Your Daily Reprieve 04.05.26

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday  April 5, 2026

 

From Waynesville, NC

 

 

Happy Easter Everyone!

 

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair.

We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
~John Paul II

 

Resurrection is just the way things work! When we say hallelujah on this Easter morning, we’re also saying hallelujah to our own lives, to where they’re going, to what we believe in, and hope for. 
—Richard Rohr

 

 

My Personal Easter

3.5.94

Restored to Life

~Tom M.

 

Easter could be the annual affirmation of our ongoing resurrection from violence to peace, from fear to faith, from hostility to love, from a culture of consumption to a culture of stewardship and generosity … and in all these ways and more, from death to life. 
—Brian McLaren

 

 

 

Spread hope, faith and love all around you this Easter. Have a Happy Easter. Easter is God’s blessing to the world. It is his way of telling us that, love and hope still exists in the world.

May you have a learned Easter.

~Unknown

 

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible,

to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life,

the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

~Anne Lamott

 

The story of Easter is the story

of God's wonderful window of divine surprise.

~Carl Knudsen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG BOOK QUOTE

 

Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body.

 

P23

 

 

Daily Share!

 

 

AA Speaker of the Day

 

 

Tom I.

Thursday Night Speaker

Las Vegas, NV

02.24.2005

 

https://bit.ly/4dQojNl

 

 

 

ZOOM

Loose Garment Group

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518

Saturday & Sunday

9AM EST

ID: 238 977 518

PW: 004 394

 

 

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here

SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!

 

MARCH 2026 Miracles

 

 

 

 

Drop a Buck in the Basket?

PayPal paypal.me/TomMurphy

Venmo @Tom-Murphy-160

 

12&12

 

 

Tradition Eleven - "Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."

Therefore, a great responsibility fell upon us to develop the best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics Anonymous. Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than of promotion.

pp. 180-181

 

 

Twenty-Four Hours


 A.A. Thought For The Day

People often ask what makes the A.A. program work. One of the
answers is that A.A. works because it gets people away from
themselves as the center of the universe. And it teaches them to rely
more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God.

Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with others

 is what makes the A.A. program work. Are these things keeping me sober?

Meditation For The Day

God is the great interpreter of one human personality to another.
Even personalities who are the nearest together have much in their
natures that remains a seated book to each other. And only as God
enters and controls their lives are the mysteries of each revealed to the other.

Each personality is so different. God alone understands
perfectly the language of each and can interpret between the two.

 Here we find the miracles of change and the true interpretation of life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. I pray that God
will interpret to me the personalities of other people, so that I can
understand them and help them.




Daily Thought

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(    \(AA)/    )

(_ /AA\ _)

/ AA \

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Faith


When I was driven to my knees by alcohol, I was made ready to ask for the gift of faith. And all was changed. Never again, my pains and problems notwithstanding, would I experience my former desolation. I saw the universe to be lighted by God's love; I was alone no more.

Bill W., Letter, 1966

c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 51

 

 

Thought to Consider . . . 

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around and faith looks within.

 

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

 

F A I T H
Finding Answers In The Heart




DAILY REFLECTIONS

 

 

TRUE BROTHERHOOD

We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend

among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a

useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the

top of the heap, or to hide underneath it This self-centered

behavior blocked a partnership relation with any one of

those about us. Of true brotherhood we had small

comprehension.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53

 

This message contained in Step Four was the first one I

heard loud and clear; I hadn't seen myself in print before!

Prior to my coining into A.A., I knew of no place that could

teach me how to become a person among persons. From my

very first meeting, I saw people doing just that and I wanted

what they had. One of the reasons that I'm a happy, sober

alcoholic today is that I'm learning this most important

lesson.

 

 

 

 

POT LUCK

 

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

~Confucius

 

Our program asks us "to be fearless and thorough from the very start." We are warned that some of us will hold on to old ideas and that the result will be nil unless "we let go absolutely." Recovery asks that we put our heart into our programs. How? By working the Steps. By calling group members to see how they're doing or to let them know how we're doing. By meeting with our sponsors so they can get to know us and guide us in working the Steps.

