Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday April 20, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

“I’ve likened that transforming instant,

when despair gave way to a glimmer of hope, to a tiny flower sprung into bloom amid the bombed-out wreckage of my life.

Thanks to AA, that tiny bloom was to become a garden.”

~ Vancouver, British Columbia, January 1998,

"The whole of anything is never told."
—Henry James

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,

it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

~ Oscar Wilde

Only when you can accept that you are alone,

will you discover that you are not alone.

-Leonard Jacobson

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There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all.

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04/01 John B. (Stuart, FL/Greenwich, CT)…..43

04/01 Raymond D. (Spring Creek, NC)…..38

04/01 Ron F. (Cincinnati, OH)…..47

04/01 Jane C. (Lynbrook, NY)…..34

04/01 Merrie F. (Lynbrook, NY)…..34

04/01 Grady S. (Sunnyvale, CA)…..33

04/01 Brian N. (Diamondhead, MS)…..11

04/01 Joyce G. (Bradford, MA)…..36

04/01 Cary W. (Palm City, FL)…..17

04/01 Kevin B. (New Forest, UK)…..36

04/01 Michael C. (Los Angeles)…..43

04/02 Mark B. (Haiku, HI)…..3

04/03 Jennifer E. (Sarasota, FL)…..18

04/04 Tim D. (Seaforth, ON, Canada)…..13

04/05 Liz G. (San Antonio, TX)…..7

04/05 Kevin O’M. (Cape Cod, MA)…..14

04/06 John A. (Flagler Beach, FL)…..15

04/06 Nick E. (Devon, UK)…..25

04/07 Maddie M. (Groveland, MA)…..41

04/07 Al B. (Chicago, IL)…..8

04/07 Louise R. (Suffolk, UK)…..4

04/07 Norma D. (Bradford, MA)…..13

04/07 Jane T. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)…..38

04/08 Maureen K. (Morristown, NJ)…..14

04/08 Paul K. N. Canton, OH)…..20

04/08 Ashley G. (Miami, FL)…..12

04/09 Dayton H. (New York, NY)…..34

04/10 Chas T. (Aiken, SC)…..12

04/11 Chrissy M. (Vero Beach, FL/Dingman’s Ferry, PA)…..15

04/11 Diane M. (Waynesville, NC)…..16

04/11 Jeremy S. (Austin, TX)…..12

04/11 Emily W. (Astoria, Queens, NYC)…..10

04/12 Amy E. (Bend, OR)…..2

04/12 Kathleen M. (Naples, FL)…..36

04/12 Jean P. (Westport, CT)…..17

04/13 Lauren C. (NYC)…..11

04/14 Mark M. (Pinellas, Park, FL)…..39

04/14 Darlene R. (Forest City, NC) …..30

04/14 Kristine M. (N.Y.)…..1

04/14 Sue B. (Waynesville, NC)…..14

04/14 Caitlin F. (Sommerville, NJ)…..11

04/15 Erin S. (Provincetown, MA)…..19

04/17 Vince K. (Palm City, FL)…..42

04/17 Vicki M. (Waynesville, NC)…..43

04/17 Lindsey S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..1

04/17 Rich W. (Evanston, IL)…..7

04/17 Jayme (Colorado Springs, CO)…..26

04/17 Jay M. (Pepper Pike, OH)…..10

04/17 Cecily T. (Westchester, NY)…..15

04/18 Lynne S. (Jupiter, FL)…..5

04/18 Liz A. (Westfield, NJ)…..13

04/18 Tony L. (Long Beach, NY)…..9

04/19 Rex R. (Eureka, CA)…..10

04/19 Brent A. (New Rochelle, NY)…..1

4/19 Joanna J. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..43

04/19 Vickie D. (Graham, NC)…..22

04/21 Lizzy W. (The Main Line, PA)…..18

04/22 Mary D. (Evansville, IN)…..39

04/22 Leighanne L. (Jacksonville, FL)…..8

04/22 Nate S. (San Clemente, CA)…..1

04/23 Steve W. (Syracuse, NY/Indialantic, FL)…..19

04/23 Ricky C. …..26

04/25 Rourke H. (St Maarten, DWI)…..25

04/25 Jo Ellen D. (Stuart, FL)…..39

04/26 Margie W. (Waltham, MA)…..7

04/27 Angela L. (Boiling Springs, SC.)…..5

04/27 Norma D. (Bradford, MA)…..13

04/28 Laurie M. (Midcoast, ME)…..39

04/28 Julie T. (Morristown, NJ)…..11

04/30 Mike V. (Chicago, IL)…..26

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

The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that we are alcoholics and that our lives are unmanageable. Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession. Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. Yes, you've got us over the barrel, all right--but where do we go from here?"

p. 25

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is,
made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a
satisfactory and happy life. You take out of life what you
put into it. So I'd say to people coming into A.A.: "Don't
worry about what life will be like without liquor. just
hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to you.
And you'll have that feeling of quiet satisfaction and peace
and serenity and gratitude for the grace of God." Is my life
becoming really worth living?

Meditation For The Day

There are two paths, one up and one down. We have been given
free will to choose either path. We are captains of our souls
to this extent only. We can choose the good or the bad. Once
we have chosen the wrong path, we go down and down, eventually
to death. But if we choose the right path, we go up and UP,
until we come to the resurrection day. On the wrong path, we
have no power for good because we do not choose to ask for it.
But on the right path, we are on the side of good and we have
all the power of God's spirit behind us.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be in the stream of goodness. I pray that
I may be on the right side, on the side of all good in the
universe.

Daily Thought

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Promises

"We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4

Thought to Consider . . .
The Promises are a result not a right.

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Daily Reflection

SELF-EXAMINATION

. . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking

that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking

motives.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86

When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly

unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often

used to seek approval and glory for myself. By examining

my motives in all that I do, I can be of service to God and

others, helping them do what they want to do. When I put

God in charge of my thinking, much needless worry is

eliminated and I believe He guides me throughout the day.

When I eliminate thoughts of self-pity, dishonesty and self-centeredness

as soon as they enter my mind, I find peace

with God, my neighbor and myself.

Pot Luck

Good morning.

Our keynote is “Humility“.

Today’s Meditation discusses the

value of contemplating God’s great creation in sacred awe.

I have squandered many days taking God’s Magic,

of which we are each a tiny, magical part, for granted.

Two great gifts flow from contemplating God’s universe in awe.

First, it fosters humility to realize my smallness relative to God’s vast creation.

Second, awareness of the priceless miracle and blessing of being alive, conscious and sober today fills me with gratitude.

In the resulting light of humility and gratitude, I am aware that this day of human life is a greater blessing and victory than winning Powerball. My difficulties fade to nothingness.

I am then freed from myself to seek to be useful and kind to all the other little magical parts of God who walk this earth.

I️ love you all.

~Don M.

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