Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.16.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday April 16, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

God does not give a person a test they can not pass.
Yosef Palacci

"When you surrender to what is and so become fully present,

the past ceases to have any power.

You do not need it anymore.

Presence is the key.

Now is the key." Eckhart Tolle

“In the life of each AA member,

there still lurks a tyrant. His name is alcohol.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1946

The Language of the Heart

"The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out,

share your joys, help carry your burdens,

and correctly counsel you is priceless."

~Ezra Taft Benson

If I am what I have

and if I lose what I have

who then am I?
~ Erich Fromm

Big Book Quote

With this attitude you cannot fail.

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

P55

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APRIL 2024 Miracles

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

04/17 Cecily T. (Westchester, NY)…..15

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."

It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed. Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism. As this trend grew, they were joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics. They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through. Since Step One requires an admission that our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step?

p. 23

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

In A.A. we have insurance. Our faith in God is a kind of
insurance against the terrible things that might happen to
us if we ever drink again. By putting our drink problem in
the hands of God, we've taken out a sort of insurance policy,
which insures us against the ravages of drink, as our homes
are insured against destruction by fire. Am I paying my A.A.
insurance premiums regularly?

Meditation For The Day

I must try to love all humanity. Love comes from thinking of
every man or woman as your brother or sister, because they
are children of God. This way of thinking makes me care enough
about them to really want to help them. I must put this kind
of love into action by serving others. Love means no severe
judging, no resentments, no malicious gossip, and no
destructive criticism. It means patience, understanding,
compassion, and helpfulness.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may realize that God loves me, since He is
the Father of us all. I pray that I in turn may have love
for all of His children.

Daily Thought

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Meetings

"A 'spiritual experience' to me meant attending meetings, seeing a group of people, all there for the purpose of helping each other; hearing the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions read at a meeting, and hearing the Lord's Prayer, which in an A.A. meeting has such great meaning - 'Thy will be done, not mine.' A spiritual awakening soon came to mean trying each day to be a little more thoughtful, more considerate, a little more courteous to those with whom I came in contact."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 381

Thought to Consider . . .

Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.

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Daily Reflection

ANGER: A "DUBIOUS LUXURY"

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch

and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the

dubious luxury of the normal men, but for alcoholics these

things are poison.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66

"Dubious luxury." How often have I remembered those

words. It's not just anger that's best left to nonalcoholics; I

built a list including justifiable resentment, self-pity,

judgmentalism, self-righteousness, false pride and false

humility. I'm always surprised to read the actual quote. So

well have the principles of the program been drummed into

me that I keep thinking all of these defects are listed too.

Thank God I can't afford them—or I surely would indulge

in them.

Pot Luck

EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT SHOULD

Every moment, decision, choice, encounter, person, mistake, lesson, step forwards, step backwards, heartbreak, love, failure, breakthrough, dream...are the little dots that create the SUM of your entire life. Each experience leads to the next and although in the present moment it may seem that everything is scattered and all over the place, one day soon you will be able to CONNECT the dots between each part of your life. When you do, you will have the realization that a life VOID of even just ONE of those dots, would not have MADE you the person that you we. Trust that in this life, everything happens as it should, in a way that is right FOR you. Maintain that faith, and you will experience the liberation that you are seeking.

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