Your Daily Reprieve 03.02.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday  March 2 , 2026   From Ponte Vedra, FL

“Some days I feel almost normal, almost sane.” ~Jamestown, N.Y., April 1992, AA Grapevine     "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." ~Abraham Lincoln     As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found —in himself. -- Erich Fromm     Karma is simply the law of cause and effect.  If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree.  If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly.  If we practice awareness or loving-kindness,  it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly.  We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate.  We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence. ~Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield

BIG BOOK QUOTE   The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.   P25

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12&12   Tradition Seven - "Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions." There is another story about money. One night in 1948, the trustees of the Foundation were having their quarterly meeting. The agenda discussion included a very important question. A certain lady had died. When her will was read, it was discovered she had left Alcoholics Anonymous in trust with the Alcoholic Foundation a sum of ten thousand dollars. The question was: Should A.A. take the gift? pp. 163-164

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own willpower. We have been proved helpless before the power of alcohol. So the only way we could stop drinking was by turning to a Power greater than ourselves. We call that Power God. The time that you really get this program is when you get down on your knees and surrender yourself to God, as you understand Him. Surrender means putting your life into God's hands. Have I made a promise to God that I will try to live the way He wants me to live? Meditation For The Day Spirit-power comes from communication with God in prayer and times of quiet meditation. I must constantly seek spirit-communication with God. This is a matter directly between me and God. Those who seek it through the medium of the church do not always get the joy and the wonder of spirit communication with God. >From this communication comes life, joy, peace, and healing. Many people do not realize the power that can come to them from direct spirit-communication. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may feel that God's power is mine. I pray that I may be able to face anything through that power.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Surrender   Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one. But we of A.A. do not have to understand that paradox; we have only to be grateful for it.  Bill W. c. 1957, 1985 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 46     Thought to Consider . . . . We surrender to win   *~*AACRONYMS*~*   B O G G L E Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone

DAILY REFLECTIONS   HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60   Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement is a warning signal that I may have wandered across the God line. The secret of fulfilling my potential is in acknowledging my limitations and believing that time is a gift, not a threat. Hope is the key that unlocks the door of discouragement. The program promises me that if I do not pick up the first drink today, I will always have hope. Having come to believe that I keep what I share, every time I encourage, I receive courage. It is with others that, with the grace of God and the Fellowship of A.A., I trudge the road of happy destiny. May I always remember that the power within me is far greater than any fear before me. May I always have patience, for I am on the right road.

POT LUCK   Today's quotation: Karma isn't luck or destiny--luck suggests randomness; destiny, a lack of choice.  Nor is it the voice of the gods trying to keep us in line.  Karma is a description of how moral law operates, not a prescription for good behavior. Joan Duncan Oliver   Today's Meditation: I like the idea of karma.  I like that it isn't an immediate result of our actions, too--that the good things that we do today don't need to have immediate payback to be worthwhile.  In fact, they don't need to have any payback at all in order to be worthwhile.  Karma ensures that the good will come back to us some way, some when, more than likely in a completely different situation and setting than in the many cases in which we've done our best to do good. Many people tend to see karma like a cosmic bank account, though.  They think to much of the rewards of their positive actions, which diminishes the sincerity and the true kindness of any act.  If we do good just because we think we should be rewarded for it later, then we aren't really doing good, are we?  We're simply trying to make things better for ourselves. We often hear of karma in the negative sense, in the "Karma's a bitch" way of looking at it.  But it's not at all--karma simply is.  It's the way things are, and it's not something that can be manipulated to our own ends.  As Joan says, karma simply describes how moral law operates, much like grammar describes how language works.  It doesn't tell you what you should or should not do; it simply explains how things function when you do good or when you do bad. Farmers know that if they plant corn seeds, they'll be "rewarded" with corn.  But they also know that sometimes there will be drought, hail, wind, and freezes, and that planting corn doesn't always guarantee a huge return.  Karma is much the same way--let's plant our seeds of goodness and kindness, and know that eventually, those seeds will come back to us many-fold, though we must let go of our expectations of that happening when we want it to, or how we want it to.  Life will take care of the details.

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