Your Daily Reprieve 12.10.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday December 10, 2024

Waynesville, NC

"I'd rather be unhappy and know that God is with me,

than be happy, comfortable and unsure of God's presence."

~Pete Greig

Can anyone think of believing in God without trusting him?

Is it possible to trust in God for the big things like forgiveness and eternal life,

and then refuse to trust him for the little things like clothing and food?

-Oswald Hoffmann

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.

This is the secret of success.

-Swami Sivananda

To bring one’s self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy

to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously

is the one big battle that everyone has.

When this battle is won for all time,

then everything is easy.

-Thomas A. Buckner

Big Book Quote

When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?

P53

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DECEMBER 2024 Miracles

12/1 Beth S. (Conway, NH)…..29

12/1 Paula C. (Beaufort, SC)…..3

12/1 Kristen K. (No. Salem, NH)…..5

12/1 Arcy R. (Coral Gables, FL)…..22

12/1 Earle B. (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL) …..25

12/2 Rebecca R. (Dallas, TX)…..23

12/2 Richard R. (Nashville, TN) …..30

12/2 Bridget C. (Albany, NY)…..2

12/3 John S. (Middlebury, VT)…..47

12/3 Lorine McD. (Indian Harbor Beach, FL)…..5

12/4 Scott F. (Boston)…..35

12/4 Lisa B. (Trenton, MI)…..29

12/5 David M. (Costa Rica)…..17

12/5 Dave F. (Flower Mound, TX)…..43

12/5 Sophie G. (Punta Gorda)…..12

12/5 Barry L. (Wimauma, FL)…..36

12/6 Dave B. (Venice, FL)…..33

12/6 Bill M. (Gilboa, NY)…..22

12/7 Tom L. (Moorestown, NJ)…..11

12/7 Nan G. (Nantucket/Los Altos, C)…..28

12/7 Chris K. (Davidson, NC)…..1

12/7 Stepen S. (Chang Mai, Thailand)…..35

12/7 Michelle S. …..4

12/8 Kelli E. (Waynesville, NC)…..1

12/8 Brittany D. (Greensboro, NC)…..4

12/8 Elizabeth H. (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)…..31

12/8 Problem Ed B. (Lawrenceville, NJ)…..23

12/09 Heidi H. (Nantucket)…..3

12/10 Gypsy Paul K. (Nantucket/Anguilla)…..18

12/10 Robin T. (Orange Park, FL)…..11

12/10 Wendell M. (Bothell, WA)…..11

12/10 Kathy R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..14

12/10 Peter D. (Dallas, TX)….4

12/10 Jonathan S. (Oldsmar, FL)…..19

12/12 Rich H. (Hanover, PA)…..41

12/12 Virginia M. (Seminole, FL)…..26

121/13 Tom O. (Milwaukee, WI)…..18

12/13 Ed M. (Cinnaminson, NJ)…..16

12/14 Linda M. (Salem, NH)…..12

12/15 John M. (Paros, Greece)…..22

12/15 Carrie F. (Selinsgrove, PA)…..20

12/15 Steve S. (Garnerville, NY)…..41

12/16 Jim J. (NYC, NY)…..51

12/16 Mike S. (Wake Forest, NC)…..8

12/16 Jorge B. (Houston, TX)…..4

12/16 Susan G. (Stamford, CT)…..14

12/18 Jay A. (Indianapolis, IN)…..20

12/18 Stephen O’S. …..29

12/19 Kathleen S. …..44

12/19 Brian K. ……13

12/20 Caroline M. (Novato, CA)…..40

12/20 Timothy B. (St. John’s County, FL)…..4

12/20 Lory W. (Winchester, UK)…..24

12/20 Cathy B. (Princeton, NJ)…..20

12/21 Scott G. (Waterford, CT)…..8

12/21 Deb S. (North Hampton, NH)…..34

12/22 Bob O. (Stuart, FL)…..30

12/22 Jeannine L. (Montpelier, France)…..10

12/22 Dick M. (New York City)…..47

12/23 Pete G. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..44

12/24 Parker (Austin, TX)…..9

12/25 Sharon G. (Palos Heights, IL)…..19

12/25 Lydia B. …..21

12/26 Chick R. (Oak Forest)…..27

12/26 Trish C. …..334

12/28 Pat A. (Grand Rapids, MI)…..29

12/28 Chris A. (Stamford, CT)…..7

12/28 Johanna T. (Cobleskill, NY)…..24

12/30 Rufus W. (Coppell, TX) …..51

12/31 Jay T. (Nashville, TN)…..19

12/31 Victoria S. (Dunellon, FL)…..19

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12&12

Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."

As group after group saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned all membership regulations. One dramatic experience after another clinched this determination until it became our universal tradition. Here are two examples:On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two. In that time nothing could be seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light.

p. 141

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Our drinking fellowship was a substitute one, for lack of
something better. At the time, we did not realize what
real fellowship could be. Drinking fellowship has a fatal
fault. It is not based on a firm foundation. Most of it
is on the surface. It is based mostly on the desire to use
your companions for your own pleasure and using others is
a false foundation. Drinking fellowship has been praised
in song and story. The "cup that cheers" has become famous
as a means of companionship. But we realize that the higher
centers of our brains are dulled by alcohol and such
fellowship cannot be on the highest plane. It is at best
only a substitute. Do I see my drinking fellowship in its proper
light?

Meditation For The Day

Set for yourself the task of growing daily more and more
into the consciousness of a Higher Power. We must keep
trying to improve our conscious contact with God. This is
done by prayer, quiet times, and communion. Often all you
need to do is sit silent before God and let Him speak to
you through your thought. Try to think God's thoughts after
Him. When the guidance comes, you must not hesitate, but go
out and follow that guidance in your daily work, doing what
you believe to be the right thing.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be still and know God is with me. I pray
that I may open my mind to the leading of Divine Mind.

Daily Thought

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"Sobriety and a plan for living that produces a personality change and a spiritual awakening are imperative. Through A.A., many receive the needed change and awakening just by trying to live by A.A. principles and associating with A.A. people. We do this by going to many A.A. meetings with an open mind and a desire to live the good-feeling life without chemicals - liquid or otherwise."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 459

Thought to Consider . . .
The ankle-biters of everyday struggles will eat away at me unless I go to meetings and call my sponsor.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

H O P E
Hearing Other Peoples' Experience

Daily Reflection

CARRYING THE MESSAGE

Now, what about the rest of the Twelfth Step? The

wonderful energy it releases and the eager action by which

it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic and

which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon

all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of

Alcoholics Anonymous.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 109

To renounce the alcoholic world is not to abandon it, but to

act upon principles I have come to love and cherish, and to

restore in others who still suffer the serenity I have come to

know. When I am truly committed to this purpose, it

matters little what clothes I wear or how I make a living.

My task is to carry the message, and to lead by example,

not design.

Pot Luck

Father Leo's Daily Meditation

POWER

"The measure of man is what he

does with power."

--Pittacus

With my recovery has come a certain success, and with the success

comes power. Power comes with the spiritual program, but it must be

exercised responsibly. Just as the disease used alcohol to destroy my

life, so it can use power to destroy me in sobriety. Power is a

doubled-edged sword that has led many back to drinking. Certainly an

abuse of power is not consistent with sobriety.

Today I am respectful of power because I know it can lead to an

inflated ego or an arrogant personality that continues to destroy the

quality of life. Today I surround myself with friends who will remind

me of my roots.

Teach me not to use my White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heritage to

belittle or patronize those from minority groups.

Teach me to exercise power responsibly.

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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

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There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
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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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