Your Daily Reprieve 10.28.24
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Your Daily
Reprieve for Monday October 28, 2024 From Waynesville, NC |
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Prosperity is only an
instrument to be used, not a deity to be
worshipped. -Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is a way of
living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of
money or things. -Eric Butterworth A habit for all of us to
develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we
meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Truth is completely
spontaneous. Lies have to be
taught. -R. Buckminster Fuller |
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Big Book Quote Perhaps there is a better way-we think so. For we are now on a
different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust
infinite God rather than our finite selves. P68 |
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Daily Share! AA Speaker of the Day HERB KING Pacific Group Speakers 05.19.2000 |
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Celebrate Your Anniversary
Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT
WORKS!! OCTOBER 2024 Miracles 10/01 Mary H. (Andover,
MA)…..36 10/01 Brian M. (Ghana, West
Africa)…..2 10/01 Lauri S. (Amesbury,
MA)…..22 10/01 Leo N. (Ogunquit,
ME)…..19 10/01 Medicine Mike (Salonga,
NY)…..19 10/01 Gary V. (Norton, MA)…..11 10/01 Jim B. (Brunswick,
ME)…..8 10/01 Eric M. (Wells, ME)…..4 10/01 Phaedra D. (Boston,
MA)…..2 10/02 David R. (Bedminster,
NJ)…..13 10/04 Tom H. (Strongsville,
OH)…..24 10/04 Frank T. …..4 10/04 Kristopher B. (Toledo,
OH)…..10 10/04 Charlie E. (Evanston,
IL)…..12 10/06 Laura D. (Teaneck, NJ)…..9 10/06 Jen C. (Wabash, IN)…..5 10/06 Spike C. (Vero Beach,
FL)…..5 10/06 Russ W. (Milford,
CT)…..11 10/06 Terry S. (Collingwood,
ON)…..34 10/06 Annette L. (Dothan,
AL)…..32 10/07 Donna C. (Punta Gorda,
FL)…..49 10/07 Martin F. …..22 10/07 Anne M. (East Hampton,
NY)…..20 10/10 Ray H. (Cookeville,
TN)…..14 10/11 Harriett B. (Parsonsburg,
MD)…..36 10/11 Cigar Bob (Cocoa Beach,
FL)…..27 10/12 David G. (Delray Beach,
FL)…..37 10/12 Susanne W.
(Thailand)…..41 10/12 Chris M. (Clark, NJ)…..37 10/13 Umberto B. (Yonkers,
NY)…..13 10/13 Robert L. (Surf City, NC)…..23 10/13 Angie T. (Dorset,
UK)…..20 10/13 Sonia J. (Far Hills,
NJ)…..10 10/14 Carol S. (Key Largo,
FL)…..39 10/14 Mark D. (Atlanta, GA)…..5 10/14 Steve P. (Hampton, NH)…..40 10/14 Louise D. (Amesbury,
MA)…..2 10/15 Charles D. (St. Augustine, FL)…..35 10/15 John C. (East Quogue, NY)…..2 10/16 Oscar H. (London, UK)…..5 10/18 Sue G. (Mt Clemens,
MI)…..1 10/19 Celia H. (Seal Beach,
CA)…..38 10/19 Jason M. …..1 10/19 DeeDee L. (Charlotte,
NC)…..25 10/21 Sue T. (Flanders,
NJ/North Port, FL)…..11 10/22 Joanne L. (Berkeley
Heights, NJ)…..11 10/23 Pete R. (Red Hook,
NY)…..16 10/23 James D. (NYC)…..47 10/23 Dana H. (Waynesville,
NC)…..6 10/23 Bill B. (Exeter, NH)…..36 10/24 Billy H. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..9 10/25 Adam S. (Birmingham,
England)…..1 10/25 Bob W. (Santa Teresa,
NM)….. 10/25 Keely S. (Orick, CA)…..42 10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach,
FL)…..35 10/26 Niall (Dublin,
Ireland)…..32 10/26 Alex L. (Hopewell,
NJ)…..4 10/27 Bill M. (Williamsport,
PA)…..39 10/27 Jessica C. (Los Angeles,
CA)…..7 10/27 Renee P. (Port Charlotte,
FL)…..38 10/27 Rose S. (Yelm, WA)…..6 10/27 Sue B. (Seabrook, NH)…..39 10/27 Jolene E. (Orlando,
FL)…..21 10/28 Kelly G. (Morristown, NJ)…..7 10/28 Craig B. (Memphis, TN)…..13 10/28 Lisa W. …..1 10/28 Phillip E. (Orlando, FL)…..21 10/29 Lisa B. (Yulee, FL)….2 10/29 LauraLea K. (Leesburg,
FL)…..13 10/30 Mary Jo K. (Clarion,
PA)…..10 10/31 Amy C. (Camden, ME)…..1 Roberta A. (Westhampton,
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12&12 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." |
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Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day Each one of us can answer this question in many ways. My relationship with my husband or my wife is on has taken its place. My home is a home again. Understanding has taken the place of misunderstanding A new companionship has developed which "There are homes where fires burn and there is bread,
lamps Though people falter through the dark and nations grope, Have I come home? in the long run, be the best for all concerned. It may not always seem the best thing at the present time, We do not know how His plans are laid, we only need to
believe that if we trust Him and accept whatever happens as His
will in a I pray that one step may be enough for me. |
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Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\
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\(AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Reprieve
The gate is wide but the road is narrow. *~*AACRONYMS*~*
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Daily Reflection AN UNBROKEN
TRADITION We conceive the
survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be
something of far greater importance than the weight we could
collectively throw back of any other cause. TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 How much it means to
