Your Daily Reprieve 11.01.22

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday November 1 , 2022

From Waynesville, NC

By being honest with yourself

about what you believe,

and then acting on that principle

regardless of what others might think or say,

you promote an inner peace

that gives you a strong sense of worthiness.

I encourage you to examine your thoughts carefully

in all areas of your life,

and identify where you are not in harmony with your actions.

Then work each day to bring about more of a sense of inner congruence

that meets with your own personal standards.

-Wayne Dyer

Conformity to others’ ideas of serving God means little to us,

for our uppermost duty and interest is in pleasing God

by finding and doing what he has called us to do.

In doing so we are filled with a renewed spirit.

We will experience a radiant joy in the simple things of everyday living,

in doing things that are part of our specific assignment by God,

not by someone else.

-Esther Carls Dodgen

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

-Corrie ten Boom

“I am more a woman of action than a woman in reaction,

and hope is more present in my life than insecurity ...

As much as I was thirsty for alcohol,

today I am thirsty for knowledge.”

~Grapevine: Montreal, Quebec, July 1986

Big Book Quote

“Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow

toward it. We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 69~

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There were, though, a few conservative dissenters among the alcoholics. the wrote the Foundation*, A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining. They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for a charter. These few were disturbed and skeptical.

*In 1954, The name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc. was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc. and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.

p. 148

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A.A. Thought For The Day

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

The 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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Consequences

"In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be."
c.1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37

Thought to Consider . . .
Think it over, not drink over it.

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D E A D
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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

I learn honesty through dishonesty,

tolerance through intolerance,

patience through impatience.

~ Anonymous

Sometimes we have to see ourselves in action before our character defects become glaring enough to do something about them. While we may abhor our dishonesty, intolerance, impatience and our other selfish traits, without them we wouldn’t know the joy of having them replaced with honesty, tolerance, and patience.

God is willing to help us with our shortcomings but the amount of help we get is related to how sincere we are in asking for them to be removed. When we are thoroughly dismayed by our attitudes and our actions, we are closer to being entirely ready to have God remove our defects of character.

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Today I’ll pay special attention to recognizing my character defects so I can learn from them.

In God’s Care

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