Your Daily Reprieve 08.02.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday  August  2, 2026   From Waynesville, NC

“The fellowship in AA is unique. Ties are made overnight that it would take years to develop elsewhere. No one needs a false front. All barriers are down. Some who have felt outcasts all their lives now know they really belong. From feeling as if they were dragging anchor though life, they suddenly sail free before the wind.” Lois W., February 1950     Be brave enough to live creatively.  The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you are doing.  What you will discover will be wonderful:  yourself.      -Alan Alda     Peace, like charity, begins at home.     -Franklin D. Roosevelt     We need to affirm and cling to the truth that God’s omnipresent spirit is intimately with and within each of us.  Our God is big enough to care for world peace and all of the world’s bigger problems—though our efforts are absolutely critical—and small enough, intimate enough, to care for you and me and our yearnings for inner and interpersonal peace.     -Gary Egeberg

Big Book Quote   Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship, and so will you.   P152

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12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security. pp. 51-52

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day In the association with members of the A.A. group to which we belong, we have the advantage of sincere friendship and understanding of the other members who, through social and personal contact, take us away from our old haunts and environments and help to remove in large measure the occasions of alcoholic suggestion. We find in this association a sympathy and a willingness on the part of most members to do everything in their power to help us. Do I appreciate the wonderful fellowship of A.A.? Meditation For The Day "Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." In this saying it is urged that all who seek heaven on earth or in the hereafter' should become like little children. In seeking things of the spirit and in our faith, we should try to become childlike. Even as we grow older, the years of seeking can give us the attitude of the trusting child. Not only for its simple trust should we have the childlike spirit, but also for its joy in life, its ready laughter, its lack of criticism, and its desire to share. In Charles Dickens's story, A Christmas Carol, even old Scrooge changed when he got the child-spirit. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may become like a child in faith and hope. I pray that I may, like a child, be friendly and trusting.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Friendship "We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part of. The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty. I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. Business and professional men have regained their standing. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us." Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15 Thought to Consider . . . "Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now." Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 16 *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing

Daily Reflection   WE BECOME WILLING . . . At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 77   How easily I can become misdirected in approaching the Eighth Step! I wish to be free, somehow transformed by my Sixth and Seventh Step work. Now, more than ever, I am vulnerable to my own self-interest and hidden agenda. I am careful to remember that self-satisfaction, which sometimes comes through the spoken forgiveness of those I have harmed, is not my true objective. I become willing to make amends, knowing that through this process I am mended and made fit to move forward, to know and desire God's will for me.

Pot Luck   I Need Courage to Change   After doing Steps Four and Five in my recovery program, I’m spiritually and emotionally tired. (They were especially hard to do given the shame and guilt I have felt in my depression.) I don’t much feel like making any more changes in Steps Six and Seven. Haven’t I made enough changes by getting stable and abstinent?   And yet, how can I stop now? As I’m learning in the program, I work Steps Four and Five so I’m free to make these changes in myself. I know it will not be easy, but I need to begin to let go of the parts of my personality that cause me trouble—the parts that, in recovery, no longer help. I need to become open to change in Step Six and then invite change in Step Seven. With strength from my Higher Power, I can do this much and trust the results.   Today I will pray for the courage to allow myself to be changed through my Higher Power

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