Your Daily Reprieve 04.20.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday April 20, 2026   From Waynesville, NC

You will be miserable to the degree that you are hung up on the notion that things should—must—go a certain way. If you have no fixed view, you remain elastic. ~Alan Watts     "The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die." ~Juliette Lewis     The delights of self-discovery are always available.    -Gail Sheehy     Joy is not something you can buy.  You can’t get it from a book or a conference.  You can’t absorb it as if by osmosis by hanging out with people who seem to have it.  You can spend your life trying to eliminate all pain and stress from your world in the vain hope that joy will take its place, but it won’t.  You can beg for it, pray for it, bargain for it to no avail.  Joy comes only when you live in relationship with the source of joy.    -Sheila Walsh

BIG BOOK QUOTE   Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.   P89

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12&12   Tradition Twelve - "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Then came our first few excursions into major publicity, which were breathtaking. Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into hundreds overnight. The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time. Jack Alexander's famous Saturday Evening Post piece made A.A. a national institution. Such tributes as these brought opportunities for still more recognition. Other newspapers and magazines wanted A.A. stories. Film companies wanted to photograph us. Radio, and finally television, besieged us with requests for appearances. What should we do? pp. 186-187

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is, made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. You take out of life what you put into it. So I'd say to people coming into A.A.: "Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. just hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to you. And you'll have that feeling of quiet satisfaction and peace and serenity and gratitude for the grace of God." Is my life becoming really worth living? Meditation For The Day There are two paths, one up and one down. We have been given free will to choose either path. We are captains of our souls to this extent only. We can choose the good or the bad. Once we have chosen the wrong path, we go down and down, eventually to death. But if we choose the right path, we go up and UP, until we come to the resurrection day. On the wrong path, we have no power for good because we do not choose to ask for it. But on the right path, we are on the side of good and we have all the power of God's spirit behind us. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be in the stream of goodness. I pray that I may be on the right side, on the side of all good in the universe.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\    ~~    /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) / AA \ ^*^*^*^*^ Reminder We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day, "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. 1976, 2001 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 87-8 Thought to Consider . . . It works - it really does. *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I T Faith, Intuition, and Trust

DAILY REFLECTIONS   SELF-EXAMINATION . . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86       When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often used to seek approval and glory for myself. By examining my motives in all that I do, I can be of service to God and others, helping them do what they want to do. When I put God in charge of my thinking, much needless worry is eliminated and I believe He guides me throughout the day. When I eliminate thoughts of self-pity, dishonesty and self-centeredness as soon as they enter my mind, I find peace with God, my neighbor and myself.

POT LUCK   "Keep it simple; get stupid."   I’m a pretty complicated person. I not only tend to think about things, I like to overthink them. “What if this or that happens?” is one of my favorite thoughts. “What will he or she do and what will or can I do if they do?” On and on my obsessive thinking goes, questioning, worrying, doubting, and always trying to manipulate situations to get what I think I want. And it’s not only this way with problems. I’ll question and think my way out of good solutions also. I am too smart for my own good, and I seemingly have little interest in simple suggestions.   When I entered the program, I saw a sign on the meeting room walls that said, “Keep it simple.” I didn’t agree and started arguing with people as I tried to think my way around the Steps. And that’s when someone suggested that I “get stupid.” At first I was offended, but then he said that by keeping my focus on the simple things like attending meetings, not drinking one day at a time, and reading the literature I would discover an easier, softer way and my life would get better.   It took a lot of work to “get stupid,” but I found that the simpler I made things, the easier my life became. The more I “let go and let God,” the less I had to try to control, manipulate, and force my will on things. By resigning from the committee in my head and becoming humble enough to admit that perhaps I didn’t know better after all, I became more comfortable in my own skin. Today, I can still complicate any problem or situation, but then I remember the wisdom of “getting stupid,” and realize how simple the solutions really are.

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