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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: April 27, 2011 8:30:17 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, April 27, 2011
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> Subj: Today, April 27, 2011
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> April 27: Contact with God is not made by the senses.
> 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
>
> By submitting to God, we were released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no comparison. This release gives us serenity and peace with the world. Have I been released from the power of alcohol?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> We know God by spiritual vision. We feel that He is beside us. We feel His presence. Contact with God is not made by the senses. Spirit-consciousness replaces sight. Since we cannot see God, we have to perceive Him by spiritual perception. God has to span the physical and the spiritual with the gift to us of spiritual vision. Many persons, though they cannot see God, have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Him. We are inside a box of space and time, but we know there must be something outside of that box, limitless space, eternity of time, and God.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may have a consciousness of God's presence. I pray that God will give me spiritual vision.
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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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> Real reforms are in people, not in movements. All the laws and demands of church, state and family could not make us change our drinking habits, but the day eventually came when we wanted to change, and then, and then only, was the change possible. Prohibition legislation was only a challenge to us and we drank the more because we could not. We were determined to show those So-and-Sos they couldn’t stop us.
> Only when we, ourselves, wanted to do something about it was any real reformation possible.
>
> Source: unknown
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> As Stan B. would often quote:
>
> “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
> Thes 5:18
> God has no religion -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
> __________________________
> Prayer of St. Francis
> Lord, make me an instrument of Your
> peace.
> Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
> Where there is injury, pardon;
> Where there is doubt, faith;
> Where there is despair, hope;
> Where there is darkness, light;
> and where there is sadness, joy.
> O Divine Master, grant that I may not so
> much seek to be consoled as to console;
> To be understood, as to understand;
> To be loved, as to love;
> For it is in giving that we receive;
> It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
> And it is in dying that we are born to
> eternal life.
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