Your Daily Reprieve 10.30.25

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday October 30 , 2025

 

From Waynesville, NC

 

 

The art of life

is a constant readjustment to our surroundings 
~Kakuzo Okakura

 

I started going to meetings a little early

and resisted the urge to bolt out the door

the moment the Lord’s Prayer was finished.

I thought I might try some of that ‘get active’ stuff,

so I volunteered to make coffee at a meeting I liked to attend ...

It wasn’t long before I found myself

in the middle of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

Manchester, New Hampshire, September 2000

 

"The value of persistent prayer is not that

He will hear us but that we will finally hear Him."

~William McGill.

 

 

“The things that count

cease being those that can be held in the hand

and become only what can be held in the heart.”

~North Hollywood, California, August 1982

 

 

Big Book Quote

 

But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win.

Our moments of triumph were short-lived.

 

P66

 

 

Daily Share!

 

 

AA Speaker of the Day

 

BARRY O.

Atlantic Group

2007

 

https://bit.ly/4qnId6s

 

Celebrate Your Anniversary Here

SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!!

 

OCTOBER 2025 Miracles

 

 

10/1 Jim B. (Brunswick, ME)…..9

10/1 Tom K. (Livingston, NJ)…..1

10/1 Mary H. (Andover, MA)…..37

10/1 Leo N. (Ogunquit, Maine)…..21

10/1 Rich R. (Bluffton, SC)…..51

10/1 Phaedra  …..3

10/1 Debi S. (Monroe, NC)…..15

10/2 Jaimee L. (Ft. Myers, FL)…..9

10/2 Dave R. (Bedminster, NJ)…..14

10/3 Eric M. (Wells, ME)…..5

10/4 Melissa H. (Orlando, FL)…..15

10/4 Kristopher B. (Toledo, OH)…..11

10/4 Tom H. (Strongsville, OH) …..25

10/4 Josh G. (Anchorage, Alaska)…..9

10/4 Frank T. (NH)…..5

10/5 Gary G. (Otsego MI/Ruskin, FL)…..36

10/6 Russ W. (Milford, CT)…..12

10/6 Laura D. (Bogota, NJ)…..10

10/6 Jason K. (Bear Valley, CA)…..33

10/6 Dan O. (Manorville, Long Island, NY)…..3

10/6 Spike C. (Vero Beach, FL)…..6

10/6 Terry S. (Collingwood, ON)…..35

10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..50

10/7 Liz S. (Hoboken, NJ)…..14

10/8 Katy R. (Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK)…..1

10/9 Xavier F. (Phoenix, AZ)…..12

10/10 Steve Bombo B. (Rojo Group)…..53

10/10 George B. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..39

10/10 Ray H. (Cookeville, TN)…..15

10/11 Harriett B. (Parsonsburg, MD)…..37

10/11 Cigar Bob (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..28

10/12 Richard T. (Hampstead, NH)…..45

10/13  Angie T. (Sturminster Newton, UK)…..21

10/13 Robert L. (Surf City, NC)….. …..24

10/13 Umberto B. (Yonkers) …..12

10/14 Steve P. (Hampton, NH)…..41

10/14 Carol HS (Key Largo, FL)…..40

10/14 Mary A. (Goose Creek, SC)…..12

10/14 Jack R. (Santa Monica, CA)…..13

10/14 Louise D. (Amesbury, MA)…..3

10/15 John C. (East Quogue, NY)…..4

10/15 Linda H. (Miramichi, NB, Canada(…..18

10/16 Brian L. …..1

10/17 Linda S. (Orange Park, FL)…..13

10/18 Lisa H. (Monaco)…..16

10/18 Theresa TK (Green Valley, AZ)…..32

10/19 DeeDee L. (Charlotte, NC)…..26

10/20 Kathleen G. (Greenwich, CT)…..13

10/20 Miss. Barbara G. …..5

10/22 Harry G. (Sarasota, FL)…..33

10/23 James D. (NYC)…..48

10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..36

10/25 Keely S. (Orick, CA)…..43

10/26 Niall H. (Dublin, Ireland)……33

10/26 Cecil U. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..33

10/26 Alex L. (Hopewell, NJ)…..5

10/27 Pamela L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..39

10/27 Sue B. (Seabrook, NH)…..40

10/27 Charlie B. (Stuart, FL)…..28

10/27 Ridge A. …..2

10/27 Jolene E. (Orlando, FL)…..22

10/27 Melanie M.

10/28 Phillip E. (Orlando, FL)…..22

10/28 Rowena D. (Staffordshire, UK)…..5

10/29 Lisa B. (Yulee, FL)…..3

10/29 Joshua H. (Wilmington, NC)…..1

10/29 LauraLea K. (Leesburg, FL)…..14

10/30 Pat B. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..13

 

1551 Total Years of Sobriety

 

 

 

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12&12

 

Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening. To new A.A.'s, this often seems like a very dubious and improbable state of affairs. "What do you mean when you talk about a `spiritual awakening'?" they ask.

p. 106

 

 

 

Twenty-Four Hours

 

A.A. Thought For The Day

I have real friends, where I had none before.

My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends,

though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of
friendship. My idea of friendship has changed.

Friends are no longer people whom I can
use for my own pleasure or profit.

Friends are now people who understand me and I them,
whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life.

I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me,

but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and
freely. Does friendship have new meaning for me?

Meditation For The Day

There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time
comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them.

A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience.

We can believe that all our life is a preparation for
something better to come when we have earned the right to it.

