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Sunday March 8, 2026    from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL         Remembrance of the good keeps us high in spirit.  Remembrance of what is beautiful is the salvation of mortal people.  Remembrance of what is dear will be happiness.  Remembrance of the One is still the best thing I know.    -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe     You must strive for a quiet mind.  If the eyes are perpetually restless, they cannot appreciate a beautiful object set before them; they glance this way and that, and so fail to discern the subtlety of the object’s form and color.  Equally, if the mind is perpetually restless, distracted by a thousand worldly concerns, i t cannot apprehend the truth.    -St. Basil the Great    Choices can change our lives profoundly.  The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person--these small choices may affect many lives eternally.     -Gloria Gaither     The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously.  So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.    -Elizabeth Gilbert            If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List  Send me an email at: so...@yourdailyreprieve.com.           BIG BOOK QUOTE   How could there be so much of precise and immutable law, and no intelligence? I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.   P10              DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   OLAF S. Toronto, Canada Serenity Improvement Group 11.20.21   https://bit.ly/3ZQj1td             ZOOM Loose Garment Group https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518 Saturday & Sunday….Pot Luck…0900 ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394           Celebrate 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!     MARCH2026 Miracles   3/1 Rich W. (Astoria, NY)…..11 3/3 Kelly T. (Newmarket, NH)…..35 3/3 Heather S. (Wildwood, FL)…..1 3/3 Craig K. (Boiling Springs, SC)…..5 3/4 Jennifer B. (Normandy, FR)…..11 3/4 Adam L. (NY, NY/Soma, NJ)…..12 3/5 Suzanne S. (Wayne, PA)…..48 3/5 Eric S. (Wayne, PA)…..48 3/5 Tom M. (The Fourth Dimension)…..32 3/6 Nora M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..8 3/7 Dave G. (Vancouver, Canada)…..23 3/7 Diane C. (Larkspur, CA)…..52 3/7 Gregory S. (Fort Pierce, FL)…..41 3/7 George H. (Milwaukee, WI)…..18 3/9 Patty K. (Baiting Hollow, NY)…..42 3/9 Danny S. (Narragansett, RI)…..26 3/9 Andy W. (Long Beach, NY)…..39 3/10 Craig M. (Woodbine, GA)…..5 3/10 Rob H. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..2 3/11 Crystal H. (Richmond BC)…..8 3/12 Ned W. (Melbourne, FL)…..29 3/13 Andy G. (Flemington, NJ)…..22 3/13 Tom V. (Morris Plains, NJ)…..19 3/13 Matt H. (Huntersville, NC)…..39 3/16 Suzan B. (Bunnell, FL)…..2 3/16 Mark B. (Bradenton, FL)…..3 3/19 Mike B. (Purchase, NY)…..26 3/19 Mike J. (Kingston, NH)…..18 3/20 Michelle O. (Los Angeles, CA)…..27 3/21 Johnetta W.  (Amelia Island, FL)…..18 3/21 Pamela B. (Clinton, NJ)…..43 3/24 Amy BS. (New York, New York) …..38 3/25 Buffy H. (Gambier, OH/Nantucket)…..34 3/25 Drue A. (Yulee, FL)…..25 3/26 Fred H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..50 3/26 Walter O’. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..56 3/28 Steven S. (Summit, NJ)…..16 3/30 Wendy B. (Wanaque, NJ) …..36 3/31 Beth V. (Hackettstown, NJ)…..22 3/31 Loretta H. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..18   1008 Total Years of Recovery          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 Eight - "Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers." Alcoholics simply will not listen to a paid twelfth-stepper. Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on the desire to help and be helped. When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too. The money motive compromises him and everything he says and does for his prospect. This has always been so obvious that only a very few A.A.'s have ever worked the Twelfth Step for a fee. p. 166         TWENTY-FOUR HOURS      A.A. Thought For The Day   We must go to A.A. meetings regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must reeducate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate with God by spending at least as much time and energy on the A.A. program as we did on drinking. We must follow the A.A. program to the best of our ability. Have I turned my alcoholic problem over to God and am I cooperating with Him?   Meditation For The Day   The joy of true fellowship shall be mine in full measure. I will revel in the joy of real fellowship. There will come back a wonderful joy, if I share in fellowship now. Fellowship among spiritually minded people is the embodiment of God's purpose for this world. To realize this will bring me a new life-joy. If I share in humanity's joy and travail, a great blessing will be mine. I can truly live a life not of earth, but a heaven-life here and now.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may be helped and healed by true spiritual fellowship. I pray that I may sense His presence in spiritual fellowship with His children.             DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\ ~~ /) (  \(AA)/   ) ( /AA\ ) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Certainty   The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows, and toward God's universe. The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25     Thought to Consider . . . I stood in the sunlight at last.     *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety           DAILY REFLECTION   TURNING IT OVER Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous? . . . Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has become. Now if this is not turning one's will and life over to a newfound Providence, then what is it? TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35   Submission to God was the first step to my recovery. I believe our Fellowship seeks a spirituality open to a new kinship with God. As I exert myself to follow the path of the Steps, I sense a freedom that gives me the ability to think for myself. My addiction confined me without any release and hindered my ability to be released from my self confinement, but A.A. assures me of a way to go forward. Mutual sharing, concern and caring for others is our natural gift to each other and mine is strengthened as my attitude toward God changes. I learn to submit to God's will in my life, to have self-respect, and to keep both of these attitudes by giving away what I receive.             POT LUCK           As Bill Sees It   Dividends and Mysteries, p. 171   "The A.A. preoccupation with sobriety is sometimes misunderstood. To some, this single virtue appears to be the sole dividend of our Fellowship. We are thought to be dried-up drunks who otherwise have changed little, or not at all, for the better. Such a surmise widely misses the truth. We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual--by a spiritual awakening that can banish the desire to drink."   << << << >> >> >>   "You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity. The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development."     1. Letter, 1966 2. Letter, 1955               UPDATED    BIG BOOK for DUMMIES https://bit.ly/4mDbNCx    (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYDjgj9FYY9O_Py_HxvToTUS_3B-vBcf&si=00m3zjpik036G1Sn)     **NEW** "AA Recovery Interviews" Podcast https://aarecoveryinterviews.com   Blog http://todaysreprieve.blogspot.com/     Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst     AA Membership Survey 2022 Alcoholics Anonymous 2022 Membership Survey | Alcoholics Anonymous     Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference In response to a Committee Consideration from the 73rd General Service Conference regarding any possible future changes to literature written by A.A.’s founders,  that committee agreed it would be beneficial to gather shared experience from the Fellowship regarding this topic. Questionaire   How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?  https://bit.ly/3uhEPBK       DR. PAUL O. There is More to Quitting Drinking Than Quitting Drinking (Audio Book) Introduction http://bit.ly/1IlFBbp Part I http://bit.ly/1MPV5Za Part II http://bit.ly/1Ksd9eA Part III http://bit.ly/1GQCGGE Part IV http://bit.ly/1Ip0hn8 AA CDs Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst       ZOOM MEETINGS    Loose Garment Group   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/238977518  ID: 238 977 518 PW: 004 394         ARCHIVES     AA World Service Board Meeting Highlights October 2023  https://bit.ly/3GlcOvE       A New Pair of Glasses in PDF (download) is available at: https://bit.ly/4bUr0Js     Bill Schaberg Writing The Big Book Video Readings https://www.youtube.com/@billschaberg8911/videos   BIG BOOK for DUMMIES https://bigbookfordummies.com/       *Angel Force USA www.AngelForceUSA.com   Angel Force USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. OUR MISSION STOP SUISILENCE The avoidance of discussion about suicide Our goal is to raise awareness of the military suicide epidemic.       RICHMOND WALKER & THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR BOOK Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana) Talk given at the 8th Annual National A.A. Archives Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sept. 27, 2003 https://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/24_hours_a_day.txt       MEDITATIONS http://www.11thstepmeditation.org/   Loving Kindness Meditations   With Music   http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindnessmusic.mp3     Voice only http://www.excelatlife.com/mp3/direct_download.php?file=lovingkindness.mp3   ***** Free Guided Meditations http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22 Resources   Great Minds Quotes https://twitter.com/GreatestQuotes         MOOJI GUIDED Meditation http://bit.ly/2Ogwe9v     **Podcasts** https://boiledowlaa.org/ https://www.aagrapevine.org/podcast     12 Step Meditations  www.stepmeditation.com   These are 12 meditations, each about 12 minutes long and the content (other than the meditation instructions) are straight from the text of the big book and 12 & 12 (created by Matt H.)       Speaker Recordings   Wee Willie’s Sobriety First Media AA CD’s Literature and tapes https://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst *****   The Lights are On http://xa-speakers.org/     Recovery Speakers http://recoveryspeakers.com/   Miscellaneous Sources Living Life Fully http://www.livinglifefully.com/     Twenty Four Hours a Day Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. Copyright 1975 Hazeleden Foundation   Tammy’s recovery links http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/   AA Photo Archives http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/aa_photos.htm   Heard at A Meeting https://twitter.com/heardinameeting   Breast Cancer Site Take a minute and click to provide free mammograms https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home   MEN FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER America’s largest volunteer men’s cancer support group and advocacy national nonprofit organization. http://malecare.org/     Prayables http://prayables.org/     Daily Thought http://groups.google.com/group/TransitionsDaily   Speaker Recordings Stories of Recovery - A 12-Step Collection https://storiesofrecovery.org/index.html