Your Daily Reprieve 06.26.26

  

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday June 26, 2026     From Ponte Vedra, FL

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float." ~Alan Watts     Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening?   No, sobriety is only a bare beginning;  it is only the first gift of the first awakening.  If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on.  As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life  -- the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. —Bill W.   “When we strive to become better than we are,  everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho   "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,  I will try again tomorrow." —Mary Anne Radmacher

BIG BOOK QUOTE   Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.   P43

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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." Therefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better. So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power. pp. 37-38

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day We must know the nature of our weakness before we can determine how to deal with it. When we are honest about its presence, we may discover that it is imaginary and can be overcome by a change of thinking. We admit that we are alcoholics and we would be foolish if we refused to accept our handicap and do something about it. So by honestly facing our weakness and keeping ever present the knowledge that for us alcoholism is a disease with which we are afflicted, we can take the necessary steps to arrest it. Have I fully accepted my handicap? Meditation For The Day There is a proper time for everything. I must learn not to do things at the wrong time, that is, before I am ready or before conditions are right. It is always a temptation to do something at once, instead of waiting until the proper time. Timing is important. I must learn, in the little daily situations of life, to delay action until I am sure that I am doing the right thing at the right time. So many lives lack balance and timing. In the momentous decisions and crises of life, they may ask God's guidance, but into the small situations of life, they rush alone. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may delay action until I feel that I am doing the right thing. I pray that I may not rush in alone.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Give Thanks "Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity - as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do - I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless. 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 A.A. Grapevine, March 1962 As Bill Sees It, p. 266 Thought to Consider . . . Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm. *~*AACRONYMS*~* H O P E Hearing Other Peoples' Experience

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151   The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. program. "It" truly does "get better" one day at a time. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. Sobriety is a gift that grows with time.

POT LUCK   Father Leo's Daily Meditation   GENEROSITY   "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us." -- John (1:14)   There is a beautiful fairy tale about a land where everybody had an abundance of "warm fuzzies" that they exchanged witheach other and shared with each other. Everything in this land was wonderful because all the people were generously giving and receiving "warm fuzzies".     Then a rumor began that there was to be a shortage of "warm fuzzies," and people began to hoard and selfishly protect their supply of "warm fuzzies." At this point, "cold pricklies" were introduced into the land. Sadness, pain, tension and persecution developed in the land, and the growth of the "cold pricklies" kept people separated, fearful and alone.     The tragedy of this tale is that the rumor was not true! As long as people generously share their "warm fuzzies", they will never disappear. The "warm fuzzies" only disappear when they are not shared. The more we give, the more we receive. Abundance rests in giving, never hoarding!     Master, may I always be generous with all that You have given me.

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