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Saturday January 31, 2026    from Waynesville, NC       Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. —Jamie Paolinetti     Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. —Ancient Indian Proverb     I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.  —Mother Teresa     What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. —Plutarch    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 this LINK   https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/EA6cC5s?mode=preview   Or Send me an email at: so...@yourdailyreprieve.com.         BIG BOOK QUOTE     It was impossible to say we had no capacity for faith, or love, or worship. In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.   P54               DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day     JIM McE Serenity Improvement Group 02.06.21   https://bit.ly/4a7MHa3         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!     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 1/8 Harry B. (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)…..21 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 1/15 Steve D. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..14 1/16 Tree A. (San Anselmo, CA)…..37 1/16 Marta C. (Germantown, MD)…..1 1/16 Bonni 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 1/18 Simon S. (New York City)…..5 1/19 Bill W.(Sun City Center, FL) …..31 1/19 Mitch R. (Waynesville, NC)…..16 1/19 Carol L. (Aspen, CO)…..35 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 1/24 Steve L. (Starke, FL)…..8 1/24 Paul B. (NBPT, MA/Ports NH/SSI,GA)…..40 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     2347 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 Five - "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers." Just as firmly bound by obligation are the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can. The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills. 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. pp. 150-151               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day Drinking cuts you off from God. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religion is, no matter if you say you believe in God, nevertheless you build up a wall between you and God by your drinking. You know you're not living the way God wants you to. As a result, you have that terrible remorse. When you come into A.A., you begin to get right with other people and with God. A sober life is a happy life, because by giving up drinking we've got rid of our loneliness and remorse. Do I have real fellowship with other people and with God?   Meditation For The Day   I believe that all sacrifice and all suffering is of value to me. When I am in pain, I am being tested. Can I trust God, no matter how I feel? Can I say Thy will be done, no matter how much I am defeated? If I can, my faith is real and practical. It works in bad times as well as in good times. The Divine Will is working in a way that is beyond my finite mind to understand, but I can still trust in it.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may take my suffering in my stride. I pray that I may accept pain and defeat as part of God's plan for my spiritual growth.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (   \(AA)/   ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Promises "We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them." c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4   Thought to Consider . . . The Promises are a result not a right.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F I T Faith, Intuition, and Trust           DAILY REFLECTION     OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has . . . We stay whole, or A. A. dies TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129   Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. The First Tradition reminds me not to take credit, or authority, for my recovery. Placing our common welfare first reminds me not to become a healer in this program; I am still one of the patients. Selfeffacing elders built the ward. Without it, I doubt I would be alive. Without the group, few alcoholics would recover. The active role in renewed surrender of will enables me to step aside from the need to dominate, the desire for recognition, both of which played so great a part in my active alcoholism. Deferring my personal desires for the greater good of group growth contributes toward A.A. unity that is central to all recovery. It helps me to remember that the whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.         POT LUCK      "My brain is like a photographer’s dark room; the only thing it develops is negative."     Toward the end of my drinking, I was as much addicted to negative thinking as I was drugs and alcohol. Alcoholism robbed me of hope and took away possibilities of happiness, and the only snapshots of the future I could see were dark and blurry. As I descended further into the abyss, I was convinced that things weren’t ever going to get better, and somewhere deep inside I had given up. When I finally got some help, my sponsor told me I had reached my bottom.     As I began to recover by working the Steps, I learned that alcoholism is a disease. At first I didn’t believe that; instead I thought I was just weak-willed. But after listening to hundreds of other alcoholics share my same dark fears and feelings, I realized the common characteristics of alcoholism: self-loathing, negative thinking, and utter defeat. To recover from this seemingly hopeless state of mind, my sponsor told me I needed to work the program and experience the spiritual transformation that God makes possible.    While I didn’t believe that would happen for me, I am grateful to report that it did. Today, I have a different, more positive voice inside that comes from my true self, from the child of God who I truly am. Recovery has returned the hope and happiness that I believe God wants for me, and now I experience those feelings by doing what God wants me to do: help other alcoholics recover and discover His light. 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Tuesday February 3, 2026    from Waynesville, NC         "The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness." ~B. C. Forbes    "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody." ~Maya Angelou     "Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ~W. Clement Stone     “Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate.” ~ Bellevue, Washington, January 1975

