Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.06.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday April 6, 2024

From Ponte Vedra, FL

"Laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much,

and the Old Ones say that

one of the greatest healing powers in our life

is the ability to laugh."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA

“I have discovered a new way to learn

– by shutting my mouth and listening ...

It’s not so much what I’m doing as what I’m not doing.

I’m not talking. So I’m open; I’m teachable.”

~Houston, Texas, June 1976

At the end of the day,

we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo

Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air.
Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings
to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive
than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankful-
ness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better
than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow
on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped
forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most
ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing
God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.
~-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Big Book Quote

Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. If you persist, remarkable things will happen. P100

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

P83

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Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which finally reached the public in April 1939. At this time the recoveries numbered about one hundred. The book was called "Alcoholics Anonymous," and from it the Fellowship took its name. In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear. The remainder of the book was devoted to thirty stories or case histories in which the alcoholics described their drinking experiences and recoveries. This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible. The book "Alcoholics Anonymous" became the basic text of the Fellowship, and it still is. This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first was written in the earlier work.

p. 17

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to
escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or
inferiority, or because of some emotional conflict within
them, so that they cannot adjust themselves to life.
Alcoholics cannot stop drinking unless they find a way to
solve their personality problems. That's why going on the
wagon doesn't solve anything. That's why taking the pledge
usually doesn't work. Was my personality problem ever
solved by going on the wagon or taking the pledge?

Meditation For The Day

God irradiates your life with the warmth of His spirit.
You must open up like a flower to this divine irradiation.
Loosen your hold on earth, its cares, and its worries.
Unclasp your hold on material things, relax your grip, and
the tide of peace and serenity will flow in. Relinquish
every material thing and receive it back again from God.
Do not hold on to earth's treasures so firmly that your
hands are too occupied to clasp God's hands as He holds
them out to you in love.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be open to receive God's blessing.
I pray that I may be willing to relinquish my hold on
material things and receive them back from God.

Daily Thought

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Sanity

"My actions drunk or sober, before A.A., were not those of a sane person. My desire to be honest with myself made it necessary for me to realize that my drinking was irrational. It had to be, or I could not have justified my erratic behavior as I did. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: 'rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 550-551

Thought to Consider . . .
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F A I T H
Facing All In Trusting Him

Daily Reflection

A LIFETIME PROCESS

We were having trouble with personal relationships, we

couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to

misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a

feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were

unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other

people. . . .

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52

These words remind me that I have more problems than

alcohol, that alcohol is only a symptom of a more pervasive

disease. When I stopped drinking I began a lifetime process

of recovery from unruly emotions, painful relationships, and

unmanageable situations. This process is too much for most

of us without help from a Higher Power and our friends in

the Fellowship. When I began working the Steps of the A.A.

program, many of these tangled threads unraveled but, little

by little, the most broken places of my life straightened out.

One day at a time, almost imperceptibly, I healed. Like a

thermostat being turned down, my fears diminished. I began

to experience moments of contentment. My emotions

became less volatile. I am now once again a part of the

human family.

Pot Luck

"Those who laugh—last."

I remember hearing the phrase “We are not a glum lot” when I was new in recovery. But I didn’t believe it. I mean, here I was sentenced to attend meetings, prohibited from partying, and forced to develop a faith in God. Things looked pretty glum to me. If it wasn’t for the laughter I heard in the rooms, I may not have stuck around.

At first, I couldn’t understand what they found so funny. People would share embarrassing, demoralizing, and even tragic experiences, and the room would burst into laughter. Some of the things they shared I wouldn’t even admit to myself. “I don’t get it,” I finally said to my sponsor. “Those who can laugh at themselves tend to last,” he told me. It took a while, but I sure did find that to be true.

One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in recovery is not to take myself so seriously. Once I cleared away the wreckage of my past, I was free. Today, I allow myself to make mistakes, and if I step on someone’s toes, I’m quick to make amends. Because of this, my life is lighter today, and I find it easy to laugh at myself. This not only makes the journey more enjoyable, but it’s what’s made it last so long, too.

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