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Thursday January 15, 2026    from Waynesville, NC         There comes a time when the blind man takes your hand a nd says don't you see.   -- Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia     All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times;  but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -- Johann von Goethe     "God guide me and love me, so that I may guide and love others, and allow them to guide and love me".  ~John H   Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. ~Jean-Paul Satre               If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List Please use the updated link below: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/EA6cC5s?mode=preview   Or Send me an email at: so...@yourdailyreprieve.com.               BIG BOOK QUOTE       For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.   P55             DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   ELIZABETH B.L. Serenity Improvement Group 05.08.21   https://bit.ly/4ptQO5I           SEPTEMBERCelebrate Your Anniversary Here SHOW NEWCOMERS HOW IT WORKS!! Send your sober date and location to : so...@yourdailyreprieve.com     I always thought that posting our locations with our anniversaries was a great way to show newcomers that AA is all over the world. So I wish you would send your locations with your anniversary dates. We don't celebrate for our own benefit. We celebrate anniversaries to show the program works. If we add our locations we get to show that AA works EVERYWHERE!     January2026 Miracles     1/1 Terri M. (Pleasant Hill, CA)…..49 1/1 Bob V. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..42 1/1 John S. ….37 1/1 Phil L. (Palm Coast, FL)…..32 1/1 Mike M. (Manhasset, NY)…..1 1/1 Kingsley C. (Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK)…..13 1/1 Severine Z. (Sacramento, CA)…..9 1/1 Deirdre K. (Madison NJ)…..21 1/1 Maura Mc. (Greenwich, CT)…..20 1/1 Terrance R. (Morristown, NJ)…..32 1/2 Bob C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..36 1/2 Roger M. Kennebunk, ME)…..4 1/2 Tara M. (New York, NY)…..11 1/2 Gregory B. (New York, NY)…..14 1/3 William W. (Whispering Pines, NC)…..38 1/3 Johny R. (Stuart, FL)…..49 1/3 Grace C. (Stuart, FL)…..35 1/4 Kevin J. (Bristol, RI)…..35 1/4 Linda B. (Memphis, TN)…..29 1/4 Nick M. (Tryon, NC)…..32 1/5 Tim G. (Dallas, TX)…..14 1/6 Caitlin R. (Westhampton Beach, NY)…..1 1/6 George R. (Stratham, NH)…..14 1/6 Mary B. (Key Largo, FL)…..20 1/6 Ann OK-B. (Greenwich, CT)…..47 1/6 Mike S. (Orange Park, FL)…..20 1/7 Luke T. (Nantucket)…..7 1/7 Michelle S. (Canton MI)…..5 1/7 Robert W. (Gatineau, Quebec)…..32 1/7 Alexis R. (Devon, UK)…..24 1/7 Liz O. (New York, NY)…..22 1/7 Leo D. (Warren, NJ)…..28 1/8 Alan J.(Woodstock, NY)…..18 1/8 Alan H. (Gainesville, GA) …..10 1/8 Jollylou (Sarasota, FL)…..13 1/9 Patty A. (Waynesville, NC)…..1 1/9 Ginger S. (Aberdeen, NC)…..17 1/9 Peter C. (Miami, FL)…..25 1/9 Tefft S. (Wahington, DC )…..41 1/10 Sheree F. (Silver Spring, MD)…..37 1/10 Tim S. (Ringwood, UK)…..20 1/10 Paula B. (Charleston, SC)…..43 1/10 Kelly S. (Methuen/Tampa)…..37 1/10 Bill H. (Charlotte, NC)…..7 1/11 Linda K. (Lake Hiawatha, NJ)…..6 1/11 Will P. (Waynesville, NC)…..37 1/12 David F. (Calgary, Canada)…..13 1/13 David S. (Newport, RI)…..40 1/13 Stephanie B. (Falkville, AL)…..1 1/13 Hope C. (Orlando, FL)….1 1/13 Tara M. (Larchmont, NY)…..13 1/13 Robbi H. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..44 1/13 John E. (Reading, UK)…..11 1/13 Brian G. (Ridgewood, NJ)…..36 1/13 Linda H. (Guam)…..24 1/14 Calvin A. (Rockville, MD)…..1 1/14 Dot C. (Acton, MA)…..13 1/14 Jo M. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..22 1/15 Sue J. (Palm Coast, FL)…..16 1/15 Parrish M. (NC)…..7 1/15 Matt M. (Pensacola, FL)…..7 1/16 Tree A. (San Anselmi, CA)…..37 1/16 Marta C. (Germantown, MD)…..1 1/16 Bonnie S. (Charleston, SC)…..41 1/16 Chip S. (Birmingham, AL)…..23 1/17 Dennis D. (Palm Coast, FL)…..15 1/17 Carol C. (Sarasota, FL)…..4 1/17 Jenny P. (Flemington, NJ)…..33 1/17 Helen C. (Dover, UK)…..54 1/18 Mike H. (East Dorset, VT)…..39 1/18 Paul O’ (Ireland)…..15 1/18 John D. (Key Largo, FL)…..3 1/19 Bill W.(Sun City Center, FL) …..31 1/20 Rick S. (Sarasota, FL)…..41 1/20 Dan D. (Sun City Center, FL)…..17 1/21 Rob B. (Simpsonville, SC)…..10 1/21 Liz M. (NY)…..27 1/21 Heather N.(Wylie, TX) …..29 1/22 Stacey C. (Lancaster, PA)…..19 1/22 Daylene L. (Litchfield Park, AZ)…..21 1/22 Erin M. (Salem, NH)…..7 1/22 Brian McD. (Leland, NC)…..42 1/23 Mike C. (Solon, OH)…..11 1/23 Jay O’D. …..16 1/24 Steve A. (Syracuse, NY)…..2 1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..34 1/25 PJ C. (Bel Air, MD)…..11 1/25 Susan G. (Guelph, ON)…..1 1/26 Ann S. (Stuart, FL)…..34 1/26 Manny T. (Montreal, Canada)…..5 1/28 David C. (Ruskin, FL)…..2 1/29 Geri O. (Tucson, AZ)…..39 1/29 Sandra C. (New York, NY)…..50 1/30 Al L. (White Plains, NY)…..40 1/31 Pat B. (Oneida, NY)…..37 1/31 Sandy W. (East Hampton/Naples)…..30 1/31 Bob P. (Jacksonville, NC)…..42 1/31 Kim J. (Streator, IL)…..15 1/31 Judy C. (Vero Beach, FL)…..41     2208 Total Years of Sobriety      Drop a Buck in the Basket? PayPal paypal.me/TomMurphy Venmo @Tom-Murphy-160     The cost to mail Your Daily Reprieve just went up to $195 a month!!       