Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.15.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday April 15, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work,

except one that you dare not start."

—Charles Baudelaire, poet

"Money often costs too much."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Grace is the voice that calls us to change

and then gives us the power to pull it off."

~Max Lucado

“Faith is more than our greatest gift;

its sharing with others is our greatest responsibility.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., April 1961

Big Book Quote

With this attitude you cannot fail.

The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you.

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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

04/18 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 One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

In A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and digest this unpalatable truth. Even these "last-gaspers" often had difficulty in realizing how hopeless they actually were. But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well. That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only. Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness.

pp. 22-23

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Terrible things could have happened to any one of us. We
never will know what might have happened to us when we
were drunk. We usually thought: "That couldn't happen to
me." But any one of us could have killed somebody or have
been killed ourselves, if we were drunk enough. But fear
of these things never kept us from drinking. Do I believe
that in A.A. we have something more effective than fear?

Meditation For The Day

I must keep calm and unmoved in the vicissitudes of life.
I must go back into the silence of communion with God to
recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. I
will accomplish more by this calmness than by all the
activities of a long day. At all cost I will keep calm.
I can solve nothing when I am agitated. I should keep
away from things that are upsetting emotionally. I should
run on an even keel and not get tipped over by emotional
upsets. I should seek for things that are calm and good
and true and stick to those things.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not argue nor contend, but merely state
calmly what I believe to be true. I pray that I may keep
myself in that state of calmness that comes from faith in
God's purpose for the world.

Daily Thought

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Faith

"We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn't true. Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself."
c. 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 55

Thought to Consider . . .
Getting a present and just playing with the box is like working the program just enough to stop drinking.

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Failure Expected And Received

Daily Reflection

THE BONDAGE OF RESENTMENTS

. . . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we

shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5

It has been said, "Anger is a luxury I cannot afford." Does

this suggest I ignore this human emotion? I believe not.

Before I learned of the A.A. program, I was a slave to the

behavior patterns of alcoholism. I was chained to

negativity, with no hope of cutting loose.

The Steps offered me an alternative. Step Four was the

beginning of the end of my bondage. The process of

"letting go" started with an inventory. I needed not be

frightened, for the previous Steps assured me I was not

alone. My Higher Power led me to this door and gave me

the gift of choice. Today I can choose to open the door to

freedom and rejoice in the sunlight of the Steps, as they

cleanse the spirit within me.

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From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":

"The [Saturday Evening Post] article appeared in the March 1, 1941, issue. Jack's [Alexander] extensive investigation and his remarkable capacity for sympathy and rapport with us produced a piece which had immense impact. By mail and telegram a deluge of pleas for help and orders for the book Alcoholics Anonymous, first in hundreds and then in thousands, hit Box 658. Pawing at random through the incoming mass of heartbreaking appeals, we found ourselves crying. What on earth could we do with them? We were really swamped.

We saw that we must have help. So we rounded up every A.A. woman and every A.A. wife who could use a typewriter. The upper floor of the Twenty-Fourth Street Club was converted into an emergency headquarters. For days [A.A. office manager] Ruth and the volunteers tried to answer the ever increasing tide of mail. They were almost tempted into using form letters. But experience had shown that this would not do at all. A warm personal communication must be sent to every prospect and his family."

2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 191

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