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> Date: December 13, 2011 8:37:26 AM EST
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, December 13, 2011
> December 13–making the right decisions; AA is more than spiritual fellowship
> 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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> We come now to A.A. fellowship. It is partly group therapy. It is partly spiritual fellowship. But it is even more. It is based on a common illness, a common failure, a common problem. It goes deep down into our personal lives and our personal needs. It requires a full opening up to each other of our inmost thoughts and most secret problems. All barriers between us are swept aside. They have to be. Then we try to help each other get well. The A.A. fellowship is based on a sincere desire to help each other get well. The A.A. fellowship is based on a sincere desire to help the other person. In A.A. we can be sure of sympathy, understanding, and real help. These things make the A.A. fellowship the best that we know. Do I fully appreciate the depth of the A.A. fellowship?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> The Higher Power can guide us to the right decisions if we pray about them. We can believe that many details of our lives are planned by God and planned with a wealth of forgiving love for the mistakes we have made. We can pray today to be shown the right way. We can choose the good, and when we choose it, we can feel that the whole power of the universe is behind us. We can achieve a real harmony with God's purpose for our lives.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may choose aright today. I pray that I may be shown the right way to live today.
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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.78 from As Bill Sees It : “Clearing A Channel”
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> During the day, we can pause where situations must be met & decisions made, & renew the simple request "thy will, not mine, be done"
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> If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance provided we remember, & repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation. Just saying it over & over will often enable us to return to the surest help of all - Our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
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> Twelve & Twelve p-102/103
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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