Your Daily Reprieve 06.24.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday June 24, 2025

From Waynesville, NC

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression;

in order that every person present

his or her views without penalty

there must be a spirit of tolerance

in the entire population.
~Albert Einstein

"Acceptance of what has happened

is the first step to overcoming the consequences

of any misfortune.

~William James

I think losing yourself in life guarantees

finding yourself in God.
~A New Pair Of Glasses.

Chuck C

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“One day it will be left to the young people now in our Fellowship to carry on the original spirit and traditions of AA, even though the buzz words and trends will come and go. It will be up to us to teach newcomers how to maintain the type of sobriety that achieves the promises of the Big Book and dispels some of the fables of recovery popular today. It will be up to us to help the newcomer from the street dry out, shakes and pukes and all. We will be left to teach the little things: how to sit at the front, not the back of the room, say hello to the new guy, wash coffee cups and ashtrays. One day it will be up to us to uphold the Traditions. It will be up to us to keep it simple.”

~Bury St. Edmunds, England, September 1994

Big Book Quote

Is he not a victim of the delusion

that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness

out of this world if he only manages well?

P61

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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

6/25 Patty A. (Corpus Christi, TX)…..13

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

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

But of the things which really bother and burn us, we say nothing. Certain distressing or humiliating memories, we tell ourselves, ought not be shared with anyone. These will remain our secret. Not a soul must ever know. We hope they'll go to the grave with us.

pp. 55-56

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Alcohol is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts
from which we look for escape by drowning our problems in
drink. We try through drink to push away from the realities
of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does not build,
it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys.
We try to drown our feelings in order to escape life's
realities, little realizing or caring that in continued
drinking we are only multiplying our problems. Have I got
control over my unstable emotions?

Meditation For The Day

When I let personal piques and resentments interfere with
what I know to be my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track
and I am undoing all I have built up by doing the right
thing. I must never let personal piques interfere with
living the way I know God wants me to live. When I have no
clear guidance from God, I must go forward quietly along the
path of duty. The attitude of quiet faith will receive its
reward as surely as acting upon God's direct guidance. I must
not weaken my spiritual power by letting personal piques
upset me.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not let myself become too upset. I pray that
I may go quietly along the path I have chosen.

Daily Thought

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Selfishness

"Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

Thought to Consider . . .

Spirituality is the ability to get our minds off ourselves.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

B U T
Being Unconvinced Totally

Daily Reflection

A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN

We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which

people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace

to go on living to better effect

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95

When I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and

wanted to lose the obsession to drink, but I didn't really

know how to do that. I decided to stick around long enough

to find out from the ones who went before me. All of a

sudden I was thinking about God! I was told to get a Higher

Power and I had no idea what one looked like. I found out

there are many Higher Powers. I was told to find God, as I

understand Him, that there was no doctrine of the Godhead

in A.A. I found what worked for me and then asked that

Power to restore me to sanity. The obsession to drink was

removed and—one day at a time—my life went on, and I

learned how to five sober.

Pot Luck

"The longer I’m sober, the drunker I was."

Denial is an amazing thing. When I first entered the program, I had no intention of staying sober longer than a few months. I just needed to pull things together a little, get myself under control again. I wasn’t like the real alcoholics I heard share in meetings, and I was sure I could control my drinking again once I cooled it a bit. After all, it hadn’t been that bad, I told myself.

As the fog cleared, though, and I began journaling and working the Steps, more began to be revealed to me. I especially remember sitting in meetings listening to people share about being arrested for drunk driving and thinking That never happened to me. I was sober over a year before I remembered that when I was seventeen I crashed my car into two parked cars and was arrested for reckless drunk driving. That was a humbling memory.

As I peel back the layers of my past and uncover the truth about my drinking and using history, I’m amazed at how lucky I’ve been. I know that hospitals, institutions, and prisons are packed with alcoholics and addicts who never found sobriety, and I now know I could easily have been one of them. Today, my denial is gone, and the longer I stay sober, the drunker I realize I was.

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