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> Subj: Today, Thursday, October 7, 2010
>
> October 7: Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself.
> This is October, the 10th month of the year;
> • The 10th Tradition reads: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opini
> on on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into
> public controversy.
> • The 10th Step: Continued to take personal inventory and whe
> n we were wrong promptly admitted it.
> • The 10th Promise: Fear of people and of economic insecuri
> ty will leave us.
> _________
>
> Thought for the Day
> Do I put too much reliance on any one member of the group? That is,
> do I make a tin god out of some one person? Do I set that person on
> a pedestal? If I do, I am building my house on sand. All A.A.
> members have “clay feet.” They are all only one drink away from
> a drunk, no matter how long they have been in A.A. This has been pr
> oved to be true more than once. It’s not fair to any member to be s
> ingled out as a leader in A.A. and to always quote that member on th
> e A.A. program. If that person should fail, where would I be? Can
> I afford to be tipped over by the failure of my ideal?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> You must always remember that you are weak but that God is strong.
> God knows all about your weakness. He hears every cry for mercy,
> every sign of weakness, every plea for help, every sorrow over
> failure, every weakness felt and expressed. We only fail when we
> trust too much to our own strength. Do not feel bad about your
> weakness. When you are weak, that is when God is strong to help
> you. Trust God enough, and your weakness will not matter. God is
> always strong to save.
>
> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may learn to lean on God’s strength. I pray that I ma
> y know that My weakness is God’s opportunity.
>
> 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
>
>
> Here is an interesting take on “moderation.” I think of
> moderation as the active avoidance of chaos and dysfunction. While
> we drunks need to take a break from self-destruction, “earth people
> ” take a break from success.
>
>
> Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony
>
> John Tagliabue
>
>
> Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself
> together
> for some clear “meaning”–some momentary summary?
> no one
> can have poetry or dances, prayers or climaxes all day;
> the ordinary
> blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the
> health sometimes,
> only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long
> long tumultuous stretches;
> look what that intensity did to poor great Van Gogh!;
> linger, lunge,
> scrounge and be stupid, that doesn’t take much centering
> of one’s forces;
> as wise Whitman said, “lounge and invite the soul.” Get
> enough sleep;
> and not only because (as Cocteau said) “poetry is the
> literature of sleep”;
> be a dumb bell for a few minutes at least; we don’t want
> Sunday church bells
> ringing constantly.
>
>
> From Good Poems Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor As heard
> on The Writer's Almanac; Penguin Books, 2003. Page 229