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> Date: April 5, 2012 10:09:07 AM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, April 5, 2012
> April 5: Are these things keeping me sober?
> This is April, the 4th month of the year;
> • The 4th Tradition: Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
> • The 4th Step: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
> • The 4th Promise: We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> People often ask what makes the A.A. program work. One of the answers is that A.A. works because it gets people away from themselves as the center of the universe. And it teaches them to rely more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God. Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with others is what makes the A.A. program work. Are these things keeping me sober?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> God is the great interpreter of one human personality to another. Even personalities who are the nearest together have much in their natures that remains a sealed book to each other. And only as God enters and controls their lives are the mysteries of each revealed to the other. Each personality is so different. God alone understands perfectly the language of each and can interpret between the two. Here we find the miracles of change and the true interpretation of life.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. I pray that God will interpret to me the personalities of other people, so that I can understand them and help them.
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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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> The Serenity Prayer
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> [in full; note: a quick "google" on the internet reveals that Niebuhr is not universally accepted as being the author of The Serenity Prayer]
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> God grant me the serenity
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> To accept the things I cannot change,
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> The courage to change the things I can,
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> And the wisdom to know the difference.
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> Living one day at a time.
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> Enjoying one moment at a time.
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> Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
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> Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
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> Not as I would have it.
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> Trusting that He will make all things right
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> If I will surrender to His will.
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> That I may be reasonably happy
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> in this life, And supremely
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> happy with Him forever in the next.
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> Amen.
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> Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-197