Daily Meditations 03.13.11

0 views

Skip to first unread message

Tom Murphy

unread,

Mar 13, 2011, 6:26:19 AM3/13/11

to 7AMme...@yahoogroups.com, baffl...@googlegroups.com, daily_me...@googlegroups.com

Here are the meditations for Sunday March 13, 2011

From Kittery Point, Maine-USA

I'm not much, but I'm all I think about. - Anon.

It wasn't until I worked this program that was able to see how
desperately I NEEDED to work this program!!

~Tom L., As We See It

Success is the sum of small efforts
repeated day in and day out.
~ Robert Collier

“Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it.

People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field

in hopes that a cow will back up to them."

~Curtis Grant

SADLY MISSED

Carmine Curto. Stuart, FL

27 years of love and service

March 11, 2011

South Florida lost a tireless AA Friday Night.

God Bless you, Carmine!

Big Book Quote

"'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which
is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to
investigation.'"

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Appendice II, Spiritual
Experience, pg. 568~

NEW!!

Daily Share!

AA Share of the Day

WINO JOE LEATH

Omaha, 1980

http://www.mediafire.com/?j2uyzeme0d0

Wee Willie’s

Sobriety First Media

AA CD’s Literature and tapes

http://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here

If you are celebrating an anniversary this month,

please send along the date and any message you would

like to share with the other 750 people on this email list and

I will try to make note of it in this space.

Send your day, your location and number of years to:

tx...@comcast.net

March 2011 Anniversaries

3/2 Ellen S. New York, NY)….13

3/2 Liz C. (New York, NY)….2

3/2 Rusty S. (Trenton, NJ)….2

3/3 Kelly T. (Newmarket, NH)….20

3/3 Bob M. (Portsmouth, NH)….8

3/3 Colleen D.W. (Danvers, MA)….17

3/5 Tom M. (Kittery Point, ME)….17

3/5 Andy Mac. (Southampton, UK)….2

3/7 Dave G. (Vancouver, Canada)….8

3/9 Sheila J (Schoharie, N.Y)….25

3/11 Nance B. (Costa Rica)….15

3/13 Brian H. (Haverhill, MA)….18

3/14 Vik R. (Bernardsville, NJ)….23

3/16 Patrick M. (Henniker, NH)….1

3/16 Bill I. (Islington, MA)….26

3/19 Chris H. ( Hampton, NH)….4

3/20 Bill M. (St Thomas, VI)….37

3/21 Nom A. (Boston/Miami)….22

3/24 Willie B. (Florida; ex-Airdrie)….26

3/24 Anne S. (Jensen Beach, FL)….9

3/25 Buffy H. (Gambier, OH)….19

3/25 Kaela U. (Port Orchard, WA)….10

3/25 Mike DC. (Barcelona, Spain)….7

3/25 Kris O. (Stuart, FL)….2

3/26 Julie E. (Stuart, FL)….6

3/27 Chuck L. (key Largo, FL)….24

3/29 Robin S. (New York, NY)….18

379 Total Years of Sobriety

12&12

Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Creation gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn't be complete human beings. If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival. If they didn't reproduce, the earth wouldn't be populated. If there were no social instinct, if men cared nothing for the society of one another, there would be no society. So these desires--for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship--are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.

p. 42

Twenty Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

We've got rid of our false, drinking selves and found our
real, sober selves. And we turn to God, our Father, for
help, just as the Prodigal Son arose and went to his
father. At the end of the story, the father of the
Prodigal Son says: "He was dead and is alive again, he
was lost and he is found." We alcoholics who have found
sobriety in A.A. were certainly dead and are alive again.
We were lost and are found. Am I alive again?

Meditation For The Day

Gently breathe in God's spirit, that spirit which, if not
barred out of selfishness, will enable you to do good works.
This means rather that God will be enabled to do good works
through you. You can become a channel for God's spirit to
flow through you and into the lives of others. The works
that you can do will only be limited by your spiritual
development. Let your spirit be in harmony with God's spirit
and there is no limit to what you can do in the realm of
human relationships.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may become a channel for God's spirit.
I pray that God's spirit may flow through me and into the
lives of others.

Daily Thought

^*^*^*^*^
(\ ~~~ /)
(   \(AA)/ )
(_   /AA\ _)
   /AA\
^*^*^*^*^
Selfishness
Selfishness, self-centeredness!
That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear,
self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,
we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation,
but we invariably find that at some time in the past
we have made decisions based on self
which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62
^*^*^*^*^

Thought to Consider . . .

Swallowing your pride will not get you drunk.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
A A = Altered Attitudes

Reflection

Defeat may serve as well as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
--Edwin Markham

So life has given us some dents. So what? Dents are necessary, besides being unavoidable and painful. Each dent is a part of the process that enables us to embrace life as a creative experience and to see the world in a new way, a way of compassion and understanding. Recovery is not a matter of escaping further blows or of disguising the dents we already have. It's a matter of understanding what the dents mean and how we can work with them.

Dents are neither soft spots in our characters that should make us ashamed nor saber scars that should make us proud. They are simply evidence that we have been alive for a while. Recovery offers us the chance to learn from our dents, to accept them as new spaces for growth. When we decide to see our dents as opportunities gained rather than opportunities lost, we stand much taller in our own eyes and in the eyes of others.

Today, I will look on my difficult life experiences in a new light. Today, I will plant some seeds.

You are reading from the book:

Days of Healing, Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty

Prayer

Delighting in the happiness of others will make your heart too big for your body. Lord, help me set aside my jealousies and celebrate the blessings of others. Their blessings will then be a blessing for me too.

ESCAPE DISASTER TOGETHER

GSYP Conference

Garden State Young People of Alcoholics Anonymous

Stillwater, NJ

April 15-17 2011

Flyer

http://gsyp.com/conference/2011/GSYP%20Conference%202011.pdf

Daily Meditations Group Home

http://groups.google.com/group/daily_meditations

Daily Meditations Archive

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/7AMmeeting/

LOON MOUNTAIN 12 STEP FESTIVAL !

April 29,30 May 1 2011

InnSeason Resorts-South Mountain

Attn: 12-Step Festival

P.O. Box 1058

Lincoln, NH 03251

stepfe...@yahoo.com

e-mail Maddie…madc...@aol.com for a flyer to the info on the 12 step festival

THE 18^TH INTERNATIONAL AA CONVENTION IN COSTA RICA MANUEL ANTONIO, COSTA RICA

April 29^th, 30^th, & May 1^st, 2011

“Escape the cold and come have some fun, sun, and sobriety

in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica! April 29, 30, & May1.

Great price includes hotel, 5 meals plus all coffee & snacks, starting at $120 a person. For more information or a flyer, contact Jennifer at jenn...@kidssavingtherainforest.org”