Your Daily Reprieve 12.18.25
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Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday December 18, 2025 From Waynesville,
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“It doesn’t matter too much how the transforming spiritual experience is brought about so long as one gets one that works ... Somehow the alcoholic must get enough objectivity about himself to abate his fears and collapse his false
pride.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., September 1944 "You don't have to show up for every fight you are invited to!" I kept waiting for the past to change ~ Tommye C. "Remember that happiness is a way of travel- not a destination." ~Roy M. Goodman On the Fifth Day of Christmas…. "Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of
greed." ~Dr. Seuss "Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart
and hand in hand. ~Edward Pola and George Wyle "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" ~Valentine Davies, 'Miracle on 34th Street' |
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Big Book
Quote Many
could recover if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed. How then shall we
present that which has been so freely given us? P19 |
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Daily Share! AA
Speaker of the Day POLLY P. Jacksonville,
FL Serenity
Improvement Group 06.30.2020 |
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Celebrate Your Anniversary
Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT
WORKS!! DECEMBER 2025 Miracles 12/1 Beth S.
(Conway, NH)…..30 12/1 Arsenia R.
(Coral Gables, FL)…..23 12/1 Nina S.
(Bradenton, FL)…..18 12/3 Brooks
F. …..1 12/3 Walter
S. (Jacksonville, FL)…..32 12/3 Cindy S.
(Leesburg, FL)…..12 12/3 Lorine
M. (Indian Harbour Beach, FL)…..6 12/4 Lisa B.
(Trenton, MI)…..30 12/4 John Q.
(Rochester, NY)…..44 12/5 David E.
(Costa Rica)…..18 12/5 Sophie
G. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..13 12/5 Barry L.
(Wimauma, FL)…..37 12/6 Wylie H.
(Stony Brook, NY) …..10 12/6 Sissy V.
(Kingsland, GA)…..14 12/6 Bill M.
(Gilboa, NY)…..23 12/6 Jimmie
C. (River Falls, WI)…..41 12/7 Tom L.
(Moorestown, NJ)…..12 12/7 Chris K.
(Davidson, NC)…..2 12/7 Mike B.
…..40 12/7 Nan G.
(Decent 7th Los Altos/Nantucket)…..29 12/7 Michelle
S. (Bluffton, SC)…..5 12/7 Stephen
S. (Chang Mai, Thailand)…..36 12/8 Kelli E.
(Waynesville, NC)…..2 12/9 Heidi H.
(Nantucket, MA)…..4 12/10 Mary J.
(Port St. Lucie, FL)…..25 12/10 Kathy
R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..15 12/10 Paul K.
(Nantucket/Anguilla)…..19 12/10 Amanda
T. (Vancouver, BC)…..6 12/10 Kim B.
(Patrick Space Force Base)…..1 12/10 Peter
D. (Dallas, TX)…..5 12/12 Shannon
K. (Marshall, NC)…..27 12/12 Rich H.
(Hanover, PA)…..42 12/13 Wendell
M. (Bothell, WA)…..12 12/13 Tom O’.
(Milwaukee, WI)…..19 12/13 Lou H.
(Clermont, FL)…..2 12/14 Bob P.
(Carolina, RI/Cullman, AL)…..35 12/15 Carrie
F. (Selinsgrove, PA)…..21 12/15 John M.
(Paros, Greece)…..23 12/15 Steve
S. (Garnerville, NY)…..42 12/16 Jim J.
(NYC)…..52 12/16 Susie
U. (Starkville, MS)…..6 12/16 Jorge
B. (Houston, TX)…..5 12/16 Susan
G. (Stamford, CT)…..15 12/17 Peter
W. …..1 12/18 Chris V. (Royal Oak, MI)…..18 12/18 Jay A. …..21 12/18 Mike H. (Freemont, NH)…..8 12/19 Autumn
M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..9 12/20 Lory W.
(Winchester, UK)…..25 12/21 Deb S.
