Your Daily Reprieve 02.01.23

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 1, 2023

From Jacksonville, FL

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes

and behold the treasure house of infinity within you.

There is a gold mine within you from which

you can extract everything you need

to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

-Joseph Murphy

Stop saying, “I haven’t sponsored many people,”

or “I’m not sponsoring anyone,” which puts the responsibility on me,

and carries a nugget of guilt or shame,

as if I’m not good enough for someone to ask me to be their sponsor. Instead, say “God has not presented me

with an opportunity recently to sponsor someone.

His time, not mine,” which recognizes

the triangular partnership in sponsorship:

Sponsor, Sponsee, Higher Power.

(Heard at a Middlefield OH meeting on 2/24/2022)

The best index to people's character is

(a) how they treat people who can't do them any good, and

(b) how they treat people who can't fight back.
~Abigail van Buren

“When finally my household went quite broke, I woke up to the fact that I hadn't been able to face the prospect of going back to work. So I returned to Wall Street after all. And I have ever since been glad that I did ... Indeed, there was one colossal dividend that resulted directly from my grudging decision to reenter the market place. It was a Wall Street business trip to Akron, Ohio, in 1935, that first brought me face to face with Dr. Bob -- AA's co-founder-to-be. So the birth of AA itself actually hinged on the fact that I had been trying to meet my bread-and-butter responsibilities.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August 1961

Big Book Quote

"Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider

another's conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 46

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Foreword

A.A.'s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which A.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.

p. 15

TWENTY FOUR HOURS

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of
the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape
from boredom, the feeling of self-importance and the
companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of
is the letdown, the hangover, the remorse, the waste of
money, and the facing of another day. In other words,
when we think about that first drink, we're thinking of
all the assets of drinking and none of the liabilities.
What has drinking really got that we haven't got
in A.A.? Do I believe that the liabilities of drinking outweigh
the assets?

Meditation For The Day

I will start a new life each day. I will put the old
mistakes away and start anew each day. God always offers
me a fresh start. I will not be burdened or anxious. If
God's forgiveness were only for the righteous and those
who had not sinned, where would be its need? I believe
that God forgives us all our sins, if we are honestly
trying to live today the way He wants us to live. God
forgives us much and we should be very grateful.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that my life may not be spoiled by worry and fear
and selfishness. I pray that I may have a glad, thankful
and humble heart.

Daily Thought

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Right Living

Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help. The knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things - these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.

c. 1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 124

Thought to Consider . . .

The peaks and valleys of my life have become gentle rolling hills.

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Daily Reflection

GOAL: SANITY

". . . Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate

my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I

came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I

certainly have that belief now."

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27

"Came to believe!" I gave lip service to my belief when I

felt like it or when I thought it would look good. I didn't

really trust God. I didn't believe He cared for me. I kept

trying to change things I couldn't change. Gradually, in

disgust, I began to turn it all over, saying: "You're so

omnipotent, you take care of it." He did. I began to receive

answers to my deepest problems, sometimes at the most

unusual times: driving to work, eating lunch, or when I was

sound asleep. I realized that I hadn't thought of those

solutions—a Power greater than myself had given them to

me. I came to believe.

Pot Luck

"I want my Higher Power to live in my heart full time, but He’ll only take a twenty-four-hour lease."

It’s amazing how good I feel when I get connected to my Higher Power. I do this by praying and meditating in the mornings, or by speaking with or helping someone in the program. I also get this feeling by attending meetings or going out to fellowship. I love the peace I feel, the sense of belonging I have, and the feelings of being comfortable in my own skin.

It’s also amazing how I can wake up the next day and feel so disconnected. There are some mornings when I feel the same old dread and anxiety I lived with while drinking. It’s as if I had never heard of the Twelve Steps. I’ve often asked my sponsor why I can’t stay connected, and he tells me it’s the same reason I can’t stay full after I’ve eaten a meal. When I ask him to explain, he says:

“Because we are spiritual beings, we all have a hunger to connect with our source. Once connected, we are filled with the peace and serenity that are the nourishment of this union. As we go about our day expending energy—the biggest energy drain caused by thinking and worrying about ourselves—we quickly become depleted and hungry. That’s why we need to continually take actions to restore our connection and move God back into our hearts.” And once I do that, I am full again.

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