Your Daily Reprieve 09.17.25

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Wednesday September 17, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts  in defending them. ~Thomas Merton     God will come in at the deepest part of the stream to lend you a hand. Samuel Rutherford     “I’m glad we have both conservatives and enthusiasts. They teach us much. The conservative will surely see to it that the AA movement never gets overly organized. But the promoter will continue to remind us of our terrific obligation to the newcomer and to those hundreds of thousands of alcoholics still waiting all over the world to hear of AA.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August 1948     "Getting knocked down in life is a given.  Getting up and moving is a choice" ~Unknown       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   To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.   P46                   DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   PAUL W. Los Angeles,  CA Serenity Improvement Group 06.21.25   https://bit.ly/4pbtA5j           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 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 9/23Lori 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 9/29 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23 9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52 9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5   1361 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." Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about "justifiable" anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous folk? For us of A.A. these are dangerous exceptions. We have found that justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it. p. 90               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   Step One is, "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." This step states the membership requirement of A.A. We must admit that our lives are disturbed. We must accept the fact that we are helpless before the power of alcohol. We must admit that we are licked as far as drinking is concerned and that we need help. We must be willing to accept the bitter fact that we cannot drink like normal people. And we must make, as gracefully as possible, a surrender to the inevitable fact that we just stop drinking. Is it difficult for me to admit that I am different from normal drinkers?   Meditation For The Day   "Show us the way, O Lord, and let us walk in Thy paths." There seems to be a right way to live and a wrong way. You can make a practical test. When you live the right way, things seem to work out well for you. When you live the wrong way, things seem to work out badly for you. You seem to take out of life about what you put into it. If you disobey the laws of nature, the chances are that you will be unhealthy. If you disobey the spiritual and moral laws, the chances are that you will be unhappy. By following the laws of nature, and the spiritual laws of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love, you can expect to be reasonably healthy and happy.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may try to live the right way. I pray that I may follow the path that leads to a better life.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (    \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Ready? "We shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness. We shall need to raise our eyes toward perfection, and be ready to walk in that direction. It will seldom matter how haltingly we walk. The only question will be 'Are we ready?'" Bill W. 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 68   Thought to Consider . . . Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.    *~*AACRONYMS*~* WHO ME? Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Must Exist           DAILY REFLECTION     FREEDOM FROM FEAR When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 122   Material values ruled my life for many years during my active alcoholism. I believed that all of my possessions would make me happy, yet I still felt bankrupt after I obtained them. When I first came into A.A., I found out about a new way of living. As a result of learning to trust others, I began to believe in a power greater than myself. Having faith freed me from the bondage of self. As material gains were replaced by the gifts of the spirit, my life became manageable. I then chose to share my experiences with other alcoholics.         POT LUCK      Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. Donald Curtis     Today's Meditation:   So many of us are taught to be strong our whole lives long--we have to compete, to win, to achieve, to be promoted over others, to market ourselves, to build our resumes and let everyone else know what we've achieved. There seems to be little room for humility in many of our societies of today, and that's a shame. Because the strength that we need to show isn't truly strength at all--it's simply show, and it's more of a compensatory technique for insecurities than it is a way of being strong.   If I'm to be truly strong, I don't need to let anyone know it. I can be humble, and my humility is a sign to others that I'm approachable and responsive, that they can share with me without threatening my sense of self. A humble person allows others to be strong, and even helps them to be so, and feels no threat to her or his own being. The humble woman or man accomplishes many things, but instead of spending time telling the world "Look what I've done!" moves on to the next thing, and then the next.   There's no problem with being proud of our accomplishments, of course, but when that pride becomes too strong, we become much weaker. When we're more interested in letting others know just what we've done, then our focus shifts from what we're doing to letting others know what we've done, and the quality of what we do drops significantly. The humble person feels no need for validation from others, because that person realizes that the validation is fleeting and doesn't serve much at all over the long run.  When we allow ourselves to be humble, we open up a source of true strength. When we no longer concern ourselves with whether or not others agree with us or like us or admire us, we live with a freedom that the proud and arrogant will never know. And that inner freedom and strength is worth much, much more than anything that can come from outside of ourselves.                 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. 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