Your Daily Reprieve 11.27.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday November 27, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

Happy Thanksgiving Day!!

I try hard to hold fast to the truth

that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits.

When brimming with gratitude,

one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love,

the finest emotion we can ever know.”

~Bill W.

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness,
universal to all ages and all faiths.
At whatever straws we must grasp,
there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.
~J. Robert Moskin

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart
sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.

If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

~Robert Brault

As Johnny Carson once said on the Tonight Show: “Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”

(Where is the nearest meeting to you right now?)

Danger! Danger!

We are now in the Bermuda Triangle of Recovery...

that's the triangle between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s...

and a lot of people get lost in it.

~Patti L.

Big Book Quote

But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived.

P66

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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

11/2 Tim D. (Jacksonville, FL)…..12

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

11/5 Kurt B. …..32

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

11/20 Jackie R. (Miami, FL)…..20

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 Kelly B. (St. Petersburg, FL)…..43

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

11/30 Dave C. (Methuen, MA)…..28

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Compatibility, of course, can be so impossibly damaged that a separation may be necessary. But those cases are the unusual ones. The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't. He persistently tries all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps in his home, often with fine results. At this point he firmly but lovingly commences to behave like a partner instead of like a bad boy. And above all he is finally convinced that reckless romancing is not a way of life for him.

p. 119

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The way of A.A. is the way of sobriety, fellowship, service
and faith. Let us take up each one of these things and see if
our feet are truly on the way. The first and greatest to us
is sobriety. The others are built on sobriety as a foundation.
We could not have the others if we did not have sobriety. We
all come to A.A. to get sober, and we stay to help others get
sober. We are looking for sobriety first, last and all the
time. We cannot build any kind of decent life unless we stay
sober. Am I on the A.A. way?

Meditation For The Day

To truly desire to do God's will, therein lies happiness for
a human being. We start out wanting our own way. We want our
wills to be satisfied. We take and we do not give. Gradually
we find that we are not happy when we are selfish, so we begin
to make allowances for other peoples' wills. But this again
does not give us full happiness, and we begin to see that the
only way to be truly happy is to try to do God's will. In these
times of meditation, we seek to get guidance so that we can
find God's will for us.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may subordinate my will to the will of God.
I pray that I may be guided today to find His will for me.

Daily Thought

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Defects

"What we must recognize now is that we exult in some of our defects. We really love them. Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior? Isn't it true that we like to let greed masquerade as ambition? To think of liking lust seems impossible. But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds? And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance."
c. 1952 AAWS
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 66-7

Thought to Consider . . .

If I want God to remove my character defects, I need to have compassion for others that are asking God to remove their defects.

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T I M E
Things I Must Earn

DAILY REFLECTIONS

THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT

In the beginning, the press could not understand our

refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely

baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the

point. Here was something rare in the world —a society

which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work,

but not its individual members. The press was delighted

with this attitude. Ever since, these friends have reported

A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members

would find hard to match.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 182

It is essential for my personal survival and that of the

Fellowship that I not use A.A. to put myself in the

limelight. Anonymity is a way for me to work on my

humility. Since pride is one of my most dangerous

shortcomings, practicing humility is one of the best ways to

overcome it. The Fellowship of A.A. gains worldwide

recognition by its various methods of publicizing its

principles and its work, not by its individual members

advertising themselves. The attraction created by my

changing attitudes and my altruism contributes much more

to the welfare of A.A. than self-promotion.

POT LUCK

Prosperity

My life is overflowing with gifts of Spirit.

It can be tempting to equate prosperity with material riches.

After all, it's natural to want to have the means to live well

and be generous with people and causes I care about.

Before I pray for greater prosperity, however, I remember that it involves so much more than money. True prosperity comes from knowing and trusting God is the source of all things. As a divine being, I am heir to all that God is.

My experience of prosperity begins with my thoughts and feelings. After a time of prayer and restful stillness, I affirm: I am prosperous.

As I feel this truth grow in my consciousness, I find I worry less about money as I rest in the flow of life, blessed to know true abundance.

And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.—2 Corinthians 9:8

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