Your Daily Reprieve 09.21.25

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Saturday September, 21, 2025    from Waynesville, NC         "Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." --Thomas Merton     “Each night I pray that when the alarm clock goes off in the morning, I'll have a spiritual awakening.” ~ St. Louis, Missouri, June 1999, AA Grapevine     "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been" ~T. D. Jakes    "I recall someone saying to me, 'Anger is fear under pressure.' I've found it to be true. Behind anger fear is always lurking." --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       The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.   P24             DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   RICHARD G. Danville, CA Serenity Improvement Group 12.24.24   https://bit.ly/48g1n7k           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 Sinead G. (West Midlands, UK)…..15 9/29 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23 9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52 9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5   1376 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." In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere. We need not be discouraged when we fall into the error of our old ways, for these disciplines are not easy. We shall look for progress, not for perfection. p. 91               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS   A.A. Thought For The Day   Step Four is, "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Step Five is, " Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." Step Six is, "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." Step Seven is, "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Step Ten is, "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it." In taking a personal inventory, we have to be absolutely honest with ourselves and with other people. Have I taken an honest inventory of myself?   Meditation For The Day   God is good. You can often tell whether or not a thing is of God. If it is of God, it must be good. Honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love are all good, unselfish helpfulness is good, and these things all lead to the abundant life. Leave in God's hands the present and the future, knowing only that He is good. The hand that veils the future is the hand of God. He can bring order out of chaos, good out of evil, and peace out of turmoil. We can believe that everything really good comes from God and that He shares His goodness with us.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may reach out for the good. I pray that I may try to choose the best in life.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~  /) (    \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Inventory "A few months after I made my original trip to Akron, I was feeling pretty cocky, and I didn't think my wife was treating me with proper respect, now that I was an outstanding citizen. So I set out to get drunk deliberately, just to teach her what she was missing. A week later, I had to get an old friend from Akron to spend two days sobering me up. That was my lesson, that one could not take the moral inventory and then file it away; that the alcoholic has to continue to take inventory every day if he expects to get well and stay well." 1976, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 293-4  Thought to Consider . . . In order to recover we have to uncover.   *~*AACRONYMS*~* F A I T H Facing All In Trusting Him           DAILY REFLECTION     H.P. AS GUIDE See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164   Having a right relationship with God seemed to be an impossible order. My chaotic past had left me filled with guilt and remorse and I wondered how this "God business" could work. A.A. told me that I must turn my will and my life over to the care of God, as I understand Him. With nowhere else to turn, I went down on my knees and cried, "God, I can't do this. Please help me!" It was when I admitted my powerlessness that a glimmer of light began to touch my soul, and then a willingness emerged to let God control my life. With Him as my guide, great events began to happen, and I found the beginning of sobriety.         POT LUCK     Keep It Simple   If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. —Virginia Woolf   Working the Twelve Steps helps us learn the truth. As we struggle with Step Four, we learn the truth about ourselves.  We learn even more about ourselves by doing Steps Eight and Ten. When we admit the truth about ourselves, things come into focus. Big changes begin to happen.   As a result, we can see other people more clearly. We see bad sides in people we thought were perfect. We see good sides in people we hated. We start to know that everyone has to work hard to find what’s right for them. No one has all the answers.   In short, we begin to trust others who also are looking for the truth.   Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me clearly see myself and others.   Action for the Day: Today, I’ll think about how doing Step Ten keeps me clear about what’s going on in my life.                   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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