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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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> September 21-- Bill W’s suggests a way to build a foundation for lif
> e.
>
> 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
> Let us continue with Steps Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Ten. In
> taking a personal inventory of ourselves, we have to face facts as
> they really are. We have to stop running away. We must face reality.
> We must see ourselves as we really are. We must admit our faults
> openly and try to correct them. We must try to see where we have
> been dishonest, impure, selfish, and unloving. We do not do this
> once and forget it. We do it every day of our lives, as long as we
> live. We are never done with checking up on ourselves. Am I taking a
> daily inventory of myself?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> In improving our personal lives, we have Unseen help. We were not
> made so that we could see God. That would be too easy for us and
> there would be no merit in obeying Him. It takes an act of faith, a
> venture of belief, to realize the Unseen Power. Yet we have much
> evidence of God's existence in the strength that many people have
> received from the act of faith, the venture of belief. We are in a
> box of space and time and we can see neither our souls nor God. God
> and the human spirit are both outside the limitations of space and
> time. Yet our Unseen help is effective here and now. That has been
> proved in thousands of changed lives.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may make the great venture of belief. I pray that my
> vision may not be blocked by intellectual pride.
>
> 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. 33 from As Bill Sees It : “Foundation
> for Life”
>
> We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the
> extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on
> order & on our terms.
> Twelve & Twelve p-104
>
> In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in us
> the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day, &
> that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.
> Twelve & Twelve p-102
>
> There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, &
> prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief &
> benefit. But when they are logically related & interwoven, the
> result is an unshakable foundation for life.
> Twelve & Twelve p-98
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
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