Thank you everyone for your generous contributions.       12&12   Tradition Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." Ed not only stayed, he stayed sober - month after month. The longer he kept dry, the louder he talked - against God. The group was in anguish so deep that all fraternal charity had vanished. "When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?" p. 144               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   The A.A. program is a way of life. It's a way of living and we have to learn to live the program if we're going to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like guide posts. They point the direction in which we have to go. But each member of the group has to find his own best way of living the program. We don't all do it exactly alike. Whether by quiet times in the morning, meetings, working with others, or spreading the word, we have to learn to live the program. Has A.A. become my regular, natural way of living?   Meditation For The Day   I will relax and not get tense. I will have no fear, because everything will work out in the end. I will learn soul-balance and poise in a vacillating, changing world. I will claim God's power and use it because if I do not use it, it will be withdrawn. As long as I get back to God and replenish my strength after each task, no work can be too much.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may relax and that God's strength will be given to me. I pray that I may subject my will to God's will and be free from all tenseness.             DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~ /) (   \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Today "I realize that all I'm guaranteed in life is today. The poorest person has no less and the wealthiest has no more - each of us has but one day. What we do with it is our own business; how we use it is up to us individually. I feel that I have been restored to health and sanity these past years not through my own efforts nor as a result of anything I may have done, but because I've come to believe - to really believe - that alone I can do nothing. That my own innate selfishness and stubbornness are the evils which, if left unguarded, can drive me to alcohol. I have come to believe that my illness is spiritual as well as physical and mental, and I know that for help in the spiritual sphere I have to turn to a Higher Power." c. 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 473   Thought to Consider . . . I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* S I T Stay In Today           DAILY REFLECTION     AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70   From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I found hope in these words from our founders. I often pondered the phrase: "they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource." How, I asked myself, can I find the Power within myself, since I am so powerless? In time, as the founders promised, it came to me: I have always had the choice between goodness and evil, between unselfishness and selfishness, between serenity and fear. That Power greater than myself is an original gift that I did not recognize until I achieved daily sobriety through living A.A.'s Twelve Steps.         POT LUCK        Each Day a New Beginning     … You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. -Joan Baez     How thrilling to contemplate that we can choose every attitude we have and every action we take. We have been gifted with full responsibility for our development. What will we try today? It’s our personal choice. How will we decide on a particular issue? Our options are only limited by our vision.     Every situation in life offers us a significant opportunity for making a decision that will, of necessity, influence the remaining situations we encounter. Just as we are interdependent, needing and influencing one another in all instances that bring us together, likewise our decisions are never inviolate. Each is singly important; however, its impact is multiplied by the variety of other decisions triggered.     The choice is ours for living fully today, for taking advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. Our personal growth, our emotional and spiritual development, are in our hands. God will provide us with the guidance, and the program offers us the tools. The decision to act is ours, alone.     I will exercise my personal power. 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