Your Daily Reprieve 05.21.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday May 21, 2026   Waynesville, NC

“To know yourself is not done just by reviewing your ‘misdeeds’; they are not you ... Your doubts, fears, and apprehensions, your immature cravings, your self-indulgence ... they are all committed by your physical body, guided by false instincts and imagination, instead of by your real self, which is the soul – the spirit within. That is where your conscience is, and your wisdom and your strength – which no one can hurt but you.” New York, N.Y., November 1946     As long as I hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. Wayne Dyer       This we learn from the child:  The more childlike we are in our approach to problems, the more creative we will be.  Try the fresh approach of a child. ~Wilferd A. Peterson       The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.   -Stanley Kubrick

BIG BOOK QUOTE   We alcoholics are sensitive people. It takes some of us a long time to outgrow that serious handicap.   P125

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12&12   Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. p. 21

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day One of the finest things about A.A. is the sharing. Sharing is a wonderful thing because the more you share the more you have. in our old drinking days, we didn't do much sharing. We used to keep things to ourselves, partly because we were ashamed, but mostly because we were selfish. And we were very lonely because we didn't share. When we came into A.A., the first thing we found was sharing. We heard other alcoholics frankly sharing their experiences with hospitals, jails, and all the usual mess that goes with drinking. Am I sharing? Meditation For The Day Character is developed by the daily discipline of duties done. Be obedient to the heavenly vision and take the straight way. Do not fall into the error of calling "Lord, Lord," and doing not the things that should be done. You need a life of prayer and meditation, but you must still do your work in the busy ways of life. The busy person is wise to rest and wait patiently for God's guidance. If you are obedient to the heavenly vision, you can be at peace. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be obedient to the heavenly vision. I pray if I fall, I will pick myself up and go on

Daily Thought   ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Hope He had lain awake all night. Down in the pit of his depression, new hope had suddenly been born. The thought flashed through his mind, "If they can do it, I can do it!" Over and over he said this to himself. Finally, out of his hope, there burst conviction. Now he was sure. Then came a great joy. At length peace stole over him, and he slept. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 189 Thought to Consider . . . Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H O P E Heart Open; Please Enter

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37   What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound mind and body. I went through seventy-four years of living right up to the present moment. The list ran to two pages, and took two hours to compile; I included health, family, money, A.A. —the whole gamut. Every day in my prayers, I ask God to help me remember my list, and to be grateful for it throughout the day. When I remember my gratitude list, it's very hard to conclude that God is picking on me.

POT LUCK     Today's Meditation: For the longest time, I never really thought to stop and figure out just what the term "normal" meant to me when thinking of other people and myself.  It's such an easy word to use, and we generally throw it around pretty carelessly using it to mean something to the extent of "doing things just the same way that most other people do them."  The problem I had with that was in looking around and seeing that so many people who were "normal" by that definition weren't all that happy--they were often frustrated and unfulfilled and unhappy. I came to find that people often call other people childish simply because they weren't doing things that made them "normal."  They were having too much fun, it seemed, and the others had to chastise them. . . why?  Because they wished they were having as much fun as the others?  Or because they thought they were doing those childish people a favor by trying to guilt-trip them into doing things in the same ways that everyone else does them? First of all, don't let others judge you on the basis of criteria you haven't approved of.  If you feel like blowing bubbles or skipping rope or singing out loud, then it's your choice whether to do those things--it's not the choice of anyone else who isn't walking in your shoes.  If you want to horse around a bit to relieve tension instead of taking the "normal" route of going out for beers, then by all means--horse around.  When all is said and done, children are quite ingenious with their acceptance of the world and other people, as well as their constant searches for adventure and wonder, and it could do us a great deal of good to emulate them instead of asking them to emulate us. For many people, childlikeness is a badge of honor--growing into being a child is a lofty goal for many people who have very healthy perspectives on life.

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