Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday April 17, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom:

the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~Walter Lippman

“What I’ve had to figure out is that I can’t figure anything out.”

~Grapevine: Port Townsend, Washington, October 1994

The sacred task at hand is to let yourself

be reclaimed by something deeper than

the immediacy of struggle and pain.

This something need not be identified or fixated upon,

but surrendered to.
—Pixie Lighthorse

True faith is not knowing and that being OK

~ Alan Watts

Big Book Quote

Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life. You will learn the full meaning of "Love thy neighbor as thyself."

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Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them. By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. To the doubters we could say, "Perhaps you're not an alcoholic after all. Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have told you about alcoholism?" This attitude brought immediate and practical results. It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, "Maybe those A.A.'s were right..." After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as truly as any of us. John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate.

pp. 23-24

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Every time we go to an A.A. meeting, every time we say the Lord's
Prayer, every time we have a quiet time before breakfast, we're
paying a premium on our insurance against taking that first drink. And
every time we help another alcoholic, we're making a large payment
on our drink insurance. We're making sure that our policy doesn't
lapse. Am I building up an endowment in serenity, peace, and
happiness that will put me on easy street for the rest of my life?

Meditation For The Day

I gain faith by my own experience of God's power in my life. The
constant, persistent recognition of God's spirit in all my personal
relationships, the ever accumulating weight of evidence in support of
God's guidance, the numberless instances in which seeming chance or
wonderful coincidence can be traced to God's purpose in my life. All
these things gradually engender a feeling of wonder, humility, and
gratitude to God. These in turn are followed by a more sure and
abiding faith in God and His purposes.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that my faith may be strengthened every day. I pray that I may
find confirmation of my life in the good things that have come into my
life.

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Vision

"Vision is, I think, the ability to make good estimates, both for the immediate and for the more distant future. Some might feel this sort of striving to be a sort of heresy, because we A.A.'s are constantly telling ourselves, "One day at a time." But that valuable principle really refers to our mental and emotional lives and means chiefly that we are not to foolishly repine over the past nor wishfully day-dream about the future . . . Vision is therefore the very essence of prudence, an essential virtue if ever there was one. Of course we shall often miscalculate the future in whole or in part, but that is better than to refuse to think at all."
Bill W., 1962
c. 1962 AAWS
Twelve Concepts for World Service, 26th printing, p. 40

Thought to Consider . . .
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

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T I M E
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Daily Reflection

LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES

All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own

right.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49

"Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was

there." I don't know to whom this quote should be

attributed, but it certainly indicates very clearly that fear is

an illusion. I create the illusion myself.

I experienced fear early in my life and I mistakenly

thought that the mere presence of it made me a coward. I

didn't know that one of the definitions of "courage" is "the

willingness to do the right thing in spite of fear." Courage,

then, is not necessarily the absence of fear.

During the times I didn't have love in my life I most

assuredly had fear. To fear God is to be afraid of joy. In

looking back, I realize that, during the times I feared God

most, there was no joy in my life. As I learned not to fear

God, I also learned to experience joy.

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Father Leo's Daily Meditation

INDIVIDUALITY

"You'll never really know what I

mean and I'll never really know

exactly what you mean."

--Mike Nichols

There is a certain loneliness in life with which we must all live;

perhaps this is the price of individuality. I am not always sure that I

know what I am feeling or thinking and so I know I cannot be

absolutely sure of what you are feeling or thinking. Today when I say

"I know how you feel", it is with this reservation.

Another problem I face daily is finding words to express what I feel --

language seems so inadequate. Words, although bridges to meaning,

are often barriers to understanding. What I mean by what I say is

often misunderstood.

This awareness provides me with the stimulus to be more precise,

explicit and creative in my methods of communication and

understanding. Today I consider more seriously what the other person

is trying to say, rather than just listening to the words. Because I am

sensitive to my difficulties in being understood, I am becoming patient

with my neighbor.

Teach us never to become victims of our language.

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