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> Date: December 19, 2011 9:51:18 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, December 19, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, December 19, 2011
> December 19-- I pray that I may make something good out of my life. I pray that I may be a good artisan with the materials that I have been given to use.
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> This is December, the 12th month of the year;
> • The 12th Tradition reads: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
> • The 12th Step: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
> • The 12th Promise: We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> The skeptic and the agnostic say it is impossible for us to find the answer to life. Many have tried and failed. But many more have put aside intellectual pride and have said to themselves: Who am I to say there is no God? Who am I to say there is no purpose in life? The atheist makes a declaration: "The world originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere." Others live for the moment and do not even think about why they are here or where they are going. They might as well be clams on the bottom of the ocean, protected by their hard shells of indifference. They are going nowhere and they do not care. Do I care where I am going?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> We may consider the material world as the clay which the artist works with, to make of it something beautiful or ugly. We need not fear material things, which are neither good nor bad in the moral sense. There seems to be no active force for evil- outside of human beings themselves. Humans alone can have either evil intentions-resentments, malevolence, hate, and revenge-or good intentions-love and goodwill, They can make something ugly or something beautiful out of the clay of their lives.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may make something good out of my life. I pray that I may be a good artisan with the materials that I have been given to use.
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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. 95 from As Bill Sees It : “Spiritual Kindergarten”
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> We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking & find the grace to go on living to better effect. Each man's theology has to be his own quest, his own affair.
> letter 1954
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> When the Big Book was being planned, some members thought that it ought to be Christian in the doctrinal sense. Others had no objection to the use of the word "God" but wanted to avoid doctrinal issues. Spirituality, yes. Religion, no. Still others wanted a psychological book, to lure the alcoholic in. Once in, he could take God or leave Him alone as he wished.
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> To the rest of us this was shocking, but happily we listened. Our group conscience was at work to construct the most acceptable & effective book possible.
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> Every voice was playing its appointed part. Our atheists & agnostics widened our gateway so that all who suffer might pass through, regardless of their belief or lack of belief.
> A.A. Comes Of Age p-162/163/167
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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