Your Daily Reprieve 09.02.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday September 2, 2025   From Waynesville, NC

Aging is a moral and spiritual frontier because its unknowns, terrors, and mysteries cannot be successfully crossed without humility and self-knowledge. Without love and compassion. Without acceptance of physical decline and mortality, and a sense of the sacred. ~Thomas R. Cole   The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are.   Rather, it is about unbecoming who you are not. ~Leonard Jacobson   This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook —try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun. Julia Child   It is not enough merely to possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.      - Cicero

Big Book Quote   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.   P64

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day   KATHY N. Colorado Springs, CO Serenity Improvement Group 12.28.24   https://bit.ly/4fJAevi

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12&12  Step Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all." Whenever our pencil falters, we can fortify and cheer ourselves by remembering what A.A. experience in this Step has meant to others. It is the beginning of the end of isolation from our fellows and from God. p. 82

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day "Outline the program of action to new prospects, explaining how you made a self appraisal, how you straightened out your past, and why you are now endeavoring to help them. It is important for them to realize that your attempt to pass this on to them plays a vital part in your recovery. The more hopeless they feel, the better. They will be more likely to follow your suggestions. Tell them about the fellowship of A.A. and if they show interest, lend them a copy of the Big Book." Can I tell the A.A. story to another alcoholic? Meditation For The Day You should try to stand aside and let God work through you. You should try not to block Him off by your own efforts, or prevent His spirit working through you. God desires your obedient service and your loyalty to the ideals of the new life you are seeking. If you are loyal to God, He will give you protection against mistakes. His spirit will plan for you and secure for you a sufficiency of all spiritual help. You will have true victory and real success, if you will put yourself in the background and let God work through you. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not interfere with the working of God's spirit in me and through me. I pray that I may give it full rein.

Daily Thought   ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Change "Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better. But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in A.A. as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way. The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails." Bill W., Grapevine, July 1965 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 115  Thought to Consider . . .  God used two people to create me; He used a whole Fellowship to change me.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Forget Everything And Run

DAILY REFLECTIONS   FINDING "A REASON TO BELIEVE" The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 171   A line from a song goes, ". . . and I look to find a reason to believe . . ." It reminds me that at one time I was not able to find a reason to believe that my life was all right. Even though my life had been saved by my coming to A.A., three months later I went out and drank again. Someone told me: "You don't have to believe. Aren't you willing to believe that there is a reason for your life, even though you may not know yourself what that reason is, or that you may not sometimes know the right way to behave?" When I saw how willing I was to believe there was a reason for my life, then I could start to work on the Steps. Now when I begin with, "I am willing. . . ," I am using the key that leads to action, honesty, and an openness to a Higher Power moving through my life.

Pot Luck     Keep It Simple   A man should never be ashamed to own he was in the wrong. —Jonathan Swift   In the past, we felt a mistake was a crisis. We thought we had a to be perfect. Our old way was to try to hide our mistakes. We were ashamed. We thought making mistakes meant we were bad.   Mistakes are normal. We can learn from our mistakes. They can teach us.   They can guide us. The Tenth Step directs us to promptly admit when we’re wrong. Then, over time, we start to see mistakes as normal life events. As we face and correct our mistakes, shame is washed away. We feel lighter.  We know it is normal to make mistakes.   Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me see that mistakes are normal life events. Help me promptly admit when I’m wrong.   Action for the Day: Today, I’ll talk to my sponsor about mistakes I’ve made the past week. I’ll not act ashamed of my mistakes.

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