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> Date: November 5, 2010 10:42:44 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Friday, November 5, 2010
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> Subj: Today, Friday, November 5, 2010
>
> November 5 For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that
> fear can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a
> steppingstone to prudence & to a decent respect for others
>
> 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
>
> During our thoughts about the rewards that have come to us as a
> result of our new way of living, we find that we have new kinds of
> homes, new relationships with our spouses and our children. Also
> peace, contentment, hope, faith, charity, and new ambition. What are
> some of the things we have lost? Each one of us can answer this
> question in many ways. I have lost much of my fear. It used to
> control me; it was my master. it paralyzed my efforts. Fear always
> got me down. It made me an introvert, an ingrown person. When fear
> was replaced by faith, I got well. Have I lost some of my fears?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> The world would sooner be brought close to God. His will would
> sooner be done on earth, if all who ac- knowledge Him gave
> themselves unreservedly to being used by Him. God can use every
> human being as a channel for divine love and power What delays the
> bringing of the world closer to God is the backwardness of His
> followers. If each one lived each day for God and allowed God to
> work through him, then the world would soon be drawn much closer to
> God, its Founder and Preserver.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may be used as a channel to express the Divine Love. I
> pray that I may so live as to bring God's spirit closer to the world.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> The following is Excerpt No. 22 from As Bill Sees It : “Fear as a St
> eppingstone”
> The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear -
> primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or
> would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of
> unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance &
> frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find
> a means of reducing these demands.
> Twelve & Twelve p-76
>
> For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear
> can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a
> steppingstone to prudence & to a decent respect for others. It can
> point the path to justice, as well as to hate. & the more we have of
> respect & justice, the more we shall begin to find the love which
> can suffer much, & yet be freely given. So fear need not always be
> destructive, because the lessons of its consequences can lead us to
> positive values.
> Grapevine January 1962
>
> 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