Your Daily Reprieve 06.25.26

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday June 25, 2026     From Ponte Vedra, FL

“I accepted the invitation to go on a Twelfth Step call and I in turn was twelfth-stepped.” ~Okmulgee, Okla., May 1994   Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in  your life as lessons.”  - Mother Teresa     Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace   Many of us unknowingly damage our Souls with our negative attitudes and actions or by simple neglect.   By making the relationship with your Soul an important part of your life, however, by honoring it in your daily routine, you give your life greater meaning and substance.   Use your experiences--all of them— as opportunities to nourish your Soul! Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross      Happy Birthday Dad! 6/25.1917

BIG BOOK QUOTE   We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth. That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done. These are the realities for us. We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.   P130

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12&12   Step Three - "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency. Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments. Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong." Every such pressure group, if it is strong enough, self-righteously imposes its will upon the rest. And everywhere the same thing is being done on an individual basis. The sum of all this mighty effort is less peace and less brotherhood than before. The philosophy of self-sufficiency is not paying off. Plainly enough, it is a bone-crushing juggernaut whose final achievement is ruin. p. 37

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day One of the most encouraging facts of life is that your weakness can become your greatest asset. Kites and airplanes rise against the wind. In climbing up a high mountain, we need the stony crags and rough places to aid us in our climb. So your weakness can become an asset if you will face it, examine it, and trace it to its origin. Set it in the very center of your mind. No weakness, such as drinking, ever turned into an asset until it was first fairly faced. Am I making my weakness my greatest asset? Meditation For The Day Whenever we seek to worship God, we think of the great universe that God rules over, of creation, of mighty law and order throughout the universe. Then we feel the awe that precedes worship. I too must feel awe, feel the desire to worship God in wondering amazement. My mind is in a box of space and time and it is so made that I cannot conceive of what is beyond space or time, the limitless and the eternal. But I know that there must be something beyond space and time, and that something must be the limitless and eternal Power behind the universe. I also know that I can experience that Power in my life. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may accept the limitless and eternal Spirit. I pray that It may express Itself in my life.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ The Past "Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worthwhile to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them." Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 124 Thought to Consider . . . Get it - Give it - Grow in it! *~*AACRONYMS*~* P A C E Positive Attitudes Change Everything

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A TWO-WAY STREET If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 65   When I prayed, I used to omit a lot of things for which I needed to be forgiven. I thought that if I didn't mention these things to God, He would never know about them. I did not know that if I had just forgiven myself for some of my past deeds, God would forgive me also. I was always taught to prepare for the journey through life, never realizing until I came to A.A.—when I honestly became willing to be taught forgiveness and forgiving—that life itself is the journey. The journey of life is a very happy one, as long as I am willing to accept change and responsibility.

POT LUCK   Today's Meditation: It is true that we pay very close attention to the immediate problems, those things that cause pain to our nerves, and not so close attention to those things that aren't nearly as obvious.  Why does it take alcoholics and drug addicts so long to fight behaviors that are damaging them terribly?  If they had a thorn in their foot, they'd remove it immediately, but the addiction, which does far more damage than any thorn ever could, is left to fester and cause further harm. I know that part of the reason has to do with the fact that we're not taught to recognize such problems or the harm they do.  Another part of the problem is that even if we do recognize them, we have a tendency to minimize their effects on us, and even deny that they have any effect at all.  "I can quit any time I want," we say, or "I'll quit cheating on my taxes next year, when I have more money," or "I need this more than he does." What happens when we do hurt our souls?  We can see a cut or a sore, but the damage to our spirits is not to be seen, only felt.  And if we devote ourselves to constant entertainment--constant distractions to keep ourselves from thinking about the condition of our souls--then we develop plausible deniability about whether there's even any damage at all.  But the damage is there, whether we admit it or not, and eventually it will catch up with us and bring us down for a time. Our souls are very important, but we tend to live as soulless creatures, simply making our ways through each day without thinking about how we'll nourish and care for our spiritual sides.  We can damage our souls with our behaviors, so it's very important that we make sure that the behaviors are appropriate not just for the people we are, but also for the people we want to be.

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