This is just what we need. We must not sit on the sidelines of the program. We should not settle for the illusion of commitment that we got by drinking and drugging. We need to surrender, to let go absolutely and enjoy the ride.

 

 

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, I give my heart and soul to you to do with as you want. Place me where I can do the most good. I pray for willingness to let go absolutely.

 

 

Today's Action

For today I will work at stepping into the day with all my heart. I will work at having the attitude and actions of letting go absolutely.

 

Today's reading is from the book God Grant Me: More Daily Meditations from the Authors of Keep It Simple*

 

 

 

 

 

**NEW**

Excellent Resource

Blogs, Audio and Video Articles

 

https://takethe12.org/

 

*****

 

"AA Recovery Interviews" Podcast

https://aarecoveryinterviews.com

 

Blog

http://todaysreprieve.blogspot.com/

 

 

Wee Willie’s

Sobriety First Media

AA CD’s Literature and tapes

https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

 

 

AA Membership Survey 2022

Alcoholics Anonymous 2022 Membership Survey | Alcoholics Anonymous

 

 

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

 

How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?

 https://bit.ly/3uhEPBK

 

 

 

DR. PAUL O.
There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
(Audio Book)

Introduction
http://bit.ly/1IlFBbp

Part I
http://bit.ly/1MPV5Za

Part II
http://bit.ly/1Ksd9eA

Part III
http://bit.ly/1GQCGGE

Part IV
http://bit.ly/1Ip0hn8

AA CDs Literature and tapes
https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

 

 

 

ZOOM MEETINGS

 

Loose Garment Group

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518

Saturday & Sunday….Pot Luck…0900

ID: 238 977 518

PW: 004 394

 

 

 

ARCHIVES

 

 

AA World Service Board Meeting Highlights

October 2023

 https://bit.ly/3GlcOvE

 

 

 

A New Pair of Glasses in PDF (download) is available at:

https://bit.ly/4bUr0Js

 

 

Bill Schaberg

Writing The Big Book

Video Readings

https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos

 

BIG BOOK for DUMMIES

https://bigbookfordummies.com/

 

 

 

*Angel Force USA

www.AngelForceUSA.com

 

Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

OUR MISSION

STOP SUISILENCE

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

https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt

 

 

 

MEDITATIONS

http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/

 

Loving Kindness Meditations

 

With Music

 

http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindnessmusic.mp3

 

 

Voice only

http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindness.mp3

 

*****

Free Guided Meditations

http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22

Resources

 

Great Minds Quotes

https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes

 

 

 

MOOJI GUIDED Meditation

http://bit.ly/2Ogwe9v

 

 

**Podcasts**

https://boiledowlaa.org/

https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast

 

 

12 Step Meditations

 www.stepmeditation.com

 

These are 12 meditations,

each about 12 minutes long and the content

(other than the meditation instructions)

are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12

(created by Matt H.)

 

 

Speaker Recordings

 

Wee Willie’s

Sobriety First Media

AA CD’s Literature and tapes

https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

*****

 

The Lights are On

http://xa-speakers.org/

 

 

Recovery Speakers

http://recoveryspeakers.com/

 

Miscellaneous Sources

Living Life Fully

http://www.livinglifefully.com/

 

 

Twenty Four Hours a Day

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics

throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised),

this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.

A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives.

Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation

 

Tammy’s recovery links

http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/

 

AA Photo Archives

http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm

 

Heard at A Meeting

https://twitter.com/heardinameeting

 

Breast Cancer Site

Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms

https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home

 

MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER

America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group

and advocacy national nonprofit organization.

http://malecare.org/

 

 

Prayables

http://prayables.org/

 

 

Daily Thought

http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily

 

Speaker Recordings

Stories of Recovery - A 12-Step Collection

https://storiesofrecovery.org/index.html

 

 


 

 

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