Your Daily Reprieve 10.14.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday October 14, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,

because your character is what you really are,

while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
~John Wooden

It is not the brains that matter most,

but that which guides them--character, the heart,

generous qualities, progressive ideas.

-Feodor Dostoevsky

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.

Money is not enough; money can be got,

but they need your hearts to love them.

So, spread your love everywhere you go;

first of all in your own home.

Give love to your children, to your wife or husband,

to a next-door neighbor.

-Mother Teresa

The ultimate lesson we all have to learn is unconditional love,

which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

-Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

Big Book Quote

Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.

P64

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Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

Of course all A.A.'s, even the best, fall far short of such achievements as a consistent thing. Without necessarily taking that first drink, we often get quite far off the beam. Our troubles sometimes begin with indifference. We are sober and happy in our A.A. work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us. We are doing fine on a few of them. Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we "carry the message." In A.A. slang, that blissful state is known as "two-stepping." And it can go on for years.

pp. 112-113

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

How big a part of my life is A.A.?

Is it just one of my activities and a small one at that?

Do I only go to A.A. meetings now and then

and sometimes never go at all?

Do I think of A.A. only occasionally?

Am I reticent about mentioning A.A.

to people who might need help?

Or does A.A. fill a large part of my life?

Is it the foundation of my whole life?

Where would I be without A.A.?

Does everything I have and I do

depend on my A.A. foundation?

Is A.A. the foundation on which I build my life?

Meditation For The Day

Lay upon God your failures and mistakes and shortcomings.

Do not dwell upon your failures, upon the fact that in the past

you have been nearer a beast than an angel.

You have a mediator between you and God--your growing faith—

which can lift you up from the mire and point you toward the heavens.

You can still be reconciled with the spirit of God.

You can still regain your harmony with the Divine Principle of the universe.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not let the beast in me

hold me back from my spiritual destiny.

I pray that I may rise and walk upright.

Daily Thought

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Half Measures

"Remember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help, it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find Him now. Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon."
1976

AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 58-9

Thought to Consider . . .
Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

F I N E
Feeling Insecure, Numb, and Empty

Daily Reflection

A PROGRAM FOR LIVING

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. .

. . On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours

ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our

thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from selfpity,

dishonest or self-seeking motives.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86

I lacked serenity. With more to do than seemed possible, I

fell further behind, no matter how hard I tried. Worries

about things not done yesterday and fear of tomorrow's

deadlines denied me the calm I needed to be effective each

day. Before taking Steps Ten and Eleven, I began to read

passages like the one cited above. I tried to focus on God's

will, not my problems, and to trust that He would manage

my day. It worked! Slowly, but it worked!

Pot Luck

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
~Moliere

Today's Meditation:

Sometimes I try to imagine what the world would be like if no one was selfish, insecure, violent, angry, manipulative, aggressive, or anything else negative. I wonder what it would be like if all were patient and kind and loving, with a strong sense of self-esteem and a feeling that they were loved. If things were so, imagine all of the things that we wouldn't have to do, all of the issues and events that we wouldn't have to spend our time on.

As Moliere says, we wouldn't even need virtues such as patience, forbearance, or forgiveness if everyone acted with integrity and kindness, for we wouldn't have to react to some of the awful, inconsiderate things that we have to react to now. What would our world be like then?

I can't make other people act the way I want them to act, of course, but I can decide how I want to act. I can decide to model those virtues that I find to be desirable. I can act how I think is most appropriate and most helpful to the world in which I live. How I act or react each day to each situation is up to me, and while I would like to see others act in loving ways, their actions aren't under my control, so I can't lose my peace of mind trying to make them into something they may not be.

What virtues are the most important to you? You can try to live them out, if you really want to. And if you do so, those around you won't have to practice the other virtues that come about because of your actions. I hope that as few people as possible need to forgive me for my inconsideration or rudeness, and the only way I can ensure that is by not being inconsiderate or rude. That's one of the easier ones, of course, but it still takes some effort sometimes.

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In response to a Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference

regarding any possible future changes to literature written by A.A.’s founders,

that committee agreed it would be beneficial to gather shared experience

from the Fellowship regarding this topic.

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