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> Date: December 30, 2011 11:05:03 AM EST
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> Subject: December 30
>

> December 30
> 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
>
> To the extent that I fail in my responsibilities, A.A. fails. To the extent that I succeed, A.A. succeeds. Every failure of mine will set back A.A. work to that extent. Every success of mine will put A.A. ahead to that extent. I shall not wait to be drafted for service to others, but I shall volunteer. I shall accept every opportunity to work for A.A. as a challenge, and I shall do my best to accept every challenge and perform my task as best I can. Will I accept every challenge gladly?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> People are failures in the deepest sense when they seek to live without God's sustaining power. Many people try to be self-sufficient and seek selfish pleasure and find that it does not work too well. No matter how much material wealth they acquire, no matter how much fame and material power, the time of disillusionment and futility usually comes. Death is ahead, and they cannot take any material thing with them when they go. What does it matter if I have gained the whole world, but lost my own soul?
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> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I will not come empty to the end of my life. I pray that I may so live that I will not be afraid to die.
>
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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.
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 254 from As Bill Sees It : “Satisfactions of Right Living ”
>
> How wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be specially distinguished
> among our fellows in order to be useful & profoundly happy. Not many of us can be
> leaders of prominence, nor do we wish to be.
> Service gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved
> with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a
> common effort, the fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof
> that love freely given brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated
> & alone in self constructed prisons, the surety that we can fit & belong in God's
> scheme of things - these are the satisfactions of right living for which no pomp &
> circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
> Twelve & Twelve p-124=2