Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 3, 2026

From Lebanon, TN

"The human being who lives only for himself

finally reaps nothing but unhappiness."

~B. C. Forbes

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Forgive everybody."

~Maya Angelou

"Truth will always be truth,

regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

~W. Clement Stone

“Empathy, not sympathy or pity,

is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate.”

~ Bellevue, Washington, January 1975

BIG BOOK QUOTE

If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience. We have no monopoly on God; we merely have an approach that worked with us.

P95

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

"I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man. Decidedly unfriendly, he stared at me out of eyes which were slits in his red and swollen face. I had to agree with the doctor - he certainly didn't look good. But I told him my own story. I explained what a wonderful Fellowship we had, how well we understood each other. I bore down hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's dilemma. I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together what we could not do separately. He interrupted to scoff at this and asserted he'd fix his wife, his partner, and his alcoholism by himself. Sarcastically he asked, `How much does your scheme cost?'
"I was thankful I could tell him, `Nothing at all.'

p. 152

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot
our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as
bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape
boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after
it's over and we hate to leave. Drinking gave us a temporary feeling
of importance. When we're drinking, we kid ourselves into thinking
we are somebody. We tell tall stories to build ourselves up. In A.A.,
we don't want that kind of self-importance. We have real
self-respect and honesty and humility. Have I found something much
better and more satisfactory than drinking?

Meditation For The Day

I believe that my faith and God's power can accomplish anything in
human relationships. There is no limit to what these two things can
do in this field. Only believe, and anything can happen. Saint Paul
said; "I can do all things through Him who strengtheneth me." All
walls that divide you from other human beings can fall by your faith
and God's power. These are the two essentials. Everyone can be
moved by these.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may try to strengthen my faith day by day. I pray that I
may rely more and more on God's power.

Daily Thought

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Grandiosity

"In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I had to be a musician because I could not carry a tune. I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of God's creatures. I could not accept my deep sense of inferiority, and so I strove to become captain of the baseball team, and I did learn to play the fiddle. Lead I must - or else. This was the 'all or nothing' kind of demand that later did me in."
Bill W., AA Comes of Age, p. 53
1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 214

Thought to Consider . . .
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

N U T S
Not Using The Steps.

DAILY REFLECTIONS

FILLING THE VOID

We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I

now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a

Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that

he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically

assure him that he is on his way.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47

I was always fascinated with the study of scientific

principles. I was emotionally and physically distant from

people while I pursued Absolute Knowledge. God and

spirituality were meaningless academic exercises. I was a

modern man of science, knowledge was my Higher Power.

Given the right set of equations, life was merely another

problem to solve. Yet my inner self was dying from my

outer man's solution to life's problems and the solution was

alcohol. In spite of my intelligence, alcohol became my

Higher Power. It was through the unconditional love which

emanated from A.A. people and meetings that I was able to

discard alcohol as my Higher Power. The great void was

filled. I was no longer lonely and apart from life. I had

found a true power greater than myself, I had found God's

love. There is only one equation which really matters to me

now: God is in A.A.

POT LUCK

I accept the universe.

~Margaret Fuller

Recovery asks that we surrender our will - that we accept life on life's terms. During our active addiction, we fought the universe or tried to bend the universe to fit our wishes. We fought, not to surrender, but to keep using alcohol or drugs as long as we could. Surrender tells us to let go, to stop fighting, and to let our Higher Power and others in.

Recovery teaches humility. Humility is about acceptance and working to find our right place in the universe. We accept help when it is needed or offered. Humility is also about accepting the fact that we are unique but not special. We accept hope instead of hopelessness. As we find our place in the group we attend, we start to accept the universe on its own terms and to find our place within it.

Prayer for the Day

I accept the fact that I have an illness, and I accept that I need help. I will work with the universe instead of fighting it. To do this, Higher Power, I need your strength.

Today's Action

Today I will sit down and write about five ways I have fought the universe instead of accepting it. I will share this list with my sponsor or a recovery friend.

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