Your Daily Reprieve 11.01.23

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday November 1, 2023

From Waynesville, NC

"Wisdom is, and starts with,

the humility to accept the fact that you
don't have all the right answers,

and the courage to learn to ask the right questions. "
--Unknown

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

~Elizabeth Harrison

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue these.”

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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. -Jennie Jerome Churchill

Big Book Quote

"All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence.

This immediately precipitates us into a seething caldron of debate.

Much has been written pro and con, but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics are doomed."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Doctor's Opinion, pg. xxx~

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11/30 Peter B.(New York , NY)…..33

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Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been restored to something like their true purpose and direction. We no longer strive to dominate or rule those about us in order to gain self-importance. We no longer seek fame and honor in order to be praised. When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service. True leadership, we find, depends upon able example and not upon vain displays of power or glory.

p. 124

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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.

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Destiny

"Yes, we are again citizens of the world. It is a distraught world, very tired, very uncertain. It has worshipped its own self-sufficiency - and that has failed. We A.A.'s are a people who once did that very thing. That philosophy failed us too. So perhaps, here and there, our example of recovery can help. As individuals, we have a responsibility, maybe a 'double responsibility'. It may be that we have a date with destiny."
Bill W. October 1944
1988 AA Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 100

Thought to Consider . . .

What if I were caring rather than judgmental?

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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

History of the AA Preamble

In 1947, because of the growing interest in AA, the Grapevine editors decided to write a brief definition of the Fellowship. Thus, the AA Preamble was first published in the June 1947 issue. They used portions of the Foreword to the first edition of the Big Book.

The Grapevine had just begun to circulate among non-alcoholics, and the Preamble was intended primarily to describe for them what AA is and is not. It is still often used for public information purposes.

As time passed, it began appearing in all Conference-approved publications, and many groups now use it to open meetings.

The original version was slightly different from what we know today. For example:

1) It stated that the only requirement for membership is an HONEST desire to stop drinking, and 2) it contained only the very brief statement "AA has no dues or fees."

At the 1958 General Service Conference, a delegate pointed out that the word "honest" does not appear in the Third Tradition, and suggested that it should be deleted from the Preamble. Many delegates felt that as AA had matured, it had become almost impossible to determine what constitutes an honest desire to stop drinking, and also that some who might be interested in the program could be confused by the phrase. The mid-summer 1958 meeting of the General Service Board ratified the deletion, and since then the Preamble has read simply "a desire to stop drinking."

The phrase "AA has no dues or fees" also was clarified to read as it presently does: "There are no dues or fees for AA membership, we are self-supporting through our own contributions." The current version of the Preamble appears on the first page of every issue of the Grapevine.

Source: The AA Grapevine Workbook
By Nancy O.

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