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Tuesday September 23, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!     -George Bernard Shaw     Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.     -Joseph Chilton Pearce     Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen people, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.     -Alexis Carrel     One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing."  We live by grace far more than by anything else.  Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank. ~Elton Trueblood       Please Use This Link If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/EA6cC5s           BIG BOOK QUOTE     Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends-this is an experience you must not miss.    P89               DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   ROSA G. Danville, CA Serenity Improvement Group 03.15.25   https://bit.ly/3IkJ4Ds           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!     SEPTEMBER2025 Miracles     9/1 Billy K. (Vero Beach, FL)…..25 9/2 George B. (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..11 9/2 Leslie Z. (Valley Village, CA)…..44 9/3 Edward H. (Andover, MA)…..42 9/4 Bob B. (North Fort Myers, FL)…..52 9/4 Cathy LH (Los Angeles, CA)…..41 9/5 Janet F. (Nantucket, MA)…..32 9/5 James O’K. (Portland, ME) …..12 9/5 Susan L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..31 9/5 Chris L. (Bristol, RI)…..37 9/6 Jim H. (Fernandina Bech, FL)…..6 9/6 Karen M. (NY)…..33 9/6 Rosie M. (Madison, NJ)…..2 9/6 Neil B. (Floral Park)…..32 9/6 Angela (Port Charlotte, FL)…..3 9/7 April Ginger (NJ)…..13 9/8 Carol Ann B. (Bedminster, NJ)…..29 9/8 Billy O. (Tequesta, FL)…..45 9/8 Julie N. (Port Washington, NY)…..7 9/8 Carolyn C. (Portsmouth, RI)…..40 9/9 Tony S. (Jacksonville, FL)…..3 9/9 Jeanne W. (Jacksonville, FL)…..5 9/10 Sue B. (Haiku, HI/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..14 9/10 Steve S. (Vero Beach, FL)…..24 9/10 Kitty G. (Sarasota, FL)…..10 9/11 Amelia G. (Sydney, Australia)…..1 9/11 Deck H. (Westport, CT)…..39 9/12 Joe C. (Palm Coast/Waynesville, NC)…..35 9/13 Jim L. (Ludlow, VT)…..13 9/13 Lisa N. (Bergen County, NJ)…..14 9/13 Mark M. (Long Island, NY)…..8 9/14 Mitchell W. …..5 9/14 Jackson R. (Palm Coast, FL)…..3 9/15 Fiona H. (Hampshire, UK)…..6 9/15 Arlene D. (Sarasota, FL)…..43 9/15 Hillary M. (New Canaan, CT) …..8 9/15 Sue B. (Montpelier, VT/Gulfport, FL)…..12 9/16 Trish W. (Portsmouth, UK)…..5 9/16 Ron G. (Ashland, MA).....53 9/16 Janice R. (Aiken, SC)…..6 9/16 Sean N. (Solihull, UK)…..5 9/17 Barbaree K. (Fernandina Beach, FL …..43 9/18 George P. (London, England)…..49 9/18 Jim H. (Houston, TX)…..15 9/19 Wendy H. (California)…..41 9/19 John A. (Gainesville, GA)…..14 9/19 Mark S. (Scotland/Perth, AU)…..5 9/19 Jim H. (New Rochelle, NY)……44 9/20 Patricia W. (Portsmouth GB, UK)…..5 9/20 Dawn D. (New York, NY)…..16 9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..14 9/20 Ted Z. (Gibsonville, NC)…..37 9/23 Bill G. (Woodstock, VT)…..40 9/23 Diana T. …..49 9/23 Lori H. (Miami, FL)…..10 9/23 David A. (NYC)…..24 9/23 Pat C. (Ruskin, FL)…..51 9/24 Katie S. (East Hampton, NY…..25 9/24 Julia O. (Westhampton Beach, NY)…..7 9/24 Frank P. (Westfield, NJ)…..2 9/25 Barry A. (Ruskin, FL)…..26 9/26 Alexander P. (New York)…..1 9/27 Karen R. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)…..3 9/27 Kristen C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..16 9/28 Stephanie M. (Fern Park, FL)…..1 9/28 Holly D. (Jacksonville, FL)…..29 9/29 Sinead G. (West Midlands, UK)…..15 9/29 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23 9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52 9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5   1507 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    Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours. p. 92               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS   A.A. Thought For The Day Step Twelve is, "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Note that the basis of our effectiveness in carrying the message to others is the reality of our own spiritual awakening. If we have not changed, we cannot be used to change others. To keep this program, we must pass it on to others. We cannot keep it for ourselves. We may lose it unless we give it away. It cannot flow into us and stop; it must continue to flow into us as it flows out to others. Meditation For The Day "Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you." When you are faced with a problem beyond your strength, you must turn to God by an act of faith. It is that turning to God in each trying situation that you must cultivate. The turning may be one of glad thankfulness for God's grace in you life. Or your appeal to God may be a prayerful claiming of His strength to face a situation and finding that you have it when the time comes. Not only the power to face trials, but also the comfort and joy of God's nearness and companionship are yours for the asking. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may try to draw near to God each day in prayer. I pray that I may feel His nearness and His strength in my life.           DAILY THOUGHT   ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (  \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Powerless "I had no problem admitting I was powerless over alcohol, and I certainly agreed that my life had become unmanageable. I had only to reflect on the contrast between the plans I made so many years ago for my life with what really happened to know I couldn't manage my life drunk or sober. A.A. taught me that willingness to believe was enough for a beginning."  1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 550   Thought to Consider . . . Life didn't end when I got sober . . . it started.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* S L I P Sobriety Loses Its Priority         DAILY REFLECTION   "I WAS AN EXCEPTION" He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, "Do you think that you are one of us?" ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413   During my drinking life I was convinced I was an exception. I thought I was beyond petty requirements and had the right to be excused. I never realized that the dark counterbalance of my attitude was the constant feeling that I did not "belong." At first, in A.A., I identified with others only as an alcoholic. What a wonderful awakening for me it has been to realize that, if human beings were doing the best they could, then so was I! All of the pains, confusions and joys they feel are not exceptional, but part of my life, just as much as anybody's.           POT LUCK        Reflection for the Day   Years ago, Dr. Alfred Adler prescribed this remedy for depression to a patient: “You can be healed if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you can bring a real joy to someone else. If you can stick to this for two weeks, you will no longer need therapy.” Adler’s “prescription,” of course, is not much different from the suggestion that we work more intensively the program’s Twelve Steps to rid ourselves of depression. When I am depressed, do I keep my feelings to myself? 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Friday September 26, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       I love to think that we in AA are in the Miracle Business. Here is a miracle for you: I turn 76 today!!     This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything --as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it. -Nikos Kazantzakis     One must hope that each of us might increase our capacity for greater humility, that we might become more mature and hence give more of ourselves, and, in a broad sense, love more effectively. These are the virtues that are cardinal in every religion and hence are the centers of interest of the rabbi and the priest and the minister in each of his or her parishioners. I happen to be one of those physicians who believe that these virtues are the center of our focus. In advocating this necessity to learn to love more effectively, one is mindful of the fact that every religion has taught us that God is love—and that it is from him that one can gain strength. -William Menninger     It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers and sisters. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. . . Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers and sisters for what they are, not for what they say. ~Thomas Merton     Kindness is a hard thing to give away;  it keeps coming back to the giver. ~Anonymous

