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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, November 30, 2010
>
> November 30–strength thru conscious contact with God, pain is a step
> ping-stone to progress.
>
> 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
>
> We have slips in A.A. It has been said these are not slips but
> premeditated drunks, because we have to think about taking a drink
> before we actually take one. The thought always comes before the
> act. It is suggested that people should always get in touch with an
> A.A. before taking that first drink. The failure to do so, makes it
> probable that they had decided to take the drink anyway. And yet the
> thoughts that come before taking a drink are often largely
> subconscious. People usually don't know consciously what made them
> do it. Therefore, the common practice is to call these things slips.
> Am I on guard against wrong thinking?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> "The eternal God is thy refuge." He is a sanctuary, a refuge from
> the cares of life. You can get away from the misunderstanding of
> others by retiring into your own place of meditation. But from
> yourself, from your sense of failure, your weakness, your
> shortcomings, whither can you flee? Only to the eternal God, your
> refuge, until the immensity of His spirit envelops your spirit and
> it loses its smallness and weakness and comes into harmony again
> with His.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may lose my limitations in the immensity of God's
> love. I pray that my spirit may be in harmony with His spirit.
> 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. 3 from As Bill Sees It : “Pain and Pro
> gress”
>
> Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who
> suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance,
> who do not understand the purpose & ultimate futility of pain.
> letter 1950
>
> Someone once remarked that pain is the touchstone of
> spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for
> we know that the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, &
> emotional turmoil before serenity.
> Twelve & Twelve p-93/94
>
> Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even
> though for the moment you do not see.
> letter 1950
>
> 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
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