Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.20.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday April 19, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be

just a day away from being realized."

~Leo Buscaglia

“The phrase ‘God as we understand Him’

is perhaps the most important expression

to be found in our whole AA vocabulary.

Within the compass of these five significant words

there can be included every kind and degree of faith,

together with the positive assurance

that each of us may choose his own.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., April 1961

"You never quite know what you do in life

that leaves a seed behind

that grows into an oak tree."

~Michael Portillo

There comes a time when the blind man

takes your hand and says don't you see.

-- Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

Big Book Quote

I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.

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APRIL 2024 Miracles

04/01 John B. (Stuart, FL/Greenwich, CT)…..43

04/01 Raymond D. (Spring Creek, NC)…..38

04/01 Ron F. (Cincinnati, OH)…..47

04/01 Jane C. (Lynbrook, NY)…..34

04/01 Merrie F. (Lynbrook, NY)…..34

04/01 Grady S. (Sunnyvale, CA)…..33

04/01 Brian N. (Diamondhead, MS)…..11

04/01 Joyce G. (Bradford, MA)…..36

04/01 Cary W. (Palm City, FL)…..17

04/01 Kevin B. (New Forest, UK)…..36

04/01 Michael C. (Los Angeles)…..43

04/02 Mark B. (Haiku, HI)…..3

04/03 Jennifer E. (Sarasota, FL)…..18

04/04 Tim D. (Seaforth, ON, Canada)…..13

04/05 Liz G. (San Antonio, TX)…..7

04/05 Kevin O’M. (Cape Cod, MA)…..14

04/06 John A. (Flagler Beach, FL)…..15

04/06 Nick E. (Devon, UK)…..25

04/07 Maddie M. (Groveland, MA)…..41

04/07 Al B. (Chicago, IL)…..8

04/07 Louise R. (Suffolk, UK)…..4

04/07 Norma D. (Bradford, MA)…..13

04/07 Jane T. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..38

04/08 Maureen K. (Morristown, NJ)…..14

04/08 Paul K. N. Canton, OH)…..20

04/08 Ashley G. (Miami, FL)…..12

04/09 Dayton H. (New York, NY)…..34

04/10 Chas T. (Aiken, SC)…..12

04/11 Chrissy M. (Vero Beach, FL/Dingman’s Ferry, PA)…..15

04/11 Diane M. (Waynesville, NC)…..16

04/11 Jeremy S. (Austin, TX)…..12

04/11 Emily W. (Astoria, Queens, NYC)…..10

04/12 Amy E. (Bend, OR)…..2

04/12 Kathleen M. (Naples, FL)…..36

04/12 Jean P. (Westport, CT)…..17

04/13 Lauren C. (NYC)…..11

04/14 Mark M. (Pinellas, Park, FL)…..39

04/14 Darlene R. (Forest City, NC) …..30

04/14 Kristine M. (N.Y.)…..1

04/14 Sue B. (Waynesville, NC)…..14

04/14 Caitlin F. (Sommerville, NJ)…..11

04/15 Erin S. (Provincetown, MA)…..19

04/17 Vince K. (Palm City, FL)…..42

04/17 Vicki M. (Waynesville, NC)…..43

04/17 Lindsey S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..1

04/17 Rich W. (Evanston, IL)…..7

04/17 Jayme (Colorado Springs, CO)…..26

04/17 Jay M. (Pepper Pike, OH)…..10

04/17 Cecily T. (Westchester, NY)…..15

04/18 Lynne S. (Jupiter, FL)…..5

04/18 Liz A. (Westfield, NJ)…..13

04/18 Tony L. (Long Beach, NY)…..9

04/19 Rex R. (Eureka, CA)…..10

04/19 Brent A. (New Rochelle, NY)…..1

4/19 Joanna J. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..43

04/19 Vickie D. (Graham, NC)…..22

04/21 Lizzy W. (The Main Line, PA)…..18

04/22 Mary D. (Evansville, IN)…..39

04/22 Leighanne L. (Jacksonville, FL)…..8

04/22 Nate S. (San Clemente, CA)…..1

04/23 Steve W. (Syracuse, NY/Indialantic, FL)…..19

04/23 Ricky C. …..26

04/25 Rourke H. (St Maarten, DWI)…..25

04/25 Jo Ellen D. (Stuart, FL)…..39

04/26 Margie W. (Waltham, MA)…..7

04/27 Angela L. (Boiling Springs, SC.)…..5

04/27 Norma D. (Bradford, MA)…..13

04/28 Laurie M. (Midcoast, ME)…..39

04/28 Julie T. (Morristown, NJ)…..11

04/30 Mike V. (Chicago, IL)…..26

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Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.

p. 24

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been
taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as
a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with
the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put
sobriety into my life, almost everything I take out is good.
The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made
up of a lot of little things. You have the ambition to do
things you didn't feel like doing when you were drinking.
Am I getting satisfaction out of living a sober life?

Meditation For The Day

It is a glorious way - the upward way. There are wonderful
discoveries in the realm of the spirit. There are tender
intimacies in the quiet times of communion with God. There
is an amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding of the
other person. On the upward way, you can have all the
strength you need from that Higher Power. You cannot make
too many demands on Him for strength. He gives you all the
power you need, as long as you are moving along the upward
way.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may see the beautiful horizons ahead on the
upward way. I pray that I may keep going forward to the more
abundant life.

Daily Thought

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Forgive

"Just like you, I have often thought myself the victim of what other people say and do. Yet every time I confessed the sins of such people, especially those whose sins did not correspond exactly with my own, I found that I only increased the total damage . . . Under very trying circumstances, I have had, again and again, to forgive others - also myself. Have you recently tried this?"
Bill W., Letter, 1946
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 268

Thought to Consider . . .
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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Daily Reflection

BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS

We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue

as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common

strivings to overcome them

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167

The identification that one alcoholic has with another is

mysterious, spiritual—almost incomprehensible. But it is

there. I "feel" it. Today I feel that I can help people and that

they can help me.

It is a new and exciting feeling for me to care for

someone; to care what they are feeling, hoping for, praying

for; to know their sadness, joy, horror, sorrow, grief; to

want to share those feelings so that someone can have

relief. I never knew how to do this—or how to try. I never

even cared. The Fellowship of A.A., and God, are teaching

me how to care about others.

Pot Luck

Working All the Steps

Over the years, these are some of the ways I’ve heard people “qualify” their program.

Is there such a thing as a “partial recovery”? Can we work just a few Steps and leave the rest?

Can we just “sort of” do a Fourth Step, like in our minds? Do we really have to write it down as instructed? Can we do a Fifth Step with our dog or our cat?

Can we make an amend just in our minds? Can we ask someone to make an amend for us? If a person who we can’t stand asks us to be his sponsor can we say no?

We feel much better about our lives now that we are in recovery, but we really can’t do some of these Steps because they’re too hard.

After hearing such questions and listening to such declarations, I know the facts are quite simple. Those that didn’t work all the Steps DIDN’T make it. Those that do work all the Steps DO make it.

Stephen Beal, Editor

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