Your Daily Reprieve: Your Daily Reprieve 04.02.24

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday April 2, 2024

From Waynesville, NC

It is in the silence of the heart that God speaks.

--Mother Teresa

Our entire life--consists ultimately

in accepting ourselves as we are."

--Jean Anouilh

You will find that the spiritual energy will permit you

to perform tasks far beyond your conditioned capacity

in terms of time and accomplishment.

--John-Roger

God, help me stay serene, confident, and joyful

as I go through my day.

--Melody Beattie

“There are winners and whiners,

and sometimes I seem to embody both.

I am, as my friends remind me, a human being.”

~Port Townsend, Wash., October 1994

Big Book Quote

If you have already made a decision,

and an inventory of your grosser handicaps,

you have made a good beginning.

That being so you have swallowed and digested

some big chunks of truth about yourself.

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There is, too, a rising interest in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Students of human relations are beginning to wonder how and why A.A. functions as a society. Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen? How can a set of traditional principles, having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in unity and effectiveness? The second section of this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.

p. 16

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward
becoming more loving to my family and friends? Do I visit
my parents? Am I more appreciative of my spouse than I was
before? Am I grateful to my family for having put up with
me? Have I found real understanding with my children? Do I
feel that the friends I've found in A.A. are real friends?
Do I believe that they are always ready to help me and
do I want to help them if I can? Do I really care now about
other people?

Meditation For The Day

Not what you do so much as what you are, that is the miracle-
working power. You can be a force for good, with the help of
God. God is here to help you and to bless you, here to company
with you. You can be a worker with God. Changed by God's grace,
you shed one garment of the spirit for a better one. In time,
you throw that one aside for a yet finer one. And so from
character to character, you are gradually transformed.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may accept every challenge. I pray that each
acceptance of a challenge may make me grow into a better
person.

Daily Thought

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Today

"I realize that all I'm guaranteed in life is today. The poorest person has no less and the wealthiest has no more - each of us has but one day. What we do with it is our own business; how we use it is up to us individually. I feel that I have been restored to health and sanity these past years not through my own efforts nor as a result of anything I may have done, but because I've come to believe - to really believe - that alone I can do nothing. That my own innate selfishness and stubbornness are the evils which, if left unguarded, can drive me to alcohol. I have come to believe that my illness is spiritual as well as physical and mental, and I know that for help in the spiritual sphere I have to turn to a Higher Power."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 473

Thought to Consider . . .
I can't have a better tomorrow

if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.

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Daily Reflection

CHARACTER BUILDING

Demands made upon other people for too much attention,

protection, and love can only invite domination or

revulsion. . . .

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 44

When I uncovered my need for approval in the Fourth Step,

I didn't think it should rank as a character defect. I wanted

to think of it more as an asset (that is, the desire to please

people). It was quickly pointed out to me that this "need"

can be very crippling. Today I still enjoy getting the

approval of others, but I am not willing to pay the price I

used to pay to get it. I will not bend myself into a pretzel to

get others to like me. If I get your approval, that's fine; but

if I don't, I will survive without it. I am responsible for

speaking what I perceive to be the truth, not what I think

others may want to hear.

Similarly, my false pride always kept me overly

concerned about my reputation. Since being enlightened in

the A.A. program, my aim is to improve my character.

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As Bill Sees It

This Matter of Honesty, p. 172

"Only God can fully know what absolute honesty is. Therefore, each of us has to

conceive what this great ideal may be--to the best of our ability.

"Fallible as we all are, and will be in this life, it would be presumption to suppose that

we could ever really achieve absolute honesty. The best we can do is to strive for a

better quality of honesty.

"Sometimes we need to place love ahead of indiscriminate 'factual honesty.' We

cannot, under the guise of 'perfect honesty,' cruelly and unnecessarily hurt others.

Always one must ask, 'What is the best and most loving thing I can do?'"

Letter, 1966

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