Your Daily Reprieve 11.03.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday November  3, 2025   From Waynesville, NC

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story. Angela Buchdahl   "Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called “perfection,” which will open the doors to the most important relationships you’ll ever be a part of.” – Dan Pear     It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.  ~Queen Elizabeth II     It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. -- Ernest A. Fitzgerald

Big Book Quote   To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self-sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.   P93

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day   BOB NEUMAYER Atlantic Group 2004   https://bit.ly/3IULo4I

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12&12   Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." So, practicing these Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question. Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in. From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter who still claimed that he hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name. p. 109

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day I have charity, another word for love. That right kind of love which is not selfish passion but an unselfish, outgoing desire to help other people. To do what is best for the other person, to put what is best for him or her above my own desires. To put God first, the other person second, and myself last. Charity is gentle, kind, understanding, long-suffering, and full of desire to serve. A.A. has given me this. What I do for myself is lost; what I do for others may be written somewhere in eternity. Have I charity? Meditation For The Day "Ask what you will and it shall be done unto you." God has unlimited power. There is no limit to what His power can do in human hearts. But we must will to have God's power and we must ask God for it. God's power is blocked off from us by our indifference to it. We can go along our own selfish way without calling on God's help and we get no power. But when we trust in God, we can will to have the power we need. When we sincerely ask God for it, we get it abundantly. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may will to have God's power. I pray that I may keep praying for the strength I need.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Step One "No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now becomes the rapacious creditor, bleeds us all of self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built." 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 21 Thought to Consider . . . Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

DAILY REFLECTIONS   FOCUSING AND LISTENING There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 98   If I do my self-examination first, then surely, I'll have enough humility to pray and meditate—because I'll see and feel my need for them. Some wish to begin and end with prayer, leaving the self-examination and meditation to take place in between, whereas others start with meditation, listening for advice from God about their still hidden or unacknowledged defects. Still others engage in written and verbal work on their defects, ending with a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. These three-self-examination, meditation and prayer—form a circle, without a beginning or an end. No matter where, or how, I start, I eventually arrive at my destination: a better life.

POT LUCK     "It is a pity we can’t forget our troubles the same way we forget our blessings."     I used to wake up reviewing all the bad things in my life. To start with, I usually had a deep hangover—the kind where your head hurts when you move it just an inch. Then I’d wonder how I was going to work that day, and if the boss would make good on his threat to fire me if I called in late again. I’d next review my dwindling bank balance and think about all my bills. By the time I reached for a cigarette and coffee, I was pretty much defeated.   In early recovery, I used to still wake up and review all the bad things in my life. I had lost that job, and I was living off borrowed money from my home equity line. I was now sentenced to A.A. meetings and forced to work the Steps. By the time I reached for a cup of coffee, I was pretty sure my life was over. My sponsor wasn’t having any of my pity party. He suggested I write a gratitude list which started with things like (1) I was alive and not in jail, (2) I was sober today, (3) I actually owned a home I could borrow on, and (4) I had time to attend multiple meetings throughout the day. Turns out, I did have a lot to be grateful for.   These days, the pity pot doesn’t get used as much, but I can still get into fear and worry. When I do, I review all the things sobriety and my Higher Power have blessed me with: my life, long-term sobriety, spiritual tools that allow me to live comfortably—even serenely—in my own skin. And I have a lot of “outside” stuff as well. Today, I try to forget the temporary troubles that come and go and stay focused on the blessings that are always with me. When I do, I live a very happy and contented life.

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