A Daily Reprieve

Daily Reflections is AA’s book of readings for every day of the year, each one a member writing about a favorite passage from AA’s literature. In 1986 AA’s General Service Conference asked its members to sound out the groups in their areas about such a book; in 1987 it asked for one, built from members’ own sharing on the Steps and Traditions; and in 1990 it approved the manuscript, asking that every “we” in it become “I.” The day’s reading is free at aa.org.

These pages don’t reprint it. Read it first, then come here for what each reading turns on, a few questions to ask yourself, and where its words came from. Each day can show all of that, just the asks, just the history, or a view for chairing, with the asks in large type and the screen kept on.

The name comes from the Big Book, which says a sober alcoholic has “a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.”