Your Daily Reprieve 02.17.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday February 17, 2025

From Fernandina Beach, FL

“We well know that our defects,

as people and as a Society,

have been and still are very great.

And we hope that we shall never cease

to rededicate ourselves to their correction.”

~ Founder, Bill W., March 1960

"The future is completely open

and we are writing it moment to moment "

~Penna Chödrön

You never find yourself

until you face the truth.

-Pearl Bailey

Hope is like the sun which, as we journey towards it,

casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

-Samuel Smiles

Big Book Quote

We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.

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Tradition Nine - "A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve."

WHEN Tradition Nine was first written, it said that "Alcoholics Anonymous needs that least possible organization." In years since then, we have changed our minds about that. Today, we are able to say with assurance that Alcoholics Anonymous--A.A. as a whole--should never be organized at all. Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create special service boards and committees which in themselves are organized. How, then, can we have an unorganized movement which can and does create a service organization for itself? Scanning this puzzler, people say, "What do they mean, no organization?"

p. 172

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Alcohol is poison to the alcoholic. Poison is not too
strong a word, because alcoholism leads eventually to the
death of the alcoholic. It may be a quick death or a slow
death. When we go by package stores and see various kinds
of liquor all dressed up in fancy packages to make it
look attractive, we should always make it a point to say
to ourselves, so that we'll never forget it: That stuff's
poison to me. And it is. Alcohol poisoned our lives for
a long time. Do I know that since I am an alcoholic all
liquor is poison to me?

Meditation For The Day

I must somehow find the means of coming nearer to God.
That is what really matters. I must somehow seek the true
bread of life, which is communion with Him. I must grasp
at the truth at the center of all worship. This central
truth is all that matters. All forms of worship have this
communion with God as their purpose and goal.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may meet God in quiet communion.
I pray that I may partake of the soul-food which God has
provided for me.

Daily Thought

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A New Notion

"The idea that religion and spirituality were not one and the same was a new notion. My sponsor asked that I merely remain open-minded to the possibility that there was a Power greater than myself, one of my own understanding. He assured me that no person was going to impose a belief system on me, that it was a personal matter. Reluctantly, I opened my mind to the fact that maybe, just maybe, there was something to this spiritual lifestyle. Slowly, but surely, I realized there was indeed a Power greater than myself, and I soon found myself with a full-time God in my life and following a spiritual path that didn't conflict with my personal religious convictions."
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 287

Thought to Consider . . .

God enters us through our wounds.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

S W A T
Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, and Trust

Daily Reflection

THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES

Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still

others who do believe that God exists have no faith

whatever He will perform this miracle.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25

It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into

the Fellowship that helped me lose my fear, and change my

negative attitude to a positive one. I could see the love in

their eyes and I was impressed by how much their "One

Day at a Time" sobriety meant to them. They had looked

squarely at Step Two and came to believe that a power

greater than themselves was restoring them to sanity. That

gave me faith in the Fellowship, and hope that it could

work for me too. I found that God was a loving God, not

that punishing God I feared before coming to A.A. I also

found that He had been with me during all those times I had

been in trouble before I came to A.A. I know today that He

was the one who led me to A.A. and that I am a miracle.

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Reflection for the Day

Why do I do what I do? Why did I say what I said? Why on earth did I put off an important responsibility? Questions like these, best asked of myself in a quiet time of meditation, demand honest answers. I may have to think deeply for those answers, going beyond the tempting rationalizations that lack the luster of truth. Have I accepted the fact that self-deception can only damage me, providing a clouded and unrealistic picture of the person I really am?

Today I Pray

May my Higher Power allow me to push aside my curtain of fibs, alibis, rationalizations, justifications, distortions, and downright lies and let in the light on the real truths about myself. May I meet the person I really am and take comfort in the person I can become.

Today I Will Remember

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