Your Daily Reprieve 11.17.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday November 17, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

Appreciation is like an insurance policy.

It has to be renewed every now and then.

- Dave McIntyre

"There ain't no doubt in no one's mind

that love's the finest thing around,

whisper something soft and kind"

~James Taylor

If there were nothing wrong in the world

there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

- George Bernard Shaw

They were so strong in their beliefs t

hat there came a time when it hardly mattered

what exactly those beliefs were;

they all fused into a single stubbornness.

- Louise Erdrich

Big Book Quote

There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us.

P15

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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

11/6 Margo F. (Fort Myers, FL)…..39

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. (Patrick 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

11/16 Jayne W. (Bermuda)…..40

11/17 Tray B. (Waynesville, NC)…..10

11/19 Debbie F. (Florham Park, NJ/Ft Pierce, FL)..2

11/20 Alan R. (NYC)…..3

11/20 Kristy G. (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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Tradition One - "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. Unity."

So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question. In the world about us we saw personalities destroying whole peoples. The struggle for wealth, power, and prestige was tearing humanity apart as never before. If strong people were stalemated in the search for peace and harmony, what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics? As we had once struggled and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which A.A. itself might survive. on anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out.

pp. 130-131

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought for the Day

Everyone has two personalities, a good and a bad.

We are all dual personalities to some extent.

When we were drinking,

the bad personality was in control.

We did things when we were drunk

that we would never do when we were sober.

When we sober up, we are different people.

Then we wonder how we could have done the things we did.

But we drink again, and again our bad side comes out.

So we are back and forth, always in conflict

with our other selves, always in a stew.

This division of our selves is not good;

we must somehow become unified.

We do this by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to A.A.

and to sobriety. Have I become unified?

Meditation for the Day

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

Enter into the joy of Thy Lord."

These words are for many ordinary people,

whom the world may pass by, unrecognizing.

Not to the world-famed, the proud, the wealthy,

are these words spoken, but to the quiet followers

who serve God unobtrusively yet faithfully,

who bear their crosses bravely

and put a smiling face to the world.

"Enter into the joy of Thy Lord."

Pass into that fuller spiritual life,

which is a life of joy and peace.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not desire the world's applause.

I pray that I may not seek rewards

for doing what I believe is right.

Daily Thought

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Comfort

"When I am feeling depressed, I repeat to myself statements such as these: 'Pain is the touchstone of progress.' . . . 'Fear no evil.' . . . 'This, too, will pass.' . . . 'This experience can be turned to benefit.' These fragments of prayer bring far more than comfort. They keep me on the track of right acceptance; they break up my compulsive themes of guilt, depression, rebellion, and pride; and sometimes they endow me with the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Bill W., AA Grapevine, March 1962
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 110

Thought to Consider . . .
God enters us through our wounds.

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DAILY REFLECTIONS

OVERCOMING LONELINESS

Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by

loneliness Even before our drinking got bad and people

began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that

we didn't quite belong.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90

The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less

and less frequently in my life today. I have learned to cope

with solitude. It is only when I am alone and calm that I am

able to communicate with God, for He cannot reach me

when I am in turmoil. It is good to maintain contact with

God at all times, but it is absolutely essential that, when

everything seems to go wrong, I maintain that contact

through prayer and meditation.

POT LUCK

Let’s get something straight — if you beat addiction, you beat the odds. Period. Don’t ever downplay that. Don’t ever minimize it. Because most people don’t make it out. And that’s not me trying to be dramatic — that’s reality. Addiction doesn’t play fair. It’s not just a bad habit or a poor choice. It’s a war — one that destroys millions silently, slowly, one decision at a time.

If you’ve clawed your way out of that darkness, if you’ve made it through nights that should’ve buried you, if you’ve stared death, prison, or despair straight in the eye and said, “Not today” — you’ve already done something damn near impossible. You defied statistics. You broke generational curses. You rewired a brain that was hell-bent on self-destruction. You fought a fight most people never see and came out breathing. That makes you a miracle walking in plain clothes.

Addiction doesn’t just destroy lives — it eats everything that touches it. It burns down families, friendships, trust, opportunity, self-worth. It makes you believe you’re unfixable. It convinces you that you can’t get clean, can’t stay clean, can’t live without it. It’s a liar that sounds like your own voice. And yet, somehow, you stood up against that. You said, “I’m done.” You started over when the odds were stacked completely against you. That’s not weakness. That’s warrior work.

Most people don’t understand that recovery isn’t a single victory — it’s a daily decision. It’s waking up and choosing life every morning, even when the cravings whisper and the memories sting. It’s doing the hard, boring, painful work of rebuilding your mind, your relationships, your future — brick by brick, day by day. It’s choosing presence over escape. Discipline over chaos. Growth over guilt.

And yeah, you’ll still have days that feel heavy. But that doesn’t mean you’re losing — it means you’re human. Because recovery isn’t about perfection. It’s about persistence. It’s about staying in the fight even when nobody’s clapping, even when nobody sees how hard it really is.

If you’re clean, if you’re sober, if you’re still here — don’t you dare minimize that. You’ve already beaten something that destroys most of the people it touches. You’ve done what most never get to do — you came back to yourself. You reclaimed your life.

You beat the odds. You’re proof that miracles aren’t random — they’re earned through grit, grace, and a whole lot of stubborn faith.

So the next time someone tries to make you feel small for where you’ve been, remind them — you didn’t just survive addiction. You defeated a monster most people never escape. You’re not weak for struggling. You’re strong for still standing.

If you beat addiction, you beat the odds. Period.

Never forget it.

— j. anthony | @theSoberSessions

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