(North Hampton, NH)…..35 12/21 Oakie
O. (Ocean Gate, NJ)…..46 12/21 Scott
G. (Waterford, CT)…..9 12/21 Bridget
C. (Albany, NY)…..23 12/22 Dick M.
(New York City)…..48 12/22 Bob O.
(Stuart, FL)…..31 12/23 Ms. Lee
H. (San Francisco, CA)…..35 12/23 Pete G.
(Punta Gorda, FL)…..45 12/25 Joe D.
(Salem, NH)…..14 12/25 Sharon
G. (Palos Heights, IL)…..25 12/25 Eric F.
(Kansas City)…..13 12/25 Jeremy
B. …..9 12/26 Koko S.
(Anderson SC)…..1 12/26 Chick
R. (Oak Forest, IL)…..28 12/26 Rick J.
(Waynesville, NC)…..8 12/26 Donna
V. (Clinton, NJ)…..6 12/27 Neil R.
(Queens, NY)…..11 12/28 Julie
V. …..12 12/29 Diana
S. …..39 12/30 Rufus
W. (Coppell, TX)…..52 12/31 Larry
S. (Marietta, GA)…..38 1422 Total Years of Sobriety Drop a Buck in the Basket? PayPal paypal.me/TomMurphy Venmo @Tom-Murphy-160 |
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12&12 Tradition One - "Our
common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A.
Unity." |
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Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day the meaning of life, we are lost. We do not choose faith because it is one way for us, but because it is the only way. Many have failed and will fail. For we cannot live vic- toriously without faith; we are at sea without a rudder or an anchor, drifting on the sea of life. Wayfarers without a home. Our souls are restless until they find rest in God. Without faith, our lives are a meaningless succession of unrelated hap- penings, without rhyme or reason. Have I come to rest in faith? This vast universe around us, including this wonder- ful earth on which we live, was once perhaps only a thought in the mind of God. The nearer the astronomers and the physicists get to the ultimate composition of all things, the nearer the universe ap- proaches a mathematical formula, which is thought. The universe may be the thought of the Great Thinker. We must try to think God’s thoughts after Him. We must try to get guidance from the Divine Mind as to what His intention is for the world and what part we can have in carrying out that intention.
I pray that I may not worry over the limitations of my human mind. I pray that I may live as though my mind were a reflection of
the Divine Mind.
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Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ "Deep down in every man, woman,
and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by
pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For
faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of
that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. We finally saw
that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the
feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He
was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep
down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.
It was so with us."
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DAILY
REFLECTIONS HONESTY
WITH NEWCOMERS 'ell him
exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature
freely. ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, p. 93 The marvel of
A.A. is that I tell only what happened to me. I don't waste
time offering advice to potential newcomers, for if advice
worked, nobody would get to A.A. All I have to do is show
what has brought me sobriety and what has changed my
life. If I fail to stress the spiritual feature of A.A.'s
program, I am being dishonest. The newcomer should not be
given a false impression of sobriety. I am sober only
through the grace of my Higher Power, and that makes it
possible for me to share with others. |
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POT LUCK Boast is Aways a Cry of Despair Boast is always a cry of despair except in the young one when
it is the cry of hope ~ Bernhard Berenson We’re easily put off by people who brag about their
accomplishments, especially if we're having trouble meeting our own goals.
It's more difficult to see the struggling spirit behind the boasting when
we're so focused on our own progress in life. It helps to remember that God's
goal for us in any encounter with another person is really very simple: that
we love one another, wholly and sincerely Those whose behavior makes them the most difficult to love,
need our love the most. Their lack of inner peace and self-doubt pushes them
to the type of behavior that makes us want to turn away. We need not turn
away. God invites us to love all our fellow travelers fully and
unconditionally. Negative attitudes and behavior can provide our personal
lessons in acceptance and serenity, and we will develop gratitude for these
lessons, in time —————————————————————— I will set aside my judgments today and be open to God's
lessons. Casey, Carey and Pyle, Homer, In God’s Care c1991 May 6 |
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