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> Date: May 26, 2011 11:16:58 AM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, May 26, 2011
> May 26:“[We] must see and admit that [we] cannot overcome drinking by[our] own willpower, so [we] must turn to a Higher Power for help.”
> This is May, the 5th month of the year;
> • The 5thTradition: Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
> • The 5th Step: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
> • The 5th Promise: No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> In twelfth-step work, the fourth thing is conversion. Conversion means change. Prospects must learn to change their way of thinking. Until now, everything they've done has been connected with drinking. Now they must face a new kind of life, without liquor. They must see and admit that they cannot overcome drinking by their own willpower, so they must turn to a Higher Power for help. They must start each day by asking this Higher Power for the strength to stay sober. This conversion to belief in a Higher Power comes gradually, as they try it and find that it works. Do I care enough about other alcoholics to help them to make this conversion?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Discipline of yourself is absolutely necessary before the power of God is given to you. When you see others manifesting the power of God, you probably have not seen the discipline that went before. They made themselves ready. All your life is a preparation for more good to be accomplished when God knows that you are ready for it. So keep disciplining yourself in the spiritual life every day. Learn so much of the spiritual laws that your life cannot again be a failure. Others will see the outward manifestation of the inward discipline in your daily living.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may manifest God's power in my daily living. I pray that I may discipline myself so as to be ready to meet every opportunity.
> 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. 92 from As Bill Sees It : “Walking Toward Serenity”
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> When I was tired & could not concentrate, I used to fall back on an affirmation toward life that took the form of simple walking & deep breathing. I sometimes told myself that I could not do even this - that I was too weak. But I learned that this was the point at which I could not give in without becoming still more depressed.
> So I would set myself a small stint. I would determine to walk a quarter of a mile. & I would concentrate by counting my breathing - say, six steps to each slow inhalation & four to each exhalation.
> Having done the quarter mile, I found that I could go on, maybe a half mile more. Then another half mile & maybe another.
> This was encouraging. The false sense of physical weakness would leave me (this feeling being so characteristic of depressions). The walking & especially the breathing were powerful affirmations toward life & living & away from failure & death. The counting represented a minimum discipline in concentration, to get some rest from the wear & tear of fear & guilt.
> 92 letter 1960
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> 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
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> The Enemy Within
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> Why do we self-destruct? The problem of evil has been with us ever since the serpent tempted Eve to eat the apple. We often feel at war internally, one self fighting another self.
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> There are forces that would have us abandon our program, and usually we find the temptation coming from within. We become careless, bored, lackadaisical in our efforts. Instead of disciplining ourselves to further spiritual growth, we rest on our oars and then wonder why we are drifting downstream!
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> Sane, healthy living requires that we acknowledge our spiritual needs. When our Higher Power is in control, we work for emotional and spiritual growth as well as physical satisfaction. Instead of being divided internally, we are integrated. The enemy within is subdued in the only way possible - by God's power.
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> Defeat the enemy within me, Lord. (a reading from "Food for Thought" by Elisabeth L.)
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