Your Daily Reprieve 02.18.26

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday February 18, 2026

From Ponte Vedra, FL

In any moment of decision,

the best thing you can do is the right thing,

the next best thing is the wrong thing,

and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

“A single rose can be my garden…

a single friend, my world.”
—Leo Buscaglia

"It is not a lack of love,

but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
—Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just how and when we tell the truth

– or keep silent –

can often reveal the difference

between genuine integrity and none at all.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August 1961…Best of Bill

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Tradition Six - "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose."

At first glance, it did look like a good thing. Then doubt crept in. The association wanted to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be described both as its director of publicity and as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his knowledge of alcoholism. But that wasn't the whole story, for in this case not only was an A.A. member to break his anonymity at a public level, he was to link the name Alcoholics Anonymous to this particular educational project in the minds of millions. It would be bound to appear that A.A. was now backing education--liquor trade association style.

p. 158

Twenty-Four Hours

A.A. Thought For The Day

After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love
for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition,
it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life,
until I met A.A. My life is happier now than it has been
for a long time. I don't want to commit suicide. So with
the help of God and A.A., I'm not going to take any
more of that alcoholic poison into my system. And I'm
going to keep training my mind never even to think of
liquor again in any way except as a poison. Do I believe
that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch it again?

Meditation For The Day

I will link up my frail nature with the limitless Divine
Power. I will link my life with the Divine Force for Good
in the world. It is not the passionate appeal that gains
the Divine attention as much as the quiet placing of the
difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So I will trust
God like a child who places its tangled skein of wool in
the hands of a loving mother to unravel. We please God
more by our unquestioning confidence than by imploring
Him for help.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may put all my difficulties in God's hands
and leave them there. I pray that I may fully trust God
to take care of them.

Daily Thought

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(\ ~~ /)
( \(AA)/ )
(_ /AA\ _)
/AA\
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Meetings

Through going to meetings and listening, and occasionally speaking, through doing Twelfth Step work, whereby in helping others you are both the teacher and the student, by making many wonderful A.A. friends, I have been taught all the things in life that are worth having.
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, (3rd Edition), p. 416

Thought to Consider . . .
Meetings: A checkup from the neck up

*~*AACRONYMS*~*

W I L L I N G
When I Live Life, I Need God

DAILY REFLECTIONS

OUR PATHS ARE OUR OWN

. . . there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple

kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25

My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and

necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of

discouragement in the face of all those adverbs:

courageously; completely; humbly; directly; and only. I

considered Bill W. fortunate to have gone through such a

major, even sensational, spiritual experience. I had to

discover, as time went on, that my path was my own. After

a few twenty-four hours in the A.A. Fellowship, thanks

especially to the sharing of members in the meetings, I

understood that everyone gradually finds his or her own

pace in moving through the Steps. Through progressive

means, I try to live according to these suggested principles.

As a result of these Steps, I can say today that my attitude

towards life, people, and towards anything having to do

with God, has been transformed and improved.

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AA Member's "Credo"

I am glad to be part of alcoholics Anonymous, of that great fellowship which is spreading all over the world. I am only one of many AAs, but I am one. I am grateful to be living at this time, when I can help AA to grow, when it needs me to put my shoulder to the wheel and help keep the message going.

I'm glad to be able to be useful, have a reason for living, I have a purpose in life. I want to lose my life in this wonderful fellowship and so find it again. I need the AA principles for the development of the buried life within me, that good life that I had misplaced but which I found again AA. This life within me is growing slowly but surely, with setbacks and mistakes, but it's still growing, I cannot yet know what it will be, but I know that it will be good. That's all I want to know, it will be good.

AA may be human in its organization, but it is divine in its purpose. The purpose is to point me toward the God of my understanding and the good life. My feet have been set on the right path. I feel it in the depths of my being. I am going in the right direction with my fellow travelers. The future can be left to the Higher Power. Whatever the future holds, it cannot be too much for me to bear. I have the Divine Power within me, to carry me through everything that may happen.

Participating in the privileges of the AA fellowship, I shall share in the responsibilities, taking it upon myself to carry my fair share of the load, not grudgingly but joyfully. I am deeply grateful for the privileges I enjoy because of my membership in this great Way of Life. It puts a responsibility on me that I will not leave undone. I will gladly carry my fair share of the burdens. Because of the joy of doing them, they will no longer be burdens but opportunities.

I shall not wait to be drafted for service to my fellow AA members, but I shall volunteer. I shall accept every opportunity to work as a challenge and I shall do my best to accept every challenge and perform my service as best as I can. I will be loyal in my attendance, generous of my giving, kind in my criticism, creative in my suggestions, loving in my attitude. I will give it a my interest, my enthusiasm, my devotion, and most of all myself to the best of my ability.

We in Alcoholics Anonymous know the joy of giving. We believe that when we come to the end of our lives, it will be only the things that we have given away that we will take with us. We will take no material thing with us, but we will take with us the kind words we have said, the kind deeds we have done, the help we have given. We alcoholics, who have been helped to find AA by someone who is interested in our welfare, believe that we are under a deep obligation to pass on the AA message to others. We members of Alcoholics Anonymous believe in this with all our hearts and minds. If an active or recovering alcoholic needs our help asks for our help: “I am my brother's keeper.”

Stephen Beal, Editor, Stepping Stones to Recovery for Men

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