Your Daily Reprieve 09.24.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday September 24, 2024   From Waynesville, NC

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke   “Alcoholics Anonymous has given me something of real value that I can share with others.” ~ Tucson, Arizona, May 2004   A setback is a setup for a comeback.  Willie Jolley   No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.  The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.  It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.      -Alan Watts

Big Book Quote   We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.   P68

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12&12   Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. p. 95

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Let us continue with Step Twelve. We must practice these principles in all our affairs. This part of the twelfth step must not be overlooked. It is the carrying on of the whole program. We do not just practice these principles in regard to our drinking problem. We practice them in ALL our affairs. We do not give one compartment of our lives to God and keep the other compartments to ourselves. We give our whole lives to God and we try to do His will in every respect. "Herein lies our growth, herein lies all the promise of the future, and ever-widening horizon." Do I carry the A.A. principles with me wherever I go? Meditation For The Day "Lord, to whom shall we go but to Thee? Thou hast the words of eternal life." The words of eternal life are the words from God controlling your true being, controlling the real spiritual you. They are the words from God which are heard by you in your heart and mind when these are wide open to His spirit. These are the words of eternal life which express the true way you are to live. They say to you in the stillness of your heart and mind and soul: "Do this and live." Prayer For The Day I pray that I may follow the dictates of my conscience. I pray that I may follow the inner urging of my soul.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Inventory "A few months after I made my original trip to Akron, I was feeling pretty cocky, and I didn't think my wife was treating me with proper respect, now that I was an outstanding citizen. So I set out to get drunk deliberately, just to teach her what she was missing. A week later, I had to get an old friend from Akron to spend two days sobering me up. That was my lesson, that one could not take the moral inventory and then file it away; that the alcoholic has to continue to take inventory every day if he expects to get well and stay well." 1976, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 293-4 Thought to Consider . . . In order to recover we have to uncover. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H Facing All In Trusting Him

Daily Reflection   VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 33   Today I am an alcoholic. Tomorrow will be no different. My alcoholism lives within me now and forever. I must never forget what I am. Alcohol will surely kill me if I fail to recognize and acknowledge my disease on a daily basis. I am not playing a game in which a loss is a temporary setback. I am dealing with my disease, for which there is no cure, only daily acceptance and vigilance.

Pot Luck   No person can wear one face to him- or herself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne     Today's Meditation: The question of who we are to ourselves versus who we are to other people is an important one to consider. We've all known the people who think themselves to be kind and considerate and well-loved, never suspecting that most other people can't stand them or the things they do. We've seen and met the people who quite hypocritically say that they're one thing and act like something else. It's not pleasant for us to witness this, and it does not lead to a pleasant life for people who act this way. If we're going to be true, it's important that we're first of all true to ourselves, and then true to the other people in our lives. In order for both of these conditions to be met, there must be congruence between the face that we put on for ourselves and that we put on for others. We must make sure that we're not lying, that we're being truthful both to ourselves and to other people. Otherwise, we will reach a point at which we're not quite sure just which person we are truly, for the faces we've presented are not of the same people. I've heard and read many accounts of the man who's loved at the office and the life of the party, but who gets home and acts like a tyrant, treating his family terribly. Everyone's surprised when his wife leaves him, because he's such a "nice guy." But why could he never be nice to his family? So who are you? Are you the person who talks to a young child, the person who makes jokes with co-workers, the person who talks tenderly to his or her spouse, or the person who's frustrated in line at the bank? If we take care to be honest at all times, then each of these people will be consistently you. If we insist on playing roles and allowing our actions and thoughts to change depending on which people we're with, then it will be very hard to be sure of just which one is the true us. We can confuse ourselves, or we can be true and never doubt just who or what we are. And doesn't it sound better to live without confusion simply because we've chosen to be honest always, to everyone?

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