Your Daily Reprieve 11.04.23

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday November 4, 2023

From Waynesville, NC

“Pride in my intelligence blinded me to how much I did not know.”

“Ph. Drunk,” Greensboro, North Carolina, February 1987, Best of the Grapevine, Vol. 3

Very few of us know

How much we need to know

In order to know

How little we know

~ -Werner Heisenberg

The life each of us lives

is the life within the limits of our own thinking.

To have life more abundant,

we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

-Thomas Dreier

Positive thinking is a constant attention

to the details that make up an average day—

with the knowledge that how you live this moment

may reflect on the rest of your life.

-Jason Rogerson

Big Book Quote

"I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and Levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 16~

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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."

With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more deeply the inner meaning of A.A. simple prayer:
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to know the difference.

p. 125

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A.A. Thought For The Day

I can do things that I never did before. Liquor took away my initiative and my ambition. I couldn't get up the steam to start anything. I let things slide. When I was drunk, I was too inert to even comb my hair. Now I can sit down and do something. I can write letters that need to be written, I can make telephone calls that should be made. I can work in my garden. I can pursue my hobbies. I have the urge to create something, that creative urge that was completely stifled by alcohol. Have I recovered my initiative?

Meditation For The Day

"In Thy presence is fullness of joy. At Thy right hand are pleasures forever." We cannot find true happiness by looking for it. Seeking pleasure does not bring happiness in the long run, only disillusionment. Do not seek to have this fullness of joy by seeking pleasure. It cannot be done that way. Happiness is a by-product of living the right kind of life. True happiness comes as a result of living in all respects the way you believe God wants you to live, with regard to your self and to other people.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not always seek pleasure as a goal.

I pray that I may be content with the
happiness that comes when I do the right thing.

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Comfort

"When I am feeling depressed, I repeat to myself statements such as these: 'Pain is the touchstone of progress.' . . . 'Fear no evil.' . . . 'This, too, will pass.' . . . 'This experience can be turned to benefit.' These fragments of prayer bring far more than comfort. They keep me on the track of right acceptance; they break up my compulsive themes of guilt, depression, rebellion, and pride; and sometimes they endow me with the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Bill W., AA Grapevine, March 1962
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 110

Thought to Consider . . .
God enters us through our wounds.

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Daily Reflection

A DAILY DISCIPLINE

. . . when they [self-examination, meditation and prayer]

are logically related and interwoven, the result is an

unshakable foundation for life.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 98

The last three Steps of the program invoke God's loving

discipline upon my willful nature. If I devote just a few

moments every night to a review of the highlights of my

day, along with an acknowledgement of those aspects that

didn't please me so much, I gain a personal history of

myself, one that is essential to my journey into selfdiscovery.

I was able to note my growth, or lack of it, and to

ask in prayerful meditation to be relieved of those continuing

shortcomings that cause me pain. Meditation and

prayer also teach me the art of focusing and listening. I find

that the turmoil of the day gets tuned out as I pray for His

will and guidance. The practice of asking Him to help me in

my strivings for perfection puts a new slant on the tedium

of any day, because I know there is honor in any job done

well. The daily discipline of prayer and meditation will

keep me in fit spiritual condition, able to face whatever the

day brings—without the thought of a drink.

Pot Luck

When Winnie The Pooh Was Scared

--A. A. Milne

“Piglet” said Pooh. “Yes,” said Piglet. “I’m scared,” said Pooh.

For a moment there was silence. “Would you like to talk about it,” asked Piglet, when Pooh didn’t appear to be saying anything further.

“I’m just so scared,” blurted out Pooh, “so anxious, because I don’t feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry because they are so scared and they’re turning on one another and there seems to be no clear plan out of here and I worry about my friends and the people I love and I wish so much that I could give them all a hug. And, oh, Piglet, I am so scared and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn’t.”

So Piglet was thoughtful as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the hundred acre wood and listened to his friend.

“I’m here.” He said simply. “I hear you, Pooh, and I’m here.”

For a moment Pooh was perplexed. “But aren’t you going to tell me not to be so silly that I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together that it’s hard for everyone right now?” “No,” said Piglet quite decisively. “No, I am very much not going to do any of those things.”

“But,” said Pooh,

“I can’t change the world right now,” continued Piglet. “And I’m not going to patronize you with platitudes about how everything will be okay, because I don’t know that. What I can do, though, Pooh, is, I can make sure that you know that I am here and that I will always be here to listen and to support you and for you to know that you are heard. I can’t make those anxious feelings go away, not really, but I can promise you that all the time I have breath left in my body, you won’t ever need to feel those anxious feelings alone.”

And it was a strange thing because, even as Piglet said that Pooh could feel some of those anxious feelings start to loosen their grip on him, could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend who sat there solidly next to him.

Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life.

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