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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: November 22, 2010 11:54:19 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, November 22, 2010
>

> Subj: Today, Monday, November 22, 2010
> Nick has 3 years sobriety today. How crazy is that???
> Congratulations Nick!!!
>
> November 22
>
> This is November, the 11th month of the year;
> • The 11th Tradition reads: Our public relations policy is ba
> sed on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain per
> sonal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
> • The 11th Step: Sought through prayer and meditation to impr
> ove our conscious contact with God as we understood Her, praying onl
> y for knowledge of Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
> • The 11th Promise: We will intuitively know how to handle si
> tuations which used to baffle us.
> _________
>
>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
> I have gotten rid of most of my boredom. One of the hardest things
> that a new member of A.A. has to understand is how to stay sober and
> not be bored. Drinking was always the answer to all kinds of boring
> people or boring situations. But once you have taken up the interest
> of A.A., once you have given it your time and enthusiasm, boredom
> should not be a problem to you. A new life opens up before you that
> can be always interesting. Sobriety should give you so many new
> interests in life that you shouldn't have time to be bored. Have I
> gotten rid of the fear of being bored?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> "If I have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling
> cymbal." Charity means to care enough about other people to really
> want to do something for them. A smile, a word of encouragement, a
> word of love, goes winged on its way, simple though it may seem,
> while the mighty words of an orator fall on deaf ears. Use up the
> odd moments of your day in trying to do some little thing to cheer
> up another person. Boredom comes from thinking too much about
> yourself.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that my day may be brightened by some little act of charity.
> I pray that I may try today to overcome the self-centeredness that
> makes me bored.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 1975,
> Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This book
> was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Daytona
> Beach, Florida. I get the text from the following website: http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/0403EN.htm
> Note 4 numbers after “h24/”: the first two are the day of the
> month and the second two are the month. Example: To get daily read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
> -----------------------
> The following is Excerpt No. 252 from As Bill Sees It : “Alone No M
> ore”
>
> Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were
> surrounded by people
> loved us. But when our self will had driven everybody away & our
> isolation became
> complete, we commenced to play the big shot in cheap barrooms.
> Failing even in this,
> we had to fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity
> of passers-by.
> We were trying to find emotional security either by
> dominating or by being
> dependent upon others. Even when our fortunes had not totally ebbed,
> we nevertheless
> found ourselves alone in the world. We still vainly tried to be
> secure by some unhealthy
> sort of domination or dependence.
> For those of us who were like that, A.A. has a very special
> meaning. In this
> Fellowship we begin to learn right relations with people who
> understand us; we do not
> have to be alone any more.
> Twelve & Twelve p-116\117
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, N
> ew York, NY 10115