Your Daily Reprieve 04.01.25

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  April 1,  2025   From Waynesville, NC

"Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off." Max Lucado   “Pain is one of our greatest teachers. Though I still find it difficult to accept today’s pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do – I can, if I try hard, give thanks for present pain nevertheless.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1962     "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     “New people are the lifeblood of AA. I am eternally grateful to them. By extension I am, therefore, grateful to Tradition Three for making it possible for all who want what we have to come to AA.” ~“A Part of the Whole,” Los Gatos, California, February 1993

Big Book Quote   Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.   P45

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12&12   Foreword The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself. 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 honest? Do I no longer have to lie to my loved ones? Do I try to have meals on time, and do I try to earn what I make at work? Am I trying to be honest? Have I faced myself as I really am and have I admitted to myself that I'm no good by myself, but have to rely on God to help me do the right thing? Am I beginning to find out what it means to be alive and to face the world honestly and without fear? Meditation For The Day God is all around us. His spirit pervades the universe. And yet we often do not let His spirit in. We try to get along without His help and we make a mess of our lives. We can do nothing of any value without God's help. All our human relationships depend on this. When we let God's spirit rule our lives, we learn how to get along with others and how to help them. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may let God run my life. I pray that I will never again make a mess of my life through trying to run it myself.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Fear The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion - well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. Bill W., Grapevine, January 1962 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It,  p. 263   Thought to Consider . . . Courage is the willingness to accept fear and act anyway.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Face Everything And Recover

Daily Reflection   LOOKING WITHIN Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42 Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities in each of us have been, and are. I want to find exactly how, when, and where my natural desires have warped me. I wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and myself. By discovering what my emotional deformities are, I can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for me. To resolve ambivalent feelings, I need to feel a strong and helpful sense of myself. Such an awareness doesn't happen overnight, and no one's self-awareness is permanent. Everyone has the capacity for growth, and for self-awareness, through an honest encounter with reality. When I don't avoid issues but meet them directly, always trying to resolve them, they become fewer and fewer.

Pot Luck   "Live life today as though you knew you were dying."     We’ve all heard sayings like this before, and for many years my reaction was, “Yeah, but it’s not my last day and the rent is due at the end of the month, and my relationship isn’t getting better, and blah, blah, blah.” As the many worries of the future consumed me, the precious days and years passed by without me, and now, at thirteen years of sobriety, I wonder where the time went.   I remember when I got thirty days, an old-timer with twenty-four years shook my hand and congratulated me. I said, “Gee, I wish I had twenty-four years,” and I’ll never forget what he said. “I’ll trade you my twenty-four years, right now, for your thirty days.” It took me many years to see the wisdom in this: it’s about the journey, not the destination.   These days, I’m very aware of the gift of another day alive and sober. I’ve seen a lot of people go out or even die, and today I live from a place of supreme gratitude. Life is precious, beautiful, and filled with opportunities to help people and make a real difference. I appreciate my life today, and I’m grateful that I’m present enough to enjoy it. Today, I live life as though I were dying, and I’m fully alive because of it.   ~Wisdom of the Rooms

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