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> Date: July 15, 2011 9:12:25 AM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Friday, July 15, 2011
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> July 15
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> This is July, the 7th month of the year;
> • The 7th Tradition: Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
> • The 7th Step: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
> • The 7th Promise: We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> After we had sobered up through the A.A. program, we gradually began to get a peace of mind and serenity which we never thought were possible. This peace of mind is based on a feeling that fundamentally all is well. That does not mean that all is well on the surface of things. Little things can keep going wrong and big things can keep on upsetting us. But deep down in our hearts we know that everything is eventually going to be all right, now that we are living sober lives. Have I achieved a deep down, inner calm?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> You are climbing up the ladder of life, which reaches into eternity. Would God plant your feet upon an insecure ladder? Its supports may be out of sight, hidden in secret places, but if God has asked you to step on and up firmly, then surely He has secured your ladder. Faith gives you the strength to climb steadily this ladder of life. You should leave your security to God and trust Him not to let you fall. He is there to give you all the power you need to keep on climbing.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may climb the ladder of life without fear. I pray that I may progress steadily through the rest of my life with faith and confidence.
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> The following is Excerpt No. 284 from As Bill Sees It
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> The Idea of "twenty four hour living" applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, not in tomorrow.
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> But I have never been able to see that this means the individual, the group, or A.A. as a whole should give no thought whatever to how to function tomorrow or even in the more distant future. Faith alone never constructed the house you live in.
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> There had to be a blueprint & a lot of work to bring it into reality. Nothing is truer for us of A.A. than the Biblical saying, "Faith without works is dead". A.A.s services, all designed to make more & better Twelfth step work possible, are the "works" that insure our life & growth by preventing anarchy or stagnation.
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> Letter, 1954
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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