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> Date: January 4, 2012 6:57:58 PM EST
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> Sent: 1/4/2012 11:33:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
> Subj: Today, Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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> January 4:......Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life.........(do you know where those words came from?) See below
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> This is January, the 1st month of the year;
> • The 1st Tradition: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
> • The 1st Step: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
> • The 1st Promise: If we are painstaking about this phase [Steps 8 & 9] of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> In Alcoholics Anonymous there is no thought of individual profit. No greed or gain. No membership fees, no dues. Only voluntary contributions of our money and ourselves. All that we hope for is sobriety and regeneration, so that we can live normal, respectable lives and can be recognized by others as men and women willing to do unto others as we would be done by. These things we accomplish by the help of each other, by following the Twelve Steps, and by the grace of God. Am I willing to work for A.A. without material gain to myself?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> What is sometimes called a conversion by religion is often only the discovery of God as a friend in need, What is sometimes called religion is often only the experiencing of the help and strength of God's power in our lives. What is sometimes called holiness is often only the invitation of God to be our Friend. As God becomes your friend, you become a friend to others. We experience true human friendship and from this experience we can imagine what kind of a Great Friend God can be. We believe Him to be a tireless, selfless, all conquering, miracle-working Friend. We can reach out to the Great Friend and figuratively take His hand in ours.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may think of God as a Great Friend in need. I pray that I may go along with Him.
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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. 7 from As Bill Sees It : “The Realm of the Spirit”
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> We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of the spirit is broad, roomy, all-inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek it. It is open, we believe, to all men.
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> Alcoholics Anonymous p-46
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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
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> SERENITY PRAYER
> (long version)
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> (also see:The Origin of our Serenity Prayer)
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> God, grant me the Serenity
> to accept the things
> I cannot change Courage to change the
> things I can, and the
> Wisdom to know the difference.
> Living one day at a time;
> Enjoying one moment at a time;
> Accepting hardship as the
> pathway to peace.
> Taking, as He did, this
> sinful world as it is,
> not as I would have it.
> Trusting that He will make
> all things right if I
> surrender to His Will;
> That I may be reasonably happy
> in this life, and supremely
> happy with Him forever in
> the next.
> Amen
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> Third Step Prayer
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> God, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!
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