Your Daily Reprieve 01.18.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday January 18, 2026

From Waynesville, NC

"Fellowship is a place of grace,

where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.

Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice."

~Rick Warren

“It doesn’t do too much good to carry the Big Book on your arm all day

if you don’t open it up and read it.”

~Oceanside, California, June 2000

"Peace of mind and inner peace come

when you resolve conflicts that you have with yourself."

~Germany Kent

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

~W. Clement Stone.

Big Book Quote

What usually happens?

The show doesn't come off very well.

He begins to think life doesn't treat him right.

P61

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

In a neighboring state, Ed had holed up in a cheap hotel. After all his pleas for help had been rebuffed, these words rang in his fevered mind. "They have deserted me. I have been deserted by my own kind. This is the end . . . Nothing is left." As he tossed on his bed, his hand brushed the bureau near by, touching a book. Opening the book, he read. It was a Gideon Bible. Ed never confided any more of what he saw and felt in that hotel room. It was the year 1938. He hasn't had a drink since.

pp. 144-145

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The new life can't be built in a day. We have to take the
program slowly, a little at a time. Our subconscious
minds have to be re-educated. We have to learn to think
differently. We have to get used to sober thinking
instead of alcoholic thinking. Anyone who tries it, knows
that the old alcoholic thinking is apt to come back on us
when we least expect it. Building a new life is a slow
process, but it can be done if we really follow the A.A.
program. Am I building a new life on the foundation of
sobriety?

Meditation For The Day

I will pray daily for faith, for it is God's gift. On
faith alone depends the answer to my prayers. God gives
it to me in response to my prayers, because it is a
necessary weapon for me to possess for the overcoming of
all adverse conditions and the accomplishments of all
good in my life. Therefore, I will work at strengthening
my faith.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may so think and live as to feed my faith
in God. I pray that my faith may grow because with faith
God's power becomes available to me.

Daily Thought

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Spiritual Life

"The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them. We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters. They will change in time. Our behavior will convince them more than our words. We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous Page 83

Thought to Consider . . .
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?

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Keep It Simple, Sweetheart

DAILY REFLECTIONS

WOULD A DRINK HELP?

By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show

that years before we realized it we were out of control, that

our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was

indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23

When I was still drinking, I couldn't respond to any of life's

situations the way other, more healthy, people could. The

smallest incident triggered a state of mind that believed I

had to have a drink to numb my feelings. But the numbing

did not improve the situation, so I sought further escape in

the bottle. Today I must be aware of my alcoholism. I

cannot afford to believe that I have gained control of my

drinking—or again I will think I have gained control of my

life. Such a feeling of control is fatal to my recovery.

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As Bill Sees It

Going It Alone, p. 274

Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was plain that they were mistaken? Lacking both practice and humility, they deluded themselves and were so able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them.

People of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God. Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders. While the comment or advice of others may not be infallible, it is likely to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still inexperienced in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves.

12 & 12, p. 60

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