Your Daily Reprieve 08.01.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday August 1, 2025   From Waynesville, NC

“Mere change is not necessarily progress.” AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1945     There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.  Christopher Morley   "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth" ~Muhammad Ali   My flaws are evident, but God believes I am worth it.  ~Maya Angelou

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."   P153

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12&12   Step Seven - "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. p. 70

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. It has taken from these what it wanted and combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The results have been very satisfactory. We do not try to improve on the A.A. program. Its value has been proved by the success it has had in helping thousands of alcoholics to recover. It has everything we alcoholics need to arrest our illness. Do I try to follow the A.A. program just as it is? Meditation For The Day You should strive for a union between your purposes in life and the purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a human soul and God. Priceless beyond all earth's rewards is that union. In merging your heart and mind with the heart and mind of the Higher Power, a oneness of purpose results, which only those who experience it can even dimly realize. That oneness of purpose puts you in harmony with God and with all others who are trying to do His will. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may become attuned to the will of God. I pray that I may be in harmony with the music of the spheres.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Defiance "As psychiatrists have often observed, defiance is the outstanding characteristic of many an alcoholic. When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe." Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 31  Thought to Consider . . .  While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works. *~*AACRONYMS*~* L O V E Living Our Valuable Experiences

Daily Reflection   LIVING IT The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83   When new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I'm sober, I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty years. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear.

Pot Luck   Better bend than break. ~Scottish proverb   Our program is based on bending. We call it "surrender." We surrender our self-will to the care of a Higher Power. We do what we believe our Higher Power wants us to do. We learn this as an act of love.   Many of us believed surrender was a sign of weakness. We tried to control everything. But we change as we're in the program longer and longer. We learn to bend. We start to see that what is important is learning.  We learn to do what's best for us and for others. To learn, we need an open mind. To bend, we must stay open. Love and care become the center of our lives.   Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, teach me that strength comes from knowing how and when to bend.   Action for the Day: Today I'll check on myself. How open am I? Do I bend when I need to?

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