Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.11.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday April 11, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain and bitter,

for always there will be greater and lesser

persons than yourself.

-Max Ehrmann

I cannot say this too strongly:

Do not compare yourselves to others.

Be true to who you are,

and continue to learn with all your might.

-Daisaku Ikeda

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments

when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

― Thornton Wilder

Hope is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right;

it is believing you have the will and the way

to accomplish your goals.
~Daniel Goleman

Big Book Quote

We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.

P46

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

Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us.

p. 21

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A.A. Thought For The Day

In that alcoholic world, one drink always leads to another and you
can't stop till you're paralyzed. And the next morning it begins all over
again. You eventually land in a hospital or jail. You lose your job. Your
home is broken up. You're always in a mess. You're on the
merry-go-round and you can't get off. You're in a squirrel cage and
you can't get out. Am I convinced that the alcoholic world is not a
pleasant place for me to live in?

Meditation For The Day

I must learn to accept self-discipline. I must try never to yield one
point that I have already won. I must not let myself go in resentments,
hates, fears, pride, lust, or gossip. Even if the discipline keeps me
separated from some people who are without discipline, nevertheless I
will carry on. I may have different ways and a different standard of
living than some others. I may be actuated by different motives than some
people. But I will try to live the way I believe God wants me to live, no
matter what others say.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be an example to others of a better way of living. I
pray that I may carry on in spite of hindrances.

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"No matter how much one wishes to try, how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? A beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed. Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock, and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more."
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 122

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Daily Reflection

A WORD TO DROP: "BLAME"

To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long

time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only

slowly in ourselves First of all, we had to admit that we had

many of these defects, even though such disclosures were

painful and humiliating. Where other people were

concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our

speech and thought

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47

When I did my Fourth Step, following the Big Book

guidelines, I noticed that my grudge list was filled with my

prejudices and my blaming others for my not being able to

succeed and to live up to my potential. I also discovered I

felt different because I was black. As I continued to work

on the Step, I learned that I always had drunk to rid myself

of those feelings. It was only when I sobered up and

worked on my inventory, that I could no longer blame

anyone.

Pot Luck

"If everything else fails, try not drinking."

I tried countless things to make my life better before recovery. There was the gym phase. My buddy and I joined a gym and vowed to get healthy. I even started jogging. Then there was the healthy diet phase. I stopped eating junk food and instead drank protein shakes with raw eggs. I even fasted on Sundays. Then there was the meditation phase. I started attending ashrams and bought some tapes on meditation. I even got a special meditation timer. Nothing worked, though. After each phase, my drinking and my life got worse.

Next I turned my attention to controlling and enjoying my drinking. My brother told me his brilliant idea of drinking a glass of water between drinks. I tried it. I peed a lot. Next, I tried drinking only premium tequilas. There was gold and silver, and also premium aged tequilas for $65 a bottle. I even bought a book on how to cook with tequila. Drinking and cooking with tequila got me pretty drunk. Then I tried the Dr. Bob beer experiment. Surely beer was safe. Off to Costco I went to buy cases of beers from around the world. I drank a lot of beer, and peed even more, and stayed drunk. My life didn’t improve.

When I entered recovery, you made a novel suggestion: don’t drink! Wow, that was new. Surely, that couldn’t be the total problem, I thought. Turns out, it was. After many inventories, I finally made the connection that I have the disease of alcoholism, and when I drink, bad things happen. Further, I discovered that if I am trying to control my drinking, I’m not enjoying it. And if I’m enjoying my drinking, I’m not controlling it. Ultimately, for me to drink is to die, and to be miserable until that happens. Today, my solution is simple because everything else has failed. Now I just don’t drink, and my life gets better.

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