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Wednesday November 5, 2025    from Headed South       "We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping" ~Persian Proverb     There are some things you can’t learn from others. You have to pass through the fire. ~Norman Vincent Peale   Sadness is related to the opening of your heart.  If you allow yourself to feel sad, especially if you can cry, you will find that your heart opens wider and you can feel more love and more joy.        -Shakti Gawain     Those who have suffered much are like those  who know many languages; they have learned to understand and to be understood by all.        -Mme. Swetchine       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     Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?   P45               DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   BOB W. Atlantic Group   https://bit.ly/3WW5i2g             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!     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 11/5 Neil B. (Puerto Vallarta. MX)…..54 11/6 Joyce E. (Key Largo, FL)…..1 11.6 Nancy J. (The Villages, FL)…..15 11/7 Christine R. (Hilton Head, SC)…..2 11/7 Harry D. (Hampstead, NH)…..34 11/7 Leslie E. (Mamaroneck, NY)…..19 11/8 John E. (Nantucket, MA)…..3 11/8 Martha K. (New Hampshire)…..1 11/9 Richard D. (West Roxbury, MA)…..10 11/9 Kevin B. (Franklin, TN)…..8 11/9 (Brookfield, CT)…..19 11/13 Joe J. (Ludlow, VT)…..20 11/14 Kent B. (Patric Space Force Base)…..1 11/15 Ned W. (Portland, ME)…..40 11/16 Sondra K. (Newfound Lake)…..1 11/16 Bob S. (Kensington, nH)…..15 11/17 Tray B. (Waynesville, NC)…..10 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 Lindsey P. (Jacksonville, FL)…..2 11/23 Caroline S. (Edinburgh, Scotland)…..29 11/24 Gayle B. (Portsmouth, NH).....31 11/24 Imogen B. (London, UK)…..22 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   0723  Total Tears 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 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." Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done. To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives--these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic. p. 110               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS   A.A. Thought For The Day   During our thoughts about the rewards that have come to us as a result of our new way of living, we find that we have new kinds of homes, new relationships with our spouses and with our children. Also, peace, contentment, hope, faith, charity, and new ambition. What are some of the things we have lost? Each one of us can answer this question in many ways. I have lost much of my fear. It used to control me; it was my master. It paralyzed my efforts. Fear always got me down. It made me an introvert, an ingrown person. When fear was replaced by faith, I got well. Have I lost some of my fears?   Meditation For The Day   The world would sooner be brought close to God. His will would sooner be done on earth,  if all who acknowledge Him  gave themselves unreservedly to being used by Him. God can use every human being as a channel f or divine love and power. What delays the bringing of the world closer to God is the backwardness of His followers.  If each one lived each day for God and allowed God to work through him, then the world would soon be drawn much closer to God, its Founder and Preserver.   Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be used as a channel to express the Divine Love. I pray that I may so live as to bring God's spirit closer to the world           DAILY THOUGHT   ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~  /) (    \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ A New World "We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help." 1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous p. 84   Thought to Consider . . . Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.     *~*AACRONYMS*~* P A I D Pitiful And Incomprehensible Demoralization         DAILY REFLECTION   "THE QUALITY OF FAITH" This . . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 32   God does not grant me material possessions, take away my suffering, or spare me from disasters, but He does give me a good life, the ability to cope, and peace of mind. My prayers are simple: first, they express my gratitude for the good things in my life, regardless of how hard I have to search for them; and second, I ask only for the strength and the wisdom to do His will. He answers with solutions to my problems, sustaining my ability to live through daily frustrations with a serenity I did not believe existed, and with the strength to practice the principles of A.A. in all of my everyday affairs.           POT LUCK      Father Leo’s Daily Meditation   HUMILITY   “I believe the first test of a really great man is humility.” – John Ruskin   An understanding of humility that makes sense to me is that of the man who is aware of his limitations but still reaches for the stars.   For years I thought that humility was groveling in the dirt. Keeping quiet and acting obsequious. Being a religious doormat for others to walk upon.   Nothing could be further from the truth! Humility is about speaking your mind, fighting for your ideas and opinions, creating through effort, sweat and debate.   The humble man’s ego is based on reality — not fed on illusion. When he is wrong, he can admit it and is open to the ideas of others.   Humility is based upon a realistic self-love.   O God, let me humbly rejoice in Your gift of creativity.                 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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