Your Daily Reprieve 02.17.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 17, 2026   From Ponte Vedra, FL

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” ~Carl Jung   “I could do something about changing my own thoughts, but nothing about changing the people around me.” ~ La Verne, California, December 1966,   "Life got immeasurably easier for me when I got passionate about taking responsibility for my own situations while deferring any responsibility  for your life situations to you..."    --Unknown   “If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.” ― Timothy Leary        If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List  Send me an email at: sober@yourdailyreprieve.com.

BIG BOOK QUOTE   This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God.   P62

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12&12   Tradition Six - "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose." Soon they'd spotted their man, an A.A. with the necessary experience. Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking, "Is there anything in our tradition that suggests I shouldn't take a job like this one? The kind of education seems good to me, and is not too controversial. Do you headquarters folks see any bugs in it?" pp. 157-158

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Alcohol is poison to the alcoholic. Poison is not too strong a word, because alcoholism leads eventually to the death of the alcoholic. It may be a quick death or a slow death. When we go by package stores and see various kinds of liquor all dressed up in fancy packages to make it look attractive, we should always make it a point to say to ourselves, so that we'll never forget it: That stuff's poison to me. And it is. Alcohol poisoned our lives for a long time. Do I know that since I am an alcoholic all liquor is poison to me? Meditation For The Day I must somehow find the means of coming nearer to God. That is what really matters. I must somehow seek the true bread of life, which is communion with Him. I must grasp at the truth at the center of all worship. This central truth is all that matters. All forms of worship have this communion with God as their purpose and goal. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may meet God in quiet communion. I pray that I may partake of the soul-food which God has provided for me.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Belonging There is no more aloneness, with that awful ache, so deep in the heart of every alcoholic that nothing, before, could ever reach it. That ache is gone and never need return again. Now there is a sense of belonging, of being wanted and needed and loved. In return for a bottle and a hangover, we have been given the Keys of the Kingdom.  c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 276 Thought to Consider . . .  Turn your wounds into wisdom. *~*^AACRONYMS^*~* G R A C E Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations

DAILY REFLECTIONS   THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25   It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that helped me lose my fear, and change my negative attitude to a positive one. I could see the love in their eyes and I was impressed by how much their "One Day at a Time" sobriety meant to them. They had looked squarely at Step Two and came to believe that a power greater than themselves was restoring them to sanity. That gave me faith in the Fellowship, and hope that it could work for me too. I found that God was a loving God, not that punishing God I feared before coming to A.A. I also found that He had been with me during all those times I had been in trouble before I came to A.A. I know today that He was the one who led me to A.A. and that I am a miracle.

POT LUCK     "CALM: Care about life’s moments."     They say that one of the gifts of recovery is the sense of peace and calm that you get. I have heard it described as feeling comfortable in your own skin. That concept was totally foreign to me before I got sober; in fact, I felt the opposite way. My solution was a drink, and for brief moments I could relax and feel okay with myself. But by the end of my drinking, I was uncomfortable both drunk and sober, and that’s when I knew I had hit bottom.   I remember being amazed by how happy and easygoing everyone seemed in meetings. They could look me in the eye, smile, and offer me their phone numbers. They didn’t seem driven by the anxiety that was my constant companion, and I soon wanted what they had. I could have that, my sponsor assured me, if I was willing to do the things they did. And that meant working the Twelve Steps and developing a relationship with a Power greater than myself. I was willing.   It took years for me to work though the layers of my old self, but today I have the feelings of serenity and peace I sought. I even like and respect myself today. I am so very grateful to not feel that restlessness and discontent any longer. Today, I know calm and am able to take in and appreciate life’s precious moments. The gifts of sobriety go far beyond just not drinking, and these gifts are available to anyone who is willing to honestly work the program.

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