Your Daily Reprieve 11.06.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday November 6 , 2024

Amesbury, MA

“The Traditions are neither rules, regulations, nor laws.

No sanctions or punishments can be invoked for their infractions.

Perhaps in no other area of society would these principles succeed.

Yet in this Fellowship of alcoholics, the unenforceable Traditions

carry a power greater than that of law.”

~ Bill W., July 1960, “The Language of the Heart”

"Being the best is not always an option.

Doing your best is ALWAYS an option"

~Charles Glassman

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove

than the hunger for bread.
~Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

When you expect good, it's available constantly,

and it makes itself a reality in your life.

-Alfre Woodard

Big Book Quote

But after a while we had to face the fact

that we must find a spiritual basis of life-or else.

P44

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NOVEMBER 2024 Miracles

11/01 Anne K. (Bend, OR)…..29

11/01 Brendan K. (Clinton, CT).....6

11/01 Rick B. (Dyersburg, TN) …..6

11/02 Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..17

11/03 Brendan H. (Brooklyn, NY)…..10

11/04 Pat O’D. (Boston, MA)…..44

11/04 Lou L. (Smithtown, NY)…..28

11/05 Kent L. (Silverdale, WA)…..39

11/06 Dave B. (Galveston, TX)…..50

11/06 Margo F. (Ft. Myers-Sanibel)…..38

11/06 Jaime P. (So. Orange, NJ)…..7

11/06 Shelly M. (Cave Creek, AZ)…..37

11/06 Nancy J. (The Villages, FL)…..14

11/07 Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)…..33

11/07 Leslie E. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..18

11/7 Ken A. (Lincoln, NE)…..

11/8 John E. (Nantucket, MA)…..2

11/12 Michael M. …..38

11/13 Debbie S. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..13

11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..19

11/12 Rhodora R. (VA & GA {Turning Point})…..1

11/15 Ned W. (Portland, ME)…..39

11/16 Robert M. (Stuart, FL)…..40

11/16 Bob S. (Amesbury, MA)…..14

11/17 Tray B. (Waynesville, NC)…..9

11/19 Barbara C. (Poughkeepsie, NY)…..42

11/19 Tommy S. (Newport, RI)…..11

11/22 Terry S. (Maui, HI)…..7

11/23 Carol S. (Edinburgh, Scotland)…..27

11/23 Colleen M. (Clayton, NC)…..7

11/23 Donna B. (Hampton, NH)…..44

11/23 Lindsey P. (Jacksonville, FL) …..1

11/24 John P. (Frisco, NC)…..17

11/26 Pam B. (Summerfield, FL)…..40

11/27 Christina S. (Jensen Beach, FL)…..2

11/28 Hendy H. (Islington, MA)…..51

11/29 Peter V. (Kittery, ME)…..44

11/30 Peter B. (New York City)…..34

11/30 Dave C. (Methuen, MA)…..27

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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."

Practically every boy in the United States dreams of becoming our President. He wants to be his country's number one man. As he gets older and sees the impossibility of this, he can smile good-naturedly at his childhood dream. In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance. He learns that he can be content as long as he plays well whatever cards life deals him. He's still ambitious, but not absurdly so, because he can now see and accept actual reality. He's willing to stay right size.

p. 122

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Fear and worry had me down.

They were increased by my drinking.

I worried about what I had done when I was drunk.

I was afraid of what the consequences might be. I was afraid to
face people because of the fear of being found out.

Fear kept me in hot water all the time. I
was a nervous wreck from fear and worry.

I was a tied-up bundle of nerves.

I had a fear of failure, of the future, of growing old,

of sickness, of hangover, of suicide.

I had a wrong set of ideas and attitudes.

When A.A. told me to surrender these fears and worries

to a Higher Power, I did so.

I now try to think faith instead of fear.

Have I put faith in place of fear?

Meditation For The Day

Spiritual power is God in action.

God can only act through human beings.

Whenever you, however weak you may be,

allow God to act through you,

then all you think and say and do is spiritually powerful.

It is not you alone who produces a change in the lives of others! It is
also the Divine Spirit in you and working through you.

Power is God in action. God can use
you as a tool to accomplish miracles in peoples' lives.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may try to let God's power act through me today.

I pray that I may get rid of those blocks which keep His power from me.

Daily Thought

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Newcomers

"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep you - until then."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 164

Thought to Consider . . .
Newcomers are the lifeblood of the program. But our oldtimers are the arteries.

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A B C
Acceptance, Belief, Change

Daily Reflection

GOING WITH THE FLOW

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our

conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . . .

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96

The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I

arise, O God, to do Thy will." This is the shortest prayer I

know and it is deeply ingrained in me. Prayer doesn't

change God's attitude toward me; it changes my attitude

toward God. As distinguished from prayer, meditation is a

quiet time, without words. To be centered is to be

physically relaxed, emotionally calm, mentally focused and

spiritually aware.

One way to keep the channel open and to improve my

conscious contact with God is to maintain a grateful

attitude. On the days when I am grateful, good things seem

to happen in my life. The instant I start cursing things in

my life, however, the flow of good stops. God did not

interrupt the flow; my own negativity did.

Pot Luck

"Improve your memory—tell the truth."

Toward the end of my drinking, my memory got worse and worse. To start with, my mind was a big blur from being constantly loaded, or from recovering from a blackout. In addition, it got harder and harder to remember what story or excuse I had recently made up or told to different people. Because my drinking had become the most important thing in my life, I had begun lying to protect it, and because most of the lies and stories I made up were followed by a drinking binge, I couldn’t keep anything straight. It’s no wonder people stopped hanging around me.

When I got sober and my head began to clear, I went right on lying and telling stories. As I worked the Steps, I realized that I was lying to protect my ego and get my own way. I quickly found the truth in the statement that “self-centeredness and self-seeking” was my natural state as an untreated alcoholic. It took a lot of inventories and conversations with my sponsor before I was ready to get honest. I also had to uncover, discover, and discard a lot of character defects that were keeping me sick before I could fully recover.

These days, my life is much easier now that my default is to just tell the truth. I no longer feel the need to defend or construct a big story because today I’ve learned how to be responsible and honest. Now I go through life looking for ways to be of service rather than to cheat or deceive. It’s a wonderful feeling being able to look someone in the eye again and feel a part of the human race. And best of all, my memory has improved because today, I tell the truth.

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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

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