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Monday October 27, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       “AA is more than a set of principles; it is a Society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven’t been given the truth will die.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1955     True merit is like a river; the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax     Don’t expect perfection and things to go the way you want them to when it comes to people, business, your prospects, and your social life. When things don’t go according to your desires, when the weather of life is foul, be creative and consider what may be the higher reasons why this is happening and why you must adjust. Perhaps it’s to gain forbearance, patience, inner strength, flexibility, or the ability to withhold criticism while serving as a loving model. -Michael Goddart     "No one made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." —Edmund Burke    If you always give, you will always have. -Chinese proverb       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      It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.   P85                 DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   STEVE ORR Sex and Sobriety 29th Atlanta Mens’s Workshop Rock Eagle, GA 1996   https://bit.ly/470HSgQ           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!     OCTOBER2025 Miracles     10/1 Jim B. (Brunswick, ME)…..9 10/1 Tom K. (Livingston, NJ)…..1 10/1 Mary H. (Andover, MA)…..37 10/1 Leo N. (Ogunquit, Maine)…..21 10/1 Rich R. (Bluffton, SC)…..51 10/1 Phaedra …..3 10/1 Debi S. (Monroe, NC)…..15 10/2 Jaimee L. (Ft. Myers, FL)…..9 10/2 Dave R. (Bedminster, NJ)…..14 10/3 Eric M. (Wells, ME)…..5 10/4 Melissa H. (Orlando, FL)…..15 10/4 Kristopher B. (Toledo, OH)…..11 10/4 Tom H. (Strongsville, OH) …..25 10/4 Josh G. (Anchorage, Alaska)…..9 10/4 Frank T. (NH)…..5 10/5 Gary G. (Otsego MI/Ruskin, FL)…..36 10/6 Russ W. (Milford, CT)…..12 10/6 Laura D. (Bogota, NJ)…..10 10/6 Jason K. (Bear Valley, CA)…..33 10/6 Dan O. (Manorville, Long Island, NY)…..3 10/6 Spike C. (Vero Beach, FL)…..6 10/6 Terry S. (Collingwood, ON)…..35 10/7 Donna C. (Punta Gorda, FL)…..50 10/7 Liz S. (Hoboken, NJ)…..14 10/8 Katy R. (Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK)…..1 10/9 Xavier F. (Phoenix, AZ)…..12 10/10 Steve Bombo B. (Rojo Group)…..53 10/10 George B. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..39 10/10 Ray H. (Cookeville, TN)…..15 10/11 Harriett B. (Parsonsburg, MD)…..37 10/11 Cigar Bob (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..28 10/12 Richard T. (Hampstead, NH)…..45 10/13 Angie T. (Sturminster Newton, UK)…..21 10/13 Robert L. (Surf City, NC)….. …..24 10/13 Umberto B. (Yonkers) …..12 10/14 Steve P. (Hampton, NH)…..41 10/14 Carol HS (Key Largo, FL)…..40 10/14 Mary A. (Goose Creek, SC)…..12 10/14 Jack R. (Santa Monica, CA)…..13 10/14 Louise D. (Amesbury, MA)…..3 10/15 John C. (East Quogue, NY)…..4 10/15 Linda H. (Miramichi, NB, Canada(…..18 10/16 Brian L. …..1 10/17 Linda S. (Orange Park, FL)…..13 10/18 Lisa H. (Monaco)…..16 10/18 Theresa TK (Green Valley, AZ)…..32 10/19 DeeDee L. (Charlotte, NC)…..26 10/20 Kathleen G. (Greenwich, CT)…..13 10/20 Miss. Barbara G. …..5 10/22 Harry G. (Sarasota, FL)…..33 10/23 James D. (NYC)…..48 10/25 Robyn M. (Delray Beach, FL)…..36 10/25 Keely S. (Orick, CA)…..43 10/26 Niall H. (Dublin, Ireland)……33 10/26 Cecil U. (Port St. Lucie, FL)…..33 10/26 Alex  L. (Hopewell, NJ).....5 10/27 Pamela L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..39 10/27 Sue B. (Seabrook, NH)…..40 10/27 Charlie B. (Stuart, FL)…..28 10/27 Ridge A. …..2 10/27 Jolene E. (Orlando, FL)…..22 10/28 Phillip E. (Orlando, FL)…..22 10/28 Rowena D. (Staffordshire, UK)…..5 10/29 Lisa B. (Yulee, FL)…..3 10/29 LauraLea K. (Leesburg, FL)…..14 10/29 Joshua H. (Wilmington, NC).....1 10/30 Pat B. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..13   1551 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 Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. We no longer live in a completely hostile world. We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless. The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. p. 105               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   Seventh, I can help other alcoholics.  I am of some use in the world. I have a purpose in life. I am worth something at last. My life has a direction and a meaning. All that feeling of futility is gone. I can do something worthwhile. God has given me a new lease on life so that I can help other alcoholics. He has let me live through all the hazards of my alcoholic life to bring me at last to a place of real usefulness in the world. He has let me live for this. This is my opportunity and my destiny. I am worth something! Will I give as much of my life as I can to A.A.?   Meditation For The Day   All of us have our own battle to win, the battle between the material view of life and the spiritual view. Something must guide our lives. Will it be wealth, pride, selfishness, greed or will it be faith, honesty, purity, unselfishness, love and service? Each one has a choice. We can choose good or evil. We cannot choose both. Are we going to keep striving until we win the battle?  If we win the victory, we can believe that even God in His heaven will rejoice.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may choose the good and resist the evil. I pray that I will not be a loser in the battle for righteousness.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (  \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Fear "The practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in our personal lives also brought incredible releases from fear of every description, despite the wide prevalence of formidable personal problems. When fear did persist, we knew it for what it was, and under God's grace we became able to handle it. We began to see each adversity as a God-given opportunity to develop the kind of courage which is born of humility, rather than bravado. Thus we were enabled to accept ourselves, our circumstances, and our fellows." Bill W., January 1962 1988 AA Grapevine The Language of the Heart, p. 268   Thought to Consider . . . Courage is the willingness to accept fear and act anyway.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F E A R Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly           DAILY REFLECTION     GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A. A. 's all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151   The strength of Alcoholics Anonymous lies in the desire of each member and of each group around the world to share with other alcoholics their suffering and the steps taken to gain, and maintain, recovery. By keeping a conscious contact with my Higher Power, I make sure that I always nurture my desire to help other alcoholics, thus insuring the continuity of the wonderful fraternity of Alcoholics Anonymous.         POT LUCK      Reflection for the Day     Looking back, I realize just how much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. It provided much self-satisfaction, to be sure, but I see now just how subtle and actually perverse the process became. After all was said and done, the net effect of dwelling on the so- called faults of others was self-granted permission to remain comfortably unaware of my own defects. Do I still point my finger at others and thus self-deceptively overlook my own shortcomings?     Today I Pray May I see that my preoccupation with the faults of others is really a smokescreen to keep me from taking a hard look at my own, as well as a way to bolster my own failing ego. 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Thursday October 30, 2025    from Basking Ridge, NJ       The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings  ~Kakuzo Okakura     “I started going to meetings a little early and resisted the urge to bolt out the door the moment the Lord’s Prayer was finished. I thought I might try some of that ‘get active’ stuff, so I volunteered to make coffee at a meeting I liked to attend ... It wasn’t long before I found myself in the middle of Alcoholics Anonymous.” Manchester, New Hampshire, September 2000     "The value of persistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will finally hear Him." ~William McGill.     “The things that count cease being those that can be held in the hand and become only what can be held in the heart.” ~North Hollywood, California, August 1982

