Your Daily Reprieve 04.30.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday April 30, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us.

If we would draw to us love, we must love, be loving and kind;

if we would have peace and harmony in our environment,

we must establish it within ourselves.
~Charles Fillmore

I define comfort as self-acceptance.

When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves,

we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

~Jennifer Louden

When you live your life with an appreciation

of coincidences and their meanings,

you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

-Deepak Chopra

Each of us has something broken in our lives:

a broken promise, a broken dream, a broken marriage, a broken heart. . .

and we must decide how we’re going to deal with our brokenness.

We can wallow in self-pity or regret, accomplishing nothing

and having no fun or joy in our circumstances;

or we can determine with our will to take a few risks,

get out of our comfort zone, and see what God will do

to bring unexpected delight in our time of need.

-Luci Swindoll

Big Book Quote

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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Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

Another crowd of A.A.'s says: "We were plumb disgusted with religion and all its works. The Bible, we said, was full of nonsense; we could cite it chapter and verse, and we couldn't see the Beatitudes for the `begats.' In spots its morality was impossibly good; in others it seemed impossibly bad. But it was the morality of the religionists themselves that really got us down. We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness that clung to so many `believers' even in their Sunday best. How we loved to shout the damaging fact that millions of the `good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God. This all meant, of course, that we had substituted negative for positive thinking. After we came to A.A., we had to recognize that this trait had been an ego feeding proposition. In belaboring the sins of some religious people, we could feel superior to all of them. Moreover, we could avoid looking at some of our own shortcomings. Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil. This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned. But finally, driven to A.A., we learned better.

p. 30

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

The A.A. program is one of faith because we find that we must
have faith in a Power greater than ourselves if we are going
to get sober. We're helpless before alcohol, but when we turn
our drink problem over to God and have faith that He can give
us all the strength we need, then we have the drink problem
licked. Faith in that Divine Principle in the universe which
we call God is the essential part of the A.A. program. Is faith
still strong in me?

Meditation For The Day

Each one of us is a child of God, and as such, we are full of
the promise of spiritual growth. A young person is like the
springtime of the year. The full time of the fruit is not yet,
but there is promise of the blossom. There is a spark of the
Divine in every one of us. Each has some of God's spirit that
can be developed by spiritual exercise. Know that your life is
full of glad promise. Such blessings can be yours, such joys,
such wonders, as long as you develop in the sunshine of God's
love.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may develop the divine spark within me. I pray
that by so doing I may fulfill the promise of a more abundant
life.

Daily Thought

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Carry the Message

Taking advantage of technological advances, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world. Fundamentally, though, the difference between an electronic meeting and the home group around the corner is only one of format. In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, A.A.'s speak the language of the heart in all its power and simplicity.
c. 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p. xxiv

Thought to Consider . . .

We in A.A. don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

H E A R T
Healing, Enjoying, and Recovering, Together.

Daily Reflection

A GREAT PARADOX

These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily

passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift

from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one

aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151

The great paradox of A.A. is that I know I cannot keep the

precious gift of sobriety unless I give it away.

My primary purpose is to stay sober. In A.A. I have no

other goal, and the importance of this is a matter of life or

death for me. If I veer from this purpose I lose. But A.A. is

not only for me; it is for the alcoholic who still suffers. The

legions of recovering alcoholics stay sober by sharing with

fellow alcoholics. The way to my recovery is to show others

in A.A. that when I share with them, we both grow in

the grace of the Higher Power, and both of us are on the

road to a happy destiny.

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Each Day a New Beginning

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

–Frances Marion

How shortsighted is our judgment about today’s experiences! We’ll see with clarity where they may lead us only after we’ve reached our destination.

Of one thing we can be certain: Today’s experiences, in concert with yesterday’s and all that’s gone before, are combining to weave an intricate life design, unique, purposeful, and for our ultimate good.

We need not feel remorse over lost chances or unproductive behavior in the past. Our destination remains the same, and our arrival is guaranteed. Our actions and decisions are never wrong. We may veer off course for a time, but the design for our lives will pull us back on the track.

The program is part of the design for our lives. It’s helping us to stay on course. In fact, when we’re working the Steps, we’re at ease with our direction, and we trust the outcome of our efforts to the power of the program. We will add to the richness of our design, today, just as we have every day of our lives. We can anticipate today’s experiences with an excited heart.

There is something special going on in my life today. I will give everybody and every event my full attention.

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