Your Daily Reprieve 02.15.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday February 15, 2026

From Ponte Vedra, FL

God's mercies are new every morning.

And that includes mercy for

your messy spaces and overwhelmed heart.
~Kathy Lipp

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living,

we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
~Richard Rohr

The way in which we think of ourselves

has everything to do with how

our world sees us.

--Arlene Raven

Don't believe everything you think.

--unknown

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We alcoholics are undisciplined.

So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.

P88

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Years ago this principle of "no endorsement" was put to a vital test. Some of the great distilling companies proposed to go into the field of alcohol education. It would be a good thing, they believed, for the liquor trade to show a sense of public responsibility. They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed, not misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers--alcoholics--should not drink at all.

p. 157

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

If alcoholism were just a physical allergy, like asthma
or hay fever, it would be easy for us, by taking a skin
test with alcohol, to find out whether or not we're
alcoholics. But alcoholism is not just a physical allergy.
It's also a mental allergy or obsession. After we've
become alcoholics, we can still tolerate alcohol physically
for quite a while, although we suffer a little more after
each binge and each time it takes a little longer to get
over our hangovers. Do I realize that since I have become
an alcoholic, I cannot tolerate alcohol mentally at all?

Meditation For The Day

The world does not need super-men or women, but super-natural
people. People who will persistently turn the self out of their lives
and let Divine Power work through them. Let inspiration
take the place of aspiration. Seek to grow spiritually,
rather than to acquire fame and riches. Our chief ambition
should be to be used by God. The Divine Force is sufficient
for all the spiritual work in the world. God only needs the
instruments for His use. His instruments can remake
the world.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be an instrument of the Divine Power.
I pray that I may do my share in remaking the world.

Daily Thought

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Cordial Welcome

But life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals. Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified - these are everyday occurrences. No one is too discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially - if he means business.
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 161

Thought to Consider . . .
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiven

ess, selfishness, and fears.

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H E A R T
Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together

DAILY REFLECTIONS

TAKING ACTION

Are these extravagant promises? We think not They are

being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes

slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in

addition to freedom from booze, is the ability to take "right

action." It says the promises will always materialize if I

work for them. Fantasizing about them, debating them,

preaching about them and faking them just won't work. I'll

remain a miserable, rationalizing dry drunk. By taking

action and working the Twelve Steps in all my affairs, I'll

have a life beyond my wildest dreams.

POT LUCK

Whatever you can do, or
dream you can--begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today's Meditation:

Somehow and for some reason, I was taught when I was young not to undertake anything that I thought I might fail in. Fortunately, I didn't buy into what I was being taught, and while both of my siblings ended up with lives that included alcohol, drugs, and prison time, I ended up going to college and eventually earning a doctorate that allows me to do the thing I love the most: teaching. And while becoming a teacher seems super easy for most, in my situation it was the culmination of a lot of effort and a lot of risk-taking.

For some, that boldness would help them to meet more people and make more friends. For others, it could put them on the road to a new career or significant promotions in the career they're in. What Johann is talking about comes down to a rather simply-stated shift in perspective: learning to see possibility and potential in all that you see, rather than constantly seeing limitation and impossibility.

In my experience, doors stayed closed as long as I stood there and looked at them and said to myself, "I wish I could go in there." I'm constantly amazed to find out, though, that almost all of those doors are unlocked and unguarded, simply waiting for me to say, "I'm going to go try that door, because that's where I want to be and that's what I want to be doing."

Of course, sometimes I have to prepare myself before I approach the door by getting some important experience or education. I can't simply be arrogant and think that I should be bold without any sort of preparation--I can't become a lawyer without some training and education first. But it really is all up to me--and until I begin something, I can't expect it ever to happen, can I? Starting something, even if it's somewhat scary, is always the best thing that I can do if I want my life to be a beautiful experience, and if I want to open my life to magic, genius, and power.

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