Your Daily Reprieve 06.02.26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday June 2, 2026

 

From Waynesvillke, NC

 

 

“We've resolved never to allow either money

or the management of our necessary affairs

to obscure our spiritual aims.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., November 1950

 

 

In humility alone lies true greatness,

and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far

as our lives are governed by them.

-Nicholas of Cusa

 

 

Words are powerful tools. Use them to help and not hurt.

--Cited in BITS & PIECES

 

 

"We're all looking at the people around us,

the people who have gone before us

who have succeeded in recovery

 and have long-term sobriety

as they are an illustration for us of how good it can be." ~

~Scott Stevens

 

 

 

BIG BOOK QUOTE

 

When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?

 

P53

 

 

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AA Speaker of the Day

 

TIM T.

Cleveland, OH

50th Florida State Convention

Palm Harbor, FL

2006

 

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6/1 Lorraine F. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..38

6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX)…..23

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6/27 Wes McG. (Winter Garden, FL)…..1

6/28 Janet D. (Montgomery TWP, NJ)…..46

6/30 Jeff C. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..1

 

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Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

 

“That,” agrees the sponsor, “is a very good question indeed. I think I can tell you exactly how to relax. You won’t have to work very hard, either. Listen, if you will, to these three statements. First, Alcoholics Anonymous does not demand that you believe anything. All of its twelve Steps are but suggestions. Second, to get sober and stay soberr, you don’t have to swallow all of Step Two right now. Looking back, I find that I took it piecemeal myself. Third, all you really need is a truly open mind. Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the chicken or the egg that came first. Again, I say, all you need is the open mind.”

 

p.26

 

 

Twenty-Four Hours



A.A. Thought For The Day

Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: wondering
if the car is in the garage and how I got home; struggling to
remember where I was and what I did since my last conscious
moment; trying to delay getting off to work, and wondering how
I will look when I get there; dreading the day ahead of me.
I'm quite sure that I don't miss these things, am I not?

Meditation For The Day

You cannot believe in God and keep your selfish ways. The old
self shrivels up and dies, and upon the reborn soul God's
image becomes stamped. The gradual elimination of selfishness
in the growth of love for God and your fellow human beings is
the goal of life. At first, you have only a faint likeness to
the Divine, but the picture grows and takes on more and more
of the likeness of God until those who see you can see in you
some of the power of God's grace at work in a human life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may develop that faint likeness I have to the
Divine. I pray that others may see in me some of the power of
God's grace at work

 

 





Daily Thought

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Lessons

"I find the willingness to give thanks by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering - lessons which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride, have often led me to God's grace, and so to a new freedom."

Bill W., Box 1980:
The AA Grapevine, March 1962
As Bill Sees It, p. 266

 

 

Thought to Consider . . .
R
emember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful!



*~*AACRONYMS*~*

T R U S T
Try Relying Upon the STeps

 

 

 

DAILY REFLECTIONS

 

 

THE UPWARD PATH

Here are the steps we took. . . .

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59

 

These are the words that lead into the Twelve Steps. In

their direct simplicity they sweep aside all psychological

and philosophical considerations about the lightness of the

Steps. They describe what I did: I took the Steps and

sobriety was the result. These words do not imply that I

should walk the well-trodden path of those who went

before, but rather that there is a way for me to become

sober and that it is a way I shall have to find. It is a new

path, one that leads to infinite light at the top of the

mountain. The Steps advise me about the footholds that are

safe and about chasms to avoid. They provide me with the

tools I need during the many parts of the solitary journey of

my soul. When I speak of this journey, I share my

experience, strength and hope with others.

 

 

 

POT LUCK

 

 

Sometimes I'm awfully impressed by fools.

~Kelly Q.

The man who said this memorable line had once believed he might feel better about himself if only he owned more. As an adult child, he felt he had missed out on something and somehow got the idea he could achieve peace by acquisition. So he started to collect things like boats, expensive new cars, better clothes, and so on. His models were people who had all the toys he was now collecting. He listened to them, followed them around, and imitated them. They were his heroes.

 

Luckily, it didn't take him too long to discover the truth. As he got to know these people, he saw they were no happier because of what they had. One or two of them were happy, but their happiness didn't depend on what they had. The rest of them, he learned, were fools who mindlessly looked for joy and meaning outside themselves.

 

This man's "recovery by acquisition" experiment was only a slight detour, and he is back on the road to healthy thinking.

 

He is no fool.

 

Today, I thank God for peace and happiness and remember these riches are inside, not outside, me.

 

Today's reading is from the book Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children*

 

 

 

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Committee Consideration

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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.

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DR. PAUL O.
There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
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Sept. 27, 2003

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Loving Kindness Meditations

 

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12 Step Meditations

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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

 

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Prayables

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Daily Thought

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Speaker Recordings

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