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> Date: September 15, 2010 9:57:52 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, September 15, 2010
>
> September 15-"I became conscious of a very clear, simple idea: I was
> not in charge of my destiny," [Johnny] Cash wrote. "I was not in
> charge of my own death. I was going to die at God's time, not mine."
>
> 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.
> ____________________________
>
> Thought for the Day
> “We all realize that we know only a little. God will constantly dis
> close more to all of us. Ask Him in your morning meditations what y
> ou can do today for the person who is still sick. The answers will
> come, if your own house is in order. See to it that your relationsh
> ip with God is right and great events will come to pass for you and
> countless others. Give freely of what you find in A.A. But, obviou
> sly, you cannot transmit something which you haven’t got. So make a
> life-study of A.A.” Am I always looking for ways of presenting the
> A.A. program?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” Confidence
> means to have faith in something. We could not live without confide
> nce in others. When you have confidence in God’s grace, you can fac
> e whatever comes. When you have confidence in God’s love, you can b
> e serene and at peace. You can rest in the faith that God will take
> care of you. Try to rest in God’s presence until His life-power fl
> ows through you. Be still and in that stillness the still, small Vo
> ice will come. It speaks in quietness to the human mind that is att
> uned to its influence.
>
> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may find strength today in quietness. I pray that I
> may be content today that God will take care of me.
>
> 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. 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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> Johnny Cash was one of us. The excerpt below is taken from:
>
> 'Man in Black' Sang Ballads Of the Bereft
>
> By Louie Estrada
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, September 13, 2003; Page A01
>
>
> “...........But for all his commercial success, Cash's personal life
> began to unravel from drug
> abuse and alcohol. He began taking amphetamines, sleeping pills
> and prescription
> painkillers. He often followed the pills with wine and beer. His
> erratic behavior led to
> violent outbursts, hangovers and problems in his marriages.
>
> "Touring and drugs were what I did, with the effort involved in
> drugs mounting
> steadily as time went by," Cash said in his 1997 autobiography,
> "Cash."
>
> Family members, friends and fellow performers warned him that he was
> on a road to
> self-destruction. But he brushed aside the warning, staying up for
> days at a time, then
> taking a handful of pills and crashing.
>
> Hungover and strung out, he began canceling tour dates and failed to
> show up for
> recording appointments. Desperate, he drove himself to a secluded
> mountainous area
> on the Tennessee River outside Chattanooga and considered crawling
> into a cave to
> die.
>
> Lying there in Nickajack Cave, alone in the dark, he discovered a
> sense of inner
> peace and attributed the feeling to God. "I became conscious of a
> very clear, simple
> idea: I was not in charge of my destiny," Cash wrote. "I was not in
> charge of my own
> death. I was going to die at God's time, not mine."
>
> He started to clean up his act in 1967 and slowly, after setbacks
> and relapses, he was
> healthy enough to appear on stage.....”
>
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