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> Date: January 9, 2012 11:15:29 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, January 9, 2012
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> Subj: Today, Monday, January 9, 2012
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> January 9: Why must we have Faith? Faith gives us the strength to overcome the desire to drink
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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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> When we were drinking, most of us had no real faith in anything. We may have said that we believed in God, but we didn't act as though we did. We never honestly asked God to help us and we never really accepted His help. To us, faith looked like helplessness. But when we came into A.A., we began to have faith in God. And we found out that faith gave us the strength we needed to overcome drinking. Have I learned that there is strength in faith?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I will have faith, no matter what may befall me. I will be patient, even in the midst of troubles. I will not fear the strain of life, because I believe that God knows just what I can bear. I will look to the future with confidence. I know that God will not ask me to bear anything that could overcome or destroy me.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may put this day in the hands of God. I pray for faith, so that nothing will upset me or weaken my determination to stay sober.
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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. 51 from As Bill Sees It : “The Coming of Faith”
> In my own case, the foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith: a faith that, despite all worldly appearances to the contrary, causes me to believe that I live in a universe that makes sense.
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> To me, this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, & love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, & a destiny to grow, however little an haltingly, toward His own likeness & image. Before the coming of faith I had lived as an alien in a cosmos that too often seemed both hostile & cruel. In it there could be no inner security for me.
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> Grapevine January 1962 “The Coming of Faith”
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> When I was driven to my knees by alcohol, I was made ready to ask for the gift of faith. & all was changed. Never again, my pains & problems notwithstanding, would I experience my former desolation. I saw the universe lighted by God's love; I was alone no more.
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> letter 1966–The Coming of Faith
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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