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Tuesday January 13, 2026    from Waynesville, NC         “One may say that anonymity is the spiritual base, the sure key to all the rest of our Traditions. It has come to stand for prudence and, most importantly, for self-effacement.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., November 1948     Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don’t just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don’t miss it. ~Jim Rohn   The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ~Louisa May Alcott     No university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness.   How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which  universities were originally created! -Robert Muller               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 the updated link below: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/EA6cC5s?mode=preview   Or Send me an email at: so...@yourdailyreprieve.com.               BIG BOOK QUOTE     Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship, and so will you.   P152               DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   DYANNE G. Serenity Improvement Group 01.26.21   https://bit.ly/4qq3lIU           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 1/1 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 1/9 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 1/14 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 1/16 Tree A. (San Anselmi, CA)…..37 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 1/18 John D. (Key Largo, FL)…..3 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 1/23 Jay O’D. …..16 1/24 Steve A. (Syracuse, NY)…..2 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)…..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     2127 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." At length the time came for him to speak in a meeting. We shivered, for we knew what was coming. He paid a fine tribute to the Fellowship; he told how his family had been reunited; he extolled the virtue of honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth Step work; and then he lowered the boom. Cried Ed, "I can't stand this God stuff! It's a lot of malarkey for weak folks. This group doesn't need it, and I won't have it! To he!! with it!" A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!" p. 143               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS      A.A. Thought For The Day   When we were drinking, we were living an unnatural life physically and mentally. We were punishing our bodies by loading them with alcohol. We didn't eat enough and we ate the wrong things. We didn't get enough sleep or the right kind of rest. We were ruining ourselves physically. We had an alcoholic obsession and we couldn't imagine life without alcohol. We kept imagining all kinds of crazy things about ourselves and about other people. We were ruining ourselves mentally. Since I came into A.A., am I getting better physically and mentally?   Meditation For The Day   I believe that my life is being refined like gold in a crucible. Gold does not stay in the crucible, only until it is refined. I will never despair or be despondent. I now have friends who long for me to conquer. If I should err or fail, it would cause pain and disappointment to them. I will keep trying to live a better life.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may always call on God's strength, while the gold of my life is being refined. I pray that I may see it through, with God's help.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\  ~~  /) (   \(AA)/   ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Growth "It seems to me that the primary object of any human being is to grow, as God intended, that being the nature of all growing things. Our search must be for what reality we can find, which includes the best definition and feeling of love that we can acquire. If the capability of loving is in the human being, then it must surely be in his Creator. Theology helps me in that many of its concepts cause me to believe that I live in a rational universe under a loving God, and that my own irrationality can be chipped away, little by little. This is, I suppose, the process of growth for which we are intended." Bill W., Letter, 1958 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 295   Thought to Consider . . . All you have to do to change your life is change your mind.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* WHO ME? Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Must Exist         DAILY REFLECTION     IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85   The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: "If I just don't drink, everything will be all right." Once the fog cleared for me, I saw—for the first time—the mess my life had become. I had family, work, financial and legal problems; I was hung up on old religious ideas; there were sides of my character to which I was inclined to stay blind because they easily could have convinced me that I was hopeless and pushed me toward escape again. The Big Book guided me in resolving all of my problems. But it didn't happen overnight—and certainly not automatically— with no effort on my part. I need always to recognize God's mercy and blessings that shine through any problem I have to face.         POT LUCK     Keep It Simple   Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. -Anonymous   Nobody’s always wrong. Nobody’s all bad. And that includes us.   Sometimes, we really get down on ourselves. When we do Step Four, we sometimes see only our faults. When we make our Step Ten checkup, we see only our mistakes. We can’t afford to do this. We need to see our strengths too. But even our faults have a good side. Are you stubborn? Good—be stubborn, you know how to hang on to feelings. So, hang on to the good feelings instead of the bad ones.   Each of us is good and wise. What’s good about us got twisted by our disease. But now we can get the kinks out. We are sober, and we have a program to help us.   Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to see the good in myself and others.   Action for the Day: I’ll take another look at my faults today. How can I use them in good ways?           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. Questionaire   How Should We Treat A.A. Founders' Writings?  https://bit.ly/3uhEPBK       DR. PAUL O. 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