A DAILY REPRIEVE

November 16 – Daily Reflections

What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.   ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 85

Maintaining  my  spiritual  condition  is  like  working  out every day, planning for the marathon, swimming laps, jogging. It's staying in good shape spiritually, and that requires prayer and meditation. The single most important way for me to improve my conscious contact with a Higher Power is to pray and meditate. I am as powerless over alcohol as I am to turn back the waves of the sea; no human force had the power to overcome my alcoholism. Now I am able to breathe the air of joy, happiness and wisdom. I have the power to love and react to events around me with the eyes of a faith in things that are not readily apparent. My daily  reprieve  means  that,  no  matter  how  difficult  or painful things appear today, I can draw on the power of the program to stay liberated from my cunning, baffling and powerful illness.