Your Daily Reprieve 08.30.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday August 30, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

Things falling apart is a kind of testing

and also a kind of healing.
Pema Chodron

One of the great self-deceptions

—and one of the great foolishnesses—

is to tell yourself, Only I will know.

Only you will know that you are a liar;

only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you;

only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise.

Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important?

It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

-~Nathaniel Branden

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-Leo Tolstoy

When I effectively practice my program, I am only a cheap dime-store garden hose carrying God’s message of hope, recovery, and forgiveness.”

“Garden Hose Sobriety,” El Paso, Texas, October 2006, Spiritual Awakenings II

"Love is not blind—It sees more, not less.

But because it sees more, It is willing to see less."
—Julius Gordon

Big Book Quote

Whatever our protestations, are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, or our self-pity?

P62

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8/18 Steve C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..7

8/19 Dave C. (Murphy, NC)…..13

8/20 Bill W. (Sarasota, FL)…..33

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

We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have "harmed" other people. What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway? To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people. If our tempers are consistently bad, we arouse anger in others. If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of their worldly goods, but of their emotional security and peace of mind. We really issue them an invitation to become contemptuous and vengeful. If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.

p. 80

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure
immunity from drinking as extensive work with other alcoholics.
Carry the message to other alcoholics. You can help when no one
else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Life
will take on new meaning for you. To watch people recover, to see
them help others in turn, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a
fellowship grow about you, to have a host of friends, this is an
experience you must not miss." Am I always ready and willing to help
other alcoholics?

Meditation For The Day

One secret of abundant living is the art of giving. The paradox of
life is that the more you give, the more you have. If you loose your
life in the service of others, you will save it. You can give
abundantly and still live abundantly. You are rich in one respect – you
have a spirit that is inexhaustible. Let no mean or selfish thought
keep you from sharing this spirit. Of love, of help, of
understanding, and of sympathy, give and keep giving. Give your
personal ease and comfort, your time, your money, and most of all,
yourself. And you will be living abundantly.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may live to give. I pray that I may learn this secret of
abundant living.

Daily Thought

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Resentment

"Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 64

Thought to Consider . . .
We are prisoners of our own resentments. Forgiveness unlocks the door and sets us free.

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F A I L U R E
Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty

DAILY REFLECTIONS

THE ONLY REQUIREMENT . . .

"At one time . . . every A. A. group had many membership

rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or

somebody would capsize the boat. . . . The total list was a

mile long. If all those rules had been in effect everywhere,

nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, . . . "

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 139-40

I'm grateful that the Third Tradition only requires of me a

desire to stop drinking. I had been breaking promises for

years. In the Fellowship I didn't have to make promises, I

didn't have to concentrate. It only required my attending

one meeting, in a foggy condition, to know I was home. I

didn't have to pledge undying love. Here, strangers hugged

me. "It gets better," they said, and "One day at a time, you

can do it." They were no longer strangers, but caring

friends. I ask God to help me to reach out to people desiring

sobriety, and to, please, keep me grateful!

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What can Sobriety Bring?

Living Sober

The single goal of staying sober is so all-important in AA that side benefits are often overlooked. There is even a tendency to warn members about the hazards of attaching importance to anything except sobriety.

But we do have to become responsible people in all things, not just sober people. We can expect real sobriety to bring the confidence and well-being we expected from the bottle, but never received.

Sobriety is not likely to give us the equivalent of the euphoria we got from drinking, but a great sense of well-being based on realistic expectations is more satisfying than the ridiculous mental states we sought in drinking.

Living the right kind of life will bring its own rewards.

Along with staying sober today, I’ll meet all my responsibilities to my family and friends. Sobriety does not promise miracles, but it does bring a good life.

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