Your Daily Reprieve 01.12.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday January 12, 2026

From Waynesville, NC

If you want to be happy,

set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts,

liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Happiness is within you.

It comes from doing some certain thing

into which you can put all your thought and energy.

If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

-Dale Carnegie

Kindness is in our power,

even when fondness is not.

-- Samuel Johnson

"In the ashes of bitter tragedy,

lie the seeds of astonishing rebirth."

~Stewart Stafford

The spirit of complaint is born

out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
~Priscilla Shirer

Big Book Quote

The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.

P17

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Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."

Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman we shall call Ed. A power driver, this one, and brash as any salesman could possibly be. He had at least and idea a minute on how to improves A.A. These ideas he sold to fellow members with the same burning enthusiasm with which he distributed automobile polish. But he had one idea that wasn't so salable. Ed was an atheist. His pet obsession was that A.A. could get along better without its "God nonsense." He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that he'd soon get drunk - for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side. There must be a heavy penalty, it was thought, for blasphemy. Distressingly enough, Ed proceeded to stay sober.

p. 143

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of
life seems. Our old drinking lives were a very unnatural
way of living. Our present sober lives are the most
natural way we could possibly live. During the early
years of our drinking, our lives weren't so different from
the lives of a lot of other people. But as we gradually
became problem drinkers, our lives became more and more
unnatural. Do I realize now that the things I did were far
from natural?

Meditation For The Day

I will say thank you to God for everything, even the
seeming trials and worries. I will strive to be grateful
and humble. My whole attitude toward the Higher Power
will be one of gratitude. I will be glad for the things
I have received. I will pass on what God reveals to me.
I believe that more truths will flow in, as I go along
in the new way of life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be grateful for the things I have
received and do not deserve. I pray that this attitude
will make me truly humble.

Daily Thought

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Authority

"Many people wonder how A.A. can function under such a seeming anarchy. Other societies have to have law and force and sanction and punishment, administered by authorized people. Happily for us, we found we need no human authority whatever. We have two authorities which are far more effective. One is benign, the other malign. There is God, our Father, who very simply says, 'I am waiting for you to do my will.' The other authority is named John Barleycorn, and he says, 'You had better do God's will or I will kill you.' And sometimes he does kill. So, when all the chips are down, we conform to God's will or perish. At this level, the death sentence hangs over the A.A. member, his group, and A.A. as a whole."
Bill W., St. Louis, July 1955
c. 1957 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 105

Thought to Consider . . .

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

G O D
Good Orderly Direction

DAILY REFLECTIONS

ACCEPTING OUR PRESENT

CIRCUMSTANCES

Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances

as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people

about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility

without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again

and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point

of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we can

profitably practice every day of our lives.

Provided we strenuously avoid turning these realistic

surveys of the facts of life into unrealistic alibis for apathy

or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation upon which

increased emotional health and therefore spiritual progress

can be built.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 44

When I am having a difficult time accepting people, places

or events, I turn to this passage and it relieves me of many

an underlying fear regarding others, or situations life

presents me. The thought allows me to be human and not

perfect, and to regain my peace of mind.

POT LUCK

"Meeting makers make it."

When I was ninety days sober, I saw a guy take a seven-year anniversary cake. He talked about how grateful he was, about his sponsor and sponsees, and how he still went to at least five meetings every week. I was appalled! Seven years sober and he still went to that many meetings?! In fact, still went to meetings at all? If he could go seven years without a drink, wasn’t he better by now?

After the meeting, I asked my sponsor how long I would have to go to meetings. He said I’d have to keep going until I wanted to go to meetings. This made no sense to me at the time because going to meetings didn’t seem to be an option, but rather an obligation. I knew that if I didn’t go, then I’d soon be drinking and using again. I also harbored the idea that one day I would graduate. I’d learn how to control the urge to drink and would be normal again. I soon learned differently.

The longer I went to meetings, the more I discovered that those people celebrating anniversaries for longer-term sobriety were the same ones who consistently went to meetings. The other people whom I saw occasionally, and then stopped seeing, eventually went out. And that’s when I made the connection: Meeting makers make it. I realized that to retain the sense of ease and comfort I’d found, I needed to keep receiving the message of experience, strength, and hope I heard in meetings. Today, gratefully, I want to keep attending meetings, and now as an “old-timer,” I realize that by consistently making meetings, I’ve been able to keep making it

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