Your Daily Reprieve 08.29.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday August 29, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

“It has been difficult for me to accept myself and some of my decisions ...

But I’ve done the best I can with the information available,

even if it might not be someone else’s best.”

~ Bennettsville, Minnesota, December 1999

Good judgment comes from experience,

but experience comes from bad judgment.
~Margaret Atwood

"Nothing happens

until the pain of remaining the same

outweighs the pain of change."

~Arthur Burt

“For thousands of alcoholics yet to come,

AA does have an answer. But there is one condition.

We must, at all costs, preserve our essential unity;

it must be made unbreakably secure.

Without permanent unity there can be

little lasting recovery for anyone.

Hence our future depends upon

the creation and observance of a sound group Tradition.

First things will always need to be first:

humility before success, and unity before fame.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947

Big Book Quote

But he had found God-and in finding God had found himself.

P158

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AUGUST 2025 Miracles

8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..16

8/1 David G. (Salem, NH)…..34

8/1 Michael K. …..15

8/1 Janet F. (Myrtle Beach, SC)…..3

8/1 Jessica E. (Sugar Land, TX)..…8

8/2 Garry K. (Kelowna, BC)…..56

8/2 Judy J. …..1

8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ)…..10

8/3 Kurt O. (Sarasota, FL)…..3

8/4 Dan M. (Nantucket, MA)…..23

8/4 Maureen Q. (Syracuse, NY)…..31

8/5 Andre de (Bracknell, UK)…..23

8/5 Mary OO (Marina del Rey, CA)…..45

8/6 Jason J. (Maggie Valley, NC)…..13

8/7 Carrie B. (Orange Park, FL)…..6

8/7 Sherri R. (Panama City, FL)…..1

8/7 Glad H. (Atlantic Beach, FL)…..29

8/7 John D. (Natick, MA).….17

8/8/08 Donna F. (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..17

8/8 Steve R. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..1

8/8 Marlene O. (Alpine, WY)…..8

8/8 Chris G. (Stuart, FL/Stone Harbor, NJ)…..21

8/8 Lisa L. (Canton, NC)…..10

8/8 David T. (Newmarket, NH)…..43

8/8 Leslie N. (New Providence, NJ)…..37

8/9 Jay C. (Waco, TX)…..23

8/9 Louise M. (Palm Coast, FL)….16

8/9 Vern M. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..25

8/9 Laura R. (Beaverton, OR)…..37

8/10 Justin B. (Anderson, SC)…..7

8/10 Susan B. (Tinton Falls, NJ)…..23

8/10 Rich M. (Rhinebeck, NY)…..11

8/11 Caroline O. (Selsey Bill, UK)…..16

8/11 Page H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..49

8/12 Billy M. (Haymarket, VA)…..25

8/13 Tommy OC. …..40

8/13 Kate P. (Hampton, NH)…..36

8/14 Tim D. (Newburyport, MA)…..32

8/14 Dottie Lu W. (St. Simons Island, GA)…..40

8/14 Wendy R. (WPB, FL)…..8

8/15 Tom W. (Charlotte, NC)…..1

8/15 Brian M. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..37

8/15 Dave O. (Everett, MA)…..6

8/15 Malley H. (Kingston, NY)…..40

8/15 George Y. …..31

8/15 Kurtis E. (Stuart, FL)…..3

8/15 Ronnie B. (Graham, NC)…..3

8/15 Siobhan (NYC)…..26

8/15 Ann W. (Darien, CT)…..40

8/16 Charlotte C. (New York City)…..16

8/16 Jody M. (Laguna Niguel, CA)…..19

8/16 Jeffrey B. (Vancouver, BC, CA)…..22

8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH/Naples, FL)…..27

8/17 John T. (Sarasota, FL)…..9

8/17 Susan D. (Parsippany, NJ)…..1

8/17 Jon B. (Parsonsburg, MD)…..37

8/18 Billy M. (Austin, TX)…..4

8/18 Paul D. (Hampton, NH)…..5

8/18 Steve C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..7

8/19 Dave C. (Murphy, NC)…..13

8/20 Bill W. (Sarasota, FL)…..33

8/20 Kurt M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18

8/20 Larry B. (Kansas City, Kansas)…..24

8/21 Yolanda H. (Santa Cruz, CA)…..38

8/21 Kevin J. (Hampton NH …..16

8/22 Jackie Y. (Tustin, CA)…..31

8/22 John K. (Ruskin, FL)…..3

8/24 Marilyn R. (Sarasota, FL)…..30

8/24 Scott W. (Sarasota, FL)…..24

8/24 Claire S. (Garnerville, NY)…..38

8/25 John P. (Mallorca, Spain)…..6

8/26 Mike C. (Hilliard, OH)…..27

8/27 Stuart W. (Old Tappan, NJ)…..24

8/27 Greg R. (NYC)…..18

8/27 Kim S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30

8/28 Chuck M. (Boston, MA)…..40

8/28 Delia S. (Savannah, GA)…..35

8/28 John P. (Mallorca, SP)…..6

8/28 Patrick O. (Salt Lake City, UT)…..1

8/28 John D. (Graham, NC)…..7

8/28 Rick K. (Westport, CT)…..9

8/29 Mary O’C. (Maynard, MA)…..13

