Your Daily Reprieve 07.17.26

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday  July 17, 2024   From Waynesville, NC

“The Steps will speak to my condition wherever I am in sobriety.” Riverside, Ill., August 1977, “Turning On the Power”, Spiritual Awakenings   “I realized that it is possible to believe in a Higher Power, in the efficacy of prayer and meditation, in making a conscious contact with a Higher Power as those concepts, privately understood – or not understood – are suggested in AA, without the loss of one iota of my precious identity.” ~New York, N.Y., September 1977   "For we are human, weak and prone to wrong, And by Thy Grace alone are we made strong." ~ Henry Coyle, Thankful Heart     Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.  ~Leo Buscaglia

Big Book Quote   “We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets.”   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, p.124

Daily Share!   AA Speaker of the Day   WAYNE BUTLER 13th Rocky Mountain Rndp. Ogden, UT 1998   https://bit.ly/4vrHCBU

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12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory. Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people--people who really need a moral inventory. We firmly believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right. Therefore we think our indignation is justified and reasonable--that our resentments are the "right kind." We aren't the guilty ones. They are! pp. 45-46

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day The new life of sobriety that we are learning to live in A.A. is slowly growing on us and we are beginning to get some of that deep peace of mind and serenity that we never thought were possible. At first we may have doubted that this could happen to us, but after any considerable length of time in A.A., looking at the happy faces around us, we know that somehow it is happening to us . In fact, it cannot help happening to anyone who takes the A.A. program seriously day by day. Can I see my own happiness reflected in the faces of others? Meditation for the Day God does not withhold His presence from you. He does not refuse to reveal more of His truth to you. He does not hold back His spirit from you. He does not withhold the strength that you need. His presence, His truth, His spirit, His strength are always immediately available to you, whenever you are fully willing to receive them. But they may be blocked off by selfishness, intellectual pride, fear, greed, and materialism. We must try to get rid of these blocks and let God's spirit come in. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may remove all blocks that are keeping me from God. I pray that I may let God come into my life with power.

Daily Thought *^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \ (AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Meditation "Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. We no longer live in a completely hostile world. We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless. We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter." Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 105 As Bill Sees It, p. 117 Thought to Consider . . . Prayer is asking a question; meditation is listening to the answer. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P R I D E Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything

Daily Reflection   “A MEASURE OF HUMILITY” In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain. — TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 75 It was painful to give up trying to control my life, even though success eluded me, and when life got too rough, I drank to escape. Accepting life on life’s terms will be mastered through the humility I experience when I turn my will and my life over to the care of God, as I understand Him. With my life in God’s care, fear, uncertainty, and anger are no longer my response to those portions of life that I would rather not have happen to me. The pain of living through these times will be healed by the knowledge that I have received the spiritual strength to survive.

Pot Luck   Walk in Dry Places Selfish is always wrong Inventory   It’s unfortunate that members sometimes refer to working the Twelve steps as a SELFISH program. If selfishness is considered a human shortcoming, why should we describe our wonderful program as selfish?   What we’re really trying to say, it seems, is that our true self-interest lies in the direction of helping others and sharing our experience and strength with them. To do this is to lose the “bondage of self” that is so destructive in the life of every compulsive person.   In this process, we’ll probably also discover that too much self-concern has made us unhappy and ill. Selfish, we’re likely to learn, is always bad.   When people say that ours is a selfish program, they really intend to convey the idea that it’s a “self-improvement” program. It’s our concern about others that leads to the higher forms of self-improvement.   Though exercising prudence and good judgment, I’ll take a healthy interest in helping others and sharing with them today. I know that my Higher Power will be with me in all my actions.

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