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> Date: October 25, 2011 10:01:33 AM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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> October 25: Is my life in the hands of God?
> This is October, the 10th month of the year;
> • The 10th Tradition reads: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
> • The 10th Step: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
> • The 10th Promise: Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
> _________
> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Fifth, I have learned to live one day at a time. I have finally realized the great fact that all I have is now. This sweeps away all vain regret and it makes my thoughts of the future free of fear. Now is mine. I can do what I want with it. I own it, for better or worse. What I do now, in this present moment, is what makes up my life. My whole life is only a succession of nows. I will take this moment, which has been given to me by the grace of God, and I will do something with it. What I do with each now will make me or break me. Am I living in the now?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> We should work at overcoming ourselves, our selfish desires and our self-centeredness. This can never be fully accomplished. We can never become entirely unselfish. But we can come to realize that we are not at the center of the universe and that everything does not revolve around us at the center. I am only one cell in a vast network of human cells. I can at least make the effort to conquer the self-life and seek daily to obtain more and more of this self-conquest. "He that overcomes himself is greater than he who conquers a city."
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may strive to overcome my selfishness. I pray that I may achieve the right perspective of my position in the world.
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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
> _________
> The following is Excerpt No. 272 from As Bill Sees It : “Troubles of Our Own Making”
> Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven
> by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, & self-pity, we step on the
> toes of our fellows & they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without
> provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made
> decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
> So our troubles, we think, are basically of our making. They arise out of ourselves,
> & the alcoholic is an extreme example of self will run riot, though he usually does not
> think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it
> kills us!
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-62
>
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