced in nature, sunsets, animals and the sea.     God can be found through my failures. He is perceived in suffering, loneliness and resentments. The acknowledgment of my disease has brought me closer to God as I understand Him.     My idea of God is alive and it makes me want to live.     May my ideas and thoughts always reflect Your beauty.

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