Your Daily Reprieve 07.08.26

 

 

Wednesday July 8, 2026    Waynesville, NC     “The future would ... lack its full use and meaning did it not bring us fresh problems and even acute perils – problems and perils through which we can grow into true greatness of action and spirit.” AA Co-Founder, Bill W., November 1960, “Freedom Under God: The Choice Is Ours”, The Language of the Heart     “What counts is not that which can be held in the hand but that which can be held in the heart.”  “Savoring Our Sobriety,” North Hollywood, California, August 1982, Emotional Sobriety: The Next Frontier     "No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good; I didn't even know what was going on inside of me so how could I have explained it to them?" ~Sierra D. Waters     “Are you finally ready to let go and live your destiny?” “A Remarkable Sensation,” Thompson, Pennsylvania, March 1997          If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List Use This Link   https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/1fhScpD

 

 

BIG BOOK QUOTE     “We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.”   ~Alcoholics Anonymous, p.19         

 

 

DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day       VALERIE DOWLING Thursday Night Speaker Las Vegas, NV 06.28.2007 bit.ly/4y8WPuk     ZOOM Loose Garment Group https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518 Saturday & Sunday…. Topic: Pot Luck…9AM EST ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394

 

 

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date and location to : sober@yourdailyreprieve.com     I always thought that posting our locations with our anniversaries was a great way to show newcomers that AA is all over the world. So I wish you would send your locations with your anniversary dates. We don't celebrate for our own benefit. We celebrate anniversaries to show the program works. If we add our locations we get to show that AA works EVERYWHERE!     JULY2026 Miracles     7/1 Will S. (Shamokin, Dam, PA)…..9 7/1 Ida C. …..18 7/1 Matt S. …..8 7/2 Estelle L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..6 7/2 Rosann (Mayo, Ireland)…..32 7/4 Malcolm S. (Waynesville/Vero Beach)…..41 7/4 Walter L. (Wells, ME)…..18 7/4 Chris D. (Bristol, VT)…..38 7/4 Rob F. (Wading River, NY)…..22 7/4 Dave S. (Gulf Breeze, FL)…..41 7/6 Ron L. (Kittery, ME)…..40 7/6 John B. (Supply, NC)…..5 7/6 Murdoch G. (Nova Scotia, CA)…..14 7/6 Michael R. (Floral Park/Bethpage, NY)…..36 7/6 Don T. (Palm Coast, FL)…..31 7/6 Francis G. (Dallas, TX)…..39 7/7 Pete C. (Yulee, FL)…..18 7/7 Sam F. (Sarasota, FL)…..25 7/7 Jeanne S. (NYC)…..3 7/9 David S. (Commack, NY)…..11 7/10 Richie S. (New Palz, NY)…..51 7/10 David S. (Longboat Key, FL)…..23 7/10 Laura A. (Columbus, OH)…..9 7/11 Doug G. (Stamford, CT)…..12 7/11 Joanie T. (NYC)…..43 7/12 Jan K. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..28 7/13 Jill M. (Elmont, NY)….. 7/13 Eleanor McM. (Far Hills, NJ)….. 7/13 Rick S.(Victor, ID)…..3614 7/13 Liz K. (Nantucket, MA)…..13 7/13 Linda C. (Jensen Beach, FL)…..50 7/14 Petermac (Australia)…..27 7/15 Robin G. (Edison, NJ)…..9 7/15 Michelle A. (Wading River, NY)…..22 7/15 Erika S. (Yulee, FL)…..20 7/16 Jack S. (Franklin Sq., NY)…..31 7/18 Lisa S. (Sarasota, FL)…..26 7/19 Murielle I. (Victoria, BC, Canada)…..21 7/19 Louise H. …..14 7/19 Jake M. (Tucson, AZ)…..4 7/21 Deborah C. (Corvallis, MT)…..23 7/21 Jeffrey M. (Montreal, CA)…..23 7/22 Mark H. …..6 7/22 Sandy S. (Winchester , UK)…..9 7/23 Jamie G. (WPB)…..9 7/24 Rick R. (Danbury CT)…..17 7/26 Jeff U. (Calabash, NC)…..23 7/27 Lisa C. (Liverpool, England)…..10 7/27 David M. (San Francisco, CA)…..21 7/27 Jimmy G. (Louisville, KY)…..41 7/28 Mark L. (Lamoine, ME)…..34 7/29 Linda S. (Oberlin, OH)…..42 7/29 Wynter P. (Madison, CT)…..35 7/30 Davis H. (Manitowish Waters, WI)…..28     1206 Total Years of Sobriety                Drop a Buck in the Basket? PayPal paypal.me/TomMurphy Venmo @Tom-Murphy-160     The cost to mail Your Daily Reprieve just went up to $195 a month!!       Thank you everyone for your generous contributions.

