Your Daily Reprieve 10.12.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday October 12 , 2025   From Waynesville, NC

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them at least don't hurt them" ~Dalai Lama   “In early sobriety, I remember moaning to another member about how I didn’t have a relationship, I didn’t have a new car, and I didn’t have a flashy job. He replied: ‘It takes a steady hand to hold a full cup.’” ~ Canberra, Australia, February 2003   Every human personality is something sacred, something special. We don’t have a right, as another person or as a nation, to destroy that spark of divinity, that spark of humanity,  that is made and created in the image of God.  —John Lewis    It isn't enough that we do our best, sometimes, we must do what is required" ~Winston Churchill

Big Book Quote   We missed the reality and the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some of its trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.   P50

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day   CHRIS BECK JOHN EVANS LES BROWN The Power of the Steps @39th Atlanta Mens’s Workshop Rock Eagle, GA March, 2001   https://bit.ly/4nTdYSG

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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." As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea. It will help if we can drop all resistance to what our friend says. For in meditation, debate has no place. We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn. p.99-100

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Am I still on a "free ride" in A.A.? Am I all get and no give? Do I go to meetings and always sit in the back row and let others do all the work? Do I think it's enough just because I'm sober and can rest on my laurels?  If so, I haven't gone very far in the program, nor am I getting nearly enough of what it has to offer.  I will be a weak member until I get in there and help carry the load.  I must eventually get off the bench and get into the game.  I'm not just a spectator; I'm supposed to be one of the team. Do I go in there and carry the ball? Meditation For The Day Try to be thankful for whatever vision you have. Try to perform, in the little things, faithful service to God and others. Do your small part every day in a spirit of service to God. Be a doer of God's word, not a hearer only. In your daily life try to keep faith with God. Every day brings a new opportunity to be of some use. Even when you are tempted to rest or let things go or to evade the issue, make it a habit to meet the issue squarely as a challenge and not to hold back. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may perform each task faithfully. I pray that I may meet each issue of life squarely and not hold back.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Resentment "If you have a resentment you want to be rid of, if you will pray for the person or the thing you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don't really want it for them, and your prayers are only words and you don't mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love." 1952 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition p. 552 Thought to Consider . . . An expectation is a premeditated resentment. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment

DAILY REFLECTIONS   CURBING RASHNESS When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91   Being fair-minded and tolerant is a goal toward which I must work daily. I ask God, as I understand Him, to help me to be loving and tolerant to my loved ones, and to those with whom I am in close contact. I ask for guidance to curb my speech when I am agitated, and I take a moment to reflect on the emotional upheaval my words may cause, not only to someone else, but also to myself. Prayer, meditation and inventories are the key to sound thinking and positive action for me.

Pot Luck   "Gratitude is the shortest path between me and God."   I used to take everything in my life for granted. At the height of my “big-shot-ism,” I had a lot of property and a lot of prestige. Rather than appreciating what I had, all I thought about was getting more or better or bigger. What I didn’t know was that I also had alcoholism, and the growing hole I felt inside me would never be filled with any of these outside things. When I hit bottom, I was surrounded by a lot on the outside, but I was empty on the inside. When I started going to meetings, I heard other people talk about the same hole, and I began to hear about a different way to fill it. It started, they told me, by developing an “attitude of gratitude,” and by taking reliance off of myself and placing it on a God of my own understanding. They told me I already had everything I needed to be happy, joyous, and free. My job was to become “right-sized” by working the Twelve Steps so that I could appreciate all God had done and was doing for me. As my humility grew, I found I truly had much to be grateful for. To start with, I hadn’t died or destroyed my life through my alcoholism, and I was now sober and on a spiritual path. When I looked at the abundance of everything I already had—a loving family, a wonderful new fellowship of friends, my health, and more—I came to appreciate the real richness of my life. As my gratitude continues to deepen, so does my relationship with God. Today, I have only to think about ten or fifteen things I have that property and prestige can’t fill to realize how blessed I am. Today, I know that gratitude is the shortest path between me and God

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