Your Daily Reprieve 07.01.22

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday July 1,  2022   From Waynesville,NC

“Truly transforming spiritual experiences are nearly always founded on calamity and collapse.” ~Bill W., August 1957   God woke you up for a reason today. Be a blessing, and live with purpose. ~Prayables   If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.     -Ray Bradbury     One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. ~Willa Cather

Big Book Quote   "Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 79~

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12&12   Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours. p. 92

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day In following the A.A. program with its twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits, normal habits. As each twenty-four-hour period ends, we find that the business of staying sober is a much less trying and fearsome ordeal than it seemed in the beginning. Do I find it easier as I go along? Meditation For The Day Learn daily the lesson of trust and calm in the midst of the storms of life. Whatever of sorrow or difficulty the day may bring, God's command to you is the same. Be grateful, humble, calm, and loving to all people. Leave each soul the better for having met you or heard you. For all kinds of people, this should be your attitude: a loving desire to help and an infectious spirit of calmness and trust in God. You have the answer to loneliness and fear, which is calm faith in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be calm in the midst of storms. I pray that I may pass on this calmness to others who are lonely and full of fear.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Instincts "The idea keeps persisting that the instincts are primarily bad and are the roadblocks before which all spirituality falters. I believe that the difference between good and evil is not the difference between spiritual and instinctual man; it is the difference between proper and improper use of the instinctual. Recognition and right channeling of the instinctual are the essence of achieving wholeness." Bill W., Letter, 1954  1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 287  Thought to Consider . . .  When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.  *~*AACRONYMS*~* G R A C E Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations

Daily Reflection   THE BEST FOR TODAY The principles we have set down are guides to progress ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60   Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with life's problems, and how much more work needs to be done. I let myself be comforted in knowing that my life is now in the hands of my Higher Power, a master craftsman who is shaping each part of my life into a unique work of art. By working my program I can be satisfied, knowing that "in doing the best that we can for today, we are doing all that God asks of us."

Pot Luck   "Alcoholism is an equal opportunity destroyer."   I never thought of myself as an alcoholic. My idea of an alcoholic was a bum living in the gutter downtown, or someone wearing a dirty raincoat drinking from a paper bag. I owned a home, had a retirement account, and dined at fancy restaurants. I just drank too much sometimes—it could happen to anyone. After years of what I’ve now discovered to be the slow progression of the disease of alcoholism, my life hit a bottom, and I started attending A.A. meetings. When I got to the rooms, the people I met didn’t fit the profile of what I thought of as alcoholics. There were no dirty trench coats, and the guys who had five-day-old beards wore them carefully cut and shaped. I met people in all lines of work: attorneys, dentists, actors, housewives, and more. They were full of life—laughing, sharing, and giving freely of themselves. As I listened to their experiences and feelings, I identified with them, and I felt like I belonged. I remember being in a meeting and hearing a newcomer share that he didn’t think he was an alcoholic. Someone else shared that nonalcoholics rarely found themselves in an A.A. meeting on a Saturday night denying they were alcoholics. The suggestion was to keep coming back. As I kept coming to meetings and working the Steps, I discovered that I, too, had the disease. I found that it is an equal opportunity destroyer, and that no one was immune. I also found that we all have a common solution that works every time we work it. I thank God daily I was willing to try it.

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