Your Daily Reprieve 10.08.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday  October 8 , 2025   From Waynesville, NC

Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien   The future starts today, not tomorrow. --Pope John Paul II   Don't live in the past...you have already been there. --Cited in BITS & PIECES   The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today...that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday's nightmares and unlocks tomorrow's dreams. --Charles Swindoll

Big Book Quote   The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty.   P15

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day   ARIS S. SCOTTY A. STEVE N. Magic: The Power of the Twelve Steps @42nd Atlanta Men’s Workshop Rock Eagle, GA 2002   https://bit.ly/48yow57

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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." We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. Most certainly we shall need bracing air and an abundance of food. But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. How, then, shall we meditate? p. 98

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day There is such a thing as being too loyal to any one group. Do I feel put out when another group starts and some members of my group leave it and branch out into new territory? Or do I send them out with my blessing? Do I visit that new offshoot group and help it along? Or do I sulk in my own tent? A.A. grows by the starting of new groups all the time. I must realize that it's a good thing for a large group to split up into smaller ones, even it if means that the large group --my own group--becomes smaller. Am I always ready to help new groups? Meditation For The Day Pray--and keep praying until it brings peace and serenity and a feeling of communion with One who is near and ready to help. The thought of God is balm for our hates and fears. In praying to God, we find healing for hurt feelings and resentments. In thinking of God, doubts and fears leave us. Instead of those doubts and fears, there will flow into our hearts such faith and love as is beyond the power of material things to give, and such peace as the world can neither give nor take away. And with God, we can have the tolerance to live and let live. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may have true tolerance and understanding. I pray that I may keep striving for these difficult things.

Daily Thought   ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Half Measures "Remember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help, it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find Him now. Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 58-9 Thought to Consider . . . Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I N E Feeling Insecure, Numb, and Empty

DAILY REFLECTIONS   DAILY INVENTORY . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59   I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships had begun to be repaired. Life was exciting, and I even began to enjoy my work, becoming so bold as to issue a report on the lack of proper care for some of our clients. One day a co-worker informed me that my boss was really sore because a complaint, submitted over his head, had caused him much discomfort at the hands of his superiors. I knew that my report had created the problem, and began to feel responsible for my boss's difficulty. In discussing the affair, my co-worker tried to reassure me that an apology was not necessary, but I soon became convinced that I had to do something, regardless of how it might turn out. When I approached my boss and owned up to my hand in his difficulties, he was surprised. But unexpected things came out of our encounter, and my boss and I were able to agree to interact more directly and effectively in the future.

Pot Luck     Father Leo's Daily Meditation   ADVERSITY   "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." --Horace   Today I believe that the only way to understand God, the world, my neighbor and myself is through some degree of suffering. Pain and suffering are humbling in the truest sense; they stop you from being arrogant, selfish and "prideful".   I know this because I was a spoiled child. My family tried to give me everything. Whatever I wanted was given to me; my way or no way! This sick love robbed me of humility and separated me from humanity: it made me feel different, selfish and place me on a pity-pot. Being spoiled stopped me experiencing the real world and stopped me from growing.   Today adversity is part of life and part of being human. Not to grow through adversity is to die. To have everything is to experience nothing. To feel in life -- to have emotion -- demands adversity and pain.   Teach me to be grateful for the suffering that leads to growth.

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