Your Daily Reprieve 10.01.25

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday October 1, 2025   From Palm Coast, FL

“I practice the Twelve Steps of AA every day to the best of my ability. As long as I do that, I will not need to drink, no matter what situation I am faced with.” ~Franklin, Massachusetts, May 1982     Regardless of what you lose or the challenges you face, you will never lose the power to make decisions" ~Jacinta Mpalyenkana   When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction. -Beverly LaHaye   It is the preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents people from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell

Big Book Quote   Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now.   P16

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day     FRANK C. Pacific Palisades, CA Dynamics Group/Anaheim, CA 02.14.2009   https://bit.ly/4psLnVV

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12&12  Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. p. 95

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day A.A. will lose some of its effectiveness if I do not do my share. Where am I failing? Are there some things I do not feel like doing? Am I held back by self-consciousness or fear? Self-consciousness is a form of pride .It is a fear that something may happen to you. What happens to you is not very important. The impression you make on others does not depend so much on the kind of job you do as on your sincerity and honesty of purpose. Am I holding back because I am afraid of not making a good impression? Meditation For The Day Look to God for the true power that will make you effective. See no other wholly dependable supply of strength. That is the secret of a truly effective life. And you, in your turn, will be used to help many others find effectiveness. Whatever spiritual help you need, whatever spiritual help you desire for others, look to God. Seek that God's will be done in your life and seek that your will conforms to His.    Failures come from depending too much on your own strength. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may feel that nothing good is too much for me if I look to God for help. I pray that I may be effective through His guidance.

Daily Thought   ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Ambition " . . . the certainty that we are no longer isolated in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things - these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God." 1953 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 124-5 Thought to Consider . . . The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I T Faith, Intuition, and Trust

DAILY REFLECTIONS   LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT   It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85   When I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I have found in the program. Relief from that pain is provided in the solutions contained in A.A.'s Twelve Steps. But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I can become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and turn into the problem instead of the solution. I need to get into action, to take stock: where am I and where am I going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must change to regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within myself, to God and to another human being, keeps me honest and humble.

Pot Luck     "If I’m okay with me, I have no need to make you wrong."     One of the biggest gifts I’ve been given in recovery is the ability to pause when I’m feeling anxious, angry, or judgmental and ask myself what I’m afraid of. Just today as I was driving, I found that I was taking all the other drivers’ inventories. That guy was driving too fast; she was making an illegal U-turn; that guy was driving like an idiot and should be locked up. Suddenly a wonderful awareness came over me, and I stopped and did a quick fear inventory. Within minutes I was restored to sanity, and once again my focus was where it should have been—on my own driving.   It didn’t always used to be this way. For years, whenever I was feeling out of sorts, I looked outside of myself for the cause. There was always someone not doing things my way, or someone acting worse than I was, and it was easy to point out their faults to make myself feel better. Needless to say, I had more resentments than friends, and when I entered the program I was angry and alone.   What I’ve learned in recovery is that whenever I’m feeling irritable, restless, or discontented, it is always because I’m in self-centered fear and spiritually disconnected from my Higher Power. The ability to recognize this has literally changed my life, and today I use the tools of the program to self-soothe and to live comfortably in my own skin. Today, if I’m okay with me, I have no need to make you wrong.

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