Your Daily Reprieve 02.24.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 24, 2026

From Ponte Vedra, FL

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”

~Bill H.

"We're all looking at the people around us,

the people who have gone before us

who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety

and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be."

~Scott Stevens

Today is a blank canvas.

Create a masterpiece.
Will Bowen

“It’s true that the only requirement

for membership in AA is a desire to stop drinking.

But if you absolutely want a better life, well, hmmm ... How’s this?

Working the Steps with a sponsor is a really good idea.”

~ Spring City, Utah, November 2003, AA Grapevine

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BIG BOOK QUOTE

We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.

P25

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Tradition Seven - "Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions."

Despite these misgivings, we had to recognize the fact that A.A. had to function. Meeting places cost something. To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed, and a few full-time secretaries hired. Over many protests, these things were accomplished. We saw that if they weren't, the man coming in the door couldn't get a break. These simple services would require small sums of money which we could and would pay ourselves. At last the pendulum stopped swinging and pointed straight at Tradition Seven as it reads today.

pp. 161-162

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When we came to our first A.A. meeting, we looked up at
the wall at the end of the room and saw the sign: " But
for the Grace of God." We knew right then and there that
we would have to call on the grace of God in order to get
sober and get over our soul-sickness. We heard speakers
tell how they had come to depend on a Power greater than
themselves. That made sense to us and we made up our minds
to try it. Am I depending on the grace of God to help keep me
sober?

Meditation For The Day

Share your love, your joy, your happiness, your time, your
food, your money gladly with all. Give out all the love you
can with a glad, free heart and hand. Do all you can for
others and back will come countless stores of blessings.
Sharing draws others to you. Take all who come as sent by
God and give them a royal welcome. You may never see the
results of your sharing. Today they may not need you, but
tomorrow may bring results from the sharing you did today.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may make each visitor desire to return. I pray
that I may never make anyone feel repulsed or unwanted.

Daily Thought

^*^*^*^*^
(\ ~~ /)
( \(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
^*^*^*^*^
Freedom

"Through A.A., we can experience freedom from self. After all, it was self (you, me) that stood in our own way, that ran the show and ran ourselves into bankruptcy, that hurt the ones we loved. All Twelve Steps of A.A. are designed to kill the old self (deflate the old ego) and build a new, free self."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 459

Thought to Consider . . .
Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B S
Before Sobriety

DAILY REFLECTIONS

A THANKFUL HEART

/ try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart

cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with

gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing

love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37

My sponsor told me that I should be a grateful alcoholic

and always have "an attitude of gratitude"—that gratitude

was the basic ingredient of humility, that humility was the

basic ingredient of anonymity and that "anonymity was the

spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us

to place principles before personalities." As a result of this

guidance, I start every morning on my knees, thanking God

for three things: I'm alive, I'm sober, and I'm a member of

Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I try to live an "attitude of

gratitude" and thoroughly enjoy another twenty-four hours

of the A.A. way of life. A.A. is not something I joined; it's

something I live.

POT LUCK

"The worst vice is advice."

Everybody has an opinion. And before recovery, I would readily give you mine. It didn’t matter if you asked for it or not; it didn’t matter whether I had ever taken the advice myself to see if it worked; and it didn’t matter if it made you feel better or worse—I was addicted to giving advice, and if you were nearby, you’d get it. As you can imagine, I was obnoxious to be around, and all my advice didn’t seem to help anybody. In fact, most people grew to resent me, and as fewer people called, my circle of friends grew smaller and smaller.

When I entered the program, I still had a lot of advice to give, but my sponsor suggested I listen for a while to what others had to say. When I kept trying to tell him my good ideas, he pointed out that my best thinking got me a seat in a recovery meeting. When I persisted and tried to tell him about relationships, career choices, and investing, he told me people might not be interested given that I was single, unemployed, and broke. That kind of put me in my place.

What I learned by listening to others share is that they didn’t have advice. Instead, they offered their experience, strength, and hope. Someone who didn’t have direct experience to share would encourage me to find someone who did. Over time, I learned that advice is worthless without compassion, understanding, and experience that comes from a shared point of view. Today, I don’t offer advice on things I don’t have experience with, and I don’t give it unless I’m asked for it.

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

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Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana)
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