Your Daily Reprieve 04.09.26
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Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday April 9,
2026 From Waynesville, NC |
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ~Robert Green Ingersoll “ A man of word and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds” (thanks Phil B.) “A friend of mine told me about going to see the Statue of
Liberty on a field trip with his grammar school class. He said that as they
walked up the long spiral staircase, they all held hands in a line. He
couldn't see the person at the beginning or the end of the line but he felt
safe. He knew he was connected to the rest of his schoolmates. That's the way
it is in AA. We can't see the people at either end of the line. But we know
they're there -- and we know we're safe.” ~ Tujunga, California, December 1997, AA Grapevine "Make me sensitive to see opportunities of service." -- Tom I. |
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BIG
BOOK QUOTE We
have shown how we got out from under. You say, "Yes, I'm willing. But am
I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like
some righteous people I see? I know I must get along without liquor, but how
can I? Have you a sufficient substitute?" P152 |
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Daily Share! AA
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Bay Young People Monday
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Twenty-Four Hours
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Daily Thought
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) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Insecurity The
achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can
never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in
other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react, well or badly, as
the case may be. Only the vainglorious claim perfect freedom from fear,
though their very grandiosity is really rooted in the fears they have
temporarily forgotten. Bill W.,
January 1962 c. 1988 AA
Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 265
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
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DAILY
REFLECTIONS FREEDOM
FROM "KING ALCOHOL" . . . let
us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under
constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always
stands ready again to clutch us to him Therefore, freedom
from alcohol is the great "must" that has to be achieved,
else we go mad or die. AS BILL SEES
IT, p. 134 When
drinking, I lived in spiritual, emotional, and sometimes,
physical confinement. I had constructed my prison with
bars of self-will and self-indulgence, from which I could
not escape. Occasional dry spells that seemed to
promise freedom would turn out to be little more than hopes of
a reprieve. True escape required a willingness
to follow whatever right actions were needed to turn the
lock. With that willingness and action, both the lock and the
bars themselves opened for me. Continued willingness
and action keep me free—in a kind of extended daily
probation—that need never end. |
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POT LUCK What’s
Really Wrong Our
sickness is not that we abuse substances. Our sickness is that we suffer from
character defects that lead us to believe we can fix our lives by using
substances. I will feel better, I will feel good, I will feel that I've
really got my problems licked, I tell myself, if only… I drink some booze…. I snort some coke… I eat some food.. Then,
two or three hours later, or two or three days later, I am totally wasted,
totally wrecked, and what will I have fixed? Absolutely nothing. For two or
three hours, or two or three days, two or three week, I will have had a
fantasy that I was in power. Then I'll come to, on the floor, or on the
street or in the detox center, and how powerful will I be then? How able will
I be to control my life? We
cannot do it on our own. Just because we grow up and have sex lives and jobs
and make money and have children does not mean that we know what we're doing.
Being old enough to shave every day does not mean that we’re in charge, or
right, or invincible. Being stronger than our younger brothers and stronger
than our old fathers does not mean that we are God. We
are who we are, often jerks, often stubborn fools, often frightened little
boys. For most of us, it Is not until we are brought to our knees by our
substance abuse — by our total inability to control our using — that we
finally admit we are not in charge. When we come to the program and we
finally admit that we need help. Our
inability to ask for help, our insistence on doing it on our own, our
unwillingness to share with others — these are the root causes of our
using. Instead of asking for the help we need from others, we have used
substances that make us feel we do not need help. We have put ourselves above
the common fate of humans — needing each other — and for that violation we
have been outcast into the solitary hells of drinking ourselves blind
and drugging ourselves goofy and eating ourselves sick. Once
we come to the program we stop kidding ourselves. We stop kidding others. We
drop from our shoulders the intolerable, impossible weight of running the
world on our own. Here in the program we get down to right size, and right
habits and it's the most amazing thing in the world — because now we’re in
the world, the real world — but most things are not as bad as we made them
out to be. Most people aren't as bad as we made them out to be. Sure,
there is suffering, there is misery, there is injustice. But there's also
love, tolerance, and understanding. There are opportunities to relieve
suffering and misery, opportunities to serve justice. If we are willing to
work with our fellow humans. If we are willing to be “a friend among friends,
to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society.” If we
are willing to put our pride and our self-centeredness in the background and
work with our fellows for change, there is nothing we can't do. In time. With
love. And trust. ““What’s Really Wrong?” . Stepping Stones to Recovery
for Men (Hazelden 1992) # 37 pp. 68-71. June 12 |
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