Your Daily Reprieve 12.01.23

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday December 1, 2023   From Waynesville, NC

A tragic mistake that is often made by orthodox religious people is to assume that the will of God for them is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant.  The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, wider and newer and brighter experience.   -Emmet Fox     We are what we desire to be.  We can be what we wish to be.  If we make a plan of our lives and desire that plan to be fulfilled, we will become that.  Desire to be great and you will be.  Desire to kill and you can also kill.  Mind will work to fulfill desire, no matter what the desire is.   -Walter Russell     If you change your thinking you will change your actions,  If you change your actions you will change your thinking. -- Anonymous     Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.  Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds and shine. ~Buddha

Big Book Quote   "To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face."   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, Page 44~       Bill Schaberg Writing The Big Book Video Readings https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day     JOHN H. Sanford, FL @51st Florida State Convention Orlando, FL 2007     https://bit.ly/3R7r3dI   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

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12&12   Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." As group after group saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned all membership regulations. One dramatic experience after another clinched this determination until it became our universal tradition. Here are two examples:On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two. In that time nothing could be seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light. p. 141

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day The thoughts that come before having a slip are often largely subconscious. It is a question whether or not our subconscious minds ever become entirely free from alcoholic thoughts as long as we live. For instance, some of us dream about being drunk when we are asleep, even after several years of sobriety in A.A. During the period of our drinking days, our subconscious minds have been thoroughly conditioned by our alcoholic way of thinking and it is doubtful that they ever become entirely free of such thoughts during our lifetime. But when our conscious minds are fully conditioned against drinking, we can stay sober and our subconscious minds do not often bother us. Am I still conditioning my conscious mind? Meditation For The Day Having sympathy and compassion for all who are in temptation, a condition which we are sometimes in, we have a responsibility towards them. Sympathy always includes responsibility. Pity is useless because it does not have a remedy for the need. But wherever our sympathy goes, our responsibility goes too. When we are moved with compassion, we should go to the one in need and bind up his wounds as best we can. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have sympathy for those in temptation. I pray that I may have compassion for others' trials.         NEW Link of interest   RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana) Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sept. 27, 2003 https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to twelfth-step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional sobriety." Bill. W., AA Grapevine, January 1958 c.1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 288 Thought to Consider . . . We live life in the moment. We understand life by looking back with the tool of gratitude. *~*AACRONYMS*~* D E T A C H Don't Even Think About Changing Him/Her

Daily Reflection "SUGGESTED" STEPS Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening. . . . A. A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 106-07   I remember my sponsor's answer when I told him that the Steps were "suggested." He replied that they are "suggested" in the same way that, if you were to jump out of an airplane with a parachute, it is "suggested" that you pull the ripcord to save your life. He pointed out that it was "suggested" I practice the Twelve Steps, if I wanted to save my life. So I try to remember daily that I have a whole program of recovery based on all Twelve of the "suggested" Steps.

Pot Luck   As Bill Sees It   The Answer in the Mirror, p. 225   While drinking, we were certain that our intelligence, backed by will power, could rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world around us. This brave philosophy, wherein each man played God, sounded good in the speaking, but it still had to meet the acid test: How well did it actually work? One good look in the mirror was answer enough.   ********************************   My spiritual awakening was electrically sudden and absolutely convincing. At once I became a part--if only a tiny part--of a cosmos that was ruled by justice and love in the person of God. No matter what had been the consequences of my own willfulness and ignorance, or those of my fellow travelers on earth, this was still the truth. Such was the new and positive assurance, and this has never left me.   1. 12 & 12, p. 37 2. Grapevine, January 1962

*Angel Force USA www.AngelForceUSA.com   Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. OUR MISSION STOP SUISILENCE The avoidance of discussion about suicide Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.     RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana) Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sept. 27, 2003 https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt   **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/

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