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Sunday January 4, 2026    from Waynesville, NC         Joy is not a season, it’s a way of living. ~Kalley Heiligenthal     "And once the storm is over,  you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm,  you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." - Haruki Murakami.    Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different - something bigger or perhaps more dramatic. Joan Lunden     “We are beginning to see new values in AA. We perceive in our midst a spiritual realm, which can be little disturbed by the distractions of wealth or self-serving egocentricity.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947               If You'd Like To Sign Up ADD A Friend , A Sponsee, A Sponsor or a Newcomer To Your Daily Reprieve Email List Please send an email to me : so...@yourdailyreprieve.com.               BIG BOOK QUOTE     As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.   P46               DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   CURTIS J. Taylorsville, KY Serenity Improvement Group 12/25/21   https://bit.ly/45lZzYg           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!     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 1/2 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 1/4 Kevin J. (Bristol, RI)…..35 1/4 Linda B. (Memphis, TN)…..29 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 1/8 Alan J.(Woodstock, NY)…..18 1/8 Alan H. (Gainesville, GA) …..10 1/9 Patty A. (Waynesville, NC)…..1 1/9 Ginger S. (Aberdeen, NC)…..17 1/9 Tefft S. …..41 1/10 Shree 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)…..5 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 1/14 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 1/16 Marta C. (Germantown, MD)…..1 1/16 Bonnie S. (Charleston, SC)…..41 1/16 Chip S. (Birmingham, AL)…..23 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 1/19 Bill W.(Sun City Center, FL) …..31 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 1/23 Mike C. (Solon, OH)…..11 1/24 Vito (Saratoga Springs, NY)…..34 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)…..4 1/29 Geri O. (Tucson, AZ)…..39 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     1718 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 Three - "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." A member gives us a vivid glimpse of those days. "At one time," he says, "every A.A. group had many membership rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat and dump us all back into the drink. Our Foundation office* asked each group to send in its list of `protective' regulations. The total list was a mile long. If all those rules had been in effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear. pp. 139-140 *In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS      A.A. Thought for the Day     Have I admitted I am an alcoholic? Have I swallowed my pride and admitted I was different from ordinary drinkers? Have I accepted the fact that I must spend the rest of my life without liquor? Have I any more reservations, any idea in the back of my mind that some day I'll be able to drink safely? Am I absolutely honest with my self and with other people? Have I taken an inventory of myself and admitted the wrong I have done? Have I come clean with my friends? Have I tried to make it up to them for the way I have treated them?     Meditation for the Day     I will believe that fundamentally all is well. Good things will happen to me. I believe that God cares for me and will provide for me. I will not try to plan ahead. I know that the way will unfold, step by step. I will leave tomorrow's burden to God, because He is the great burden-bearer. He only expects me to carry my one-day's share.     Prayer for the Day    I pray that I may not try to carry the burden of the universe on my shoulders. I pray that I may be satisfied to do my share each day.           DAILY THOUGHT   ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (  \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Trudging "Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep you - until then." c.1976 AAWS Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 164   Thought to Consider . . . I didn't know how sick I was until I started getting better.  *~*AACRONYMS*~* O D A A T One Day At A Time         DAILY REFLECTION     BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 19   It's usually pretty easy for me to be pleasant to the people in an A.A. setting. While I'm working to stay sober, I'm celebrating with my fellow A.A.S our common release from the hell of drinking. It's often not so hard to spread glad tidings to my old and new friends in the program. At home or at work, though, it can be a different story. It is in situations arising in both of those areas that the little day-to-day frustrations are most evident, and where it can be tough to smile or reach out with a kind word or an attentive ear. It's outside of the A.A. rooms that I face the real test of the effectiveness of my walk through A.A.'s Twelve Steps.         POT LUCK      Walk In Dry Places     Those who want it, Not those who need it. Honest Desire     In the first bloom of sobriety, many recovering people confront drinking companions who also “need” the program. They’re often surprised and disillusioned when efforts to help their friends are rejected, sometimes curtly.     We’re truly limited to helping those who desire recovery, not those who we think need it. Though intervention methods can be effective, we’re still largely helpless to assist those who don’t desire recovery.     We regret that we really have no answers for the millions who perish from alcoholism, unaware of their problem. We also can hold out little hope that any future recovery attempts will succeed without the individual alcoholic’s cooperation.     Desire, a personal determination and decision, is necessary for almost any kind of change. We have the freedom to choose in many areas of our lives, and alcoholics must eventually choose recovery in order to find and maintain it.    Though I’d love to see others recover, I must accept the fact that their personal desire and choice is necessary. 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