8/30 Chris B. (Sandwich, NH)…..33

8/30 Holly S. (Montreal, CA)…..28

8/30 Jeff G. (Morristown, NJ)…..12

8/31 Sarah M. …..17

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

While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can. Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. Calm, thoughtful reflection upon personal relations can deepen our insight. We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole pattern of our lives. Thoroughness, we have found, will pay--and pay handsomely.

p. 80

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

"We cannot get along without prayer and meditation. On
awakening, let us think about the 24 hours ahead. We consider our
plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our
thinking. Our thought lives will be placed on a much higher plane
when we start the day with prayer and meditation. We conclude
this period of meditation with a prayer that we will be shown
through the day what our next step is to be. The basis of all our
prayers is: Thy will be done in me and through me today." Am I
sincere in my desire to do God's will today?

Meditation For The Day

Breathe in the inspiration of goodness and truth. It is the spirit of
honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love. It is readily available if we
are willing to accept it wholeheartedly. God has given us two things
– His spirit and the power of choice – to accept or not, as we will.
We have the gift of free will. When we choose the path of
selfishness and greed and pride, we are refusing to accept God's
spirit. When we choose the path of love and service, we accept
God's spirit and it flows into us and makes all things new.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may choose the right way. I pray that I may try to
follow it to the end.

Daily Thought

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Neighbors

"Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly like people on a sinking ship. If you live in a large place, there are hundreds. High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous. Among them you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey. 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 they neighbor as thyself.'"
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 152-3

Thought to Consider . . .
Let us always love the best in others - and never fear their worst.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B O G G L E
Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone

DAILY REFLECTIONS

I CHOOSE ANONYMITY

We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the

greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever

have.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 187

Since there are no rules in A.A. I place myself where I want

to be, and so I choose anonymity. I want my God to use

me, humbly, as one of His tools in this program. Sacrifice

is the art of giving of myself freely, allowing humility to

replace my ego. With sobriety, I suppress that urge to cry

out to the world, "I am a member of A.A." and I experience

inner joy and peace. I let people see the changes in me and

hope they will ask what happened to me. I place the

principles of spirituality ahead of judging, fault-finding,

and criticism. I want love and caring in my group, so I can

grow.

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Keep It Simple

It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them —Adlai Stevenson

It easy to talk about our values. But when the clerk at the store gives extra change by mistake, those values get put to the test. It feels good to read about spirituality in a comfortable chair at home. But when we get stuck in a traffic jam, it’s hard to live by our values.

That’s why practicing our program daily helps. Practice prepares us for the tough times. Maybe we’ll feel like drinking or using other drugs once a year. Maybe we’ll only get the wrong amount of change once a year. But if we live our values daily, we’ll be ready when the hard times come.

Remember: “It’s not enough to talk the talk. You have to walk the walk.”

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me live this program each day. Help me “walk the walk.”

Action for the Day: Today, I’ll do a Tenth Step. Taking an inventory tells me if I’m living up to my values.

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