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> Date: August 9, 2011 10:19:22 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, August 9, 2011
> Today is Aziz's 2 year anniversary!!!
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> August 9: When you ask God to change you, you must at the same time fully trust Him.
> This is August, the 8th month of the year;
> • The 8th Tradition: Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
> • The 8th Step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
> • The 8th Promise: Self-seeking will slip away.
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> Thought for the Day
> “We have an allergy to alcohol. The action of alcohol on chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy. We allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all. We cannot be reconciled to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience an entire psychic change. Once this psychic change has occurred, we who seemed doomed, we who had so many problems that we despaired of ever solving them, find ourselves able to control our desire for alcohol.” Have I had a psychic change?
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> Meditation for the Day
> Ask God in daily prayer to give you the strength to change. When you ask God to change you, you must at the same time fully trust Him. If you do not fully trust Him, God may answer your prayer as a rescuer does that of a drowning person who is putting up too much of a struggle. The rescuer must firs render the person still more helpless, until he or she is wholly at the rescuer’s mercy. Just so must we be wholly at God’s mercy before we can be rescued.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may be daily willing to be changed. I pray that I may put myself wholly at the mercy of God.
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> 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 reading for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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> A reading from The Eye Opener, another Hazeldon publication that contains meditations in pocket-book form for August 8th:
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> Some of us wear our AA like we wear our clothes, entirely as external adornment and protection, and to hide what is underneath.
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> There are many, however, who wear their AA in such a way that the AA way of living is so predominant in their appearance that all other apparel is unnoticed. To see such a person, the reaction is not to observe a gray suit or a blue dress, but a personality that radiates a character made beautiful by the simple code of living as found in Twelve Steps.
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> For me personally, I need to think about whether I am at risk because I am not doing enough to make the twelve steps part of my being. At the same time--I need to remind myself: thought left hanging without action is a passive choice for inaction and for me inaction may not necessarily be a bad choice.
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> I need to ask myself repeatedly throughout the day: Are the choices I am making working for me?
> ...................And then there’s Bobby Lyon’s advice: “Don’t think; Go to meetings; Pray; Call your sponsor; and Don’t drink.”=2