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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: April 13, 2011 9:55:16 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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> April 13: asking God for an attitude of gentleness, forgiveness, and understanding translates into “making the world better and happier by [your] presence in it.”
> This is April, the 4th month of the year;
> • The 4th Tradition: Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
> • The 4th Step: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
> • The 4th Promise: We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Having found my way into this new world by the grace of God and the help of A.A., am I going to take that first drink, when I know that just one drink will change my whole world? Am I deliberately going back to the suffering of that alcoholic world? Or am I going to hang onto the happiness of this sober world? Is there any doubt about the answer? With God's help, am I going to hang onto AA. with both hands?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I will try to make the world better and happier by my presence in it. I will try to help other people find the way God wants them to live. I will try to be on the side of good, in the stream of righteousness, where all things work for good. I will do my duty persistently and faithfully, not sparing myself. I will be gentle with all people. I will try to see other people's difficulty and help them to correct it. I will always pray to God to act as interpreter between me and the other person.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may live in the spirit of prayer. I pray that I may depend on God for the strength I need to help me to do my part in making the world a better place.
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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. 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 reading for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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> Many people look upon AA as something new and revolutionary whereas it is just the reverse. We have no new thoughts or doctrines and we have certainly discovered no new cures.
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> Our medications are those administered two thousand years ago. Our philosophies were borrowed, no word for word but in substance, from the Great Book our mothers read to us as children.
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> While science experimented for new and certain cures, we dug out the old but still potent prescription and administered it with sympathy and understanding. We can attest to the fact that it still works.
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> From: Eye Opener, Hazelden Foundation, Center City, MN 55012; printed in the USA. Publishers acknowledge generosity of T.W.R.
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> As Stan B. would often quote:
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> “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
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> 1 Thes 5:18
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> Prayer of St. Francis
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> Lord, make me an instrument of Your
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> peace.
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> Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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> Where there is injury, pardon;
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> Where there is doubt, faith;
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> Where there is despair, hope;
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> Where there is darkness, light;
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> and where there is sadness, joy.
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> O Divine Master, grant that I may not so
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> much seek to be consoled as to console;
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> To be understood, as to understand;
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> To be loved, as to love;
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> For it is in giving that we receive;
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> It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
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> And it is in dying that we are born to
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> eternal life.
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