me that an unbroken tradition of more than half a
century is a thread that connects me to Bill W. and Dr. Bob. How
much more grounded I feel to be in a Fellowship whose
aims are constant and unflagging. I am grateful that the
energies of A.A. have never been scattered, but
focused instead on our members and on individual sobriety. My beliefs are what
make me human; I am free to hold any opinion, but
A.A.'s purpose—so clearly stated fifty years ago—is for me
to keep sober. That purpose has promoted
round-the-clock meeting schedules, and the thousands of
intergroup and central service offices, with their thousands of
volunteers. Like the sun focused through a magnifying glass,
A.A.'s single vision has lit a fire of faith in sobriety in
millions of hearts, including mine. |
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Pot Luck
A New Kind of Power When I was growing up, I
thought it was important to be above other people. I was glad I was the
oldest in the family, glad I was the tallest boy in grammar school, glad I
was on the honor list of high school. These advantages allowed me to feel
superior to other people and I came to feel that the rest of my life should
be a continuation of this elevated pattern. I honestly believed that I would
not be happy if I did not have a car that was more luxurious than other
peoples’ cars, a home that was larger than other peoples’ homes, a career
that produced more income than other peoples’ careers. When I ended up driving an
economy car, living in an efficiency apartment, and working at a modest job,
I regarded myself as a failure . I was not climbing up the pyramid of power I
had constructed in my mind. I was not heading toward any ultimate peak. Instead,
I was scurrying around the pyramid’s base, like a workman or a drone seeking
just to hold my life together with some work here and some booze there. Then it was a lot of booze
year and a little work there. Then it was pretty much booze all over the
place, all over my time, booze and self-pity that I had not scaled the
heights I had projected for myself. Thank God for AA. Thank God
for the hands that reached out to me and brought me in and held me close.
These hands came out to me from all around, from my fellow patients, from
folks with long-time sobriety who came to our unit for meetings, from my
aftercare counselors, from all the people that I met at outside meetings, as
I began to grow in the program. At the end of every meeting
that I have attended, we have all stood in a circle holding hands, and said a
prayer. The circle image is one of the
most important of my sobriety. None of the hands that has
helped me has come down on me from a superior position of power. All the
hands that have helped me have reached out from positions of fellowship
around me. I was not knighted into
sobriety. No monarch reached down and whacked me on the shoulder with the
flat of a sword and declared, “By the power invested in me, I declare you
shall be sober!” Instead my fellow alcoholics came to me from
all around. A friendly, loving group of creatures clustered around me. They
told me some stories and they showed me some Steps and in that process they
were saying, “We’re just like you and we made it. We know that you can make
it too.” These people showed me a path,
but it wasn’t like the one I constructed myself while I was growing up and
drinking. The path I have learned in AA does not move up (or down). It moves
around. I am not climbing any pyramid. I am not seeking any position that is
superior to anybody else’s position. In the circle of AA there are
no superior positions. We keep going over the Steps again and again. We keep
going over the Big Book again and again. We keep telling our stories and
hearing our stories and working on our programs together. Again and again. We
keep going around the circle. We’re not after power, or
honor, or glory for the individual. We’re after understanding for the group. The first word of the program
is not I. The first word of the program
is We. And that is what makes it
work. Stephen
Beal, Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery
for Men |
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Wee
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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. Questionaire How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings? DR. PAUL O. ZOOM MEETINGS Loose
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Highlights A New
Pair of Glasses in PDF (download) is available at: https://bit.ly/4bUr0Js Bill
Schaberg Writing The Big Book Video Readings https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization. OUR MISSION STOP SUISILENCE The avoidance of discussion about suicide Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide
epidemic. RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt **NEW MEDITATIONS** http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/ **Podcasts** https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast 12 Step
Meditations These are 12 meditations, each about 12 minutes long and the
content (other than the meditation
instructions) are straight from the text of the big
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