Your Daily Reprieve 04.14.26A

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday April 14, 2026   From Waynesville, NC

"Surrender is the willingness to see things as they are rather than as we would like them to be." ~Anonymous     What a blessing it is to look around and see pieces of my old prayers scattered everywhere. ~Fiona Ncube   “The more willing I become to admit it when I am wrong, the less often am I in the position of having to make such an admission.” ~January 1967, AA Grapevine   One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them.  Subtly her pain became a story about themselves.  Eventually she stopped talking to most people.  It was just too lonely.  We connect through listening.  When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves.  When we listen, they know we care.  Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen. Rachel Naomi Remen

BIG BOOK QUOTE   When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!   P57

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12&12   Step Three - "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." But the moment our mental or emotional independence is in question, how differently we behave. How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act. Oh yes, we'll weigh the pros and cons of every problem. We'll listen politely to those who would advise us, but all the decisions are to be ours alone. Nobody is going to meddle with our personal independence in such matters. Besides, we think, there is no one we can surely trust. We are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in. This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work? One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic. p. 37

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day A police captain once told about certain cases he had come across in his police work. The cause of the tragedy in each case was drunkenness. He told his audience about a man who got into an argument with his wife while he was drunk and beat her to death. Then he went out and drank some more. The police captain also told about a woman who got too near the edge of an old quarry hole when she was drunk and fell one hundred and fifty feet to her death. When I read or hear these stories, do I think about our motto: "But for the grace of God"? Meditation For The Day I must keep balance by keeping spiritual things at the center of my life. God will give me this poise and balance if I pray for it. This poise will give me power in dealing with the lives of others. This balance will manifest itself more and more in my own life. I should keep material things in their proper place and keep spiritual things at the center of my life. Then I will be at peace amid the distractions of everyday living. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may dwell with God at the center of my life. I pray that I may keep that inner peace at the center of my being.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Defense   The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 43     Thought to Consider Alcohol . . . cunning, baffling, powerful!     *~*AACRONYMS*~*   S O B E R Spirituality Over Booze Equals Recovery

DAILY REFLECTIONS   THE "NUMBER ONE OFFENDER" Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64   As I look at myself practicing the Fourth Step, it is easy to gloss over the wrong that I have done, because I can easily see it as a question of "getting even" for a wrong done to me. If I continue to relive my old hurt, it is a resentment and resentment bars the sunlight from my soul. If I continue o relive hurts and hates, I will hurt and hate myself. After years in the dark of resentments, I have bund the sunlight. I must let go of resentments; I cannot afford them.

POT LUCK   "Anything an alcoholic lets go of has claw marks all over it."   In the past, I tried to control everything. I would lie in bed at night planning my days and weeks, and I would make endless lists of activities I could follow that would lead to specific results. I played and replayed conversations that were sure to take place to make sure they came out the way I wanted them to. When the last thing I tried to control—my alcohol use—spun out of control, I finally surrendered. When I got sober, I had to let go of all my plans and schemes for controlling my drinking and drug use. Because I was at a bottom, it was easy for me to abandon my old ideas and to ask God to restore me to sanity. Just because this worked for my alcoholism, though, didn’t mean I was willing to turn the rest of my life over. “God, you can have my drinking, but I’ll handle the rest,” was my attitude. You can imagine how that went. What I’ve learned over the years is that my life gets better in direct proportion to my willingness to trust God with the other areas of it. It continues to be hard to let go and act with faith, especially when I’m in fear, but each time I do, I’m rewarded with a freedom and a joy that could never have come as long as I continued to try to control things. Today, if I’m not willing to let go, then I pray for the willingness to be willing. And once I withdraw my claws, God takes over and the healing begins

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