Your Daily Reprieve 02.02.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday February 2, 2026

From Lebanon, TN

"Friendship ... is born at the moment

when one man says to another

"What! You too?

I thought that no one but myself..."

~C. S. Lewis

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I’ve lost almost 300 games.

26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

—Michael Jordan

Strive not to be a success,

but rather to be of value.

—Albert Einstein

I am not a product of my circumstances.

I am a product of my decisions.

—Stephen Covey

BIG BOOK QUOTE

Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.

P64

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Tradition Five - "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

Highlighting the wisdom of A.A.'s single purpose, a member tells this story:
"Restless one day, I felt I'd better do some Twelfth Step work. Maybe I should take out some insurance against a slip. But first I'd have to find a drunk to work on.
"So I hopped the subway to Towns Hospital , where I asked Dr. Silkworth if he had a prospect. `Nothing too promising,' the little doc said. `There's just one chap on the third floor who might be a possibility. But he's an awfully tough Irishman. I never saw a man so obstinate. He shouts that if his partner would treat him better, and his wife would leave him alone, he'd soon solve his alcohol problem. He's had a bad case of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, and he's very suspicious of everybody. Doesn't sound too good, does it? But working with him may do something for you, so why don't you have a go at it?'

pp. 151-152

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by
alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how
about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning
after? In A.A., we get a real kick, not a false feeling of exhilaration,
but a real feeling of satisfaction with ourselves and self-respect. And
a feeling of friendliness toward the world. We got a sort of pleasure
from drinking. For a while we thought we were happy. But it's only an
illusion. The hangover the next day is the opposite of pleasure. In
A.A., am I getting real pleasure and serenity and peace?

Meditation For The Day

I will practice love, because lack of love will block the way. I will try
to see good in all people, those I like and also those who fret me and
go against the grain. They are all children of God. I will try to give
love, otherwise how can I dwell in God's spirit, whence nothing
unloving can come? I will try to get along with all people, because the
more love I give away, the more I will have.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may do all I can to love others, in spite of
their many faults. I pray that as I love, so will I be loved.

Daily Thought

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Action

"But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy. But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be. Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 42

Thought to Consider . . .

Never mistake motion for action.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

A C T I O N
Any Change Toward Improving One's Nature

DAILY REFLECTIONS

RESCUED BY SURRENDERING

Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a

narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of

omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner

integrity. . . . Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from

man or God He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of

his destiny. He will fight to the end to preserve that

position.

A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 311

The great mystery is: "Why do some of us die alcoholic

deaths, fighting to preserve the 'independence' of our ego,

while others seem to sober up effortlessly in A.A.?" Help

from a Higher Power, the gift of sobriety, came to me when

an otherwise unexplained desire to stop drinking coincided

with my willingness to accept the suggestions of the men

and women of A.A. I had to surrender, for only by reaching

out to God and my fellows could I be rescued.

POT LUCK

"If the grass is greener on the other side,

it’s because they are putting fertilizer on it!"

I’ve spent a lot of my life envying what other people had, resenting that I didn’t have it too, and feeling I deserved it. I’ve always felt smarter, more talented, better looking, and more suited for the success I’ve seen others enjoying. I never understood why others seemed to have all the breaks until I entered recovery, and then I got a harsh lesson. . . .

As I started sharing my feelings of entitlement with my sponsor, he asked me some difficult (for me!) questions. “Why didn’t you stay in college?” he asked. “Money is in sales, not college,” I answered. “If you think you’d be such a great actor, why haven’t you taken acting classes?” “Ah, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” I scoffed. After a while, he pointed out that I had all the answers except the one that mattered.

It took me a long time before I could admit that perhaps the reason I wasn’t successful was that I wasn’t doing the things that successful people do. As childish as it may sound, I learned that the world wasn’t waiting to give me things just because of who I thought I was. It took awhile, but now I get it: If the grass is greener on the other side, it’s because they are putting fertilizer on it!

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Committee Consideration

from the 73rd General Service Conference

In response to a Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference

regarding any possible future changes to literature written by A.A.’s founders,

that committee agreed it would be beneficial to gather shared experience

from the Fellowship regarding this topic.

Questionaire

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There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
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OUR MISSION

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The avoidance of discussion about suicide

Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.

RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK
Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana)
Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sept. 27, 2003

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Loving Kindness Meditations

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