Your Daily Reprieve 01.15.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 15, 2026

From Waynesville, NC

There comes a time

when the blind man takes your hand a

nd says don't you see.

-- Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

All truly wise thoughts

have been thought already thousands of times;

but to make them truly ours,

we must think them over again honestly,

till they take root in our personal experience.

-- Johann von Goethe

"God guide me and love me,

so that I may guide and love others,

and allow them to guide and love me".

~John H

Only the guy who isn't rowing

has time to rock the boat.
~Jean-Paul Satre

Big Book Quote

For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

P55

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Ed not only stayed, he stayed sober - month after month. The longer he kept dry, the louder he talked - against God. The group was in anguish so deep that all fraternal charity had vanished. "When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?"

p. 144

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The A.A. program is a way of life. It's a way of living
and we have to learn to live the program if we're going
to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like
guide posts. They point the direction in which we have to
go. But each member of the group has to find his own best
way of living the program. We don't all do it exactly
alike. Whether by quiet times in the morning, meetings,
working with others, or spreading the word, we have to
learn to live the program. Has A.A. become my regular,
natural way of living?

Meditation For The Day

I will relax and not get tense. I will have no fear,
because everything will work out in the end. I will learn
soul-balance and poise in a vacillating, changing world.
I will claim God's power and use it because if I do not
use it, it will be withdrawn. As long as I get back to God
and replenish my strength after each task, no work can be
too much.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may relax and that God's strength will be
given to me. I pray that I may subject my will to God's
will and be free from all tenseness.

Daily Thought

^*^*^*^*^
(\ ~~ /)
( \(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
^*^*^*^*^
Today

"I realize that all I'm guaranteed in life is today. The poorest person has no less and the wealthiest has no more - each of us has but one day. What we do with it is our own business; how we use it is up to us individually. I feel that I have been restored to health and sanity these past years not through my own efforts nor as a result of anything I may have done, but because I've come to believe - to really believe - that alone I can do nothing. That my own innate selfishness and stubbornness are the evils which, if left unguarded, can drive me to alcohol. I have come to believe that my illness is spiritual as well as physical and mental, and I know that for help in the spiritual sphere I have to turn to a Higher Power."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 473

Thought to Consider . . .
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

S I T
Stay In Today

DAILY REFLECTIONS

AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE

With few exceptions our members find that they have

tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently

identify with their own conception of a Power greater than

themselves

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70

From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I

found hope in these words from our founders. I often

pondered the phrase: "they have tapped an unsuspected

inner resource." How, I asked myself, can I find the Power

within myself, since I am so powerless? In time, as the

founders promised, it came to me: I have always had the

choice between goodness and evil, between unselfishness

and selfishness, between serenity and fear. That Power

greater than myself is an original gift that I did not

recognize until I achieved daily sobriety through living

A.A.'s Twelve Steps.

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Each Day a New Beginning

… You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.

-Joan Baez

How thrilling to contemplate that we can choose every attitude we have and every action we take. We have been gifted with full responsibility for our development. What will we try today? It’s our personal choice. How will we decide on a particular issue? Our options are only limited by our vision.

Every situation in life offers us a significant opportunity for making a decision that will, of necessity, influence the remaining situations we encounter. Just as we are interdependent, needing and influencing one another in all instances that bring us together, likewise our decisions are never inviolate. Each is singly important; however, its impact is multiplied by the variety of other decisions triggered.

The choice is ours for living fully today, for taking advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. Our personal growth, our emotional and spiritual development, are in our hands. God will provide us with the guidance, and the program offers us the tools. The decision to act is ours, alone.

I will exercise my personal power. My choices determine my development.

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