Your Daily Reprieve 05.16.24

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday, May 16, 2024   From: Middletown, RI

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. —Ralph Waldo Emerson     We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. —Ronald Reagan     Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair       “I cannot adequately describe how light I feel since I took the Fifth Step, and how soundly I sleep.” ~Secunderabad, India, December 1982

Big Book Quote   It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery.   P94

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12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Nor is the quest for security always expressed in terms of money. How frequently we see a frightened human being determined to depend completely upon a stronger person for guidance and protection. This weak one, failing to meet life's responsibilities with his own resources, never grows up. Disillusionment and helplessness are his lot. In time all his protectors either flee or die, and he is once more left alone and afraid. p. 43

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day In the story of the Good Samaritan, the wayfarer fell among robbers and was left lying in the gutter, half dead. And a priest and a Levite both passed by on the other side of the road. But the Good Samaritan was moved with compassion and came to him and bound up his wounds and brought him to an inn and took care of him. Do I treat another alcoholic like the priest and the Levite or like the Good Samaritan? Meditation For The Day Never weary in prayer. When one day you see how unexpectedly your prayer has been answered, then you will deeply regret that you have prayed so little. Prayer changes things for you. Practice praying until your trust in God has become strong. And then pray on, because it has become so much a habit that you need it daily. Keep praying until prayer seems to become communion with God. That is the note on which true times of prayer should end. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may form the habit of daily prayer. I pray that I may find the strength I need, as a result of this communion.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\    ^*^*^*^*^ Letting Go Letting go of everything at once was both painful and terrifying. I could never have accomplished this alone. It took the help, understanding and wonderful companionship that was given so freely to me by my ex-alkie friends. This and the program of recovery embodied in the Twelve Steps. In learning to practice these steps in my daily living, I began to acquire faith and a philosophy to live by. Whole new vistas were opened up for me, new avenues of experience to be explored, and life began to take on color and interest.  c. 2001 AAWS, Big Book, p. 275 Thought to Consider . . .  The peaks and valleys of my life have become gentle rolling hills. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing

Daily Reflection   WE FORGIVE . . . Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt hey had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five hat we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 58   What a great feeling forgiveness is! What a revelation about my emotional, psychological and spiritual nature. All it takes is willingness to forgive; 5od will do the rest.

Pot Luck   Today's quotation: I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused. ~William Ellery Channing   Today's Meditation: Is your mind free?  Are you able to make the best of every situation, or at least see the best if the situation is out of your control?  Or do circumstances determine how you feel, how you react, and how you see yourself? Part of the purpose of our life experiences, I'm certain, is to help us to learn to be independent of circumstances.  Yes, things happen, and many bad things happen to us and to those we love.  But when we finally reach a point at which our own peace of mind or our own self-esteem aren't affected by what happens to and around us, then we are close to becoming the people we were meant to be.  When we constantly react to situations, the person that other people see is depending on the circumstances to define him or herself.  We should be able to define ourselves on our own terms, not on the terms of circumstance or coincidence. Yes, it is difficult.  It takes focus and effort to learn from events rather than to let them define us.  It takes courage and commitment to devote ourselves to our principles that will allow us to live freely and lovingly, and to maintain that devotion even in the face of diversity. Life flows, life moves, life changes.  Part of our task while we're here on earth is to establish ourselves as islands in the stream, islands that will stand strong no matter what the weather, islands that will withstand the torrents of any kind of weather, living a life of principles that will keep us strong no matter what life is sending by us or to us.

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