Your Daily Reprieve 04.01.24

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for  Monday  April 1, 2024   From Waynesville, NC

Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgment about whether what is happening is good or bad, right or wrong. ~Ron Smotherman   God's grace is bigger than your biggest regret.    ~Lecrae   "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,  loved in spite of ourselves." --Victor Hugo     God straws a circle around everyone and says we are in. Who is missing at your family table? - Live in Grace, Walk in Love. ~Bob Goff

Big Book Quote   With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you.   P55

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12&12   Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. p. 21

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward becoming more honest? Do I no longer have to lie to my loved ones? Do I try to have meals on time, and do I try to earn what I make at work? Am I trying to be honest? Have I faced myself as I really am and have I admitted to myself that I'm no good by myself, but have to rely on God to help me do the right thing? Am I beginning to find out what it means to be alive and to face the world honestly and without fear? Meditation For The Day God is all around us. His spirit pervades the universe. And yet we often do not let His spirit in. We try to get along without His help and we make a mess of our lives. We can do nothing of any value without God's help. All our human relationships depend on this. When we let God's spirit rule our lives, we learn how to get along with others and how to help them. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may let God run my life. I pray that I will never again make a mess of my life through trying to run it myself.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Growth "It seems to me that the primary object of any human being is to grow, as God intended, that being the nature of all growing things. Our search must be for what reality we can find, which includes the best definition and feeling of love that we can acquire. If the capability of loving is in the human being, then it must surely be in his Creator. Theology helps me in that many of its concepts cause me to believe that I live in a rational universe under a loving God, and that my own irrationality can be chipped away, little by little. This is, I suppose, the process of growth for which we are intended." Bill W., Letter,  1958 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 295 Thought to Consider . . . All you have to do to change your life is change your mind. *~*AACRONYMS*~* WHO ME? Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Must Exist

Daily Reflection   LOOKING WITHIN Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42 Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities in each of us have been, and are. I want to find exactly how, when, and where my natural desires have warped me. I wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and myself. By discovering what my emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for me. To resolve ambivalent feelings, I need to feel a strong and helpful sense of myself. Such an awareness doesn't happen overnight, and no one's self-awareness is permanent. Everyone has the capacity for growth, and for self-awareness, through an honest encounter with reality. When I don't avoid issues but meet them directly, always trying to resolve them, they become fewer and fewer.

Pot Luck   Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. ~Chuang Tzu   Today's Meditation: Many people have trouble accepting what they're doing right here and right now, for they're always thinking about what they'd rather be doing, or what they hope they'll be doing soon, or what they wish they were doing. But are we really getting the most out of the lives that we have--right here and right now--if we're focused on something that isn't even real? How much does our current performance suffer if we keep our minds elsewhere? And what benefits from today's task may we never get because we don't do it as well as we can? We are where we are, and we need to do what we need to do right now, so why fight it by fleeing it in our minds? Why not embrace it? Why not keep our focus centered on the current moment so that we can give the most we can to it, and benefit more from it? That way, at least, we can accept our current situation and get the most from it. Accepting where we are right now does not by any means mean that we should resign ourselves to the way things are if we're not satisfied with them. But if we do want change, we have to realize that it's going to take time, effort, and patience to reach it, and we still have many current moments to deal with before our desired results become our realities. And what we get out of those current moments is up to us. Going with the flow and making the best of our current moment is one of the soundest and most effective approaches to life that there is. And it doesn't doom us to staying the same forever, either. It does allow us to get the most that each moment has to offer us and make our lives richer and fuller, all for the price of a bit of acceptance.

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