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> Date: September 10, 2010 12:17:19 PM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Friday, September 10, 2010
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> September 10--If you are trying sincerely to serve God, you will
> have other and greater rewards than the world has to offer.
>
> This is September, the 9th month of the year;
> • The 9th Tradition: A.A., as such, ought never be organized;
> but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible
> to those they serve.
> • The 9th Step: Made direct amends to such people wherever
> possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
> • The 9th Promise: Our whole attitude and outlook upon life w
> ill change.
>
>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
>
> Here are answers to the question of how a person can live without
> liquor and be happy: "The things we put in place of drinking are
> more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics
> Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and
> worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at
> last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Among
> other A.A.s you win make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them
> with new and wonderful ties." Does life mean something to me now?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that you find in
> serving God and all the satisfactions of the world also? It is not
> easy to serve both God and the world. It is difficult to claim the
> rewards of both. If you work for God, you will still have great
> rewards in the world. But you must be prepared to sometimes stand
> apart from the world. You cannot always turn to the world and expect
> all the rewards that life has to offer. If you are trying sincerely
> to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than the world
> has to offer.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may not expect too much from the world. I pray that I
> may also be content with the rewards that come from serving God.
>
> 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.
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> The following is Excerpt No. 160 from As Bill Sees It : “The Ration
> alizers and Self-Effacing”
>
> We alcoholics are the biggest rationalizers in the world. Fortified
> with the excuse that we are doing great things for A.A., we can,
> through broken anonymity, resume our old & disastrous pursuit of
> personal power & prestige, public honors, & money - the same
> implacable urges that, when frustrated, once caused us to drink.
>
> A.A. Comes Of Age p-292/293
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
> World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115