Your Daily Reprieve 01.09.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 9, 2025

Waynesville, NC

“If humility can expel the obsession to drink alcohol,

then surely humility can be our antidote for that subtle wine called success.”

~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947, “Traditions Stressed in Memphis Talk”

Gentleness is a way of life, showing our love in how we interact
with people and things. Like any way of life, gentleness has to be
practiced for us to become more gentle. If we want to become more
gentle, we must take active steps, that is (1) choosing to be more
gentle, (2) keeping this resolution in mind, (3) acting in gentleness,
and (4) catching ourselves when we are not gentle so that we can be
more aware of our gentleness or lack of gentleness in the future.
~Thomas Stobie

"Every second a seeker can start over,

For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts

And not the final version.".

~Sri Chinmoy.

“Let it never be said that the spiritual way is a cowardly or escapist approach to life.

On the contrary, it requires maximum diligence and persistence

to seek divine guidance when all the evidence of our eyes and ears

tries to tell us that life is largely physical, intellectual and emotional.”

~“Let Go and Let God,” Jackson, Mississippi, November 1964, AA Grapevine

Big Book Quote

If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were,

we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution.

P25

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Tradition Five - "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

“Now” concludes the oldtimer, “suppose I’d been obliged to talk to this man on religious grounds? Suppose my answer had to be that A.A. needed a lot of money; that A.A. went in for education, hospitals, and rehabilitation? Suppose I’d suggested that I’d take a hand in his domestic and business affairs? Where would we have wound up? No place, of course.”

Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, “My sponsor sold me on one idea, and that was sobriety. At the time, I couldn’t have bought anything else.”

p.154

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we were drinking, most of us had no real faith in
anything. We may have said that we believe in God, but we
didn't act as though we did. We never honestly asked God
to help us and we never really accepted His help. To us,
faith looked like helplessness. But when we came into A.A.,
we began to have faith in God. And we found out that faith
gave us the strength we needed to overcome drinking. Have
I learned that there is strength in faith?

Meditation For The Day

I will have faith, no matter what may befall me. I will be
patient, even in the midst of troubles. I will not fear
the strain of life, because I believe that God knows just
what I can bear. I will look to the future with confidence.
I know that God will not ask me to bear anything that
could overcome me or destroy me.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may put this day in the hands of God. I pray
for faith, so that nothing will upset me or weaken my
determination to stay sober.

Daily Thought

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Touchstones

"All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and act upon clear-cut obligations - these are truly our touchstones for all growth in the life of the spirit. They hold up to us the very essence of right being and right doing. It is by them that we are enabled to find and to do God's will."
Bill W., Talk, 1965
c.1967 AAWS Inc.
As Bill Sees It, p. 271

Thought to Consider . . .

The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.

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S O B E R
Staying Off Booze Enjoying Recovery

Daily Reflection

AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE

It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have

warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive

drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from

us.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21

My act of Providence, (a manifestation of divine care and

direction), came as I experienced the total bankruptcy of

active alcoholism—everything meaningful in my life was

gone. I telephoned Alcoholics Anonymous and, from that

instant, my life has never been the same. When I reflect on

that very special moment, I know that God was working in

my life long before I was able to acknowledge and accept

spiritual concepts. The glass was put down through this one

act of Providence and my journey into sobriety began. My

life continues to unfold with divine care and direction. Step

One, in which I admitted I was powerless over alcohol, that

my life had become unmanageable, takes on more meaning

for me—one day at a time—in the life-saving, life-giving

Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Pot Luck

Things happen in our lives for a reason, even if that reason is not clear to you right away.

When events appear to fit together perfectly in our lives, it may seem at first that they are random occurrences — things that are the result of coincidence. These synchronous happenings, though, are much more than that. If we look at them more closely, they can show us that the universe is listening to us and gently communicating with us. Learning to pay attention to and link the things that occur on a daily basis can be a way for us to become more attuned to the fact that most things in our lives happen for a reason – even when that reason is not clear right away.

When we realize that things often go more smoothly than we can ever imagine, it allows us to take the time to reflect on the patterns in our lives. Even events that might not seem to be related to each other at first are indicators that the universe is working with, not against, us. This idea of synchronicity, then, means that we have to trust there is more to our lives than what we experience on a physical level. We need to be willing to look more closely at the bigger picture, accepting and having confidence in the fact that there is more to our experiences than immediately meets the eye. Being open to synchronicity also means that we have to understand that our lives are filled with both positive and negative events. Once we can recognize that one event is neither more desirable nor better than the other — they all have a purpose in our lives — then we are truly ready to listen to the messages the universe gives us.

While we may not be able to see everything in our lives as being synchronous, we can certainly use hindsight to be more aware of how the universe guides us. This sense of wonder at the mysteries of the universe and the interconnectedness present in our lives will help us see our overall ways of being and will in turn make it easier to work more consciously toward our spiritual evolution.

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