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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!     SEPTEMBER2025 Miracles      9/1 Billy K. (Vero Beach, FL)…..25 9/2 George B. (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..11 9/2 Leslie Z. (Valley Village, CA)…..44

9/2 Richie D. (New Smyrna Beach, FL)…..42

9/16 Ron G. (Ashland, MA)…..53

9/16 Janice R. (Aiken, SC)…..6 9/16 Sean N. (Solihull, UK)…..5 9/17 Barbaree K. (Fernandina Beach, FL …..43 9/18 George P. (London, England)…..49 9/18 Jim H. (Houston, TX)…..15 9/19 Wendy H. (California)…..41 9/19 John A. (Gainesville, GA)…..14 9/19 Mark S. (Scotland/Perth, AU)…..5 9/19 Jim H. (New Rochelle, NY)……44 9/20 Patricia W. (Portsmouth GB, UK)…..5 9/20 Dawn D. (New York, NY)…..16 9/20 Paul T. (Hobe Sound, FL)…..14 9/20 Ted Z. (Gibsonville, NC)…..37 9/23 Bill G. (Woodstock, VT)…..40 9/23 Diana T. …..49 9/23 Lori H. (Miami, FL)…..10 9/23 David A. (NYC)…..24 9/23 Pat C. (Ruskin, FL)…..51

9/24 Katie S. (East Hampton, NY)…..25

9/24 Julia O. (Westhampton Beach, NY)…..7 9/24 Frank P. (Westfield, NJ)…..2 9/25 Barry A. (Ruskin, FL)…..26 9/26 Alexander P. (New York)…..1 9/27 Karen R. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)…..3 9/27 Kristen C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..16 9/28 Stephanie M. (Fern Park, FL)…..1 9/28 Holly D. (Jacksonville, FL)…..29 9/29 Sinead G. (West Midlands, UK)…..15 9/29 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23 9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52 9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5

