Your Daily Reprieve 01.01.2026

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday January 1,2026

From Jacksonville, FL

Happy New Year!!!

2026

Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.
~Jonathan Huie

“As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility and His wisdom!” – Peggy Toney Horton

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past,

not from the abandonment of the past.”

– Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Tennyson

“This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!”
― Pablo

"What the new year brings to you

will depend a great deal

on what you bring to the new year."
– Vern McLellan

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
Madeleine L'Engle

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
~Brooks Atkinson

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

– Neil Gaiman

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~Hal Borland

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big Book Quote

He saw that he would have to face

his problems squarely that God might give him mastery.

P155,156

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1/1 Bob V. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..42

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1/1 Phil L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..32

1/1 Mike M. (Manhasset, NY)…..1

1/1 Kingsley C. (Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK)…..13

1/1 Severine Z. (Sacramento, CA)…..9

1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison NJ)…..21

1/2 Bob C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..36

1/3 William W. (Whispering Pines, NC)…..38

1/4 Kevin J. (Bristol, RI)…..35

1/4 Linda B. (Memphis, TN)…..29

1/6 Caitlin R. (Westhampton Beach, NY)…..1

1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..14

1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..20

1/6 Ann OK-B. (Greenwich, CT)…..47

1/7 Robert W. (Gatineau, Quebec)…..32

1/9 Patty A. (Waynesville, NC)…..1

1/9 Ginger S. (Aberdeen, NC)…..17

1/10 Shree F. (Silver Spring, MD)…..37

1/10 Paula B. (Charleston, SC)…..43

1/10 Kelly S. (Methuen/Tampa)…..37

1/10 Bill H. (Charlotte, NC)…..7

1/11 Linda K. (Lake Hiawatha, NJ)…..5

1/12 David F. (Calgary, Canada)…..13

1/13 David S. (Newport, RI)…..40

1/13 Stephanie B. (Falkville, AL)…..1

1/13 Hope C. (Orlando, FL)….1

1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..13

1/14 Calvin A. (Rockville, MD)…..1

1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..13

1/14 Jo M. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..22

1/15 Sue J. (Palm Coast, FL)…..15

1/15 Parrish M. (NC)…..7

1/16 Marta C. (Germantown, MD)…..1

1/16 Bonnie S. (Charleston, SC)…..41

1/16 Chip S. (Birmingham, AL)…..23

1/17 Carol C. (Sarasota, FL)…..4

1/18 Paul O’ (Ireland)…..15

1/19 Bill W. …..31

1/20 Rick S. (Sarasota, FL)…..41

1/21 Liz M. (NY)…..27

1/22 Stacey C. (Lancaster, PA)…..19

1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air, MD)…..11

1/26 Ann S. (Stuart, FL)…..34

1/26 Manny T. (Montreal, Canada)…..4

1/31 Pat B. (Oneida, NY)…..37

1/31 Sandy W. (East Hampton/Naples)…..30

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"So spoke the group conscience. The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God. Here was the true voice, welling up out of my friends. I listened, and - thank God - I obeyed."

p. 138

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I came into A.A., was I a desperate person? Did I have a
soul-sickness? Was I so sick of myself and my way of living that I
couldn't stand looking at myself in a mirror? Was I ready for A.A.?
Was I ready to try anything that would help me to get sober and to get
over my soul-sickness? Should I ever forget the condition I was in?

Meditation For The Day

In the new year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one
of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past or
the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future, all
thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments,
my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my
gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go
forward, in this new year, into a new life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that God will guide me one day at a time in the new year. I pray
that for each day, God will supply the wisdom and the strength that I
need.

Daily Thought

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Loneliness

"Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling we didn't quite belong. Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never getting it - at least to our way of thinking. There was always that mysterious barrier we could neither surmount nor understand . . . That's one reason we loved alcohol too well. It did let us act extemporaneously. But even Bacchus boomeranged on us; we were finally struck down and left in terrified loneliness."
c.1952 AAWS Inc.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 57

Thought to Consider . . .
Isolation is a darkroom where we develop negatives.

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

H A L T
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

DAILY REFLECTIONS

"I AM A MIRACLE"

The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty

that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a

way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to

accomplish those things for us which we could never do by

ourselves.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25

This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle. I

always believed in God, but could never put that belief

meaningfully into my life. Today, because of Alcoholics

Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand

Him; I am sober today because of that! Learning to trust

and rely on God was something I could never have done

alone. I now believe in miracles because I am one!

POT LUCK

Father Leo's Daily Meditation

APATHY

"Science may have found a cure

for most evils; but it has found no

remedy for the worst of them all ---

the apathy of human beings."

-- Helen Keller

I read today of a woman who ate herself to death. Friends and family

when interviewed said, "She simply didn't seem to care." She had

stuffed her feelings for so long that she had forgotten what they were;

she had lost her spirituality. Apathy kills people.

So long as people do nothing, the disease of addiction gets worse and

more victims are claimed. Apathy feeds ignorance because it stops

activity; apathy stops life.

The antidote for apathy is spirituality. The spiritual person is alive with

positive attitudes and creative hope --- he is infectious. People are

challenged to discover a meaning to life in their own lives. Hope

produces recovery; recovery produces a message that must be shared; in

the message is the miracle of life.

I pray that in the face of apathy I can discover hope.

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