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> Date: June 18, 2012 9:05:24 AM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Monday, June 18, 2012
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> June 18: “The spiritual life has two parts. One is the life apart....The other is the life impart...”
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> This is June, the 6th month of the year;
> • The 6th Tradition: An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
> • The 6th Step: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
> • The 6th Promise: That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
> The A.A. way of living is not an easy one. But it’s an adventure in living that is really worthwhile. And it's so much better than our old drunken way of living that there's no comparison. Our lives without A.A. would be worth nothing. With A.A., we have a chance to live reasonably good lives. It's worth the battle, no matter how tough the going is from day to day. Isn't it worth the battle?
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> Meditation for the Day
> The spiritual life has two parts. One is the life apart, the life of prayer and quiet communion with God. You spend this part of your life apart with God. Every day your mind can be set in the right direction so that your thoughts will be of the right kind. The other is the life impart - imparting to others what you have learned from your own meditative experience. The victories you have won over yourself through the help of God can be shared with others. You can help them by imparting to them some of the victory and security that you have gained in your life apart.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may grow strong from my times apart with God. I pray that I may pass on some of this strength to others.
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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.
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> The following is Excerpt No. 287 from As Bill Sees It : “Aspects of Spirituality”
> Among A.A.s there is still a vast amount of mix up respecting what is material & what is spiritual. I prefer to believe that it is all a matter of motive. If we use our worldly possessions too selfishly, then we are materialists. But if we share these possessions in helpfulness to others, the material aids the spiritual.
> letter 1958
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> The idea keeps persisting that the instincts are primarily bad & are the road blocks before which all spirituality falters. I believe that the difference between good & evil is not the difference between spiritual & instinctual man; it is the difference between proper & improper use of the instinctual. Recognition & right channeling of the instinctual are the essence of achieving wholeness.
> letter 1954
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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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