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12&12   Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them. Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it--to ourselves always, and to them also, when the admission would be helpful. Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me--today?" p. 93

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day

Continuing the consideration of the term "spiritual experience": "The acquiring of an immediate and overwhelming God-consciousness, resulting in a dramatic transformation, though frequent, is by no means the rule. Most of our spiritual experiences are of the educational variety, and they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of newcomers are aware of the difference long before they are themselves. They finally realize that they have undergone a profound alteration in their reaction to life and that such a change could hardly have been brought about by themselves alone." Is my outlook on life changing for the better?   Meditation For The Day   Look at the world as your Father's house. Think of all people you meet as guests in you Father's house, to be treated with love and consideration. Look at yourself as a servant in your father's house, as a servant of all. Think of no work as beneath you. Be ever ready to do all you can for others who need your help. There is gladness in God's service. There is much satisfaction in serving the highest that you know. Express your love for God in service to all who are living with you in your Father's house.   Prayer For The Day   I pray that I may serve others out of gratitude to God. I pray that my work may be a small repayment for His grace so freely given me

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Love   "For me, A.A. is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read, all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love. I have seen that there is only one law, the law of love, and there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one's own growth." 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 542     Thought to Consider. . .  When we love, we see in others what we wish to have in ourselves.    *~*AACRONYMS*~*   H A L T Hope, Acceptance, Love, Tolerance           DAILY REFLECTION     OUR CHILDREN The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid. Marvelous results often follow such a reunion. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 134   While on the road to recovery I received a gift that could not be purchased. It was a card from my son in college, saying, "Dad, you can't imagine how glad I am that everything is okay. Happy Birthday, I love you." My son had told me that he loved me before. It had been during the previous Christmas holidays, when he had said to me, while crying, "Dad, I love you! Can't you see what you're doing to yourself?" I couldn't. Choked with emotion, I had cried, but this time, when I received my son's card, my tears were tears of joy, not desperation.       POT LUCK        If there's a harder way of doing something, someone will find it. ~Ralph E. Ross     When we used alcohol or other drugs, we did most things the hard way. We could turn a simple task into a daylong project. We could turn a simple problem into an argument. We were creative giants in doing things the hard way! We need to change this. We deserve easier lives. It's okay to take the smooth road. In our program, we have slogans for this: Keep it simple, Let go and let God, First things first, and Easy does it. These slogans remind us that it's okay to live with as little trouble as possible.   Prayer for the Day Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way  if I listen better to You.   Action for the Day I'll list three or four things I do that make my life harder than it needs to be.  I'll share them with a friend.   Keep it Simple: Daily Meditations for Twelve Step Beginnings and Renewal*

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Saturday September 27, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.   -Sophia Loren     Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.  Realize the past no longer holds you captive.   It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it.   Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. -Sarah Ban Breathnach     The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ~Albert Einstein       “Spirituality for me is not a question of feeling good (though feeling good is a feeling I like a whole lot). Instead it is a matter of finding from prayer and meditation, from other people, from meetings -- in short, from all the ‘tools of recovery’ – the power to do what is good, what is healthy, what brings joy and healing to myself and others.” ~West Henrietta, New York, September 1990

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BIG BOOK QUOTE     We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.   P30

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When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day. This is a good place to remember that inventory-taking is not always done in red ink. It's a poor day indeed when we haven't done something right. As a matter of fact, the waking hours are usually well filled with things that are constructive. Good intentions, good thoughts, and good acts are there for us to see. Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all. Under these conditions, the pains of failure are converted into assets. Out of them we receive the stimulation we need to go forward. Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity. pp. 93-94

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   Continuing the consideration of the term "spiritual experience":

"What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. 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. Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves the essence of spiritual experience. Some of us call it God-consciousness. In any case, willingness, honesty, and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery." Have I tapped that inner resource which can change my life?   Meditation For The Day   God's power in your life increases as your ability to understand His grace increases. The power of God's grace is only limited by the understanding and will of each individual. God's miracle-working power is only limited in each individual soul by the lack of spiritual vision of the soul. God respects free will, the right of each person to accept or reject His miracle-working power. Only the sincere desire of the soul gives Him the opportunity to bestow it.   Prayer For The Day   I pray that I may not limit God's power by my lack of vision. I pray that I may keep my mind open today to His influence.

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Fellowship "We were still trying to find emotional security by being dominating or dependent upon others. Even when our fortunes had not ebbed that much and we nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world, we still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy kind of domination or dependence. For those of us who were like that, A.A. had a very special meaning. Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more." 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 116-17

Thought to Consider . . .

