Your Daily Reprieve 12.22.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday December 22, 2024

Waynesville, NC

“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.”

~“Heard at Meetings,” Tukwila, Washington, July 2005, AA Grapevine

"We are all mere mortals and making mistakes

is part of living a long active life.

Yet, we still should be able to learn

from those who have come before us."

~Mike Finley

"And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain

and raise me to my feet once again

- so that I can start a new path, my own path,

the one that will make me whole again."

~Jack Canfield

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change.

I am changing the things I cannot accept.
~Angela Davis

On the Ninth Day of Christmas….

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions,

a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."

W.T. Ellis

"It is Christmas in the heart

that puts Christmas in the air.”

~Thomas Tusser

“At Christmas, play and make good cheer,

for Christmas comes but once a year.”

~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Big Book Quote

We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.

P69

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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

12/2 Louis S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..1

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

12/11 Marie T. (Ft. Myers, FL)…..30

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

12/14 Kim B. (Eureka, CA)…..33

12/14 Bob P. (Carolina, RI/Cullman, AL)…..34

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

12/17 Rob P. (Guilford, CT)…..31

12/18 Jay A. (Indianapolis, IN)…..20

12/18 Stephen O’S. (Ireland) …..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

12/21 Bridget C. …..22

12/21 Wendi P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..1

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

12/23 Ms. Lee (San Francisco, CA)…..34

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. …..34

12/26 Donna V. (Clinton, NJ)…..5

12/26 Rick J. …..7

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. (Dunnellon, FL)…..19

12/31 Karen S.(Dallas, TX)…..43

12/31Tabatha J. (Denver, NC)…..12

12/31 Larry S. (Marietta, GA)…..37

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Tradition Four - "Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole."

AUTONOMY is a ten-dollar word. But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A..A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened. Comes now the same question raised in Tradition One.. Isn't such liberty foolishly dangerous?
Over the years, every conceivable deviation from our Twelve Steps and Traditions has been tried. That was sure to be, since we are so largely a band of ego-driven individualists. Children of chaos, we have defiantly played with every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we think, wiser. These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today.

p. 146

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

As we look back over our drinking careers, we must
realize that our lives were a mess because we were a mess
inside. The trouble was in us, not in life itself. Life
itself was good enough, but we were looking at it the
wrong way. We were looking at life through the bottom of
a whiskey glass, and it was distorted. We could not see
all the beauty and goodness and purpose in the world,
because our vision was blurred. We were in a house with
one-way glass in the windows. People could see us but we
could not look out and see them and see what life meant
to them and should mean to us. We were blind then, but
now we can see. Can I now look at life as it really is?

Meditation For The Day

Fear no evil, because the power of God can conquer evil.
Evil has power to seriously hurt only those who do not
place themselves under the protection of the Higher Power.
This is not a question of feeling, it is an assured fact
of our experience. Say to yourself with assurance that
whatever it is, no evil can seriously harm you as long as
you depend on the Higher Power. Be sure of the protection
of God's grace.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that fear of evil will not get me down. I pray that
I may try to place myself today under the protection of
God's grace.

Daily Thought

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Emotional Sobriety

"If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to twelfth-step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional sobriety."
Bill. W., AA Grapevine, January 1958
c.1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 288

Thought to Consider . . .
We live life in the moment.
We understand life by looking back with the tool of gratitude.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

D E T A C H
Don't Even Think About Changing Him/Her

Daily Reflection

PRINCIPLES, NOT PERSONALITIES

The way our "worthy" alcoholics have sometimes tried to

judge the "less worthy" is, as we look back on it, rather

comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging

another!

THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 37

Who am I to judge anyone? When I first entered the

Fellowship I found that I liked everyone. After all, A.A.

was going to help me to a better way of life without

alcohol. The reality was that I couldn't possibly like

everyone, nor they me. As I've grown in the Fellowship,

I've learned to love everyone just from listening to what

they had to say. That person over there, or the one right

here, may be the one God has chosen to give me the

message I need for today. I must always remember to place

principles above personalities.

Pot Luck

Believing

When we surrender to our Higher Power, the journey began. Many of us had trouble believing that God existed when we begin our recovery program, because for years we thought we were the master of our own affairs. We paid attention to no desires or wishes but our own.

When we realize how much help we needed, we first looked to other members and our group for support. By rejecting at first the idea of a Power higher than ourselves, many of us did accept the idea of a power other than ourselves. As we have made spiritual progress, most of us now have a clear and ongoing belief in a Higher Power that we call God.

It is important to our recovery to rely on God, as our own belief in a Higher Power is what can and does save us from our addiction. Only two of the steps talk about addiction. The other ten talk about spiritual growth.

In recovery, we have a firm foundation for spiritual health and spiritual progress when we continue to believe in our Higher Power.

Stephen Beal, Editor,

Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men

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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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The avoidance of discussion about suicide

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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are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12