Your Daily Reprieve 09.26.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday September 26, 2024

 

From Waynesville, NC

 

 

Life is not mean, it is grand; i

f it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. 

God made it glorious.  It is paved with diamonds;

 its banks He fringed with flowers. 

He overarched it with stars. 

Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe

—suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems—

all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude,

and grand in order and obedience. 

God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur

if it did not mean something.    

-Orison Swett Marden

 

 

"A highly developed value system is like a compass.

It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost"

~Idowu Koyenican

 

 

" Regardless of what you lose or the challenges you face,

you will never lose the power to make decisions"

~Jacinta Mpalyenkana

 

 

“I am learning how to cope with life,

people, and situations, not as I want them to be,

but as they really are.”

~Millburn, New Jersey, July 1971

 

 

One day you will understand why,

and you will thank God for it.

 

 

 

Big Book Quote

 

Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia.

We have it with us right here and now.

 

P16

 

 

 

 

Daily Share!

 

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CHARLIE V

Pacific Group Speakers

07.06.1988

 

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09/01 Billy K. (Vero Beach, FL)…..24

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09/29 Sinead G. (West Midlands, UK)…..14

09/29 Mike C. …..22

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12&12

 

Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."

We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."

pp. 104-105

 

 

Twenty-Four Hours

 


A.A. Thought For The Day

Continuing the consideration of the term "spiritual experience":
"The acquiring of an immediate and overwhelming God-consciousness,
resulting in a dramatic transformation, though frequent, is by
no means the rule. Most of our spiritual experiences are of the
educational variety, and they develop slowly over a period of
time. Quite often friends of newcomers are aware of the
difference long before they are themselves. They finally
realize that they have undergone a profound alteration in
their reaction to life and that such a change could hardly have
been brought about by themselves alone." Is my outlook on
life changing for the better?

Meditation For The Day

Look at the world as your Father's house. Think of all people
you meet as guests in you Father's house, to be treated with
love and consideration. Look at yourself as a servant in your
father's house, as a servant of all. Think of no work as beneath
you. Be ever ready to do all you can for others who need your
help. There is gladness in God's service. There is much
satisfaction in serving the highest that you know. Express your
love for God in service to all who are living with you in your
Father's house.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may serve others out of gratitude to God.
I pray that my work may be a small repayment for His grace
so freely given me

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Thought


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Belief

"Despite contrary indications, I had little doubt that a mighty purpose and rhythm underlay all. How could there be so much of precise and immutable law, and no intelligence? I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation."
Bill W.
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 10

Thought to Consider . . .
F
aith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A B C
Acceptance, Belief, Change

 



Daily Reflection

 

 

OUR CHILDREN

The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly

relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he

is a new man and in their own way they will let him know

it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid.

Marvelous results often follow such a reunion.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 134

 

While on the road to recovery I received a gift that could

not be purchased. It was a card from my son in college,

saying, "Dad, you can't imagine how glad I am that

everything is okay. Happy Birthday, I love you." My son

had told me that he loved me before. It had been during the

previous Christmas holidays, when he had said to me,

while crying, "Dad, I love you! Can't you see what you're

doing to yourself?" I couldn't. Choked with emotion, I had

cried, but this time, when I received my son's card, my tears

were tears of joy, not desperation.

 

 

Pot Luck

 

 

 

 

"Discomfort is required for change."

 

I don’t like to be uncomfortable, and for a long time I drank a lot to avoid feeling that way. When I had stress at work, I’d drink as soon as I got off. When relationships got complicated, I drank before, during, and after interactions. After a while, my solution—drinking—made my life unmanageable, so I drank even more. Finally, when I was forced to admit my solution was no longer working, I grew so unhappy that I was willing to change. And that’s when I entered recovery.


Once in the program, I was very uncomfortable again. I wasn’t familiar with how meetings went, didn’t know anyone, and the feelings that were bubbling to the surface made staying sober nearly impossible. Plus, my sponsor was suggesting many actions that made me even more uncomfortable, like sitting in the front of the room. He said, “Sit up front in recovery row, instead of at the back in denial aisle.” He also suggested I take commitments, go out to fellowship, and write a First Step inventory. What had I gotten myself into?


Because I couldn’t imagine a life of drinking anymore, I was willing to follow his direction. As I did, something magical happened: I began to feel better. I soon learned that feeling uncomfortable doesn’t last, as long as I’m willing to take action. I also learned that I wouldn’t be willing to take the actions unless I was motivated by discomfort. In this way, I have come to see anxious feelings, negative thoughts, and old fears as merely signals that change is needed. I honor these feelings today and get into action to make the changes required for my life to get better.

 

 

 

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Committee Consideration

from the 73rd General Service Conference

In response to a Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference

regarding any possible future changes to literature written by A.A.’s founders,

 that committee agreed it would be beneficial to gather shared experience

from the Fellowship regarding this topic.

Questionaire

 

How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?

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DR. PAUL O.
There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
(Audio Book)

Introduction
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Part I
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Part II
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AA CDs Literature and tapes
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AA World Service Board Meeting Highlights

October 2023

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Bill Schaberg

Writing The Big Book

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OUR MISSION

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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

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**Podcasts**

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12 Step Meditations

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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

 

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