Your Daily Reprieve 05.29.26

 

 

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Friday  May 29, 2026

 

Waynesville, NC

 

 

"When we give cheerfully

and accept gratefully,

 everyone is blessed."

~Maya Angelou

 

 

“Be where you are; o

therwise, you will miss your life.”
—Buddha

 

"As you know, l

ife is an echo;

we get what we give."
—David DeNotaris

 

“It has been the actions of others

that has given me unfailing support throughout my sobriety.

It also shows how I am to respond to those whom I can help.

 I am responsible to see that the hand of AA is available to anyone.”

~Moreno Valley, Calif., December 1992

 

 

 

BIG BOOK QUOTE

 

In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself.

 

P50

 

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Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that we are alcoholics and that our lives are unmanageable. Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession. Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. Yes, you've got us over the barrel, all right--but where do we go from here?"

p. 25

 

Twenty-Four Hours



A.A. Thought For The Day

We who have learned to put our drink problem in God's hands can
help others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an
alcoholic's need and God's supply of strength. We in Alcoholics
Anonymous can be uniquely useful, just because we have the
misfortune or fortune to be alcoholics ourselves. Do I want to be a
uniquely useful person? Will I use my own greatest defeat and failure
and sickness as a weapon to help others?

Meditation For The Day

I will try to help others. I will try not to let a day pass without reaching
out an arm of love to someone. Each day I will try to do something to
lift another human being out of the sea of discouragement into which
he or she has fallen. My helping hand is needed to raise the helpless to
courage, to strength, to faith, to health. In my own gratitude, I will
turn and help other alcoholics with the burden that is pressing too
heavily upon them.

Prayer For The Day
I pray that I may be used by God to lighten many burdens. I pray that
many souls may be helped through my efforts.





Daily Thought


 ^*^*^*^*^

(\    ~~    /)

(    \(AA)/    )

(_ /AA\ _)

/ AA \

^*^*^*^*^

Why Worry?
 

"There are many short phrases and expressions in A.A. which make sound sense. 'First Things First':  solving our immediate problems before we try to solve all the others . . . 'Easy Does it.' 'Relax a little.' Try for inner contentment. No one individual can carry all the burdens of the world. Everyone has problems. Getting drunk won't solve them. 'Twenty-four hours a day.' 'Today is the day.' Doing our best, living each day to the fullest is the art of living. Yesterday is gone, and we don't know whether we will be here tomorrow. If we do a good job of living today, and if tomorrow comes for us, then the chances are we will do a good job when it arrives - so why worry about it?"
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous,
Third Edition, p. 382



Thought to Consider . . .
E
very day is a gift. That is why we call it the present.


*~*AACRONYMS*~*

S I T
Stay In Today

 

 

 

DAILY REFLECTIONS

 

TRUE TOLERANCE

The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to

stop drinking.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139

 

I first heard the short form of the Third Tradition in the

Preamble. When I came to A.A. I could not accept myself,

my alcoholism, or a Higher Power. If there had been any

physical, mental, moral, or religious requirements for

membership, I would be dead today. Bill W. said in his

tape on the Traditions that the Third Tradition is a charter

for individual freedom. The most impressive thing to me

was the feeling of acceptance from members who were

practicing the Third Tradition by tolerating and accepting

me. I feel acceptance is love and love is God's will for us.

 

 

 

 

 

POT LUCK

 

Honesty

Until I got honest about my addiction to drugs and alcohol, my codependency, my workaholism, there was no hope that I would recover from any of these things. Honesty about the things that are harming us can come in fits and starts for some of us. It starts with self-honesty, the inner knowing, sometimes accompanied by a sinking feeling, that the jig is up, coupled with the inner knowing that something has got to give, go, or change. Maybe you remember when that moment was for you. The moment that you got honest with yourself.

The other moment, equally powerful, is when we speak our truth aloud to someone else. Sometimes we get honest with a partner, another family member, a friend, a physician, or a therapist. Other times we share in a meeting full of strangers. Who did you get honest with, for the first time? It's also possible that you haven't had either of these moments of honesty yet. That's okay. Each in our own time.

Getting honest with ourselves and then getting honest with others are big steps.

Today's reading is from the book She Recovers Every Day:

 

 

 

 

 

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