Your Daily Reprieve 06.27.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday June 27, 2026

From Ponte Vedra, FL

“I am grateful for this minute.

My eternity may be in it.”

~Arlington, Va., March 1947

Happiness, not in another place but this place...

not for another hour, but this hour.
~Walt Whitman

The most common form of despair

is not being who you are."

—Søren Kierkegaard

It’s tempting, when faced with a flaw of the spirit or other growth issue,

to pray for and expect immediate change. Sometimes it happens.

But how lost and confused we feel if our prayers

don’t bring the instant relief we seek.

During such times, it’s good to remember that all facets of our nature

—whether traits we love about ourselves or those we want to improve—

are part of our God-created being. Even our less-than-desirable parts

are there for a reason and contain lessons for us.

When change seems to come slowly, don’t give up hope.

Consider that the timetable for your growth is in God’s hands.
~unattributed

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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We realize the word “dependence” is as distasteful to many psychiatrists and psychologists as it is to alcoholics. Like our professional friends, we too, are aware that there are wrong forms of dependence. We have experienced many of them. No adult man or woman, for example, should be in too much emotional dependence upon a parent. They should have been weaned long before, and if they have not been, they whould wake up to the fact. This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging. But dependence on a Higher Power hasn’t produced any baleful results.

p.38

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

If you can take your troubles as they come, if you can maintain your
calm and composure amid pressing duties and unending engagements,
if you can rise above the distressing and disturbing circumstances in
which you are set down, you have discovered a priceless secret of
daily living. Even if you are forced to go through life weighed down by
some unescapable misfortune or handicap and yet live each day as it
comes with poise and peace of mind, you have succeeded where most
people have failed. You have wrought a greater achievement than a
person who rules a nation. Have I achieved poise and peace of mind?

Meditation For The Day

Take a blessing with you wherever you go. You have been blessed, so
bless others. Such stores of blessings are awaiting you in the months
and years that lie ahead. Pass on your blessings. Blessing can and does
go around the world, passed on from one person to another. Shed a
little blessing in the heart of one person. That person is cheered to
pass it on, and so, God's vitalizing, joy-giving message travels on. Be a
transmitter of God's blessings.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may pass on my blessings. I pray that they may flow into
the lives of others.

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Prayer

"In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question. They are matters of knowledge and experience. All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own. They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability. And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 104
As Bill Sees It, p. 127

Thought to Consider . . .

Trying to pray is praying.

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Pray Until Something Happens

DAILY REFLECTIONS

CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY

We obey A.A. 's Steps and Traditions because we really

want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good

or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform

Such is our process of growth in unity and function. Such is

the evidence of God's grace and love among us.

A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 106

It is fun to watch myself grow in A.A. I fought conformity

to A.A. principles from the moment I entered, but I learned

from the pain of my belligerence that, in choosing to live

the A. A. way of life, I opened myself to God's grace and

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Today's Meditation:

Relax. Be patient. Take your time. Not words that we like to hear these days--mostly because we almost never hear them. Instead, we're told constantly to hurry up or we'll miss the boat or miss the deadline. We're told to get it done yesterday, because it's that important. We're led to believe that people who relax and slow down and take it easy are slackers, lazy people who somehow aren't as good as everyone else.

Think about it, though. Would you want a surgeon operating on you who's trying to hurry through the process so she can move on to her next obligation? Would you want a lawyer taking care of your case who's trying to get it done as quickly as he can? And that person working on your car--should he or she barrel through the job as quickly as they can, or do you want that person to take their time?

Those three questions almost answer themselves. But that same desire to have someone take their time and do it right is something that we rarely afford ourselves--the opportunity to do something slowly, patiently, with reverence and attention. We try to become something we're not in days rather than years. Our spirits--simply the most important part of who we are as human beings--are so often treated without any respect or dignity at all, and we do pay a huge price for it, with frustration, depression, despair, hopelessness, and all sorts of other results of the neglect we show to our spiritual development.

Take your time. Do it right. Ask yourself important questions, then take your time and answer those questions accurately and fully. Then move on to the next one. Decide how you want to act, and who you want to be, then move towards being that person. Don't get frustrated when you make mistakes and backslide--that's all part of the process. But please don't hurry, for the results of hurry rarely are the results that will last and that will do you good. Go for the lasting results, take your time and enjoy the process of discovery.

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