Your Daily Reprieve 02.23.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday February 23, 2025

From Fernandina Beach, FL

“I am finally learning really to live one day at a time

and to appreciate and be alert to the beautiful,

marvel-filled, albeit sometimes infuriating world around me.”

~ Saratoga, California, August 1985

God doesn't need my permission to change my life; but he does need my cooperation "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." ~Ernest Hemingway

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
~Eckhart Tolle

It is not the strongest of the species that survives,

nor the most intelligent that survives.

It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
~Leon C. Megginson

Big Book Quote

When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.

P64

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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."

It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us. It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart. It is in this spirit of service that we elect the A.A. group's informal rotating committee, the intergroup association for the area, and the General Service Conferences of Alcoholics Anonymous for A.A. as a whole. Even our Foundation, once an independent board, is today directly accountable to our Fellowship. Its trustees are the caretakers and expediters of our world services.

pp. 174-175

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Besides our jobs, our families, our friends and our
sobriety, we have something else which many of us found
through A.A. That's faith in a Power greater than
ourselves, to which we can turn for help: faith in that
Divine Principle in the universe which we call God and
which is on our side as long as we do the right thing.
There have been many days in the past when, if we
had taken an inventory, we'd have found ourselves very
much in the red, without sobriety and therefore without
jobs, families, friends or faith in God. We now have
these things because we're sober. Do I make one
resolution every day of my life--to stay sober?

Meditation For The Day

Love the busy life. It is a joy-filled life. Take your
fill of joy in the Spring. Live outdoors whenever
possible. Sun and air are nature's great healing forces.
That inward joy changes poisoned blood into pure,
healthy, life-giving flow. But never forget that the
real healing of the spirit comes from within, from the
close, loving contact of your spirit with God's spirit.
Keep in close communion with God's spirit day by day.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may learn to live the abundant life.
I pray that I may enjoy a close contact with God this
day and be glad in it.

Daily Thought

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Carrying the Message

"Alcoholics simply will not listen to a paid twelfth-stepper. Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on the desire to help and be helped. When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too. The money motive compromises him and everything he says and does for his prospect. This has always been so obvious that only a very few A.A.'s have ever worked the Twelfth Step for a fee."
c. 1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 166

Thought to Consider . .

There is no materialism in A.A. - just spirituality.

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Always Say A Prayer

Daily Reflection

MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES

Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising

out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old

life as a condition for finding a new one.

A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46

What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not

compute, yet when recognized and accepted, they reaffirm

something in the universe beyond human logic. When I

face a fear, I am given courage; when I support a brother or

sister, my capacity to love myself is increased; when I

accept pain as part of the growing experience of life, I

realize a greater happiness; when I look at my dark side, I

am brought into new light; when I accept my vulnerabilities

and surrender to a Higher Power, I am graced with

unforeseen strength. I stumbled through the doors of A.A.

in disgrace, expecting nothing from life, and I have been

given hope and dignity. Miraculously, the only way to keep

the gifts of the program is to pass them on.

Pot Luck

Being able to be wrong

We had to compete with everyone, sometimes subtly, sometimes less subtly. We always had to be right; to be wrong seemed unbearable. We could never seem to bring ourselves to say simply, "I was wrong." We were afraid of what would happen to us if we did. Our egos were very fragile; we were never as strong as we had led ourselves to believe.

We came to discover, however, that real strength comes from being able to be wrong and from being willing to change our ways of thinking and living.

Can I face being wrong and learn from it?

Higher Power, help me realize each day that it is okay to be wrong, that real communication with other people depends on my being willing to see other points of view, and that being teachable is a divine quality.

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