Your Daily Reprieve 07.12.25

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday July 12 , 2025

From Waynesville, NC

At Alcoholics Anonymous, no one’s in charge.

And yet, at the same time, everyone’s in charge.

Because there is no one in charge,

everyone is responsible for keeping themselves

—and everyone else—

on track.
—Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom

I know this to be true:

The world doesn’t get great unless we all get better.

If there is such a thing as salvation,

then we are not saved until everyone is saved;

our dignity and liberation are bound together.
—Jacqui Lewis

"Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself;

maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life

before you understood what you wanted out of it."

~ Jodi Picoult

“Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better, do better.”

~Maya Angelou

Big Book Quote

Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.

P14

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Step Four - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Businesswomen in A.A. will naturally find that many of these questions apply to them, too. But the alcoholic housewife can also make the family financially insecure. She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.

p. 51

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

Today is ours. Let us live today as we believe God wants us to
live. Each day will have a new pattern which we cannot foresee.
But we can open each day with a quiet period in which we say a little
prayer, asking God to help us through the day. Personal contact with
God, as we understand Him, will from day to day bring us nearer
to an understanding of His will for us. At the close of the day, we
offer Him thanks for another day of sobriety. A full, constructive
day has been lived and we are grateful. Am I asking God each day
for strength and thanking Him each night?

Meditation For The Day

If you believe that God's grace has saved you, then you must believe
that He is meaning to save you yet more and keep you in the way that
you should go. Even human rescuers would not save you from
drowning only to place you in other deep and dangerous waters.
Rather, they would place you on dry land, there to restore you.
God, who is your rescuer, would certainly do this and even more.
God will complete the task He sets out to do. He will not throw you
overboard, if you are depending on Him.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may trust God to keep me in the way. I pray that I may
rely on Him not to let me go.

Daily Thought

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Humility

"I am still arrogant, self-righteous, with no humility, even phony at times, but I'm trying to be a better person and help my fellowman. Guess I'll never be a saint, but whatever I am, I want to be sober and in A.A. The word 'alcoholic' does not turn me off any more; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 463

Thought to Consider . . .
"Many people haven't even a nodding acquaintance with humility as a way of life."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 70

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

K I S S
Keep It Simple, Surrender

Daily Reflection

GIVING UP CENTER STAGE

For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay

sober at all . . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful

purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that

can meet any emergency.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 70

Why do I balk at the word "humility?" I am not humbling

myself toward other people, but toward God, as I

understand Him. Humility means "to show submissive

respect," and by being humble I realize I am not the center

of the universe. When I was drinking, I was consumed by

pride and self-centeredness. I felt the entire world revolved

around me, that I was master of my destiny. Humility

enables me to depend more on God to help me overcome

obstacles, to help me with my own imperfections, so that I

may grow spiritually. I must solve more difficult problems

to increase my proficiency and, as I encounter life's

stumbling blocks, I must learn to overcome them through

God's help. Daily communion with God demonstrates my

humility and provides me with the realization that an entity

more powerful than I is willing to help me if I cease trying

to play God myself.

Pot Luck

Within you right now is the
power to do things you never
dreamed possible. This power
becomes available to you as
soon as you can change
your beliefs.

Maxwell Maltz

Today's Meditation:

"I believe" can be two of the most dangerous words of our lives. They're two words that can keep us from having an open mind, that can keep us from learning the truth about certain things, that can keep us from listening carefully to people who just may have very important messages to share with us. I always used to believe, for example, that people should act in certain ways in certain situations. As a result of that belief, I had an artificial set of expectations when certain situations arose, and I pretty much always set myself up for disappointment and frustration because of my beliefs. Now that I've changed those beliefs, I feel much less frustration in my life. It's nice.

One of the main problems with beliefs is that they're so rarely authentically ours. We borrow our beliefs from others, for the most part, and we react to many, many things based basically on what other people believe. We also assign limitations to ourselves based on beliefs that we've learned from others about ourselves--we have this talent, we don't have that one. We're good at this, but not at that. I deserve these, but I most certainly don't deserve those. . . .

The limits in your life are almost all self-defined. And for the most part, your beliefs are determining those limits. Time after time we hear of the importance of changing our beliefs in order to change our lives for the better, yet time after time we ignore the message because we really are attached emotionally to those beliefs.

Recognize that your beliefs are like the weather--constantly subject to change--and you'll find that you're able to empower yourself in such a way that you'll open up whole worlds of possibility that simply weren't there before. Your potential is almost unlimited; isn't it a shame that you believe so deeply and so fondly in limits?

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