Your Daily Reprieve 01.11.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday January 11, 2026

From Waynesville, NC

“One of the truly great gifts in this

Fellowship of mutually concerned people

is the gift of the art of listening.”

~Grapevine; May 1960

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch.

All you can do is circle around

and say it's somewhere in there.
~Pete Seeger

Be aware of what season you are in

and give yourself the grace to be there.
~Kristen Dalton

"You're frustrated because you keep waiting

for the blooming of flowers of which

you have yet to sow the seeds."

~Steve Maraboli

Big Book Quote

Whatever our protestations,

are not most of us concerned with ourselves,

our resentments, or our self-pity?

P62

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Overjoyed, the newcomer plunged into Twelfth Step work. Tirelessly he laid A.A.'s message before scores of people. Since this was a very early group, those scores have since multiplied themselves into thousands. Never did he trouble anyone with his other difficulty. A.A. had taken its first step in the formation of Tradition Three.

p. 142

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we were drinking, most of us never thought of helping others.
We liked to buy drinks for people, because that made us feel like big
shots. But we only used others for our own pleasure. To really go out
and try to help somebody who needed help never occurred to us. To
us, helping others looked like a sucker's game. But when we came
into A.A., we began to try to help others. And we found out that helping
others made us happy and also helped us to stay sober. Have I learned that
there is happiness in helping others?

Meditation For The Day

I will pray only for strength and that God's will be done. I will use
God's unlimited store of strength for my needs. I will seek God's will
for me. I will strive for consciousness of God's presence, for He is the
light of the world. I have become a pilgrim, who needs only marching
orders and strength and guidance for this day.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may seek God's guidance day by day. I pray that I may
strive to abide in God's presence.

Daily Thought

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Criticism

"Now and then all of us fall under heavy criticism. When we are angered and hurt, it's difficult not to retaliate in kind. Yet we can restrain ourselves and then probe ourselves, asking whether our critics were really right. If so, we can admit our defects to them. This usually clears the air for mutual understanding . . . Maybe a sense of humor can be our saving grace - thus we can both forgive and forget."
Bill W., Letter, 1966
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 184

Thought to Consider . . .

The best way to get even is to forget.

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DAILY REFLECTIONS

THE 100% STEP

Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission

we were powerless over alcohol can be practiced with

absolute perfection.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68

Long before I was able to obtain sobriety in A.A., I knew

without a doubt that alcohol was killing me, yet even with

this knowledge, I was unable to stop drinking. So, when

faced with Step One, I found it easy to admit that I lacked

the power to not drink. But was my life unmanageable?

Never! Five months after coming into A.A., I was drinking

again and wondered why.

Later on, back in A.A. and smarting from my wounds, I

learned that Step One is the only Step that can be taken

100%. And that the only way to take it 100% is to take

100% of the Step. That was many twenty-four hours ago

and I haven't had to take Step One again.

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More Language Of Letting Go

Be present now

Take time, but not too much, to see where you want to go. Learn the lessons from your past. Then let go of yesterday. Let tomorrow take care of itself.

Even our best prediction about what may come in the future is only an educated guess, no matter how diligently we try to see ahead.

If all you look at is where you’re going, you’ll miss all the wonder and beauty along the way. And once you get there– your future– you may not even remember where you’ve been. Rushing may be such a habit that you won’t enjoy your future once it arrives.

Be where you are right now. See what’s in front of you, not what you wish were there. Take time to see, enjoy, and appreciate what’s present. Take action if you need to. Or just enjoy the view. You’ve worked hard to get there. Enjoy it.

The past is important. It’s where we’ve been. The future is important, too.

But there’s no time– and no time as real– as the present.

Learn to be here, now.

God, heighten my awareness and appreciation of each moment in my life.

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