Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday April 25, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

Mindfulness is simply being aware

of what is happening right now

without wishing it were different;

enjoying the pleasant without holding on

when it changes (which it will);

being with the unpleasant without fearing

it will always be this way (which it won't).
~James Baraz

God might grant us riches, honors, long life and health,

but many times to our own hurt:

for whatsoever is pleasing to us, is not always healthful for us.

-Michel de Montaigne

One of the paradoxes of our time is

that we have more power at our disposal than ever before,

and yet we seem more powerless than ever.

-Ralph W. Sockman

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for

that determines our success or failure.

--Norman Vincent Peale

“An old-timer once told me that he believed

that AA was a great leveler:

When you’re up high, your friends help bring you down a little bit.

When you’re down low, they help bring you up a little bit.”

~ New York, New York, February 2001

Big Book Quote

What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.

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Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.

p. 33

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A.A. Thought For The Day

I don't believe that A.A. works because I read it in a book
or because I hear people say so. I believe it because I see
people getting sober and staying sober. An actual demonstration
is what convinces me. When I see the change in people, I can't
help believing that A.A. works. We could listen to talk about
A.A. all day and still not believe it, but when we see it work,
we have to believe it. Seeing is believing. Do I see A.A. work
every day?

Meditation For The Day

Try saying "God bless her (or him)" of anyone who is in
disharmony with you. Also say it of those who are in trouble
through their own fault. Say it, willing that showers of
blessings may fall upon them. Let God do the blessing. Leave
to God the necessary correcting or disciplining. You should
only desire blessing for them. Leave God's work to God. Occupy
yourself with the task that He gives you to do. God's blessing
will also break down all your own difficulties and build up all
your successes.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may use God's goodness so that it will be a
blessing to others. I pray that I may accept God's blessing so
that I will have harmony, beauty, joy, and happiness.

Daily Thought

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Fear

"We have had a much keener look at ourselves and those about us. We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears and anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership. So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coin marked 'Fear.' We simply had to be Number One people to cover up our deep-lying inferiorities."
1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 123

Thought to Consider . . .
Situations I fear are rarely as bad as the fear itself.

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F E A R
Frantic Efforts to Appear Recovered

Daily Reflection

ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION

In the late stages of our drinking the will to resist has fled.

Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become

entirely ready to try A. A. principles, our obsession leaves

us and we enter a new dimension—freedom under God as

we understand Him.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283

I am fortunate to be among the ones who have had this

awesome transformation in my life. When I entered the

doors of A.A., alone and desperate, I had been beaten into

willingness to believe anything I heard. One of the things I

heard was, "This could be your last hangover, or you can

keep going round and round." The man who said this

obviously was a whole lot better off than 1.1 liked the idea

of admitting defeat and I have been free ever since! My

heart heard what my mind never could: "Being powerless

over alcohol is no big deal." I'm free and I'm grateful!

Pot Luck

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions-- not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.
~Rollo May

Today's Meditation:

What do I believe, and what do I believe in? These aren't questions that are covered in school, usually. They aren't questions that we tend to be asked in job interviews or in casual conversation. Many people think that their beliefs are limited to religion-- that their own personal ideas of what God is or isn't form the core of their belief systems. Many others adopt the beliefs of other people-- especially religious leaders-- as their own, as they seem to be unable to develop their own core beliefs and live by them.

Rollo is talking about living by our beliefs, but it's important that we have beliefs first. It's important that we recognize them and value them for what they are, and then put them into practice in our lives. If I believe that criticizing others in a negative way is bad, then not only must I not do that, but I have to state my beliefs when I see other people doing so. I don't have to attack them or tell them they're wrong or make them feel bad-- after all, I may be wrong in my interpretation of a situation-- but I do have to stand up for my convictions while respecting the fact that other people have other sets of convictions.

Today I must pay attention to what I see going on around me, and I have to be aware of how things fit with or contradict my convictions. I must see these things because our convictions always are a work in progress, and I can't refine them and allow them to evolve if I don't pay attention to them. Other people don't have to live their lives according to my convictions or beliefs, but if I don't live my own life according to them, then my life becomes much less rich, much less full, and I have only my own inattention to my beliefs to blame.

Perfect courage is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
~La Rochefoucauld

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