Your Daily Reprieve 05.08.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday   May 8 2026   Waynesville, NC

All people are special, and all moments are golden.  There is no person and there is no time more special than another.  Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people.  This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing God’s message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else’s word for everything. ~Neale Donald Walsch     "Gratitude releases us from the 'Gimmies'. there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. --Henry Miller   Selfishness and greed, individual or national,  cause most of our troubles.      -Harry S. Truman   Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.      -Gautama Buddha

BIG BOOK QUOTE   But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived.   P66

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12&12   Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us. p. 21

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day I'm grateful that I found a program in A.A. that could keep me sober. I'm grateful that A.A. has shown me the way to faith in a Higher Power, because the renewing of that faith has changed my way of life. And I've found a happiness and contentment that I had forgotten existed, by simply believing in God and trying to live the kind of a life that I know He wants me to live. As long as I stay grateful, I'll stay sober. Am I in a grateful frame of mind? Meditation For The Day God can work through you better when you are not hurrying. Go very slowly, very quietly, from one duty to the next, taking time to rest and pray between. Do not be too busy. Take everything in order. Venture often into the rest of God and you will find peace. At work that results from resting with God is good work. Claim the power to work miracles in human lives. Know that you can do many things through the Higher Power. Know that you can do good things through God who rests you and gives you strength. Partake regularly of rest and prayer. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may not be in too much of a hurry. I pray that I may take time out often to rest with God.

Daily Thought  ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Martyrdom Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom; which we can ill afford. Bill W., Letter, 1966 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 238 Thought to Consider . . . Poor me! Poor me! Pour me a drink. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I N E Feeling Insecure, Numb and Empty

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A RESTING PLACE   All of A.A. 's Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of mind than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55   After writing down my character defects, I was unwilling to talk about them, and decided it was time to stop carrying this burden alone. I needed to confess those defects to someone else. I had read—and been told—I could not stay sober unless I did. Step Five provided me with a feeling of belonging, with humility and serenity when I practiced it in my daily living. It was important to admit my defects of character in the order presented in Step Five: "to God, to ourselves and to another human being." Admitting to God first paved the way for admission to myself and to another person. As the taking of the Step is described, a feeling of being at one with God and my fellow man brought me to a resting place where I could prepare myself for the remaining Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.

POT LUCK   "I don’t react to the present the way I reacted to the past."   Last week I had a God shot that revealed the miracle of recovery in my life. An emotionally charged situation came up that used to trigger a wounded, withdrawn, and resentful reaction, but as it unfolded I noticed something wonderful happening inside me. For the first time, I was aware that I could choose a different, healthier way of responding. What a welcome change that was! Before recovery, I was a slave to the old, hurtful wounds of my past. I was like one of Pavlov’s dogs: as soon as a stimulus was presented, I reacted automatically. And predictably, my reactions almost always made the situation worse. Not only was I unaware that I had a choice, I also had no idea there might be a better, more appropriate way of responding. And that’s what the miracle of recovery has given me. Through years of working the program, running my thinking and ideas by my sponsor before I acted, and praying for an intuitive thought and then waiting for inspiration, I have developed the space to consider my options before responding. And in that space, newer, more appropriate choices are available to me. This new way of reacting has freed me, and allowed me to live a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life. Today, I don’t react to the present the way I reacted to the past.

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