Your Daily Reprieve 06.21.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday June 21, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

“There was no use in my wondering

why or when I became an alcoholic

for the very simple reason that

it wouldn’t change my condition;

even if I did find the answer,

I would still be an alcoholic.”

~Toronto, Ontario, November 1952

"Sometimes, it's not the times you decide to fight,

but the times you decide to surrender,

that makes all the difference."

~Sissy Gavrilaki

"Each of us has a unique part to play

~in the healing of the world."

Marianne Williamson

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~Sophia Loren

Big Book Quote

The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.

P160

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11.18.21

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JUNE 2025 Miracles

6/1 Kristin C. (Dallas, TX)…..22

6/3 Tom W. (Amelia Island/Jacksonville FL)…..39

6/3 Norm G. (Ludlow, VT)…..2

6/4 Nate S. (Yulee, FL)…..9

6/4 Bob G. (Peapack, NJ)…..10

6/4 Sue B. (The Woodlands, TX/Valley Stream, NY)…..56

6/5 Roy L. (The Woodlands, TX/Valley Stream, NY)…..56

6/5 Fergus G. (Wicklow, Ireland)…..36

6/6 Bob B. (Danbury, CT)…..9

6/7 Stephen B, (Bethel, ME)…..49

6/7 Bill K. (Carle Place)…..30

6/7 David A. (Concord, NH)…..16

6/8 Michael L. (Mt. Vernon, NY)…..9

6/8 Joanne L. Nantucket, MA)…..11

6/9 Nancy R. (Stamford, CT)…..35

6/9 Vickie S. (Pentwater, MI)…..40

6/9 Dan K. (Jacksonville, FL)…..6

6/10 Beverly B. (Hendersonville, NC)…..37

6/10 Clarke J. (Lake Forest, IL)…..18

6/10 Dave McD. (Hudson, FL)…..48

6/10 Peter B. (Cape Coral, FL)…..34

6/10 Christophe B. (Puerto Vallarta, MX)…..1

6/10 John M. (Eliot, ME)…..4

6/11 Morgain P. (Lexington, KY)…..35

6/11 Cheryl B. (Palm Coast, FL)…..37

6/11 Scott O. …..10

6/14 Michael C. (Port Chester, NY)…..5

6/14 Isa G. (Waynesville, NC)…..7

6/15 Tim M. (New Jersey)…..6

6/15 Pat B-H (Mount Pleasant, SC)…..10

6/15 Fran F. (Dover, DE)…..36

6/15 Judy S. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..33

6/15 Adair B. (Amarillo, TX)…..3

6/16 Rob W. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..8

6/16 Suzanne C. (Phoenixville, PA)…..11

6/16 Scanny S. (Virginia Water, UK)…..1

6/16 Lara H. (Nantucket/Watertown, CT)…..5

6/16 Max P. (Charleston/Lakewood Ranch, FL)…..44

6/16 Eli M. (Nantucket)…..6

6/17 Paul Mac (Valatie, NY)…..51

6/17 Margo (Rothesay, Scotland)…..58

6/19 Jack D. …..32

6/19 Joel B. (Waynesville, NC)…..30

6/19 Sandy S. (Toccoa, GA)…..12

6/20 Joe R. (Ridgewood, NJ)…..19

6/21 Laura F. (Cleveland OH/Israel)…..33

6/22 Bob G. (Naples, FL)…..39

6/23 Edele …..12

6/23 Chris B. (Rockville, MD)…..12

6/23 Robin P.(Corpus Christi, TX)…..39

6/23 Reggie R. (Nantucket, MA)…..38

624 Annette C. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..13

6/24 Franki (Australia)…..6

6/24 Charles R. (Birmingham, AL)…..1

6/25 Tommy R. (Warren, NJ)…..1

6/26 Bob H. (Farmerville, LA)…..19

6/27 Jim C. (Nantucket, MA)…..18

6/27 Jim E. (Maryville, TN)…..22

6/28 Christina S. (Papillon, NE)…..4

6/28 Paul D. (Orlando, FL)…..42

6/30 Donna T. (Sechells, BC)…..16

1302 Total Years of Sobriety

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Step Five - "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five. We search for an easier way--which usually consists of the general and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors. Then, for good measure, we add dramatic descriptions of that part of our drinking behavior which our friends probably know about anyhow.

p. 55

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Intelligent faith in that Power greater than ourselves can
be counted on to stabilize our emotions. It has an
incomparable capacity to help us look at life in balanced
perspective. We look up, around, and away from ourselves,
and we see that nine out of ten things that at the moment
upset us will shortly disappear. Problems solve themselves,
criticism and unkindness vanish as though they had never
been. Have I got the proper perspective toward life?

Meditation For The Day

A truly spiritual man or woman would like to have a serene
mind. The only way to keep calm in this troubled world is to
have a serene mind. The calm and sane mind sees spiritual
things as the true realities and material things as only
temporary and fleeting. That sort of mind you can never obtain
by reasoning, because your reasoning powers are limited by
space and time. That kind of a mind you can never obtain by
reading, because other minds are also limited in the same way.
You can only have that mind by an act of faith, by making the
venture of belief.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may have a calm and sane mind. I pray that I may
look up, around, and away from myself.

Daily Thought

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Vigilance

"Now that we're in A.A. and sober, winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against the dangers of big-shot-ism, we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 92
As Bill Sees It, p. 19

Thought to Consider . . .

"Vigilance will always be the price of survival."
Bill W., Box 1980: The A.A. Grapevine, November 1960.
The Language of the Heart, p. 317

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B U T
Being Unconvinced Totally

Daily Reflection

Fear and Faith

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 act to this emotion—well or

badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim

perfect freedom from fear.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 263

Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more

faith. There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart,

just when I'm experiencing feelings of joy, happiness and a

lightness of heart. Faith— and a feeling of self-worth

toward a Higher Power—helps me endure tragedy and

ecstasy. When I choose to give all of my fears over to my

Higher Power, I will be free.

Pot Luck

Walk In Dry Places

No tap dancing around problems

Inventory

Our program calls for a “searching and fearless” moral inventory, not only in the beginning, but as we continue to follow our new way of life.

What this means is complete honesty about who and what we really are. We should not tap-dance around our problems in order to evade responsibility.

This will not bring the cleansing we need for real sober living. We need deep changes, not mere surface ones.

Difficult as it is to be fully honest, it’s made easier when we remind ourselves that it’s all for our own recovery. We benefit in proportion to the amount of honesty we bring to our inventory. If it’s searching and fearless, the results will be far-reaching and substantial.

I will not shirk from facing the truth about myself as I go through the day.

What I need for self-improvement will be revealed to me.

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In response to a Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference

regarding any possible future changes to literature written by A.A.’s founders,

that committee agreed it would be beneficial to gather shared experience

from the Fellowship regarding this topic.

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