Your Daily Reprieve 12.02.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday December 2, 2025   From Waynesville, NC

They are able because they think they are able. ~Virgil   "The struggles we endure today will be the 'good ole days ' we laugh about tomorrow " ~Aaron Lauritsen   “In this moment, regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?” ~Santa Monica, California, May 2007     Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.       -E.H. Chapin

Big Book Quote   Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?   P45

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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." This all meant, of course, that we were still far off balance. When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears. And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible. p. 121

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day The thoughts that come before having a slip seem to be partly subconscious. And yet it is likely that at least part of these thoughts get into our consciousness. An idle thought connected with drinking casually pops into our mind. That is the crucial moment. Will I harbor that thought even for one minute or will I banish it from my mind at once? If I let it  stay, it may develop into a daydream. I may begin to see a cool glass of beer or a Manhattan cocktail in my mind's eye. If I allow the daydream to stay in my mind, It may lead to a decision, however unconscious, to take a drink.  Then I am headed for a slip. Do I let myself daydream? Meditation For The Day Many of us have a sort of vision of the kind of person God wants us to be.  We must be true to that vision, whatever it is, and we must try to live up to it,  by living the way we believe we should live. We can all believe that God has a vision of what He wants us to be like. In all people there is a good person whom God sees in us,  the person we could be and that God would like us to be. But many a person fails to fulfill that promise and God's disappointments must be many. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may strive to be the kind of a person that God would have me be.  I pray that I may try to fulfill God's vision of what I could be.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Consequences "In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be." c.1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37 Thought to Consider . . .  Think it over, not drink over it.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* D E A D Drinking Ends All Dreams

DAILY REFLECTIONS   SERENITY Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106   As I continued to go to meetings and work the Steps, something began to happen to me. I felt confused because I wasn't sure what it was that I was feeling, and then I realized I was experiencing serenity. It was a good feeling, but where had it come from? Then I realized it had come " . . . as the result of these steps." The program may not always be easy to practice, but I had to acknowledge that my serenity had come to me after working the Steps. As I work the Steps in everything I do, practicing these principles in all my affairs, now I find that I am awake to God, to others, and to myself. The spiritual awakening I have enjoyed as the result of working the Steps is the awareness that I am no longer alone.

POT LUCK   People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~Norman Vincent Peale       Today's Meditation: One of the most important lessons that I've learned is that when I believe in myself, I can do great things. This goes back even to Little League baseball--when I was on a minor league team, I was really good, and one of the most dominant players among the seven teams. I could pitch, I could hit, I could field. . . I really could do anything. But the major league intimidated me, and when I did reach the major league, I suddenly lost the belief in myself, and my performance went down significantly. Instead of playing every position on the team when needed, I played right field, and I never did all that well in my year there. Our belief in ourselves is the most important key to accomplishing things that may be difficult or challenging. If I believe that I can do something, then when I face obstacles, I'll simply look for ways to get past the obstacles. I'll tackle the challenge with enthusiasm and creativity instead of with hesitancy and fear. My confidence level is higher, and confidence does, indeed, breed positive results. This principal is one that I use to guide my teaching, also. I spend almost as much time trying to instill confidence in my students as I do trying to get them to learn information or processes, for I know that when they're confident in their own abilities, it takes them much less time to learn the material. Norman calls it a "secret" of success, but I really don't see any secret to it. When we believe in ourselves in a realistic and thoughtful way, we're able to do what other people may consider to be amazing things, even though to us they may be ordinary things that are done very well. No matter what the perspective, though, we need to keep in mind that a lack of belief in our own abilities can sabotage all our efforts, while a belief that we can do what we set out to do can make all the difference between success and failure.

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