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> Date: May 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, May 12, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, May 12, 2011
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> May 12:–the solution to hangovers: don’t drink.
> 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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> When we come into A.A., looking for a way out of drinking, we really need a lot more than that. We need fellowship. We need to get the things that are troubling us out into the open. We need a new outlet for our energies and we need a new strength beyond ourselves that will help us face life instead of running away from it. In A.A. we find these things that we need. Have I found the things that I need?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Turn out all thoughts of doubt and fear and resentment. Never tolerate them if you can help it. Bar the windows and doors of your mind against them, as you would bar your home against a thief who would steal in to take away your treasures. What greater treasures can you have than faith and courage and love? All these are stolen from you by doubt and fear and resentment. Face each day with peace and hope. They are results of true faith in God. Faith gives you a feeling of protection and safety that you can get in no other way.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may feel protected and safe, but not only when I am in the harbor. I pray that I may have protection and safety even in the midst of the storms of life.
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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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> Eye Opener
> The medical profession is sincere in its efforts to help the alcoholic. Unfortunately, however, the very nature of the ailment defies adequate diagnosis, as the causes cannot be localized or catalogued. Every alcoholic is a sick man, but the underlying cause of his sickness cannot be X-rayed because there is no one underlying cause. It is a progressive disease and the patient himself does not know where the pain really is.
> We in AA, however, know our patient as we know ourselves, for drunks are strangely alike fundamentally. We know the symptoms and the effects of the malady for we too have suffered it. We know our medicine for its relief, for we were cured by it ourselves.
> Alcoholism may develop from any number of hidden causes. We may be very much un-alike in our behavior when drinking but in the hang-over stage we are alike as two peas in a pod. We know what to do in a case like that.
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> From: Eye Opener, Hazelden Foundation, Center City, MN 55012; printed in the USA. Publishers acknowledge generosity of T.W.R.
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> We drink when opportunity and our desire collaborate. Pray that when we have the desire, we don’t have the opportunity, and when we have the opportunity, that we don’t have the desire.
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> Happy moments, praise God.
> Difficult moments, seek God.
> Quiet moments, worship God.
> Painful moments, trust God.
> Every moment, thank God.
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