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> Date: September 27, 2010 8:31:34 AM EDT
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> September 27: Have I tapped that inner resource that can change my
> life?
> This is September, the 9th month of the year;
> • The 9th Tradition: A.A., as such, ought never be organized;
> but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible
> to those they serve.
> • The 9th Step: Made direct amends to such people wherever
> possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
> • The 9th Promise: Our whole attitude and outlook upon life w
> ill change.
>
>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
>
> Continuing the consideration of the term "spiritual experience":
> "What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been
> accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions, our
> members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource
> which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power
> greater than themselves. Most of us think this awareness of a Power
> greater than ourselves the essence of spiritual experience. Some of
> us call it God-consciousness. In any case, willingness, honesty, and
> open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery." Have I tapped that
> inner resource that can change my life?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> God's power in your life increases as your ability to understand His
> grace increases. The power of God's grace is only limited by the
> understanding and will of each individual. God's miracle-working
> power is only limited in each individual soul by the lack of
> spiritual vision of that soul. God respects freewill, the right of
> each person to accept or reject His miracle-working power. Only the
> sincere desire of the soul gives Him the opportunity to bestow it.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may not limit God's power by my lack of vision. I pray
> that I may keep my mind open today to His influence.
>
> 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. I get the text from the following website: http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/0403EN.htm
> Note 4 numbers after “h24/”: the first two are the day of the
> month and the second two are the month. Example: To get daily read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
> ____________________________
>
> The following is Excerpt No. 66 from As Bill Sees It : “For Emerge
> ncies Only?”
> Whether we had been believers or unbelievers, we began to
> get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league
> pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
>
> The notion that we would still live our own lives, God
> helping a little now & then, began to evaporate. Many of us who had
> thought ourselves religious awoke to the limitations of this
> attitude. Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of
> His help.
>
> But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth
> the works" began to carry bright promise & meaning.
> Twelve & Twelve p-75
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, N
> ew York, NY 10115