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> Date: May 3, 2011 8:25:54 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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> May 3: The very thought of wrongs means that my self is in the foreground. Since the self cannot forgive, I must overcome my selfishness.
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> This is May, the 5th month of the year;
> • The 5thTradition: Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
> • The 5th Step: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
> • The 5th Promise: No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
> A.A. teaches us to take it easy. We learn how to relax and to stop worrying about the past or the future, to give up our resentments and hates and tempers, to stop being critical of people, and to try to help them instead. That's what "Easy Does It" means. So in the time that's left to me to live, I'm going to try to take it easy, to relax and not to worry, to try to be helpful to others, and to trust God. For what's left of my life, is my motto going to be "Easy Does It"?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I must overcome myself before I can truly forgive other people for injuries done to me. The self in me cannot forgive injuries. The very thought of wrongs means that my self is in the foreground. Since the self cannot forgive, I must overcome my selfishness. I must cease trying to forgive those who fretted and wronged me. It is a mistake for me even to think about these injuries. I must aim at overcoming myself in my daily life and then I will find there is nothing in me that remembers injury, because the only thing injured, my selfishness, is gone.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may hold no resentments. I pray that my mind may be washed clean of all past hates and fears.
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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. 179 from As Bill Sees It : “Coping with Anger”
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> Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. A burst of temper could spoil a day, & a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle.
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> Twelve & Twelve p-90
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> Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue & pen. We must avoid quick-tempered criticism, furious power driven argument, sulking, & silent scorn. These are emotional booby traps baited with pride & vengefulness. When we are tempted by the bait we should train ourselves to step back & think. We can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
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> Twelve & Twelve p-91
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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> _____________________________
> As Stan B. would often quote:
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> “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
> 1 Thes 5:18
> God has no religion -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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