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BIG BOOK QUOTE     But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived.   P66

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10/9 Eddie N. (Port St Lucie, FL)…..1

10/26 Alex L. (Hopewell, NJ)…..5

10/27 Pamela L. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..39 10/27 Sue B. (Seabrook, NH)…..40 10/27 Charlie B. (Stuart, FL)…..28 10/27 Ridge A. …..2 10/27 Jolene E. (Orlando, FL)…..22

10/27 Rose S. (Yelm, WA)…..7

10/28 Phillip E. (Orlando, FL)…..22 10/28 Rowena D. (Staffordshire, UK)…..5 10/29 Lisa B. (Yulee, FL)…..3

10/29 Joshua H. (Wilmington, NC)…..1

10/29 LauraLea K. (Leesburg, FL)…..14

10/30 Pat B. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..13   1559 Total Years of Sobriety

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12&12   Step Twelve - "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." Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening. To new A.A.'s, this often seems like a very dubious and improbable state of affairs. "What do you mean when you talk about a `spiritual awakening'?" they ask. p. 106

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

I have real friends, where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and freely. Does friendship have new meaning for me?   Meditation For The Day   There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives  and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time.   Prayer For The Day   I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.

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Peace of Mind "A.A. has taught me that I will have peace of mind in exact proportion to the peace of mind I bring into the lives of other people, and it has taught me the true meaning of the admonition 'happy are ye who know these things and do them.' For the only problems I have now are those I create when I break out in a rash of self-will." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 551

Thought to Consider . . .

I never imagined that the greatest achievement of my life would be peace of mind.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* P E A C E Principles Experienced Activate Change Every day           DAILY REFLECTION     LIVE AND LET LIVE Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall publicly." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176    Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that others don't have to share it? That's the spirit of "Live and Let Live." The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God's help, to "Accept the things I cannot change." Am I still trying to change others? When it comes to "Courage to change the things I can," do I remember that my opinions are mine, and yours are yours? Am I still afraid to be me? When it comes to "Wisdom to know the difference," do I remember that my opinions come from my experience? If I have a know-it-all attitude, aren't I being deliberately controversial?         POT LUCK        Father Leo's Daily Meditation   IDEAS   "Ideas shape the course of history." --John Maynard Keynes     I get so excited about my sobriety because it has given me ideas. Today I can think, ponder and create. God is such a big idea today --every thing is involved.     For years I had made God a prisoner of the Church or an idea in history, but in my sobriety I have discovered Him in art, poetry, music and literature. God is found in friendship, advice, sharing and sexuality. God is forcibly experienced in nature, sunsets, animals and the sea.     God can be found through my failures. He is perceived in suffering, loneliness and resentments. The acknowledgment of my disease has brought me closer to God as I understand Him.     My idea of God is alive and it makes me want to live.    May my ideas and thoughts always reflect Your beauty.

