Your Daily Reprieve 04.05.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday April  5,  2025   From Waynesville, NC

“In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give without receiving, or receive without giving.” ~“The Gift of Sobriety,” North Hollywood, California     “I can’t imagine anything that would make me so mad, glad, or sad that I would want to go back to what I was before AA.” ~Napa, California, February 1993   "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults or resolution enough to mend them." ~Benjamin Franklin     Conscience is the root of all free courage; if we would be brave, let us obey our conscience.        -James F. Clark

Big Book Quote   Thus was our friend's cornerstone fixed in place. No later vicissitude has shaken it.   P56

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12&12   Foreword This starting expansion brought with it very severe growing pains. Proof that alcoholics could recover had been made. But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect. pp. 17-18

Twenty-Four Hours    A.A. Thought For The Day People often ask what makes the A.A. program work. One of the answers is that A.A. works because it gets people away from themselves as the center of the universe. And it teaches them to rely more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God. Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with others  is what makes the A.A. program work. Are these things keeping me sober? Meditation For The Day God is the great interpreter of one human personality to another. Even personalities who are the nearest together have much in their natures that remains a seated book to each other. And only as God enters and controls their lives are the mysteries of each revealed to the other. Each personality is so different. God alone understands perfectly the language of each and can interpret between the two.  Here we find the miracles of change and the true interpretation of life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. I pray that God will interpret to me the personalities of other people, so that I can understand them and help them.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^   Choice The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 24 Thought to Consider . . . Just for today, I choose not to drink.   ~*AACRONYMS*~ A.A. Absolute Abstinence

Daily Reflection   TRUE BROTHERHOOD We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it This self-centered behavior blocked a partnership relation with any one of those about us. Of true brotherhood we had small comprehension. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53   This message contained in Step Four was the first one I heard loud and clear; I hadn't seen myself in print before! Prior to my coining into A.A., I knew of no place that could teach me how to become a person among persons. From my very first meeting, I saw people doing just that and I wanted what they had. One of the reasons that I'm a happy, sober alcoholic today is that I'm learning this most important lesson.

Pot Luck   Where Joy Comes In   For alcoholics and addicts, a life in recovery is nothing short of beautiful. Sure, there are the normal ups and downs that any life will have, but recovery is not the end of fun. It’s the real beginning of fun, joy, and happiness. People in the meetings are strangers at first, but they quickly become like family. Soon, sharing our lives with the recovery community becomes one of our greatest sources of joy, strength, and growth. Yes, there is a 12-Step course of spiritual action, but recovery is not about any religion. It’s about having a spiritual awakening that makes lasting recovery possible.     How we experience the truth of this firsthand — because experiencing it for ourselves is the only way we’ll believe it — is by working the 12-Step program of recovery once we are sober. Working the Steps helps us find abstinence, but it also helps us find a whole lot more.     The Twelve Steps are a course of spiritual action designed to produce the necessary psychic change and vital spiritual experience within alcoholics and addicts that help bring about freedom and recovery from the disease. Put simply, we work the Steps with our sponsor, we go to meetings with our recovery community, and we try to be of help and service to anyone and everyone. Just these three things — that’s it! And doing them on a regular basis will change us and change our lives in ways we never could have imagined.

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