Your Daily Reprieve 11.13.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday November 13, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

"You wanna fly? You got to give up the s - - -

that weighs you down"

~Toni Morrison

“Thelma told me that,

no matter how much I feared making bad decisions,

I could not learn how to make good decisions except by making decisions.

‘You’ll make mistakes,’ she said, ‘We all do.

You will make some bad decisions before you learn how to make good ones.

But what is true about good decisions is also true about bad ones:

You will always learn from the consequences.’”

~May 1990, “Quiet Guidance,” Sober and Out

"If the person you are talking to

doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.

It may simply be that he has

a small piece of fluff in his ear."

~Winnie the Pooh

God withdraws to allow humans

to make moral choices.
~John Hick

Big Book Quote

What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?

P35

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November 2025 Miracles

11/1 Pat B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18

11/1 Tom K. …..1

11/1 Rick B. …..(Dyersburg, TN)…..7

11/2Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..18

11/3 Brendan H. (Brookly, NY)…..11

11/4 Patrick OD (Boston, MA)…..45

11/4 Lou L. (Smithtown, NY)…..29

11/5 Kent L. (Silverdale, WA)…..40

11/5 Neil B. (Puerto Vallarta. MX)…..54

11/6 Joyce E. (Key Largo, FL)…..1

11/6 Nancy J. (The Villages, FL)…..15

11/6 Brownie (Burlington, VT)…..40

11/7 Christine R. (Hilton Head, SC)…..2

11/7 Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)…..34

11/7 Leslie E. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..19

11/8 John E. (Nantucket, MA)…..3

11/8 Martha K. (New Hampshire)…..1

11/9 Richard D. (West Roxbury, MA)…..10

11/9 Kevin B. (Franklin, TN)…..8

11/9 Jessie R. (Brookfield, CT)…..19

11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..20

11/14 Kent B. (Patric Space Force Base)…..1

11/15 Ned W. (Portland, ME)…..40

11/16 Sondra K. (Newfound Lake)…..1

11/16 Bob S. (Kensington, NH)…..15

11/16 Robert M. (Stuart, FL)…..41

11/17 Tray B. (Waynesville, NC)…..10

11/20 Alan R. (NYC)…..3

11/20 KristyG. (Salisbury,MA)…..4

11/22 Laine C. (Yulee, FL)…..4

11/22 Michele M. (Spring Hill, FL)…..1

11/22 Terry S. (Maui, HI)…..8

11/22 Eileen M. (Sarasota, FL)…..4

11/23 Elaine P. (Las Vegas, NV)…..40

11/23 Lindsey P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..2

11/23 Caroline S. (Edinburgh, Scotland)…..29

11/25 Lucy K. (Boulder, CO)…..28

11/24 Gayle B. (Portsmouth, NH).....31

11/24 Imogen B. (London, UK)…..22

11/26 Chuck C. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..31

11/28 Hendy H. (Islington, MA)…..52

11/29 Peter V. (Kittery, ME)…..45

11/30 Peter B. (New York, NY)…..35

11/30 Morgan I. (Stirling, Scotland)…..3

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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."

Of course all A.A.'s, even the best, fall far short of such achievements as a consistent thing. Without necessarily taking that first drink, we often get quite far off the beam. Our troubles sometimes begin with indifference. We are sober and happy in our A.A. work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us. We are doing fine on a few of them. Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we "carry the message." In A.A. slang, that blissful state is known as "two-stepping." And it can go on for years.

pp. 112-113

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

I am less critical of other people, inside and outside of A.A. I used to run people
down all the time. I realize now that it was because I wanted unconsciously to build
myself up. I was envious of people who lived normal lives. I couldn't understand why
I couldn't be like them. And so I ran them down. I called them sissies or hypocrites.
I was always looking for faults in the other person. I loved to tear down what I
called "a stuff shirt" or "a snob." I have found that I can never make a person any
better by criticism. A.A. has taught me this. Am I less critical of people?

Meditation For The Day

You must admit your helplessness before your prayer for help will be heard by God.
Your own need must be recognized before you can ask God for the strength to meet
that need. But once that need is recognized, your prayer is heard above all the music
of heaven. It is not theological arguments that solve the problems of the questing
soul, but the sincere cry of that soul to God for strength and the certainty of that
soul that the cry will be heard and answered.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may send my voiceless cry for help out into the void.

I pray that I may feel certain that it will be heard somewhere, somehow.

Daily Thought

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Surrender

"There are two things I've learned from this program. First, to surrender completely. I was fighting a losing battle with the bottle. I gave up, and through defeat, I won. Second, to change myself, because the world isn't going to change to suit 'poor little old me.' It's just this simple - whatever it is in me that led me down the alcoholic road to misery, I no longer want any part of it."
c.1976 AA for the Woman
(AA Pamphlet P-5), p. 17

Thought to Consider . . .

Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.

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Always Say A Prayer

DAILY REFLECTIONS

MORNING THOUGHTS

Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each

day for the man who is still sick

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164

For many years I pondered over God's will for me,

believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for

my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith,

hadn't I been told early that I was "chosen"? It finally

occurred to me, as I considered the above passage, that

God's will for me was simply that I practice Step Twelve

on a daily basis. Furthermore, I realized I should do this to

the best of my ability. I soon learned that the practice aids

me in keeping my life in the context of the day at hand.

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As Bill Sees It

Out Of The Dark, p. 10

Self searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace

to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the

development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive

God's help. Yet it is only a step. We will want to go further.

We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and

grow. But first of all we shall want sunlight, nothing much can grow in the dark.

Meditation is our step out into the sun.

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"A clear light seems to fall upon us all--when we open our eyes. Since our

blindness is caused by our own defects, we must first deeply realize what

they are. Constructive meditation is the first requirement for each new step

in our spiritual growth."

1. Twelve And Twelve, p. 98

2. Letter, 1946

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