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FEBRUARY2026 Miracles     2/1 Gilly L. (Brighton, UK)…..26 2/1 Rick J. (Rye, NY)…..34 2/1 Jerry I. (Pittstown, NJ)…..33 2/1 Mike P. (Floral Pary, NY)…..38 2/1 Sean D. (Rochester, NY)…..18 2/1 Peter the Builder (London, UK)…..28 2/2 Cortney M. …..9 2/2 Brad M. (Westfield NY)…..43 2/2 Lorraine (Ft. Pierce, FL)…..27 2/2 Jennifer W. (Amelia Island, FL)…..10 2/4 Bob F. (New Rochelle, NY)…..11 2/5 Jane S. (Newfound Lake, NH)…..17 2/6 Vanessa G. (Stuart, FL)…..30 2/6 Joey H. (Waynesville, NC)…..3 2/6 Kevin N. (Jasper, GA)…..9 2/10 Doreen T. (Beaufort, NC)…..2 2/10 Howard S. (Fort Myers, FL)…..12 2/11 Catherine T. (Ireland)…..15 2/11 Tim S. (Charlotte, NC)…..14 2/11 Stephen B. (Wenham, MA)…..46 2/12 Erin M. (MA)…..3 2/12 Chuck H. (Houston, TX)…..4 2/13 Beth O’. (Cedar Knolls, NJ)…..1 2/13 Constance G. (High Point, NC)…..41 2/14 Laura C. (Jersey City, NJ)…..11 2/15 Josh D. (Bath, UK)…..21 2/17 Peter R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..15 2/17 Kevin K. (Delray Beach, FL)…..12 2/17 Lisa D. (Palm Coast, FL)…..1 2/17 David H. (Rye, NH)…..48 2/18 Michael P. (Elmont, NY)…..34 2/18 Allan C. (No. Andover, MA)…..15 2/19 Perry K. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..15 2/22 Chris M. (Chatham, NJ)…..9 2/22 Mike H. (Miami, FL)…..4 2/22 Casey Q. (ManchVegas, NH)…..33 2/24 Rex S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..12 2/25 Mike B. (Haw River, NC)…..4 2/27 Neil R. (Queens, NY)…..12   0581 Total Years of Sobriety

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"I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man. Decidedly unfriendly, he stared at me out of eyes which were slits in his red and swollen face. I had to agree with the doctor - he certainly didn't look good. But I told him my own story. I explained what a wonderful Fellowship we had, how well we understood each other. I bore down hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's dilemma. I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together what we could not do separately. He interrupted to scoff at this and asserted he'd fix his wife, his partner, and his alcoholism by himself. Sarcastically he asked, `How much does your scheme cost?' "I was thankful I could tell him, `Nothing at all.' p. 152

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

By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we hate to leave. Drinking gave us a temporary feeling of importance. When we're drinking, we kid ourselves into thinking we are somebody. We tell tall stories to build ourselves up. In A.A., we don't want that kind of self-importance. We have real self-respect and honesty and humility. Have I found something much better and more satisfactory than drinking? Meditation For The Day I believe that my faith and God's power can accomplish anything in human relationships. There is no limit to what these two things can do in this field. Only believe, and anything can happen. Saint Paul said; "I can do all things through Him who strengtheneth me." All walls that divide you from other human beings can fall by your faith and God's power. These are the two essentials. Everyone can be moved by these. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may try to strengthen my faith day by day. I pray that I may rely more and more on God's power.

DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (   \(AA)/   ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^

Grandiosity "In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I had to be a musician because I could not carry a tune. I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of God's creatures. I could not accept my deep sense of inferiority, and so I strove to become captain of the baseball team, and I did learn to play the fiddle. Lead I must - or else. This was the 'all or nothing' kind of demand that later did me in." Bill W., AA Comes of Age, p. 53 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 214

Thought to Consider . . .

