Your Daily Reprieve 09.18.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday September 18, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

To live in the present is finally

what we mean by presence itself!

God is hidden in plain sight.
—Richard Rohr

Love knows what we can do. Let’s begin.

Perhaps God is only waiting for our kind intention.
—Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

“I can recall that even as a small child

I had allergic reactions to certain forms of reality.”

~Williamstown, West Virginia, December 1997

Discovery consists of

looking at the same thing as everyone else

and thinking something different.
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Big Book Quote

Here and there, once in a while, alcoholics have had what are called vital spiritual experiences. To me these occurrences are phenomena. They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements. Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.

P27

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9/2 George B. (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..11

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9/6 Jim H. (Fernandina Bech, FL)…..6

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9/8 Julie N. (Port Washington, NY)…..7

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9/9 Tony S. (Jacksonville, FL)…..3

9/9 Jeanne W. (Jacksonville, FL)…..5

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9/10 Kitty G. (Sarasota, FL)…..10

9/11 Amelia G. (Sydney, Australia)…..1

9/11 Deck H. (Westport, CT)…..39

9/12 Joe C. (Palm Coast/Waynesville, NC)…..35

9/13 Jim L. (Ludlow, VT)…..13

9/13 Lisa N. (Bergen County, NJ)…..14

9/13 Mark M. (Long Island, NY)…..8

9/14 Mitchell W. …..5

9/14 Jackson R. (Palm Coast, FL)…..3

9/15 Fiona H. (Hampshire, UK)…..6

9/15 Arlene D. (Sarasota, FL)…..43

9/15 Hillary M. (New Canaan, CT) …..8

9/15 Sue B. (Montpelier, VT/Gulfport, FL)…..12

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9/18 George P. (London, England)…..49

9/18 Jim H. (Houston, TX)…..15

9/19 Wendy H. (California)…..41

9/19 John A. (Gainesville, GA)…..14

9/19 Mark S. (Scotland/Perth, AU)…..5

9/19 Jim H. (New Rochelle, NY)……44

9/20 Patricia W. (Portsmouth GB, UK)…..5

9/20 Dawn D. (New York, NY)…..16

9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..14

9/20 Ted Z. (Gibsonville, NC)…..37

9/23 Bill G. (Woodstock, VT)…..40

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9/23 Pat C. (Ruskin, FL)…..51

9/24 Katie S. (East Hampton, NY…..25

9/24 Julia O. (Westhampton Beach, NY)…..7

9/24 Frank P. (Westfield, NJ)…..2

9/25 Barry A. (Ruskin, FL)…..26

9/26 Alexander P. (New York)…..1

9/27 Karen R. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)…..3

9/27 Kristen C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..16

9/28 Stephanie M. (Fern Park, FL)…..1

9/29 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23

9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52

9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5

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Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds of disturbances--jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride--did the same thing.

p. 90

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Step Two is: "Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity." Step Three
is: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him." Step
Eleven is: "Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood
Him, praying only for the knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out." The fundamental basis
of A.A. is the belief in a Power greater than ourselves.
Let us not water this down. We cannot get the program
without this venture of belief. Have I made the venture of
belief in a Power greater than my own?

Meditation For The Day

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High,
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Dwell for
a moment each day in a secret place, the place of
communion with God, apart from the world, and thence
receive strength to face the world. Material things cannot
intrude upon this secret place, they cannot ever find it,
because it is outside the realm of material things. When
you abide in this secret place, you are under the shadow
of the Almighty. God is close to you in this quiet place
of communion. Each day, dwell for a while in this secret
place.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may renew my strength in quietness.
I pray that I may find rest in quiet communion with God.

Daily Thought

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Resentment

"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66

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

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DAILY REFLECTIONS

LOVED BACK TO RECOVERY

Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to

be cast aside. This had not been done with old-fashioned

willpower; it was instead a matter of developing the

willingness to accept these new facts of living. We neither

ran nor fought. But accept we did And then we were free.

BEST OF THE GRAPEVINE, Vol. I, p. 198

I can be free of my old enslaving self. After a while I

recognize, and believe in, the good within myself. I see that

I have been loved back to recovery by my Higher Power,

who envelops me. My Higher Power becomes that source

of love and strength that is performing a continuing miracle

in me. I am sober . . . and I am grateful.

Pot Luck

"Take the mess to your sponsor, take the message to the meeting."

A friend in recovery shared something once that I’ve never forgotten. He was newly married and struggling with the transition from living alone for many years as a bachelor. His therapist suggested that rather than trying to process his uncomfortable emotions with his new bride, he should, instead, bring his problems into therapy, and then bring the solutions back to the relationship. I thought that was just brilliant advice.

And it was definitely not how I was used to living my life. Before recovery, if I had a problem (and I had many), everyone heard about them. I would bemoan the state of my life to anyone within earshot, and if you were the cause of my stress, I talked endlessly behind your back. My ultimate solution was to get drunk, but when I came to, none of these problems had gone away. Instead, I often had just made them worse. I needed a better solution.

When I entered the rooms, I thought I had found one. In each meeting I went to, I began sharing how bad my life was, how it was everyone else’s fault, and how the Twelve Steps probably wouldn’t help me. My new sponsor pulled me aside early on and suggested I share this mess with him, one on one, and then bring any solutions I found back to the meetings. That worked much better. Today, I go to meetings and listen to other people’s solutions to the problems I may be struggling with. I always hear them if I’m willing to listen.

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