Your Daily Reprieve 05.01.23

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday May  1, 2023   From Waynesville, NC

"Don't be so fearful ... I know what I am doing" ~God   I’ve found a life I never knew existed. I’m so overwhelmed with gratitude that there’s no room for a bad day.” ~Grapevine: Costa Mesa, California, December 1994   We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit.  This expresses the true spirit in the love of humankind.    - Henry Ward Beecher   Those who plant trees love others besides themselves. - Thomas Fuller

Big Book Quote   "At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 24~       Bill Schaberg Writing The Big Book Video Readings https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos

Passing The Basket Your Daily Reprieve Turns 24 This Year We Are Well Over 4000 Members Contributions Accepted Venmo       @Tom-Murphy-160 Pay Pal     paypal.me/TomMurphy

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   JOSH J. Kingsport, TN Serenity Improvement Group 02.11.23   https://bit.ly/40fENUS     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 & Sunday….Pot Luck…0900 ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!   MAY  2023 Miracles   5/1 Carol C. (Toronto, Canada)…..27 5/1 Greg F. (New York, NY)…..7 5/3 Cathy M. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..13 5/4 Sam G. (Lincolnton, NC)…..16 5/5 Denny Mers (The Villages)…..41 5/6 Joseph T. …..17 5/7 Anthony A. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..27 5/12 Pat P. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..17 5/13 Gary V. (Portage, IN)…..37 5/15 Pamela K. (Morristown, NJ)…..1 5/15 Wilma R. (Princeton, NJ)…..33 5/15 Bill O’D. (East Hampton, NY)…..19 5/15 Chris W. (SPDA, RJ, Brasil)…..34 5/16 Jesse C. (Pierpont, NY)…..18 5/17 Alan T. (Sarasota, FL)....31 5/20 Daniel D. (Palm Coast, FL)…..3 5/21 Frank S. (New York City)…..5 5/22 Lee L. (Columbia, MO)…..33 5/23 Lyn S. (Kula,HI)…..1 5/30 Becky F, (Ludington, MI)…..1   0370 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else. Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable. These are the first fruits of Step Four. pp. 49-50

Twenty-Four Hours    A.A. Thought For The Day The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear fruit some time. We never know the results even a word of ours might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. Do I have real charity? Meditation For The Day All material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes a mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis, matter is thought. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time, cannot know anything firsthand, except material things. But we can deduce that outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought. I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Traditions "The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous are a distillate of our experience of living and working together. They apply the spirit of the Twelve recovery Steps to our group life and security. They deal with the world outside and with each other; they state our attitudes toward power and prestige, toward property and money. They would save us from tempting alliances and major controversies; they would elevate principles far above personal ambitions. And as a token of this last, they request that we maintain personal anonymity before the open public as a protection to A.A. and as proof of the fact that our society intends to practice true humility." Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p. 96 Thought to Consider . . . The reason they are called Principles is because they always work. If they didn't always work we'd just call them "good ideas." *~*AACRONYMS*~* W I L L I N G When I Live Life, I Need God

Daily Reflection   HEALING HEART AND MIND Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55   Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can experience Him by loving people and allowing people to love me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get in the way. It's the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me. I must be willing to look at the dark side in order to heal my mind and heart because that is the road to freedom. I must walk into darkness to find the light and walk into fear to find peace. By revealing my secrets—and thereby ridding myself of guilt—I can actually change my thinking; by altering my thinking, I can change myself. My thoughts create my future. What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today.

Pot Luck   Step by Step "In AA, we can begin again no matter how late it may be. I have begun again. At 54, I have had come true for me the old wish, 'If only I could live my life over, knowing what I know.' That's what I am doing, living again, knowing what I know. I hope I have been able to impart ...at least a bit of what I know; the joy of living, the irresistible power of divine love and its healing strength, and the fact that we, as sentient beings, have the knowledge to choose between good and evil, and, choosing good, are made happy." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, "They Lost Nearly All," Ch 11 ("He Who Loses His Life"), p 543. Today, it's not too late until it's too late - and it's too late only when I've died. Until then, I have the lifeline and the choice of sobriety, and all I need do is grab and hold onto the lifeline, the lifeline being recovery. Even if I cannot yet envision the Program's promise of sobriety if I adhere to the Twelve Steps, I know already and all too well the life I have if I don't begin anew. In the end, the decision is a matter of choice - to continue in the life of active drinking that I already know with agonizing pain, or to choose something better. Today, I choose something better: it's not too late because I'm here! And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2021

**NEW MEDITATIONS** http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/     **Podcasts** https://boiledowlaa.org/ https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast     12 Step Meditations  www.stepmeditation.com   These are 12 meditations, each about 12 minutes long and the content (other than the meditation instructions) are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12 (created by Matt H.)     Speaker Recordings   Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst *****   The Lights are On http://xa-speakers.org/   AA Speaker Tapes http://www.aaspeakers.org/AA_Speaker_Tapes   Recovery Speakers http://recoveryspeakers.com/

ARCHIVES     **NEW** 12 Step Meditations   www.stepmeditation.com   These are 12 meditations, each about 12 minutes long and the content (other than the meditation instructions) are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12 (created by Matt H.)       Daily Meditations Group Home http://groups.google.com/group/Your_Daily_Reprieve?hl=en     Daily Meditations Archive http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/7AMmeeting/   Blog http://todaysreprieve.blogspot.com/

To be added, email

AA Membership Survey http://www.aa.org/pdf/products/p-48_membershipsurvey.pdf

Meditation Resources   http://www.peterrussell.com/TV/3Min.php   *****   Loving Kindness Meditations   With Music   http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindnessmusic.mp3     Voice only http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindness.mp3   ***** Free Guided Meditations http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22

Resources   Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes     Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation   Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/   NEW!     AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm   Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting   Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/   MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/   Big Book Quotes http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigBookQuotes/   The Universe https://www.facebook.com/scherie.dee   Prayables http://prayables.org/       As We See It (AWSI) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AsWeSeeIt/     Keep It Simple Hazelden Meditations   ePrayer http://www.eprayer.com/dailyinspiration.htm   Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily   Speaker Recordings http://storiesofrecovery.org/Workshops.htm   Wisdom of the Room http://www.theWisdomoftheRooms.com

To comment or to unsubscribe:   Tom Murphy C 508.221.8896 txm1@comcast.net   2828 Forest Circle Jacksonville, FL 32257   PASS IT ON