Your Daily Reprieve 03.26.26

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday March 26, 2026   From Ponte Vedra, FL

“Without much doubt, a million alcoholics have approached AA during the last thirty years. We can soberly ask ourselves what became of the 600,000 who did not stay.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1965     Take three seconds before you speak. Three seconds before you react.  Three seconds before you press send.  ~author unknown     "How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail." ~Jennifer Salaiz     “When all else fails, try following directions.” “Heard at Meetings,” January 1961, AA Grapevine

BIG BOOK QUOTE   A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. It is an effort to discover the truth about the stock-in-trade.   P64

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12&12   Tradition Nine - "A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve." Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it. If nobody does the group's chores, if the area's telephone rings unanswered, if we do not reply to our mail, then A.A. as we know it would stop. Our communications lines with those who need our help would be broken. p. 175

Twenty-Four Hours   A.A. Thought For The Day Strength comes also from working with other alcoholics. When you are trying to help a new prospect with the program, you are building up your own strength at the same time. You see the other person in the condition you might be in yourself and it makes your resolve to stay sober stronger than ever. Often, you help yourself more than the other person, but if you do succeed in helping the prospect to get sober, you are stronger from the experience of having helped another person. Am I receiving strength from helping others? Meditation For The Day Faith is the bridge between you and God. It is the bridge which God had ordained. If all were seen and known, there would be no merit in doing right. Therefore God has ordained that we do not see or know directly. But we can experience the power of His spirit through our faith. It is the bridge between us and Him, which we can take or not, as we will. There could be no morality without free will. We must make the choice ourselves. We must make the venture of belief. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may choose and decide to cross the bridge of faith. I pray that by crossing this bridge I may receive the spiritual power I need.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Help is Available If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it - then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find Him now! c. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 58 Thought to Consider . . .    When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. *~*AACRONYMS*~*   H O P E Heart Open; Please Enter

DAILY REFLECTIONS   THE TEACHING IS NEVER OVER Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep you—until then. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164   These words put a lump in my throat each time I read them. In the beginning it was because I felt, "Oh no! The teaching is over. Now I'm on my own. It will never be this new again." Today I feel deep affection for our A.A. pioneers when I read this passage, realizing that it sums up all of what I believe in, and strive for, and that—with God's blessing—the teaching is never over, I'm never on my own, and every day is brand new.

POT LUCK     "Seven days without God makes one weak."   I don’t know how or why God seems to disappear from my life, but He does. Monday morning I’ll be running late and not have time to pray, and the next thing I know it’s Wednesday. I’ll go to my meeting that night, but Thursday and Friday rush by, and before I can catch my breath, suddenly it’s Sunday afternoon. By then I find myself alone and not feeling very well, and that’s when I make the connection. Early on in recovery, I was taught that the first Three Steps could be summarized as, “I can’t, He can, Let Him.” The problem is that I quickly forget the “I can’t” part. Once I’m under the illusion that I’m in charge, I’m off trying to control life to get everything I think I need. The only good news is that it takes less time these days for me to feel the effects of this self-will run riot. Happily, it’s easy for me to get reconnected to my Higher Power, and the positive effects I feel are immediate. Once I practice the “He can” and the “Let Him” part, I’m restored to sanity and to my proper role in life. My job isn’t to rush around like a crazy person trying to accomplish and control everything; rather, my role is to seek God’s will and to be of service. And when I stay connected to the Steps and to God, I’m as strong as can be.

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