Your Daily Reprieve 01.19.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday January 19, 2026

From Waynesville, NC

“Life isn't about having a thousand friends;

it's about finding the very few right ones you need.”
—A.R. Asher

“I find television very educating.

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room and read a book.”
—Groucho Marx

"Nobody in this world is more secure

than a man in a penitentiary."
—Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.

“We neither ran nor fought.

But accept we did.

And then we began to be free.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1962

Big Book Quote

He is the Principal; we are His agents.

He is the Father, and we are His children.

P62

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Nowadays, when oldtimers who know Ed foregather, they exclaim, "What if we had actually succeeded in throwing Ed out for blasphemy? What would have happened to him and all the others he later helped?"
So the hand of Providence early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our Society when he says so.

p. 145

Twenty-Four Hours

. A.A. Thought For The Day

On the foundation of sobriety, we can build a life of
honesty, unselfishness, faith in God, and love of our
fellow human beings. We'll never fully reach these goals, but
the adventure of building that kind of life is so much better
than the merry-go-round of our old drinking life that
there's no comparison. We come into A.A. to get sober,
but if we stay long enough we learn a new way of living.
We become honest with ourselves and with other people.
We learn to think more about others and less about
ourselves. And we learn to rely on the constant help of
a Higher Power. Am I living the way of honesty, unselfishness,
and faith?

Meditation For The Day

I believe that God had already seen my heart's needs
before I cried to Him, before I was conscious of those
needs myself. I believe that God was already preparing the
answer. God does not have to be petitioned with sighs and
tears and much speaking, before he reluctantly looses the
desired help. He has already anticipated my every want and
need. I will try to see this, as His plans unfold in my
life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may understand my real wants and needs. I
pray that my understanding of those needs and wants may
help to bring the answer to them.

Daily Thought

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Pain

"Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity - as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do - I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless. I find the willingness to do this by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering - lessons which have led to the blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride, have often led me to God's grace, and so to a new freedom."
Bill W., Grapevine, March 1962
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 266

Thought to Consider . . .
Joy isn't the absence of pain - it's the presence of God.

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F A I L U R E
Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty

DAILY REFLECTIONS

ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH

Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through

us, or we perish.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 16

The essence of my spirituality, and my sobriety, rests on a

round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power. I need to

remember and rely on the God of my understanding as I

pursue all of my daily activities. How comforting for me is

the concept that God works in and through people. As I

pause in my day, do I recall specific concrete examples of

God's presence? Am I amazed and uplifted by the number

of times this power is evident? I am overwhelmed with

gratitude for my God's presence in my life of recovery.

Without this omnipotent force in my every activity, I would

again fall into the depths of my disease—and death.

POT LUCK

Father Leo's Daily Meditation

FREEDOM

"Freedom is not enough. "-- Lyndon B. Johnson

The gift of freedom requires the acknowledgment of the benefactor, God. To experience freedom without realizing its source is to miss the point; freedom requires responsibility.

When I was drinking, I demanded freedom without responsibility and I suffered. I created my own horror stories. I hurt others because I did not respect what I Demanded for myself and slowly, ever so slowly, freedom slipped away.

Today I believe that my spiritual program reinforces my responsibility for my life. God has created me with free will and I need to respect this gift in others. If I do not respect others, I will never receive it. Dignity is a two way street.

Thank You for the freedom to experience myself in my treatment of my neighbor.

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