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Thursday August 21, 2025    from Waynesville, NC       There is no good way to go from here to there, except by joining hands and going forth together. ~Michael Walzer     For it is in giving that we receive. ~Francis of Assisi     Pay attention to the little things. Sometimes the greatest rewards are behind something small. --unknown     “The word ‘anonymous’ has for us an immense spiritual significance. Subtly but powerfully, it reminds us that we are always to place principles before personalities; that we have renounced personal glorification in public; that our movement not only preaches, but actually practices a truly humble modesty.” ~AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946,       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       We had a new Employer. Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.   P63             DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   DARLINE L. Charlotte, NC Serenity Improvement Group 07.29.25   https://bit.ly/4mzDKKT           Celebrate 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!     AUGUST2025 Miracles     8/1 Bill H. (Wells, ME/Melbourne Beach, FL)…..16 8/1 David G. (Salem, NH)…..34 8/1 Michael K. …..15 8/1 Janet F. (Myrtle Beach, SC)…..3 8/1 Jessica E. (Sugar Land, TX)..…8 8/2 Garry K. (Kelowna, BC)…..56 8/2 Judy J. …..1 8/3 Dan S. (Glen Rock, NJ)…..10 8/3 Kurt O. (Sarasota, FL)…..3 8/4 Dan M. (Nantucket, MA)…..23 8/4 Maureen Q. (Syracuse, NY)…..31 8/5 Andre de (Bracknell, UK)…..23 8/5 Mary OO (Marina del Rey, CA)…..45 8/6 Jason J. (Maggie Valley, NC)…..13 8/7 Carrie B. (Orange Park, FL)…..6 8/7 Sherri R. (Panama City, FL)…..1 8/7 Glad H. (Atlantic Beach, FL)…..29 8/7 John D. (Natick, MA).….17 8/8/08 Donna F. (Cocoa Beach, FL)…..17 8/8 Steve R. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..1 8/8 Chris G. (Stuart, FL/Stone Harbor, NJ)…..21 8/8 Lisa L. (Canton, NC)…..10 8/8 David T. (Newmarket, NH)…..43 8/8 Leslie N. (New Providence, NJ)…..37 8/9 Jay C. (Waco, TX)…..23 8/9 Louise M. (Palm Coast, FL)….16 8/9 Vern M. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…..25 8/9 Laura R. (Beaverton, OR)…..37 8/10 Justin B. (Anderson, SC)…..7 8/10 Susan B. (Tinton Falls, NJ)…..23 8/10 Rich M. (Rhinebeck, NY)…..11 8/11 Caroline O. (Selsey Bill, UK)…..16 8/11 Page H. (Amelia Island, FL)…..49 8/12 Billy M. (Haymarket, VA)…..25 8/13 Tommy OC. …..40 8/13 Kate P. (Hampton, NH)…..36 8/14 Tim D. (Newburyport, MA)…..32 8/14 Dottie Lu W. (St. Simons Island, GA)…..40 8/14 Wendy R. (WPB, FL)…..8 8/15 Tom W. (Charlotte, NC)…..1 8/15 Brian M. (Bernardsville, NJ)…..37 8/15 Dave O. (Everett, MA)…..6 8/15 Malley H. (Kingston, NY)…..40 8/15 George Y. …..31 8/15 Kurtis E. (Stuart, FL)…..3 8/15 Ronnie B. (Graham, NC)…..3 8/15 Siobhan (NYC)…..26 8/15 Ann W. (Darien, CT)…..40 8/16 Charlotte C. (New York City)…..16 8/16 Jody M. (Laguna Niguel, CA)…..19 8/16 Jeffrey B. (Vancouver, BC, CA)…..22 8/17 Charlie K. (Bay Village, OH/Naples, FL)…..27 8/17 John T. (Sarasota, FL)…..9 8/17 Susan D. (Parsippany, NJ)…..1 8/17 Jon B. (Parsonsburg, MD)…..37 8/18 Billy M. (Austin, TX)…..4 8/18 Paul D. (Hampton, NH)…..5 8/18 Steve C. (Jacksonville, FL)…..7 8/19 Dave C. (Murphy, NC)…..13 8/20 Bill W. (Sarasota, FL)…..33 8/20 Kurt M. (Jacksonville, FL)…..18 8/20 Larry B. (Kansas City, Kansas)…..24 8/21 Yolanda H. (Santa Cruz, CA)…..38 8/21 Kevin J.(Hampton NH …..16 8/22 Jackie Y. (Tustin, CA)…..31 8/22 John K. (Ruskin, FL)…..3 8/24 Marilyn R. (Sarasota, FL)…..30 8/24 Scott W. (Sarasota, FL)…..24 8/24 Claire S. (Garnerville, NY)…..38 8/25 John P. (Mallorca, Spain)…..6 8/26 Mike C. (Hilliard, OH)…..27 8/27 Stuart W. (Old Tappan, NJ)…..24 8/27 Greg R. (NYC)…..18 8/27 Kim S. (Port Charlotte, FL)…..30 8/28 Chuck M. (Boston, MA)…..40 8/28 Delia S. (Savannah, GA)…..35 8/28 John P. (Mallorca, SP)…..6 8/28 Patrick O. (Salt Lake City, UT)…..1 8/28 John D. (Graham, NC)…..7 8/28 Rick K. (Westport, CT)…..9 8/29 Mary O’C. (Maynard, MA)…..13 8/30 Chris B. (Sandwich, NH)…..33 8/30 Holly S. (Montreal, CA)…..28 8/30 Jeff G. (Morristown, NJ)…..12 8/31 Sarah M. …..17   1767 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 Eight - "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all." Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know. p. 77               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   "Who are you to say there is no God? This challenge comes to all of us. Are we capable of denying that there is a design and purpose in all of life as we know it? Or are we willing to admit that faith in some kind of Divine Principle is a part of our makeup, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend? We find a great Reality deep down within us, if we face ourselves as we really are. In the last analysis, it is only there that God may be found. When we find this Reality within us, we are restored to our right minds." Have I found the great reality?   Meditation For The Day   "Behold, I make all things new." When you change to a new way of life, you leave many things behind you. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Loosen somewhat the strands that tie you to the earth. It is only the earthly desires that bind you. Your new freedom will depend on your ability to rise above earthly things. Clipped wings can grow again. Broken wings can regain a strength and beauty unknown before. If you will, you can be released and free.   Prayer For The Day  I pray that I may be freed from things that hold me down. I pray that my spirit may soar in freedom.         DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~   /) (  \(AA)/    ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Wants or Needs? "We are taught to differentiate between our wants (which are never satisfied) and our needs (which are always provided for). We cast off the burdens of the past and the anxieties of the future, as we begin to live in the present, one day at a time. We are granted 'the serenity to accept the things we cannot change' - and thus lose our quickness to anger and our sensitivity to criticism." 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 560   Thought to consider . . . Don't quit before the miracle happens! *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety           DAILY REFLECTION     WE JUST TRY My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. THE BEST OF BILL, pp. 46-47    As long as I try, with all my heart and soul, to pass along to others what has been passed along to me, and do not demand anything in return, life is good to me. Before entering this program of Alcoholics Anonymous I was never able to give without demanding something in return. Little did I know that, once I began to give freely of myself, I would begin to receive, without ever expecting or demanding anything at all. What I receive today is the gift of "stability," as Bill did: stability in my A.A. program; within myself; but most of all, in my relationship with my Higher Power, whom I choose to call God.           POT LUCK        Learning to Trust Again     Many of us have trust issues.   Some of us tried long and hard to trust untrustworthy people. Over and again, we believed lies and promises never to be kept. Some of us tried to trust people for the impossible; for instance, trusting a practicing alcoholic not to drink again.   Some of us trusted a Higher Power inappropriately. We trusted God to make other people do what we wanted, then felt betrayed when that didn't work out.   Some of us were taught that life couldn't be trusted, that we had to control and manipulate our way through.   Most of us were taught, inappropriately, that we couldn't trust ourselves.   In recovery, we're healing from our trust issues. We're learning to trust again. The first lesson in trust is this: We can learn to trust ourselves. We can be trusted. If others have taught us we cannot trust ourselves, they were lying. Addictions and dysfunctional systems make people lie.   We can learn to appropriately trust our Higher Power--not to make people do what we want them to, but to help us take care of ourselves, and to bring about the best possible circumstaqnces, at the best possible times, in our life.   We can trust the process--of life and recovery. We do not have to control, obsess, or become hypervigilant. We may not always understand where we are going, or what's being worked out in us, but we can trust that something good is happening.   When we learn to do this, we are ready to learn to trust other people. When we trust our Higher Power and when we trust ourselves, we will know who to trust and what to trust that person for.   Perhaps we always did. We just didn't listen closely enough to ourselves or trust what we heard.  Today, I will affirm that I can learn to trust appropriately. I can trust myself, my Higher Power, and recovery. I can learn to appropriately trust others too. 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