Your Daily Reprieve 12.17.25

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday December 17, 2025   From Waynesville, NC

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness  is love." ~Mother Teresa     "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.". ~Harper Lee   Small is the number of those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. ~Albert Einstein   "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes," ~Carl Jung   On the Fourth Day of Christmas….   Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. ~Thomas S. Monson   Blessed is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie   Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.   ~Peg Bracken

Big Book Quote   Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision.   P86

Daily Share!     AA Speaker of the Day     RICKY B New York City Serenity Improvement Group 09.12.20   https://bit.ly/49080K7

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12&12   Tradition One - "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. Unity." So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question. In the world about us we saw personalities destroying whole peoples. The struggle for wealth, power, and prestige was tearing humanity apart as never before. If strong people were stalemated in the search for peace and harmony, what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics? As we had once struggled and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which A.A. itself might survive. on anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. pp. 130-131

Twenty-Four Hours                                               A.A. Thought For The Day The way of faith is of course not confined to A.A. It is the way for everybody who wants to really live. But many people can go through life without much of it. Many are doing so, to their own sorrow. The world is full of lack of faith. Many people have lost confidence in any meaning in the universe. Many are wondering if it has any meaning at all. Many are at loose ends. Life has no goal for many. They are strangers in the land. They are not at home. But for us in A.A. the way of faith is the way of life. We have proved by our past lives that we could not live without it. Do I think I could live happily without faith? Meditation For The Day "He maketh His sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends the rain on the just and the unjust." God does not interfere with the working of natural laws. The laws of nature are unchangeable, otherwise we could not depend on them. As far as natural laws are concerned, God makes no distinction between good and bad people. Sickness or death may strike anywhere. But spiritual laws are also made to be obeyed. On our choice of good or evil depends whether we go upward to true success and victory in life or downward to loss and defeat. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may choose today the way of the spiritual life. I pray that I may live today with faith and hope and love.

Daily Thought  ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (     \(AA)/     ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ The Gift "Perhaps there is a better way - we think so. For we are now on a different basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity."     c.1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 68 Thought to Consider . . . What I am is God's gift to me. What I make of myself is my gift to Him.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A PRICELESS REWARD . . . work with other alcoholics. . . . It work when other activities fail. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 8     "Life will take on new meaning," as the Big Book says (p.89). This promise has helped me to avow self-seeking and self-pity. To watch others grow in this wonderful program, to see them improve the quality of their lives, is a priceless reward for my effort to help others. Selfexamination is yet another reward for an ongoing recovery, as are serenity, peace and contentment. The energy derived from seeing others on a successful path, of sharing with them the joys of the journey, gives to my life a new meaning.

POT LUCK   It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. ~George F. Will   At our meetings, we often hear stories of the courage of ordinary people and their triumph against great odds. When we hear of a person's life being restored, we are witnesses to miracles. Our friends are heroes, and so are we. As a man describes his passage from insanity to recovery, we are moved.   Whenever we are truly open to knowing the people around us, whether at a meeting or in getting to know a neighbor, we will see heroism. It is amazing that when we get to know most people, and hear what their lives have been like, we find so much to admire and respect. It is a privilege to have such friends. It is amazing that they are so abundant when we open ourselves to them. God truly does speak to us through others.   I am grateful when I think about the extraordinary people around me and the courage in each of them. I am grateful to be among them.

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