Your Daily Reprieve 05.05.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  May 5 2026   Waynesville, NC

"God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go." ~Tony Evans   “Talking about what bothers me helps it lose its power over me.” “Together We Can,” Martinsville, West Virginia, January 1990, Best of the Grapevine, Vol. 3     “To let go is not to lose; it is to make room.” — Zen Teaching   Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him. ~C.S. Lewis

BIG BOOK QUOTE   Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well?   P61

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12&12   Foreword This starting expansion brought with it very severe growing pains. Proof that alcoholics could recover had been made. But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect. pp. 17-18

Twenty-Four Hours A.A. Thought For The Day I had to show off and boast so that people would think I amounted to something, when, of course, both they and I knew that I really didn't amount to anything. I didn't fool anybody. Although I've been sober for quite a while, the old habit of building myself up is still with me. I still have a tendency to think too well of myself and to pretend to be more than I really am. Am I always in danger of becoming conceited just because I'm sober? Meditation For The Day I cannot ascertain the spiritual with my intellect. I can only do it by my own faith and spiritual faculties. I must think of God more with my heart than with my head. I can breathe in God's very spirit in the life around me. I can keep my eyes turned toward the good things in the world. I am shut up in a box of space and time, but I can open a window in that box by faith. I can empty my mind of all the limitations of material things. I can sense the Eternal. Prayer For The Day I pray that whatever is good I may have. I pray that I may leave to God the choice of what good will come to me.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Money Matters Money gradually became our servant and not our master. It became a means of exchanging love and service with those about us. When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 122 Thought to Consider . . . It's more important to feel happy about who I am than who I think I should be. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H A L T Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

DAILY REFLECTIONS   THE FOREST AND THE TREES . . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 60   I cannot count the times when I have been angry and frustrated and said to myself, "I can't see the forest for the trees!" I finally realized that what I needed when I was in such pain was someone who could guide me in separating the forest and the trees; who could suggest a better path to follow; who could assist me in putting out fires; and help me avoid the rocks and pitfalls. I ask God, when I'm in the forest, to give me the courage to call upon a member of A.A.

POT LUCK   FREEDOM IN FORGIVENESS      If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you (Matthew 6:14).      Setting others free means setting yourself free, because resentment is really a form of attachment. It is a cosmic truth that it takes two to make a prisoner; a prisoner and a jailer. There is no such thing as being a prisoner on one's own account. Moreover, the jailer is as much a prisoner as his charge. When you hold resentment against anyone, you are bound to that person by a mental chain. You are tied by a cosmic tie to the thing that you hate. The one person perhaps in the whole world whom you most dislike is the very one to whom you are attaching yourself by a hook that is stronger than steel. Is that what you wish? Is this the condition in which you desire to go on living? Remember, you belong to the thing with which you are linked in thought, and at some time or the other, if that tie endures, the object of your resentment will be drawn again into your life, perhaps to work further havoc. No one can afford such a thing; and so you must cut all ties by a clear act of forgiveness. You must loose him and let him go. By forgiveness you set yourself free; you save your soul. And because the law of love works alike for one and all, you help to save his soul too.   ~Emmet Fox

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