Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 03.29.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday March 29, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but

gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change

because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not

managed to surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to

do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it, and then if we turn

around to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it,

so imperceptible has it become.

-- Marcel Proust

“My belief in a Higher Power is as strong as it was when I went to my first AA meeting and accepted the first and second Steps as simply and as trustfully as a child accepts its mother’s milk ... So what on earth was I looking for? I just don’t know. I guess I wanted a little Tinker Bell all my own to show me the right and only way out of every situation.”

~Grapevine: Westport, Conn., July 1956,

"Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt.

We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives.

But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear."

~Robin Sharma

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the
contentment of a loving soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Big Book Quote

We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.

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As A.A. now enters maturity, it has begun to reach into forty foreign lands.* In the view of its friends, this is but the beginning of its unique and valuable service.
It is hoped that this volume will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and forces which have made Alcoholics Anonymous what it is.

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p. 18

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Before I met A.A. I was very dishonest. I lied to my wife
constantly about where I had been and what I'd been doing.
I took time off from the office and pretended I'd been
sick or gave some other dishonest excuse. I was dishonest
with myself, as well as with other people. I would never
face myself as I really was or admit when I was wrong. I
pretended to myself that I was as good as the next fellow,
although I suspected I wasn't. Am I now really honest?

Meditation For The Day

I must live in the world and yet live apart with God. I can
go forth from my secret times of communion with God to the
work of the world. To get the spiritual strength I need, my
inner life must be lived apart from the world. I must wear
the world as a loose garment. Nothing in the world should
seriously upset me, as long as my inner life is lived with
God. All successful living arises from this inner life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may live my inner life with God. I pray that
nothing shall invade or destroy that secret place of peace.

Daily Thought

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Criticism

"Now and then all of us fall under heavy criticism. When we are angered and hurt, it's difficult not to retaliate in kind. Yet we can restrain ourselves and then probe ourselves, asking whether our critics were really right. If so, we can admit our defects to them. This usually clears the air for mutual understanding . . . Maybe a sense of humor can be our saving grace - thus we can both forgive and forget."
Bill W., Letter, 1966
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 184

Thought to Consider . . .
The best way to get even is to forget.

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TRUSTED SERVANTS

They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless

privilege of doing the group's chores

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134

In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an

encounter between his principal character and an old man

busily at work planting a tree. "What is it you are doing?"

Zorba asks. The old man replies: "You can see very well

what I'm doing, my son, I'm planting a tree." "But why

plant a tree," Zorba asks, "if you won't be able to see it bear

fruit?" And the old man answers: "I, my son, live as though

I were never going to die." The response brings a faint

smile to Zorba's lips and, as he walks away, he exclaims

with a note of irony: "How strange—I live as though I were

going to die tomorrow!"

As a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, I have found

that the Third Legacy is a fertile soil in which to plant the

tree of my sobriety. The fruits I harvest are wonderful:

peace, security, understanding and twenty-four hours of

eternal fulfillment; and with the soundness of mind to listen

to the voice of my conscience when, in silence, it gently

speaks to me, saying: You must let go in service. There are

others who must plant and harvest.

Pot Luck

The Good Feelings

Let yourself feel the good feelings too.

Yes, sometimes good feelings can be as distracting as the painful, more difficult ones. Yes, good feelings can be anxiety producing to those of us unaccustomed to them. But go ahead and feel the good feelings anyway.

Feel and accept the joy. The love. The warmth. The excitement. The pleasure. The satisfaction. The elation. The tenderness. The comfort.

Let yourself feel the victory, the delight.

Let yourself feel cared for.

Let yourself feel respected, important, and special.

These are only feelings, but they feel good. They are full of positive, upbeat energy--and we deserve to feel that when it comes our way.

We don't have to repress. We don't have to talk ourselves out of feeling good--not for a moment. Own it. If it's good, enjoy it.

Today, God, help me be open to the joy and good feelings available to me.

Wee Willie’s

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