Your Daily Reprieve 10.30.24
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Your Daily
Reprieve for Wednesday October 30, 2024 From Waynesville, NC |
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You had better live your
best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure
preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows
that follow. 'Cease to inquire what the
future has in store, and take as a gift whatever
the day brings forth.' ~Horace Society trains us to be
better than, our program teaches us to
be better for. Heard in the meeting. There may be difficulty at
the moment, but I will not lose the
Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow
are on them that we see the strength of
the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this
trouble around me, because it gives me an
opportunity to realize how fortunate I am. |
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Big Book Quote When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us! P57 |
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Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day JANIS F. Pacific Group Speakers 06.06.94 |
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12&12 Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the
result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to
practice these principles in all our affairs." |
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Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day My drinking companions could hardly be called
my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest
kind of Friends are no longer people whom I can Friends are now people who understand me and I
them, I have learned not to hold back and wait for
friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way,
openly and A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait
with patience. We can believe that all our life is a
preparation for We can believe that God has a plan for our
lives and that
this plan will work out in the fullness of time. I pray that I may not expect things |
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Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\
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\(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Defiance "As psychiatrists have often
observed, defiance is the outstanding characteristic of many an alcoholic . .
. When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no
time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him
what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too.
Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A. we saw the fruits of this
belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe." Thought to Consider . . . God wants
spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. *~*AACRONYMS*~* B I G B O O K
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Daily Reflection LIVE
AND LET LIVE Never since it began has
Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major
controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly
taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This,
however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said
that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't argue
these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall
publicly." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 176 Do I remember that I have
a right to my opinion but that others don't have to share
it? That's the spirit of "Live and Let Live." The
Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God's help, to "Accept the
things I cannot change." Am I still trying to change others?
When it comes to "Courage to change the things I
can," do I remember that my opinions are mine, and yours are
yours? Am I still afraid to be me? When it comes to
"Wisdom to know the difference," do I remember that my opinions
come from my experience? If I have a know-it-all
attitude, aren't I being deliberately controversial? |
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Pot Luck
The Paradoxes From: "The Professor and the
Paradox" We
SURRENDER TO WIN. On the face of it, surrendering certainly does not seem
like winning. But it is in A.A. Only after we have come to the end of our
rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no
further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we
accomplish sobriety which we could never accomplish before. We must, and we
do, surrender in order to win. We
GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if
you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in A.A., we must
go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When
we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in A.A., we had
better get ready for our next "drunk." It will happen every time.
We've got to continue to give it away in order to keep it. We
SUFFER TO GET WELL. There is no way to escape the terrible suffering of
remorse and regret and shame and embarrassment which starts us on the road to
getting well from our affliction. There is no new way to shake out a
hangover. It's painful. And for us, necessarily so. I told this to a friend
of mine as he sat weaving to and fro on the side of the bed, in terrible
shape, about to die for some paraldehyde. I said, "Lost John" -
that's his nickname - "Lost John, you know you're going to have to do a
certain amount of shaking sooner or later." "Well," he said,
"for God's sake let's make it later!" We suffer to get well. We
DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of
being "born again" or "losing one's life to find it".
When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy
thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a
different and a better way of life. As our shortcomings are removed, one life
of us dies, and another life of us lives. We in A.A. die to live.
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