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> Date: April 24, 2012 11:48:10 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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> April 24–Experience has two facets: a) what happened to us and b) how we interpreted what happened to us.
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> 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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> It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I know that power is there because it never fails to help me. Do I believe that AA. works through the grace of God?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Once I am "born of the spirit," that is my life's breath. Within me is the life of life, so that I can never perish. The life that down the ages has kept God's children through peril, adversity, and sorrow. I must try never to doubt or worry, but follow where the life of the spirit leads. How often, when little I know it, God goes before me to prepare the way, to soften a heart, or to overrule a resentment. As the life of the spirit grows, natural wants become less important.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that my life may become centered in God more than in self. I pray that my will may be directed toward doing His will.
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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 following is Excerpt No. 20 from As Bill Sees It : “Light from a Prayer”
> God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, & the wisdom to know the difference.
> Grapevine March 1962
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> We treasure our "serenity prayer" because it brings new light to us that can dissipate our old-time & nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves.
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> In the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we try to overcome adversity by still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down.
> Grapevine march 1962
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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 =2