We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* N U T S Not Using The Steps.           DAILY REFLECTION     FILLING THE VOID We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47   I was always fascinated with the study of scientific principles. I was emotionally and physically distant from people while I pursued Absolute Knowledge. God and spirituality were meaningless academic exercises. I was a modern man of science, knowledge was my Higher Power. Given the right set of equations, life was merely another problem to solve. Yet my inner self was dying from my outer man's solution to life's problems and the solution was alcohol. In spite of my intelligence, alcohol became my Higher Power. It was through the unconditional love which emanated from A.A. people and meetings that I was able to discard alcohol as my Higher Power. The great void was filled. I was no longer lonely and apart from life. I had found a true power greater than myself, I had found God's love. There is only one equation which really matters to me now: God is in A.A.         POT LUCK        I accept the universe. ~Margaret Fuller   Recovery asks that we surrender our will - that we accept life on life's terms. During our active addiction, we fought the universe or tried to bend the universe to fit our wishes. We fought, not to surrender, but to keep using alcohol or drugs as long as we could. Surrender tells us to let go, to stop fighting, and to let our Higher Power and others in.   Recovery teaches humility. Humility is about acceptance and working to find our right place in the universe. We accept help when it is needed or offered. Humility is also about accepting the fact that we are unique but not special. We accept hope instead of hopelessness. As we find our place in the group we attend, we start to accept the universe on its own terms and to find our place within it.   Prayer for the Day I accept the fact that I have an illness, and I accept that I need help. I will work with the universe instead of fighting it. To do this, Higher Power, I need your strength.   Today's Action Today I will sit down and write about five ways I have fought the universe instead of accepting it. I will share this list with my sponsor or a recovery friend.   God Grant Me: More Daily Meditations from the Authors of Keep It Simple*

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Thursday February 5, 2026    from Waynesville, NC       Lose all your concepts about religion and spirituality and love. Be simple, be humble, and be happy in your way; let no one tell you that this is the right way and that is the wrong way. However you feel —whatever brings you peace and joy— is the correct way for you. Continue in that way and you’ll see the bliss get stronger. You’ll see the peace get stronger. It is very simple. ~ Swami Sai Premananda     "What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them." ~Jennifer Niven     "Make me sensitive to see opportunities of service." -- Tom I.     “Coincidences are merely a manner in which God protects his anonymity.” ~ New York, New York, January 1999

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2/2 Maureen B. (NY, NY/Hobe Sound, FL)…..37

2/4 Bob F. (New Rochelle, NY)…..11

2/4 Pam S. (North Hollywood, CA)…..39

2/5 Jane S. (Newfound Lake, NH)…..17 2/6 Vanessa G. (Stuart, FL)…..30 2/6 Joey H. (Waynesville, NC)…..3 2/6 Kevin N. (Jasper, GA)…..9

2/8 Mark B. (Deal, NJ)…..10 2/9 Darlene A. (Clearwater Beach, FL)…..32

2/10 Doreen T. (Beaufort, NC)…..2 2/10 Howard S. (Fort Myers, FL)…..12 2/11 Catherine T. (Ireland)…..15 2/11 Tim S. (Charlotte, NC)…..14 2/11 Stephen B. (Wenham, MA)…..46 2/12 Erin M. (MA)…..3 2/12 Chuck H. (Houston, TX)…..4 2/13 Beth O’. (Cedar Knolls, NJ)…..1 2/13 Constance G. (High Point, NC)…..41 2/14 Laura C. (Jersey City, NJ)…..11 2/15 Josh D. (Bath, UK)…..21 2/17 Peter R. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..15

2/15 Jack B. (Streator, IL)…..38

2/17 Kevin K. (Delray Beach, FL)…..12 2/17 Lisa D. (Palm Coast, FL)…..1 2/17 David H. (Rye, NH)…..48

2/17 Noel S. (Harrison, NY)…..17

2/18 Michael P. (Elmont, NY)…..34 2/18 Allan C. (No. Andover, MA)…..15 2/19 Perry K. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..15

