Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily reprieve 03.31.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday March 31, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

Happy Easter Everyone!

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair.

We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
~John Paul II

My Personal Easter

3.5.94

Restored to Life

~Tom M.

Easter spells out beauty,

the rare beauty of new life.

~S.D. Gordon

Spread hope, faith and love all around you this Easter. Have a Happy Easter. Easter is God’s blessing to the world. It is his way of telling us that, love and hope still exists in the world.

May you have a learned Easter.

~Unknown

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible,

to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life,

the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

~Anne Lamott

The story of Easter is the story

of God's wonderful window of divine surprise.

~Carl Knudsen

Big Book Quote

If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness

which only a spiritual experience will conquer.

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MARCH 2024 Miracles

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

03/03 Kelly T. (Newmarket, NH)…..33

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

03/06 Johnny G.(New Haven, CT)…..3

03/06 Nora M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..6

03/07 Patti B. (Fort McMurray, Alberta)…..14

03/07 George (Milwaukee)…..16

03/07 Adam S. (Tampa, FL)…..7

03/07 Diane C. (Marin County, CA)…..50

03/07 Dave G. (Vancouver, Canada)…..21

03/09 Patti K. (Baiting Hollow, NY)…..40

03/09 Danny S. (Narragansett, RI)…..24

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

03/09 Andy W. (Barnegat, NJ)…..37

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

03/10 Creed A. (Salt Lake City, UT)…..16

03/10 Carla D. (Los Angeles, CA)…..35

03/10 Robert H. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..

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

3/18 Pete C. (Hypoluxo, FL)…..26

03/19 Mike B. (Purchase, NY)…..24

03/19 Love G. (Charlotte, NC)…..2

03/20 Janet D. (Camden County, GA)…..12

03/20 Steven J. (Woodruff, WI)…..31

03/20 Tim G. (York, ME)…..2

03/20 Michele O. (Los Angeles, CA)…..25

03/21 Pamela B. (Clinton, NJ)…..41

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

03/21 Kate A. (Nyack, NY/Stuart, FL)…..36

03/21 Norm A. (Boston/Miami)…..35

03/21 Audrey S. (Orleans, MA) …..25

03/22 Sally S. (SC/Nantucket)…..36

03/22 Tawny W. …..2

03/24 Amy B-S. (NY, NY)…..36

0/25 Frankie Always McG. …..10

03/25 Buffy H. (Gambier, OH)…..32

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

03/30 Susan M. …..1

03/31 Loretta H. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..16

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Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete.

p. 21

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward being more
unselfish? Do I no longer want my own way in everything? When things
go wrong and I can't have what I want, do I no longer sulk? Am I
trying not to waste money on myself? And does it make me happy to see
my family and my home have enough attention from me? Am I trying not
to be all "get" and no "give"?

Meditation For The Day

Each day is a day of progress, steady progress forward, if you make it
so. You may not see it, but God does. God does not judge by outward
appearance. He judges by the heart. Let Him see in your heart a simple
desire always to do His will. Though you may feel that your work has
been spoiled or tarnished, God sees it as an offering for Him. When
climbing a steep hill, people are often more conscious of the weakness of
their stumbling feet than of the view, the grandeur, or even of the
upward progress.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may persevere in all good things. I pray that I may advance
each day in spite of my stumbling feet.

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"Many people wonder how A.A. can function under such a seeming anarchy. Other societies have to have law and force and sanction and punishment, administered by authorized people. Happily for us, we found we need no human authority whatever. We have two authorities which are far more effective. One is benign, the other malign. There is God, our Father, who very simply says, 'I am waiting for you to do my will.' The other authority is named John Barleycorn, and he says, 'You had better do God's will or I will kill you.' And sometimes he does kill. So, when all the chips are down, we conform to God's will or perish. At this level, the death sentence hangs over the A.A. member, his group, and A.A. as a whole."
Bill W., St. Louis, July 1955
c. 1957 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 105

Thought to Consider . . .
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.

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Daily Reflection

NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE

On the A. A. calendar it was Year Two. . . . A newcomer

appeared at one of these groups. . . . He soon proved that

his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to

get well . . . [He said], "Since I am the victim of another

addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may

not want me among you."

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 141-42

I came to you—a wife, mother, woman who had walked out

on her husband, children, family. I was a drunk, a pill-head,

a nothing. Yet no one denied me love, caring, a sense of

belonging. Today, by God's grace and the love of a good

sponsor and a home group, I can say that—through you in

Alcoholics Anonymous—I am a wife, a mother, a

grandmother and a woman. Sober. Free of pills. Responsible.

Without a Higher Power I found in the Fellowship, my

life would be meaningless. I am full of gratitude to be a

member of good standing in Alcoholics Anonymous.

POT LUCK

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

~ Ben Hecht

We can't hold on to time. Right now is the only time we have. It Is the only time we can enjoy the season, hear a child’s laughter, feel the joy of sharing. This time, right now, is the time to learn something, and it is a time for us to know God.

Time is always moving on, but we can stay in the present. To look back over our shoulder, trying to figure out how to change something we did, or make someone react differently than he or she did, this Is futile. When we look ahead, trying to predict the future, we are creating needless anxiety. The present is where we exist.

God speaks to us in the present. The only time we have to make a connection.

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Today I will try to live in the present moment.

Carey and Pyle, Homer, In God’s Care

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