 

 

12&12     Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are. We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach. pp. 42-43

 

 

 

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS   A.A. Thought For The Day   A.A. members will tell you that they can look back and clearly see that they were out of control long before they finally admitted it. Every one of us has gone through that stage when we wouldn’t admit that we were alcoholics. It takes a lot of punishment to convince us, but one thing is certain. We all know from actual experience that when it comes to dishing out punishment, John Barleycorn has no equal. Have I any reservations as to my status as an alcoholic?   Meditation for the Day   There is a force for good in the world and when you are cooperating with that force for good, good things happen to you. You have free-will, the choice to be on the side of right or on the side of wrong. This force for good we call God’s will. God has a purpose for the world and He has a purpose for your life. He wants you to bring all your desires into oneness with His desires. He can only work through people. If you try to make God’s will your will, you will be guided by Him. You will be in the stream of good- ness, carried along by everything that is right. You will be on God’s side.   Prayer for the Day   I pray that I may try to make God’s will my will. I pray that I may keeping the stream of goodness in the world.   

 

 

DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \ (AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Right Living "Service gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we can fit and belong in God's scheme of things - these are the satisfactions of right living for which no pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes." Bill W. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 124 As Bill Sees It, p. 254 Thought to Consider . . . "I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine." Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, Jan. 1958. The Language of the Heart, p. 238     *~*AACRONYMS*~* G I F T God Is Forever There

 

 

 

DAILY REFLECTION     AN EVER-GROWING FREEDOM The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76   When I finally asked God to remove those things blocking me from Him and the sunlight of the Spirit, I embarked on a journey more glorious than I ever imagined. I experienced a freedom from those characteristics that had me wrapped up in myself. Because of this humbling Step, I feel clean. I am especially aware of this Step because I'm now able to be useful to God and to my fellows. I know that He has granted me strength to do His bidding and has prepared me for anyone, and anything, that comes my way today. I am truly in His hands, and I give thanks for the joy that I can be useful today.

 

 

POT LUCK      A Day At A Time Reflection For The Day   We learn in The Program and its Twelve Steps that as we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions.  Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, all have to be tempered and redirected.  We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives.     But when we’re willing to place spiritual growth first — then and only then do we have a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love.  Am I willing to place spiritual growth first?   Today I Pray May my development as a spiritual person temper my habitual hankerings for material security.  May I understand that the only real security in life is spiritual.  If I have faith in my Higher Power, these revisions in my attitudes will follow.  May I grow first in spiritual awareness.   Today I Will Remember Value the life of the spirit.

 

 

**NEW** Excellent Resource Blogs, Audio and Video Articles   https://takethe12.org/   *****   "AA Recovery Interviews" Podcast https://aarecoveryinterviews.com   Blog http://todaysreprieve.blogspot.com/     Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst     AA Membership Survey 2022 Alcoholics Anonymous 2022 Membership Survey | Alcoholics Anonymous     Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference 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. Questionaire   How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?  https://bit.ly/3uhEPBK       DR. PAUL O. There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking (Audio Book) Introduction http://bit.ly/1IlFBbp Part I http://bit.ly/1MPV5Za Part II http://bit.ly/1Ksd9eA Part III http://bit.ly/1GQCGGE Part IV http://bit.ly/1Ip0hn8 AA CDs Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst       ZOOM MEETINGS   Loose Garment Group https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518 Saturday & Sunday….Pot Luck…0900 ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394       ARCHIVES     AA World Service Board Meeting Highlights October 2023  https://bit.ly/3GlcOvE       A New Pair of Glasses in PDF (download) is available at: https://bit.ly/4bUr0Js     Bill Schaberg Writing The Big Book Video Readings https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos     BIG BOOK for DUMMIES Big Book for Dummies - YouTube   https://bit.ly/4xHU0QA       *Angel Force USA www.AngelForceUSA.com   Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. OUR MISSION STOP SUISILENCE The avoidance of discussion about suicide Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.       RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana) Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sept. 27, 2003 https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt       MEDITATIONS http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/   Loving Kindness Meditations   With Music   http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindnessmusic.mp3     Voice only http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindness.mp3   ***** Free Guided Meditations http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22 Resources   Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes       MOOJI GUIDED Meditation http://bit.ly/2Ogwe9v     **Podcasts** https://boiledowlaa.org/ https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast     12 Step Meditations  www.stepmeditation.com   These are 12 meditations, each about 12 minutes long and the content (other than the meditation instructions) are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12 (created by Matt H.)     Speaker Recordings   Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst *****   The Lights are On http://xa-speakers.org/     Recovery Speakers http://recoveryspeakers.com/   Miscellaneous Sources

 

 

 

 

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