Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 03.22.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday March 22, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
~Don Miguel Ruiz

“All of us in AA have a right to our own opinion, even if that opinion is that somebody else’s opinion is not as good as ours ... The whole structure of AA is based on a democratic spirit. There are no bosses or gurus.”

~Grapevine: West Springfield, Mass., June 2002

All the kindness which a person puts out into the world

works on the heart and thoughts of humankind.
~Albert Schweitzer

“I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ...

How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!”
― Henry Drummond

Big Book Quote

If we have carefully followed directions,

we have begun to sense the flow of His Spirit into us.

To some extent we have become God-conscious.

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03/01 Rich W. (Astoria, NY)…..9

03/01 John G. (Fox Point, WI)…..11

03/02 Biancy M. (Cincinnati, OH)…..36

03/02 Liz C. (White Plains/WPB)…..15

03/03 Tainter C. (Dover, NH)…..7

03/03 Craig K. …..3

03.03 Ron H. (SanDiego, CA)…..41

03/03 Mike G. (Long Island, NY)…..1

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03/04 Adam L. (UWS, NYC/SOMA, NJ)…..10

03/04 Wayne S. (Danvers, MA)…..2

03/04 Nick D. (Chicago, IL)…..1

03/05 Tom M. (Waynesville, NC)…..30

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03/09 Stuart C. (Miami Beach, FL)…..37

03/09 Andy W. (Barnegat, NJ)…..37

03/10 Faith M. (Rosemary Beach, FL)…..1

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03/11 John M. (Dingman’s Ferry, PA/Vero Beach, FL)…..15

3/12 Ned W. (Melbourne, FL)…..27

03/12 Sean S. (Punta Gorda/Port Charlotte, FL)…..2

03/12 Margot S. (Eastham, Cape Cod, MA)…..35

03/13 Matt H. (Huntersville, NC)…..37

03/13 Tom V. (Morris Plains, NJ)…..17

03/15 Ralph E. (New Rochelle, NY)…..20

03/16 Deborah B. (Amelia Island, FL)…..33

03/17 Tortola Dan (Indialantic, FL)…..45

03/17 Anna D. (Lewes, DE)…..5

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03/20 Tim G. (York, ME)…..2

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3/21 Johnetta W. (Amelia Island, FL)…..16

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03/26 Fred H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..48

03/27 Mo (Danvers, MA)…..26

03/28 Steve S. (Summit, NJ)…..14

03/28 Michelle E. (Palm, Coast, FL)…..5

03/28 Terry A. (Nashville, TN)…..9

03/28 Christian B. (Wycoff, NJ) …..8

03/29 Pat H. (Young Harris, GA)…..55

03/29 Karye L. (Ash Fork, AZ)…..5

03/29 Robin S. (New York, NY)…..31

03/30 Joe S. (Paris, Fr.)…..1

03/30 Wendy B. (Wanaque, NJ)…..34

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Foreword

Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker. Both were severe cases of alcoholism and were destined to become co-founders of the A.A. Fellowship.

p. 16

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

We're all looking for the power to overcome drinking. A
fellow comes into A.A. and his first question is: How do
I get the strength to quit? At first, it seems to him that
he will never get the necessary strength. He sees older
members who have found the power he is looking for, but he
doesn't know the process by which they got it. This
necessary strength comes in many ways. Have I found all the
strength I need?

Meditation For The Day

You cannot have a spiritual need which God cannot supply.
Your fundamental need is a spiritual need, the need of
power to lead the good life. The best spiritual supply is
received by you when you want it to pass on to other
people. You get it largely by giving it away. God gives
you strength as you pass it on to another person. That
strength means increased health; increased health means
more good work, and more good work means more people
helped. And so it goes on, a constant supply to meet all
spiritual needs.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that my every spiritual need will be supplied by
God. I pray that I may use the power I receive to help
others.

Daily Thought

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Humility

"Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public. As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe that each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may grow and work in unity. We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have."
c.1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 187

Thought to Consider . . .
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,

but thinking of yourself less.

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R I D
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Daily Reflection

NO MORE STRUGGLE. . .

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone— even

alcohol.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

When A.A. found me, I thought I was in for a struggle, and

that A.A. might provide the strength I needed to beat

alcohol. Victorious in that fight, who knows what other

battles I could win. I would need to be strong, though. All

my previous experience with life proved that. Today I do

not have to struggle or exert my will. If I take those Twelve

Steps and let my Higher Power do the real work, my

alcohol problem disappears all by itself. My living

problems also cease to be struggles. I just have to ask

whether acceptance—or change—is required. It is not my

will, but His, that needs doing.

Pot Luck

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

~~Sir Henry Taylor

We are no longer in doubt about the right action to take towards others. The program’s Steps clarify what is appropriate behavior. Thus we know that doing any injury — physical or emotional — to other people harms us as well as them.

One of the rewards of recovery is being free to live without guilt. Name-calling, harmful gossip, intentional put-downs, hateful rejections no longer provide the perverse pleasure of years gone by. We now recognize the subtle joy of sincere and loving efforts. We find this joy in calling a friend who is faced with a painful decision, picking up groceries for an elderly neighbor, extending our friendship to a new person at work. We no longer need the fear of what others will think to curb our spiteful actions.

Our conscience may still guide our actions at times, but as we grow in our recovery, we begin to intuitively know what keeps us on track and in sync with God.

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I will follow my God-given intuition today.

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