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> Date: November 24, 2010 10:17:25 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, November 24, 2010
>

> Subj: Today, Wednesday, November 24, 2010
>
> November 24–to thine own self be true!!!
> 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 Him, praying onl
> y for knowledge of His 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
>
> Instead of pretending to be perfectionists, in A.A. we are content
> if we are making progress. The main thing is to be growing. We
> realize that perfectionism is only a result of false pride and an
> excuse to save our faces. In A.A. we are willing to make mistakes
> and to stumble, provided we are always stumbling forward. We are not
> so interested in what we are as in what we are becoming. We are on
> the way, not at the goal. And we will be on the way as long as we
> live. No A.A. has ever "arrived." But we are getting better. Am I
> making progress?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> Each new day brings an opportunity to do some little thing that will
> help to make a better world, that will bring God's kingdom a little
> nearer to being realized on earth. Take each day's happenings as
> opportunities for something you can do for God. In that spirit, a
> blessing will attend all that you do. Offering this day's service to
> God, you are sharing in His work. You do not have to do great things.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that today I may do the next thing, the unselfish thing,
> the loving thing. I pray that I may be content with doing small
> things as long as they are right.
>
>
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> The following is Excerpt No. 15 from As Bill Sees It : “Eternal Val
> ues”
> Many people will have no truck at all with absolute
> spiritual values. Perfectionists, they say, are either full of
> conceit because they fancy they have reached some impossible goal,
> or else they are swamped in self-condemnation because they have not
> done so.
>
> Yet I think that we should not hold this view. It is not the
> fault of great ideals that they are some times misused & so
> become shallow excuses for guilt, rebellion, & pride. On the
> contrary, we cannot grow very much unless we constantly try to
> envision what the eternal spiritual values are.
> Grapevine June 1961
>
> Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection.
> So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt for failure to achieve
> His likeness & image by Thursday next. Progress is our aim, & His
> perfection is the beacon, light-years away, that draws us on.
> letter 1966
>