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Monday November 3, 2025    from Amesbury, MA       There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story. Angela Buchdahl    "Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called “perfection,” which will open the doors to the most important relationships you’ll ever be a part of.” – Dan Pear     It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.  ~Queen Elizabeth II     It is not by accident that t he happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. -- Ernest A. Fitzgerald

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BIG BOOK QUOTE     To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self-sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.   P93

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NOVEMBER2025 Miracles     11/1 Pat B. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18 11/1 Tom K. …..1 11/1 Rick B. …..(Dyersburg, TN)…..7 11/2Liz L. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..18 11/3 Brendan H. (Brookly, NY)…..11 11/4 Patrick OD (Boston, MA)…..45 11/4 Lou L. (Smithtown, NY)…..29 11/5 Kent L. (Silverdale, WA)…..40 11/6 Joyce E. (Key Largo, FL)…..1 11/7 Christine R. (Hilton Head, SC)…..2 11/7 Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)…..34 11/7 Leslie E. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..19 11/8 Martha K. (New Hampshire)…..1 11/9 Richard D. (West Roxbury, MA)…..10 11/9 (Brookfield, CT)…..19 11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..20 11/14 Kent B. (Patric Space Force Base)…..1 11/16 Sondra K. (Newfound Lake)…..1 11/20 Alan R. (NYC)…..3 11/22 Laine C. (Yulee, FL)…..4 11/22 Michele M. (Spring Hill, FL)…..1 11/23 Elaine P. (Las Vegas, NV)…..40 11/23 Caroline S. (Edinburgh, Scotland)…..29 11/26 Chuck C. (Fernandina Beach, FL)…..31 11/28 Hendy H. (Islington, MA)…..52 11/29 Peter V. (Kittery, ME)…..45 11/30 Peter B. (New York, NY)…..35   0493 Total Tears of Sobriety

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12&12   Step Twelve - "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."

So, practicing these Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question. Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in. From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter who still claimed that he hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name. p. 109

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

I have charity, another word for love. That right kind of love which is not selfish passion but an unselfish, outgoing desire to help other people. To do what is best for the other person, to put what is best for him or her above my own desires. To put God first, the other person second, and myself last. Charity is gentle, kind, understanding, long-suffering, and full of desire to serve. A.A. has given me this. What I do for myself is lost; what I do for others may be written somewhere in eternity. Have I charity?   Meditation For The Day   "Ask what you will and it shall be done unto you." God has unlimited power. There is no limit to what His power can do in human hearts. But we must will to have God's power and we must ask God for it. God's power is blocked off from us by our indifference to it. We can go along our own selfish way without calling on God's help and we get no power. But when we trust in God, we can will to have the power we need. When we sincerely ask God for it, we get it abundantly.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may will to have God's power. I pray that I may keep praying for the strength I need.

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Step One "No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now becomes the rapacious creditor, bleeds us all of self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built." 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 21

Thought to Consider . . .

Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.    *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety           DAILY REFLECTION     FOCUSING AND LISTENING There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 98   If I do my self-examination first, then surely, I'll have enough humility to pray and meditate—because I'll see and feel my need for them. Some wish to begin and end with prayer, leaving the self-examination and meditation to take place in between, whereas others start with meditation, listening for advice from God about their still hidden or unacknowledged defects. Still others engage in written and verbal work on their defects, ending with a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. These three-self-examination, meditation and prayer—form a circle, without a beginning or an end. No matter where, or how, I start, I eventually arrive at my destination: a better life.         POT LUCK      "It is a pity we can’t forget our troubles the same way we forget our blessings."     I used to wake up reviewing all the bad things in my life. To start with, I usually had a deep hangover—the kind where your head hurts when you move it just an inch. Then I’d wonder how I was going to work that day, and if the boss would make good on his threat to fire me if I called in late again. I’d next review my dwindling bank balance and think about all my bills. By the time I reached for a cigarette and coffee, I was pretty much defeated.     In early recovery, I used to still wake up and review all the bad things in my life. I had lost that job, and I was living off borrowed money from my home equity line. I was now sentenced to A.A. meetings and forced to work the Steps. By the time I reached for a cup of coffee, I was pretty sure my life was over. My sponsor wasn’t having any of my pity party. He suggested I write a gratitude list which started with things like (1) I was alive and not in jail, (2) I was sober today, (3) I actually owned a home I could borrow on, and (4) I had time to attend multiple meetings throughout the day. Turns out, I did have a lot to be grateful for.     These days, the pity pot doesn’t get used as much, but I can still get into fear and worry. When I do, I review all the things sobriety and my Higher Power have blessed me with: my life, long-term sobriety, spiritual tools that allow me to live comfortably—even serenely—in my own skin. And I have a lot of “outside” stuff as well. Today, I try to forget the temporary troubles that come and go and stay focused on the blessings that are always with me. When I do, I live a very happy and contented life.