2/20 Jackie M. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..20 2/20 Cami M.(Louisiana)…..16

2/22 Chris M. (Chatham, NJ)…..9 2/22 Mike H. (Miami, FL)…..4 2/22 Casey Q. (ManchVegas, NH)…..33 2/24 Rex S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..12

2/25 Judy S. (Los Angeles, CA)…..45

2/25 Mike B. (Haw River, NC)…..4

2/25 Scott W. (Bedford, MA)…..6

2/27 Neil R. (Queens, NY)…..12

0840 Total Years of Sobriety

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12&12   Tradition Five - "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

"Then, hesitantly, I ventured to talk about the spiritual side of our program. What a freeze that drunk gave me! I'd no sooner got the word `spiritual' out of my mouth than he pounced. `Oh!' he said. `Now I get it! You're proselytizing for some damn religious sect or other. Where do you get that "no angle" stuff? I belong to a great church that means everything to me. You've got a nerve to come in here talking religion!" pp. 152-153

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

One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us, than we did about the consequences which would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good from the short view. When we look in a package store window, we see liquor dressed up in its best wrappings, with fancy labels and decorations. They look swell. But have I learned that what's inside those beautiful bottles is just plain poison to me?   Meditation For The Day   I believe that life is a school in which I must learn spiritual things. I must trust in God and He will teach me. I must listen to God and He will speak through my mind. I must commune with Him in spite of all opposition and every obstacle. There will be days when I will hear no voice in my mind and when there will come no intimate heart to heart communion. But if I persist, and make a life habit of schooling myself in spiritual things, God will reveal Himself to me in many ways.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may regularly go to school in things of the spirit. I pray that I may grow spiritually by making a practice of these things.

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Rewards "The rewards of sobriety are bountiful and as progressive as the disease they counteract. Certainly among these rewards for me are release from the prison of uniqueness, and the realization that participation in the A.A. way of life is a blessing and a privilege beyond estimate - a blessing to live a life free from the pain and degradation of drinking and filled with the joy of useful, sober living, and a privilege to grow in sobriety one day at a time and bring the message of hope as it was brought to me." From the new Fourth Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous AA Grapevine, December 2001, p. 47

Thought to Consider . . .

We are not our thoughts, emotions, or urges.    *~*AACRONYMS*~* G I F T S Getting It From The Steps           DAILY REFLECTION       A GLORIOUS RELEASE "The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A. 's program as enthusiastically as I could." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27   After years of indulging in a "self-will run riot," Step Two became for me a glorious release from being all alone. Nothing is so painful or insurmountable in my journey now. Someone is always there to share life's burdens with me. Step Two became a reinforcement with God, and I now realize that my insanity and ego were curiously linked. To rid myself of the former, I must give up the latter to one with far broader shoulders than my own.           POT LUCK        "Don’t take a drink and go to meetings."     When I was new, I was still in a fog. Most of my life was just as it had been: I still had a ton of problems, there was wreckage everywhere I turned, and the impending doom I felt only grew and grew. I needed solutions, and I needed them fast. I began attending meetings daily, and at the end I’d always be given the same message: Don’t take a drink and keep going to meetings. That’s fine, I’d think, but where are the solutions I so desperately need?      As I got thirty days sober, and then sixty, and even ninety days, the fog began to clear, but my life didn’t get much better. In fact, as I approached my Fourth Step inventory, I thought I would get lost in the wreckage and never survive. When I pleaded with my sponsor for help, he told me the same old thing: Don’t take a drink and keep going to meetings. He assured me that if I kept doing that and kept working the Steps, I would be okay.     Fast-forward a few years, and even though I highly doubted it, his advice worked. What had seemed like too simple of a solution for my complex life and problems turned out to be the exact solution I needed. All the problems I had were resolved, and all the promises came true for me. While my life isn’t perfect today—no one’s is—and while problems and challenges still come up, what hasn’t changed is the solution: Don’t take a drink and go to meetings.