Your Daily Reprieve 08.04.26

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  August  4, 2026   From Waynesville, NC

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." ~Maya Angelou     "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not" ~George Bernard Shaw     Love is our true destiny.  We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone —we find it with another." —Thomas Merton   “There has to be something to be grateful for if I am only willing to change my attitude and look for it.” Mesa, Ariz., March 2010, “Not on Fire”, AA Grapevine     "We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito." ~C.S. LEWIS

Big Book Quote   A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that really works.   P28

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12&12   Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Suppose that financial insecurity constantly arouses these same feelings. I can ask myself to what extent have my own mistakes fed my gnawing anxieties. And if the actions of others are part of the cause, what can I do about that? If I am unable to change the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they are? Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes. pp. 52-53

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day We in A.A. are offering a kind of psychological program as well as a spiritual one. First, people must be mentally able to receive it. They must have made up their minds that they want to quit drinking, and they must be willing to do something about it. Their confidence must be obtained. We must show them that we are their friends and really desire to help them. When we have their confidence, they will listen to us. Then the A.A. fellowship is a kind of group therapy. Newcomers need the fellowship of other alcoholics who understand their problem because they have had it themselves. Individuals must learn to reeducate their minds. They must learn to think differently. Do I do my best to give mental help? Meditation For The Day "And this is life eternal, that they may know Thee." It is the flow of life eternal through spirit, mind, and body that cleanses, heals, restores, and renews. Seek conscious contact with God more and more each day. Make God an abiding presence during the day. Be conscious of His spirit helping you. All that is done without God's spirit is passing. All that is done with God's spirit is life eternal. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be in the stream of eternal life. I pray that I may be cleansed and healed by the Eternal Spirit.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Maturity "Many oldsters who have put our A.A. 'booze cure' to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. To attain this, we must develop a real maturity and balance (which is to say humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God." Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, January 1958 As Bill Sees It, p. 244 Thought to Consider . . . "We must find a spiritual basis of life - or else." Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 44 *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H Fear Ain't In This House

Daily Reflection   SEEDS OF FAITH Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34 As a child I constantly questioned the existence of God. To a "scientific thinker" like me, no answer could withstand a thorough dissection, until a very patient woman finally said to me, "You must have faith." With that simple statement, the seeds of my recovery were sown! Today, as I practice my recovery—cutting back the weeds of alcoholism—slowly I am letting those early seeds of faith grow and bloom. Each day of recovery, of ardent gardening, brings the Higher Power of my understanding more fully into my life. My God has always been with me through faith, but it is my responsibility to have the willingness to accept His presence. I ask God to grant me the willingness to do His will.

Pot Luck   Strength against Fear “We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” —Martin Luther King Jr. The definition of courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair. In the past we may have been called courageous because we stayed in circumstances that were difficult or nearly unbearable. We may have felt that walking away from family, children, or friends was cowardly or displayed weakness. We may have felt that by holding back our tears we were stronger people. Yet all the things we may have viewed as weakness are really signs of courage. All the things we believed to be acts of courage were really not courageous at all. If we walked away from difficult or unbearable circumstances, we would be conquering despair. If we cried, we would have been courageous by letting go of our fear, pain, or sadness. Courage doesn’t mean putting ourselves in stressful or unpleasant situations. Courage doesn’t mean controlling our emotions. Courage is the ability to strengthen ourselves against the fear and despair of life, rather than be drowned by it. What have I done today that took courage? I can be grateful for my courage and strengthen it.

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