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Tuesday September, 16 2025    from Waynesville, NC       Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. ~John Sterling     "The biggest room in the world is the room for self improvement" ~Helmut Schmidt     "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." —Thomas Paine     "The best gifts are tied with heartstrings." —Anonymous       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      It may seem incredible that these men are to become happy, respected, and useful once more. How can they rise out of such misery, bad repute and hopelessness? The practical answer is that since these things have happened among us, they can happen with you. Should you wish them above all else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they will come. The age of miracles is still with us. Our own recovery proves that!   P153                 DAILY SHARE   AA Speaker of the Day   OLIS S. Oakland, CA Serenity Improvement Group 05.20.25   https://bit.ly/461Mt21           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 Mike C. (Palm Coast, FL)…..23 9/29 John B. (Miramichi, NB, Canada)…..52 9/30 Jim M.(Summerville, SC)…..5   1361 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." Aren't these practices joy-killers as well as time-consumers? Must A.A.'s spend most of their waking hours drearily rehashing their sins of omission or commission? Well, hardly. The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal. Once this healthy practice has become grooved, it will be so interesting and profitable that the time it takes won't be missed. For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to make all the other hours of our day better and happier. And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart. pp. 89-90               TWENTY-FOUR HOURS     A.A. Thought For The Day   Today, let us begin a short study of The Twelve Suggested Steps of A.A. These Twelve Suggested Steps seem to embody five principles. The first step is the membership requirement step. The second, third, and eleventh steps are the spiritual steps of the program. The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and tenth steps are the personal inventory steps. The eighth and ninth steps are the restitution steps. The twelfth step is the passing on of the program, or helping others, step. So the five principles are membership requirement, spiritual basis, personal inventory, restitution, and helping others. Have I made all these steps a part of me?   Meditation For The Day   We seem to live not only in time but also in eternity. If we abide with God and He abides with us, we may bring forth spiritual fruit which will last for eternity. If we live with God, our lives can flow as some calm river through the dry land of earth. It can cause the trees and flowers of the spiritual life--love and service--to spring forth and yield abundantly. Spiritual work may be done for eternity, not just for now. Even here on earth we can live as though our real lives were eternal.   Prayer For The Day   I pray that I may try to make my life like a cool river in a thirsty land. I pray that I may give freely to all who ask my help.           DAILY THOUGHT ^*^*^*^*^ (\   ~~  /) (    \(AA)/  ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Restraint "It is evident that the harmony, security, and future effectiveness of A.A. will depend largely upon our maintenance of a thoroughly non-aggressive and pacific attitude in all our public relations. This is an exacting assignment, because in our drinking days we were prone to anger, hostility, rebellion and aggression. And even though we are now sober, the old patterns of behavior are to a degree still with us, always threatening to explode on any good excuse. But we know this, and therefore I feel confident that in the conduct of our public affairs we shall always find the grace to exert an effective restraint." Bill W. 1962 AAWS Twelve Concepts for World Service, p. 68   Thought to Consider . . . Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen. 1953 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p, 91     *~*AACRONYMS*~* S P O N S O R Sober Person Offering Newcomers Suggestions On Recovery           DAILY REFLECTION     WE STAND—OR FALL—TOGETHER . . . no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity. We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 562   Just as the Twelve Steps of A.A. are written in a specific sequence for a reason, so it is with the Twelve Traditions. The First Step and the First Tradition attempt to instill in me enough humility to allow me a chance at survival. Together they are the basic foundation upon which the Steps and Traditions that follow are built. It is a process of ego deflation which allows me to grow as an individual through the Steps, and as a contributing member of a group through the Traditions. Full acceptance of the First Tradition allows me to set aside personal ambitions, fears and anger when they are in conflict with the common good, thus permitting me to work with others for our mutual survival. Without Tradition One I stand little chance of maintaining the unity required to work with others effectively, and I also stand to lose the remaining Traditions, the Fellowship, and my life.         POT LUCK        Each Day a New Beginning   Praise and an attitude of gratitude  are unbeatable stimulators … we increase whatever we extol. —Sylvia Stitt Edwards     What outlook are we carrying forth into the day ahead? Are we feeling fearful about the circumstances confronting us? Do we dread a planned meeting? Are we worried about the welfare of a friend or lover?   Whatever our present outlook, its power over the outcome of our day is profound. Our attitude in regard to any situation attracting our attention influences the outcome. Sometimes to our favor, often to our disfavor if our attitude is negative.   Thankfulness toward life guarantees the rewards we desire, the rewards we seek too often from an ungrateful stance. The feeling of gratitude is foreign to many of us. We came to this program feeling worthless, sometimes rejected, frequently depressed. It seemed life had heaped problems in our laps, and so it had. The more we lamented what life “gave us,” the more reasons we were given to lament. We got just what we expected. We still get just what we expect.   The difference is that the program has offered us the key to higher expectations. Gratitude for the good in our lives increases the good.   I have the personal power to influence my day; I will make it a good one.               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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