Your Daily Reprieve 10.04.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday October 4 , 2025   From Waynesville, NC

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as collateral.      -Myrtle Reed   Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness. ~Thomas Adams   "The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for." ~Mark Twain   I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.  Then, whenever doubts, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal—and soon they’ll forget my number.     -Edith Armstrong

Big Book Quote   Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children.   P62

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day     LEW FINNAMORE Vancouver @Shared Feelings Conference Pentiction, BC 09.08.1987   https://bit.ly/4ngo1Bm

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12&12 Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." Sometimes we took a slightly different tack. Sure, we said to ourselves, the hen probably did come before the egg. No doubt the universe had a "first cause" of some sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, hot and cold by turns. But certainly there wasn't any evidence of a God who knew or cared about human beings. We liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong. Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer. And that, we have found, can happen to anybody who tries. It has been well said that "almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never tried it enough." p. 97

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Am I critical of other members of A.A. or of new prospects? Do I ever say about other members: "I don't think they're sincere, I think they're bluffing, or I think they're taking a few drinks on the quiet?" Do I realize that my doubtful and skeptical attitude is hurting those members, if only in my attitude toward them, which they cannot help sensing? Do I say about new prospects: "They'll never make the program," or do I say: "They'll only last a few months?" If I take this attitude, I am unconsciously hurting those prospects' chances. Is my attitude always constructive and never destructive? Meditation For The Day To be attracted toward God and a better life, you must be spirit-guided. There is wonderful illumination of thought given to those who are spirit-guided. To those who are material-guided, there is nothing in God or a finer life to appeal to them or to attract them. But to those who are spirit-guided there is strength and peace and calm to be found in communion with an Unseen Lord. To those who believe in this God they cannot see but whose power they can feel, life has a meaning and purpose. They are children of the Unseen Lord, and all human beings are their brothers and sisters. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be spirit-guided. I pray that I may feel God's presence and power in my life.

Daily Thought   ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Way of Life "The A.A. way of life is the way we always should have tried to live. 'Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.' These thoughts become part of our daily lives. They are not ideas of resignation but of the recognition of certain basic facts of living." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 382-3 Thought to Consider . . . Every day is a gift. That is why we call it the present.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* K I S S Keep It Simple, Spiritually

DAILY REFLECTIONS   SERENITY AFTER THE STORM Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A. 's can agree with him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 93-94   When on the roller coaster of emotional turmoil, I remember that growth is often painful. My evolution in the A.A. program has taught me that I must experience the inner change, however painful, that eventually guides me from selfishness to selflessness. If I am to have serenity, I must STEP my way past emotional turmoil and its subsequent hangover, and be grateful for continuing spiritual progress.

Pot Luck     Each Day a New Beginning   Praise and an attitude of gratitude are unbeatable stimulators … we increase whatever we extol. —Sylvia Stitt Edwards   What outlook are we carrying forth into the day ahead? Are we feeling fearful about the circumstances confronting us? Do we dread a planned meeting? Are we worried about the welfare of a friend or lover?   Whatever our present outlook, its power over the outcome of our day is profound. Our attitude in regard to any situation attracting our attention influences the outcome. Sometimes to our favor, often to our disfavor if our attitude is negative.   Thankfulness toward life guarantees the rewards we desire, the rewards we seek too often from an ungrateful stance. The feeling of gratitude is foreign to many of us. We came to this program feeling worthless, sometimes rejected, frequently depressed. It seemed life had heaped problems in our laps, and so it had. The more we lamented what life “gave us,” the more reasons we were given to lament. We got just what we expected. We still get just what we expect.   The difference is that the program has offered us the key to higher expectations. Gratitude for the good in our lives increases the good.   I have the personal power to influence my day; I will make it a good one.

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