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> Date: August 27, 2010 12:31:27 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Friday (whaddah you know, got it right!!!)--
> August 27, 2010
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> Subj: Today, Friday (whaddah you know, got it right!!!)--August 27,
> 2010
>
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> August 27: Finding Faith
> This is August, the 8th month of the year;
> • The 8th Tradition: Alcoholics Anonymous should remain fore
> ver nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special work
> ers.
> • The 8th Step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, an
> d became willing to make amends to them all.
> • The 8th Promise: Self-seeking will slip away.
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>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
>
> "We must be willing to make amends to all the people we have harmed.
> We must do the best we can to repair the damage done in the past.
> When we make amends, when we say: 'I'm sorry,' the person is sure at
> least to be impressed by our sincere desire to set right the wrong.
> Sometimes people we are making amends to admit there own fault, so
> feuds of long standing melt away. Our most ruthless creditors win
> sometimes surprise us. in general, we must be willing to do the
> right thing, no matter what the consequences may be for us." Have I
> made a sincere effort to make amends to the people I have harmed?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> The grace of God cures disharmony and disorder in human
> relationships. Directly you put your affairs, with their confusion
> and their difficulties, into God's hands. He begins to effect a cure
> of all the disharmony and disorder. You can believe that He will
> cause you no more pain in the doing of it than a physician who knows
> how to effect a cure would cause a patient. You can have faith that
> God will do all that is necessary as painlessly as possible. But you
> must be wining to submit to His treatment, even if you cannot now
> see the meaning or purpose of it.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may willingly submit to whatever spiritual discipline
> is necessary. I pray that I may accept whatever it takes to live a
> better Me.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 197
> 5, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This bo
> ok was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Dayto
> na 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
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> The following is Excerpt No. 23 from As Bill Sees It : “Worshipers A
> ll”
> We found that we had indeed been worshipers. What a state of
> mental goose flesh that used to bring on! Had we not variously
> worshiped people, sentiment, things, money, & ourselves?
>
> And then, with a better motive, had we not worshipfully
> beheld the sunset, the sea, or a flower? Who of us had not loved
> something or somebody? Were not these things the tissue out of which
> our lives were constructed? Did not these feelings, after all,
> determine the course of our existence?
>
> It was impossible to say we had no capacity for faith, or
> love, or worship. In one form or another, we had been living by
> faith & little else.
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-54
>
> 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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>
> Please permit me a brief share. I was reading my daily Buddhist
> meditation and I focused on the following sentence, “Just practice a
> ccording to the methods taught by the Buddha and do not worry about
> being a success.” I was thinking that is a concept that can apply t
> o AA. Don’t WORRY about staying sober–just 1) pray, 2) call your
> sponsor, 3) go to meetings, and -oh, yes– 4) DON’T DRINK!!!
> Sobriety will follow.