Your Daily Reprieve 10.29.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday October 29, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge

but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

~Michel de Montaigne

Once you accept an idea, i

t's an idea whose time has come.
~William James

“First Things First. That’s a real gem.”

“Using the Slogans,”

New York, New York, November 1958

"We are addicted to our thoughts.

We cannot change anything if

we cannot change our thinking."

~Santosh Kalwar

Big Book Quote

Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously.

P45

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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, NY)…..42

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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."

Compatibility, of course, can be so impossibly damaged that a separation may be necessary. But those cases are the unusual ones. The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't. He persistently tries all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps in his home, often with fine results. At this point he firmly but lovingly commences to behave like a partner instead of like a bad boy. And above all he is finally convinced that reckless romancing is not a way of life for him.

p. 119

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

My relationships with my children have greatly improved.

Those children who saw me drunk and were ashamed,

those children who turned away in fear and even loathing have
seen me sober and like me, have turned to me in confidence

and trust and have forgotten the past as best they could.

They have given me a chance for companionship that I had
completely missed. I am their father or their mother now.

Not just "that person the Mom or Dad married and God knows why."

I am a part of my home now. Have I found
something that I had lost?

Meditation For The Day

Our true measure of success in life is the measure of spiritual progress that we have
revealed in our lives. Others should be able to see a demonstration of God's will in our lives. The measure of His will that those around us have seen worked out in our daily living is the measure of our true success. We can do our best to be a demonstration each day of the power of God in human lives, and example of the working out of the grace of God in the hearts of men and women.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may so live that others will see in me

something of the working out of the will of God.

I pray that my life may be a demonstration

of what the grace of God can do.

Daily Thought

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Hangovers

"When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion - anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers."
1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 88

Thought to Consider . . .
I'd rather be better than bitter.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A. A.
Altered Attitudes

Daily Reflection

OUR SURVIVAL

Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is

imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of

survival.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177

The honesty expressed by the members of A.A. in meetings

has the power to open my mind. Nothing can block the

flow of energy that honesty carries with it. The only

obstacle to this flow of energy is inebriation, but even then,

no one will find a closed door if he or she has left and

chooses to return. Once he or she has received the gift of

sobriety, each A.A. member is challenged on a daily basis

to accept a program of honesty.

My Higher Power created me for a purpose in life. I ask

him to accept my honest efforts to continue on my journey

in the spiritual way of life. I call on Him for strength to

know and seek His will.

Pot Luck

"It’s a simple program for complicated people."

They say that this is a simple program, but that it’s very hard to follow. I heard this in the beginning of my recovery, but when I read the Twelve Steps I didn’t see why. In fact, the program seemed simple, and I confidently told my sponsor that I could get through the Steps in a couple of weeks. I can still see his smile as he told me, “Let’s take it one day at a time.” When I finally started, I saw what he meant.

How can such a simple program be so hard to work? I quickly began asking myself. What I found was that each Step asked me to do something I had never done before: uncover my beliefs, discover how I had twisted them to serve my own selfish ends, and then discard them for God’s will rather than my own. Simple, yes, but not easy to do!

Over the years, I’ve found that this program is much easier to work if and when I quit making it so complicated. And the way I do that is by still trying to force my will on things. I now know it’s much simpler when I evaluate my motives, seek truly to be of service, and ask for God’s will, not mine, to be done. This truly is the easier, softer way. Today, I understand when they say that this is a simple program for complicated people!

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Committee Consideration

from the 73rd General Service Conference

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.

Questionaire

How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?

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There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
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Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.

RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK
Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana)
Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sept. 27, 2003

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