Your Daily Reprieve 06.18.26

 

Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday  June 18, 2026   From Waynesvillke, NC

“When you’ve been lost, lonely, forgotten, rejected,  it’s the most important thing in the world to have somebody shake your hand.” ~Santa Fe, N.M., May 1972     "I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms" ~Bethany Hamilton     The very nature of God is communion, receptivity, and generosity. —Richard Rohr     All people ought to begin with themselves, and make their own happiness first, from which the happiness of the whole world would at last unquestionably follow. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BIG BOOK QUOTE   Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I would!   P12

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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." Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription. It reads: "This is the way to a faith that works." In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions did not require action; they required only acceptance. p. 34

Twenty-Four Hours  A.A. Thought For The Day The A.A. way of living is not an easy one. But it's an adventure in living that is really worthwhile. And it's so much better than our old drunken way of living that there's no comparison. Our lives without A.A. would be worth nothing. With A.A., we have a chance to live reasonably good lives. It's worth the battle, no matter how tough the going is from day to day. Isn't it worth the battle? Meditation For The Day The spiritual life has two parts. One is the life apart, the life of prayer and quiet communion with God.You spend this part of your life apart with God. Every day your mind can be set in the right direction so that your thoughts will be of the right kind. The other is the life impart--imparting from others what you have learned from your own meditative experience. The victories you have won over yourself through the help of God can be shared with others. You can help them by imparting to them some of the victory and security that you have gained in your life apart. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may grow strong from my times apart with God. I pray that I may pass on some of this strength to others.

Daily Thought ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~~  /) (    \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Rationalization "There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was really wrong. The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn't. We 'constructively criticized' someone who needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument. We sometimes hurt those we love because they 'need to be taught a lesson', when we really want to punish. This perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom." Thought to Consider . . . Recognizing someone else's human dignity cannot cost you your own.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* A. A. Absolute Abstinence

DAILY REFLECTIONS   A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM . . . if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50   When I no longer live under the dictates of another or of alcohol, I live in a new freedom. When I release the past and all the excess baggage I have carried for so very long, I come to know freedom. I have been introduced into a life and a fellowship of freedom. The Steps are a "recommended" way of finding a new life, there are no commands or dictates in A.A. I am free to serve from desire rather than decree. There is the understanding that I will benefit from the growth of other members and I take what I learn and bring it back to the group. The "common welfare" finds room to grow in the society of personal freedom.

POT LUCK   As Bill Sees It   "Fearless and Searching", p.261   My self-analysis has frequently been faulty. Sometimes I've failed to share my defects with the right people; at other times, I've confessed their defects, rather than my own; and still other times, my confession of defects has been more in the nature of loud complaints about my circumstances and my problems.   ********************************   When A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Every time he tries to look within himself, Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"   But pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogymen, nothing else. Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.   1. Grapevine, June 1958 2. 12 & 12, pp.49-50

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