Your Daily Reprieve 01.28.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday January 28, 2026

From Lebanon, TN

“One day it will be left to the young people now in our Fellowship to carry on the original spirit and traditions of AA, even though the buzz words and trends will come and go. It will be up to us to teach newcomers how to maintain the type of sobriety that achieves the promises of the Big Book and dispels some of the fables of recovery popular today. It will be up to us to help the newcomer from the street dry out, shakes and pukes and all. We will be left to teach the little things: how to sit at the front, not the back of the room, say hello to the new guy, wash coffee cups and ashtrays. One day it will be up to us to uphold the Traditions. It will be up to us to keep it simple.”~

Bury St. Edmunds, England, September 1994, “We Who Are Next in Line,”, I Am Responsible: The Hand of AA

Face the facts of being what you are,

for that is what changes what you are.

~Soren Kierkegaard

It’s too coincidental to be coincidental.

~ Jim H. Little Rock

"History begins when memory ends."
—Anonymous

BIG BOOK QUOTE

As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn.

P63

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Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong. Moreover, it had performed a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous, because it had been humbly willing to apply the lessons it learned. It had picked itself up with a laugh and gone on to better things. Even the chief architect, standing in the ruins of his dream, could laugh at himself - and that is the very acme of humility.

p. 149

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A.A. Thought For The Day

What a load hangovers put on your shoulders! What terrible physical punishment we've
all been through. The pounding headaches and jumpy nerves, the shakes and the jitters,
the hot and cold sweats! When you come into A.A. and stop drinking, that terrible
load of hangovers falls off your shoulders. What a load remorse puts on your shoulders!
That terrible mental punishment we've all been through. Ashamed of the things
you've said and done. Afraid to face people because of what they might think of you.
Afraid of the consequences of what you did when you were drunk. What an awful beating
the mind takes! When you come into A.A., that terrible load of remorse falls off your
shoulders. Have I gotten rid of these loads of hangovers and remorse?

Meditation For The Day

When you seek to follow the way of the spirit, it frequently means a complete reversal of
the way of the world that you had previously followed. But it is a reversal that leads to
happiness and peace. Do the aims and ambitions that a person usually strives for bring
peace? Do the world's awards bring heart rest and happiness? Or do they turn to ashes in
the mouth?

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not be weary, disillusioned, or disappointed. I pray that I may not put
my trust in the ways of the world, but in the way of the spirit.

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Vision

"Vision is, I think, the ability to make good estimates, both for the immediate and for the more distant future. Some might feel this sort of striving to be a sort of heresy, because we A.A.'s are constantly telling ourselves, "One day at a time." But that valuable principle really refers to our mental and emotional lives and means chiefly that we are not to foolishly repine over the past nor wishfully day-dream about the future . . . Vision is therefore the very essence of prudence, an essential virtue if ever there was one. Of course we shall often miscalculate the future in whole or in part, but that is better than to refuse to think at all."
Bill W., 1962
c. 1962 AAWS
Twelve Concepts for World Service, 26th printing, p. 40

Thought to Consider . . .
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

T I M E
Things I Must Earn

DAILY REFLECTIONS

RIGOROUS HONESTY

Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who

wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution

for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power,

let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice

time and energy in trying to carry A.A. 's message to the

next sufferer? No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in

the extreme, doesn't care for this prospect—unless he has

to do these things in order to stay alive himself.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24

I am an alcoholic. If I drink I will die. My, what power,

energy, and emotion this simple statement generates in me!

But it's really all I need to know for today. Am I willing to

stay alive today? Am I willing to stay sober today? Am I

willing to ask for help and am I willing to be a help to

another suffering alcoholic today? Have I discovered the

fatal nature of my situation? What must I do, today, to stay

sober?

POT LUCK

Too often we underestimate the power
of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or
the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Today's Meditation:

It's true--we do underestimate the power of these things. I'm not sure why. Perhaps we just think that people don't really need our input in their lives, or maybe we're just used to people not encouraging us or sharing kind words or compliments with us. In my case, when I was younger I never thought that my words to others had the power to affect them at all, for positive or negative; as I've aged, though, I've learned that almost everything I say has some effect, somehow, and not always how I'd like.

While we certainly don't want to overestimate the power of things like these--we're not going to solve anyone's problems with a listening ear, or completely turn their lives around with a smile--we should always keep in mind that the things that turn people's lives around generally are a bunch of things together, and our smile or compliment will be a part of a greater whole, a whole that gives someone hope or peace, and that would be incomplete without our contribution.

With my students, sometimes I find out years later that some small compliment I gave them was important to them, though I never would have guessed it. So I've given up guessing, and whenever I might have any doubt, I give the compliment or the kind word anyway--it's better to err on the side of the positive than the negative.

Leo Buscaglia spent much of his life teaching us about the power of loving one another, and he told us many beautiful stories about love and loving. Here he tells us that we do have power to help others, to make them feel good about life and living. And if we do have that kind of power in our hands, shouldn't we use it more?

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