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> Date: December 12, 2011 12:22:20 PM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, December 12, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, December 12, 2011
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> Tim H’s anniversary date (12-11-1997; 7AM EST)
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> December 12-faith, fellowship, sharing of personal problems
>
> 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.
> _________
>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> The clergy speak of the spiritual fellowship of the church. This is much closer to the A.A. way than mere group therapy. Such a fellowship is based on a common belief in God and a common effort to live a spiritual life. We try to do this in A.A. We also try to get down to the real problems in each other’s lives. We try to open up to each other. We have a real desire to be of service to each other. We try to go deep down into the personal lives of our members. Do I appreciate the deep personal fellowship of A.A.?
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> Meditation for the Day
>
> Love and fear cannot dwell together. By their very natures, they cannot exist side by side. Fear is a very strong force. And therefore a weak and vacillating love can soon be routed by fear. But a strong love, a love that trusts in God, is sure eventually to conquer fear. The only sure way to dispel fear is to have the love of God more and more in your heart and soul.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that love will drive out the fear in my life. I pray that my fear will flee before the power of the love of God.
>
>
> 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.
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 302 from As Bill Sees It : “Comradeship in Peril”
>
> We A.A.s are like the passengers of great liner the moment after rescue from
> shipwreck, when camaraderie, joyousness, & democracy pervade the vessel from
> steerage to captains table.
> Unlike the feelings of the ships passengers, however, our joy in escape from
> disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of sharing in a
> common peril - relapse into alcoholism - continues to be an important element in the
> powerful cement which binds us of A.A. together.
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-17
>
> Our first woman alcoholic had been a patient of Dr. Harry Tiebout's, & he had
> handed her a prepublication manuscript copy of the Big Book. The first reading made
> her rebellious, but the second convinced her. Presently she came to a meeting in our
> living room, & from there she returned to the sanitarium carrying this classic message
> to a fellow patient: "WE are not alone any more".
> A.A. Comes Of Age p-18
>
> 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