Your Daily Reprieve 11.18.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday November 18, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

"Embrace uncertainty.

Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives

won't have a title until much later."

~Bob Goff

"Wisdom is, and starts with,

the humility to accept the fact that

you don't have all the right answers,

and the courage to learn to ask the right questions. "
--Unknown

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being.

Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?

Think first about the foundations of humility.

The higher your structure is to be,

the deeper must be its foundation.

-St. Augustine

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal

must take many small steps.

-Helmut Schmidt

Big Book Quote

There will be alluring shortcuts

and by-paths down which they may wander and lose their way.

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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

11/10 Taylor W. (Tampa, FL)…..11

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."

Countless times, in as many cities and hamlets, we reenacted the story of Eddie Rickenbacker and his courageous company when their plane crashed in the Pacific. Like us, they had suddenly found themselves saved from death, but still floating upon a perilous sea. How well they saw that their common welfare came first. None might become selfish of water or bread. Each needed to consider the others, and in abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength. And as they did find, in measure to transcend all the defects of their frail craft, every test of uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, and even the death of one.

p. 131

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

I have got over my procrastination. I was always putting
things off till tomorrow and as a result that never got
done. "There is always another day" was my motto instead
of "Do it now." Under the influence of alcohol, I had
grandiose plans. When I was sober I was too busy getting
over my drunk to start anything. "Some day I'll do that"
-- but I never did it. In A.A. I have learned it's better
to make a mistake once in a while than to never do
anything at all. We learn by trial and error. But we must
act now and not put it off until tomorrow. Have I learned
to do it now?

Meditation For The Day

"Do not hide your light under a bushel. Arise and shine,
for the light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen
in thee." The glory of the Lord shines in the beauty of a
man's character. It is risen in you, even though you can
realize it only in part. "Now you see as in a glass darkly,
but later you will see face to face." The glory of the Lord
is too dazzling for mortals to see fully on earth. But some
of this glory is risen in you when you try to reflect that
light in your life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may try to be a reflection of the Divine Light.
I pray that some of its rays may shine in my life.

Daily Thought

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Fear

We of A.A. now find ourselves in a world characterized by destructive fears as never before in history. But in it we nevertheless see great areas of faith and tremendous aspirations toward justice and brotherhood. Yet no prophet can presume to say whether the world outcome will be blazing destruction or the beginning, under God's intention, of the brightest era yet known to mankind . . . We A.A.'s can say that we do not fear the world outcome, whichever course it may take. This is because we have been enabled to deeply feel and say, "We shall fear no evil - Thy will, not ours, be done."
Bill W., January 1962
c. 1988AAGrapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 268

Thought to Consider . . .

Let us always love the best in others - and never fear their worst

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F A I T H
Fear Ain't In This House

DAILY REFLECTIONS

A SAFETY NET

Occasionally. . . . We are seized with a rebellion so

sickening that we simply won't pray. When these things

happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should

simply resume prayer as soon as we can, doing what we

know to be good for us.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105

Sometimes I scream, stomp my feet, and turn my back on

my Higher Power. Then my disease tells me that I am a

failure, and that if I stay angry I'll surely get drunk. In those

moments of self-will it's as if I've slipped over a cliff and

am hanging by one hand. The above passage is my safety

net, in that it urges me to try some new behavior, such as

being kind and patient with myself. It assures me that my

Higher Power will wait until I am willing once again to risk

letting go, to land in the net, and to pray.

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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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