Your Daily Reprieve 08.25.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday August 25, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

"The problem is never how to get new,

innovative thoughts into your mind,

but how to get old ones out."

—Dee Hock

“Let us of AA ... resolve that

we shall always be inclusive and never exclusive,

offering all we have to all, save our title.

May all barriers be thus leveled.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., February 1948

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit;

we cannot flower and grow without it.

And yet, while most of us are only too ready

to apply to others the cold wind of criticism,

we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow

the warm sunshine of praise.

-Jess Lair

Smile from inside the center of your soul

to its circumference.
author unknown

Big Book Quote

The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism.

P17

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Step Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."

When listing the people we have harmed, most of us hit another solid obstacle. We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those we had hurt. It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another human being. But the prospect of actually visiting or even writing the people concerned now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered in what poor favor we stood with most of them. There were cases, too, where we had damaged others who were still happily unaware of being hurt. Why, we cried, shouldn't bygones be bygones? Why do we have to think of these people at all? These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.

pp. 78-79

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

"Unless we discuss our defects with another person, we do not acquire
enough humility, fearlessness, and honesty to really get the program.
We must be entirely honest with somebody, if we expect to live
happily in this world. We must be hard on ourselves, but always
considerate of others. We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating
every twist of character and every dark cranny of the past. Once we
have taken this step, withholding nothing, we can look the world in
the eyes." Have I discussed all my defects with another person?

Meditation For The Day

Never yield to weariness of the spirit. At times, the world's cares
and distractions will intrude and the spirit will become weak. At
times like this, carry on and soon the spirit will become strong
again. God's spirit is always with you, to replenish and renew. None
ever sincerely sought God's help in vain. Physical weariness and
exhaustion make a time of rest and communion with God more
necessary. When you are overcome by temporary conditions that you
cannot control, keep quiet and wait for the power of the spirit to flow
back.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not speak or act in the midst of emotional upheaval.
I pray that I may wait until the tempest is past.

Daily Thought

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Change

"How many of us would presume to declare, 'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deteriorate. For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow. Change we must; we cannot stand still."
Bill W., Grapevine, February 1961
1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 25

Thought to Consider . . .

There are only two things an alcoholic doesn't like - the way things are, and change.

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C H A N G E
Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Every day

DAILY REFLECTIONS

THE GIFT OF BONDING

Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy

will

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 63

Many times in my alcoholic state, I drank to establish a

bond between myself and others, but I succeeded only in

establishing the bondage of alcoholic loneliness. Through

the A.A. way of life, I have received the gift of bonding—

with those who were there before me, with those who are

there now, and with those yet to come. For this gracious

gift from God, I am forever grateful.

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GOD-PLAYING

"I determine who is a Jew."

--Herman Goring

Playing God. How well I remember this attitude in my drinking days

when, because I had said it, it must be so! Arrogance and pride kept

me lonely and isolated.

Today my spiritual program teaches me to "play" God in a different

way. It requires that I seek to discover the values I associate with God

and live them out in my own life. Because I believe that God is loving

and accepting, I seek to reveal these qualities in my daily associations.

It makes no sense to worship a God of truth if I continue the life of

"the liar". Belief must determine change.

As a recovering alcoholic I seek to "play" God in the joy, acceptance

and love I show to myself and other people. However, I know (oh how

I know!) that I am not God!

Let my statements always be open to the "pure light" of change.

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