We can believe that God has a plan for our lives

 and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently.

I pray that I may not expect things
until I have earned the right to have them.



 

 

 



Daily Thought

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Peace of Mind

"A.A. has taught me that I will have peace of mind in exact proportion to the peace of mind I bring into the lives of other people, and it has taught me the true meaning of the admonition 'happy are ye who know these things and do them.' For the only problems I have now are those I create when I break out in a rash of self-will."
1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 551



Thought to Consider . . .
I never imagined that

the greatest achievement of my life

would be peace of mind.

 

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

P E A C E
Principles Experienced Activate Change Every day



DAILY REFLECTIONS

 

LIVE AND LET LIVE

Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been

divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our

Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an

embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue.

It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So

long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch

we never shall publicly."

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176

 

Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that

others don't have to share it? That's the spirit of "Live and

Let Live." The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God's

help, to "Accept the things I cannot change." Am I still

trying to change others? When it comes to "Courage to

change the things I can," do I remember that my opinions

are mine, and yours are yours? Am I still afraid to be me?

When it comes to "Wisdom to know the difference," do I

remember that my opinions come from my experience? If I

have a know-it-all attitude, aren't I being deliberately

controversial?

 

 

Pot Luck

 

Father Leo's Daily Meditation

 

IDEAS

 

"Ideas shape the course of history."

--John Maynard Keynes

 

I get so excited about my sobriety because it has given me ideas.

Today I can think, ponder and create. God is such a big idea today --

every thing is involved.

 

For years I had made God a prisoner of the Church or an idea in

history, but in my sobriety I have discovered Him in art, poetry, music

and literature. God is found in friendship, advice, sharing and

sexuality. God is forcibly experienced in nature, sunsets, animals and

the sea.

 

God can be found through my failures. He is perceived in suffering,

loneliness and resentments. The acknowledgment of my disease has

brought me closer to God as I understand Him.

 

My idea of God is alive and it makes me want to live.

 

May my ideas and thoughts always reflect Your beauty.

 


 

 

**NEW**

Excellent Resource

Blogs, Audio and Video Articles

 

https://takethe12.org/

 

*****

 

"AA Recovery Interviews" Podcast

https://aarecoveryinterviews.com

 

Blog

http://todaysreprieve.blogspot.com/

 

 

Wee Willie’s

Sobriety First Media

AA CD’s Literature and tapes

https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

 

 

AA Membership Survey 2022

Alcoholics Anonymous 2022 Membership Survey | Alcoholics Anonymous

 

 

Committee Consideration

from the 73rd General Service Conference

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.

Questionaire

 

How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?

 https://bit.ly/3uhEPBK

 

 

 

DR. PAUL O.
There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking
(Audio Book)

Introduction
http://bit.ly/1IlFBbp

Part I
http://bit.ly/1MPV5Za

Part II
http://bit.ly/1Ksd9eA

Part III
http://bit.ly/1GQCGGE

Part IV
http://bit.ly/1Ip0hn8

AA CDs Literature and tapes
https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

 

 

 

ZOOM MEETINGS

 

Loose Garment Group

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518

Saturday & Sunday….Pot Luck…0900

ID: 238 977 518

PW: 004 394

 

 

 

ARCHIVES

 

 

AA World Service Board Meeting Highlights

October 2023

 https://bit.ly/3GlcOvE

 

 

 

A New Pair of Glasses in PDF (download) is available at:

https://bit.ly/4bUr0Js

 

 

Bill Schaberg

Writing The Big Book

Video Readings

https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos

 

BIG BOOK for DUMMIES

https://bigbookfordummies.com/

 

 

 

*Angel Force USA

www.AngelForceUSA.com

 

Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

OUR MISSION

STOP SUISILENCE

The avoidance of discussion about suicide

Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.

 

 

 

RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK
Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana)
Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sept. 27, 2003

https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt

 

 

 

MEDITATIONS

http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/

 

Loving Kindness Meditations

 

With Music

 

http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindnessmusic.mp3

 

 

Voice only

http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindness.mp3

 

*****

Free Guided Meditations

http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22

Resources

 

Great Minds Quotes

https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes

 

 

 

MOOJI GUIDED Meditation

http://bit.ly/2Ogwe9v

 

 

**Podcasts**

https://boiledowlaa.org/

https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast

 

 

12 Step Meditations

 www.stepmeditation.com

 

These are 12 meditations,

each about 12 minutes long and the content

(other than the meditation instructions)

are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12

(created by Matt H.)

 

 

Speaker Recordings

 

Wee Willie’s

Sobriety First Media

AA CD’s Literature and tapes

https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst

*****

 

The Lights are On

http://xa-speakers.org/

 

 

Recovery Speakers

http://recoveryspeakers.com/

 

Miscellaneous Sources

Living Life Fully

http://www.livinglifefully.com/

 

 

Twenty Four Hours a Day

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics

throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised),

this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life.

A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives.

Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation

 

Tammy’s recovery links

http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/

 

AA Photo Archives

http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm

 

Heard at A Meeting

https://twitter.com/heardinameeting

 

Breast Cancer Site

Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms

https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home

 

MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER

America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group

and advocacy national nonprofit organization.

http://malecare.org/

 

 

Prayables

http://prayables.org/

 

 

Daily Thought

http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily

 

Speaker Recordings

Stories of Recovery - A 12-Step Collection

https://storiesofrecovery.org/index.html

 

 


 

 

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