Who we are is God's gift to us. Who we become is our gift to God.     *~*AACRONYMS*~* Y A N A You Are Not Alone.           DAILY REFLECTION     WITHOUT RESERVATION When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37   While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on without reservation and without expectation. For as I grow, I find that no matter how much I give with love, I receive much more in spirit.         POT LUCK      "Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse."    I used to be full of excuses: “I didn’t do this because. . . . I acted this way because she did. . . . He deserved it, so I gave it to him.” On the rare occasion when I was cornered and couldn’t justify my behavior, I’d make an apology, but I’d always qualify it with an excuse or, at the very least, a justified reason. The bottom line was that I could always place the blame outside of myself.     As I worked through the Twelve Steps of the program, I discovered a fourth column in the Fourth Step called “my part.” While I at first resented having to look at my side of the street, I found that this column soon made up my Eighth Step list of amends. This column also made it clear what the proper definition of an apology was supposed to look like during my Ninth Step.     My sponsor told me that we don’t make apologies any longer, we make amends. And knowing this made the direction clear. Rather than revert back to old behavior and try to hide behind excuses and reasons, I was instead to focus strictly on my part, ask if there were any other wrongs I was unaware of, and then ask what I could do to make things better. “You’ve done enough damage,” I can still hear my sponsor tell me. “Whatever you do, don’t ruin your amends with a bunch of excuses.”

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Monday September 29, 2025    from Waynesville, NC         Write your sad times in sand, your good times in stone. ~George Bernard Shaw     The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking.  To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance. -Thomas Dreier    Positive thinking is a constant attention to the details that make up an average day —with the knowledge that how you live this moment  may reflect on the rest of your life. -Jason Rogerson     “If we’re willing to expose the pages of our lives to the love and understanding of our Higher Power and a fellow alcoholic, we’ll surely know a new freedom and a new happiness. We’ll discover that love is never having to feel alone again; that God’s presence in our lives has become profound; and that the unity of the Fellowship of the spirit can be ours so long as we’re willing to ‘pass it on.’” ~ West Palm Beach, Florida, May 1989

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But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were. 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. p. 94

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day

Having got this far, shall we pause and ask ourselves some searching questions? We need to check up on ourselves periodically. Just how good an A.A. am I? Am I attending meetings regularly? Am I doing my share to carry the load? When there is something to be done, do I volunteer? Do I speak at meetings when asked, no matter how nervous I am? Do I accept each opportunity to do twelfth-step work as a challenge? Do I give freely of my time and money? Am I trying to spread A.A. wherever I go? Is my daily life a demonstration of A.A. principles? Am I a good A.A.?   Meditation For The Day   How do I get strength to be effective and to accept responsibility? By asking the Higher Power for the strength I need each day. It has been proved in countless lives that for every day I live the necessary power shall be given me. I must face each challenge that comes to me during the day, sure that God will give me the strength to face it. For every task that is given me, there is also given me all the power necessary for the performance of that task. I do not need to hold back.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may accept every task as a challenge. I know I cannot wholly fail if God is with me.

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Fear "Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not. We eat, drink, and grab for more of everything than we need, fearing we shall never have enough. And with genuine alarm at the prospect of work, we stay lazy. We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build." 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 49

Thought to Consider . . .

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives     *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Forgetting Everything's All Right            DAILY REFLECTION   EXACTLY ALIKE Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89   A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group's secretary an unquotable name and walked out. I was glad he was there—once again I saw what I had been like. But I also saw what I still am, and what I still could be. I don't have to be drunk to want to be the exception and the center of attention. I have often felt abused and responded abusively when I was simply being treated as a garden variety human being. The more the man tried to insist he was different, the more I realized that he and I were exactly alike.           POT LUCK      A Day At A Time   Reflection For The Day   When we allow our Higher Power to take charge, without reservations on our part, we stop being “anxious.” When we’re not anxious about some person or situation, that doesn’t mean we’re disinterested or have stopped caring.     Just the opposite is true. We can be interested and caring without being anxious or fearful. The poised, calm and faith-filled person brings something positive to every situation. He or she is able to do the things that are necessary and helpful.     Do I realize how much better prepared I am to do wise and loving things if I banish anxious thoughts and know that God is in charge?     Today I Pray I pray that I may be rid of the anxiety which I have equated in my mind with really caring about people. May I know that anxiety is not an item of outerwear that can be doffed like a cap. May I know that I must have serenity within myself and confidence that God can do a better job that I can — and then my anxiety will lessen.    Today I Will Remember Anxiety never solved anything.