Your Daily Reprieve 06.03.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday  June 3, 2026   From Waynesvillke, NC

However we understand our spiritual selves, most of us agree on how to foster them: through peace, silence, and beauty, in meditation, and in what some of us call prayer. Just as every bud aspires to be a flower, and as the flower holds the secret of the fruit, so we enfold the beauty of our spirits.  If we nourish the spirit, we can grow to be our better selves.  If we allow nothing to hamper its growth, our spirit will unfold. -unattributed     How necessary is silence to us?  I think it depends on personality— some of us need more silence than others. But I don’t know of any healthy person who can live in constant noise. There are voices within us that must be heard only in silence. There are still little imitations of reality— little seeds of happiness and germs of future problems that we miss only at great risk. -Edward J. Lavin     Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear,  but around in awareness. -James Thurber     The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. --John Holt

BIG BOOK QUOTE   But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished.   P18

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12&12   Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."   The sponsor continues, “Take for example, my own case. I had a scientific schooling. Naturally I respected, venerated, even worshiped science. As a matter of fact, I still do—all exceot the worship part. Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind. When I first looked at A.A. my reaction was just like yours. This A.A. business, I thought, is totally unscientific. This I can’t swallow. I simply won’t consider such nonsense.   pp 26-27

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: running all over town to find a bar open to get that "pick-me-up"; meeting my friends and trying to cover up that I feel awful; looking at myself in a mirror and calling myself a dam* fool; struggling with myself to snap out of it for two or three days; wondering what it is all about. I'm positive I don't miss these things, am I not? Meditation For The Day Love is the power that transforms your life. Try to love your family and your friends and then try to love everybody that you possibly can, even the "sinners and publicans" everybody. Love for God is an even greater thing. it is the result of gratitude to God and it is the acknowledgment of the blessing that God has sent you. Love for God acknowledges His gifts and leaves the way open for God to shower yet more blessings on your thankful heart. Say "Thank you, God," until it becomes a habit. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may try to love God and all people. I pray that I may continually thank God for all His blessings.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (     \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Obsession "Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us." Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 24   Thought to Consider . . .  The best things in life aren't things. *~*AACRONYMS*~* N U T S Not Using The Steps

DAILY REFLECTIONS   ON A WING AND A PRAYER . . . we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76   Steps Four and Five were difficult, but worthwhile. Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. I was outside, praying for willingness, when I raised my eyes and saw a huge bird rising in the sky. I watched it suddenly give itself up to the powerful air currents of the mountains. Swept along, swooping and soaring, the bird did things seemingly impossible for mortal birds to do. It was an inspiring example of a fellow creature "letting go" to a power greater than itself. I realized that if the bird "took back his will" and tried to fly with less trust, on its power alone, it would spoil its apparent free flight. That insight granted me the willingness to pray the Seventh Step prayer. It's not easy to know God's will in each circumstance. I must search out and be ready for the currents, and that's where prayer and meditation help! Because I am, of myself, nothing, I ask God to grant me the knowledge of His will and the power and courage to carry it out—today.

POT LUCK   "Sometimes you don’t realize that all you need is God, until all you have is God."   Even after years in recovery and with all my sober experience, I’m still amazed by my tendency to put so many things before God. Many times, I’m convinced that if only I were retired or had enough money to travel more, or if my wife would do what I wanted, then my life would finally be better. If only I could get what I wanted, then I would be happy. My stubborn reliance on this myth can be pretty disappointing. I’ve been reminded in meetings that anything I place before God will be taken from me, and I can show you inventories of the many things I have put before Him, and obsessively chased and then lost, to prove this is true. It’s painful when it happens, but the result is that it always leads me back to God. The greatest gift I have today, and the one constant source of strength and hope in my life, is my relationship with my Higher Power. My Higher Power has the answers and solutions to the problems I face, and He has a deeper love and caring for me than I’ll ever comprehend. When I’m connected to God, there are no worries, no wants, and no needs. When things get stripped away, as they will be, and all I’m left with is God, it’s then that I remember: All I ever needed was God

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