Your Daily Reprieve 07.29.24

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday July 29, 2024   From Waynesville, NC

"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him." ~Frank Herbert   ~Life is sometimes messy, often sweet, and always filled with grace. May God bless you with an appreciation for the trials and rewards in your life. ~Prayables     “For my sake, as well as the well-being of the women I sponsor, I stay within what I know. I tell them I’m not a mother, sister, favorite aunt, therapist, counselor, guru, spiritual advisor, AA authority, and sometimes not even a friend. I’m just another drunk who didn’t drink and didn’t die...” ~ Beaumont, Texas, February 1996   Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us,  have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. -William Feather

Big Book Quote   When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.   P51

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12&12   Step Seven - "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Certainly no alcoholic, and surely no member of A.A., wants to deprecate material achievement. Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life. But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics. For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. p. 71

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days that should be kept from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone beyond recall. Do I still worry about what happened yesterday? Meditation For The Day "God will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation He will also find a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." If you have enough faith and trust in God, He will give you all the strength you need to face every temptation and to overcome it. Nothing will prove too hard for you to bear. You can face any situation. "Be of good cheer. I have overcome the world." You can overcome any temptation with God's help. So fear nothing. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may face every situation without fear. I pray that nothing will prove too hard for me to bear.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Friendship "We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part of. The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty. I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. Business and professional men have regained their standing. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us." Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15 Thought to Consider . . . "Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now." Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 16 *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing

Daily Reflection   ANONYMOUS GIFTS OF KINDNESS As active alcoholics we were always looking for a handout in one way or another. "THE TWELVE TRADITIONS ILLUSTRATED," p. 14   The challenge of the Seventh Tradition is a personal challenge, reminding me to share and give of myself. Before sobriety the only thing I ever supported was my habit of drinking. Now my efforts are a smile, a kind word, and kindness. I saw that I had to start carrying my own weight and to allow my new friends to walk with me because, through the practice of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, I've never had it so good.

Pot Luck   Today's quotation: Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on. ~Sean Covey   Today's Meditation: There's no one more deserving of our compassion and gentleness than ourselves. There's no one more deserving of our forgiveness than ourselves. Usually, though, there's no one who receives less of any of these things than ourselves. It's hard sometimes to be kind to ourselves when we have artificially high expectations of ourselves. Somehow we are more willing to forgive others for their mistakes than we are to forgive ourselves, and this tendency often has pretty drastic effects on ourselves. One rule of thumb that I use is pretty simple: what would I say to someone else who just made the same mistake that I did? And what would I say to someone who was even more vulnerable due to a particular emotional or mental state? And then I treat myself with the same kindness and compassion I would show this other person. Being hard on myself serves absolutely no purpose other than to keep me trapped in the past due to a lack of forgiveness, and I don't want to ruin tomorrow because I'm so caught up with what I did yesterday. I want to learn in life, and I want that learning to help me to become a stronger, more compassionate person tomorrow. If I'm so busy being mad at myself for yesterday's mistake, though, how the heck can I be more loving and compassionate with others? The way I treat others definitely is affected by the way I treat myself.

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