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> Date: March 29, 2012 9:25:49 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, March 28, 2012
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, March 28, 2012
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> March 29: Am I now really honest?
> This is March, the 3rd month of the year;
> • The 3rd Tradition: The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
> • The 3rd Step: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
> • The 3rd Promise: We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Before I met A.A., I was very dishonest. I lied to my spouse constantly about where I had been and what I'd been doing. I took time off from my work and pretended I'd been sick or gave some other dishonest excuse. I was dishonest with myself, as well as with other people. I would never face myself as I really was or admit when I was wrong. I pretended to myself that I was as good as the next person, although I suspected I wasn't. Am I now really honest?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I must live in the world and yet live apart with God. I can go forth from my secret times of communion with God to the work of the world. To get the spiritual strength I need, my inner life must be lived apart from the world. I must wear the world as a loose garment. Nothing in the world should seriously upset me, as long as my inner life is lived with God. All successful living arises from this inner life.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may live my inner life with God. I pray that nothing shall invade or destroy that secret place of peace.
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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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> The following is Excerpt No. 265 from As Bill Sees It : “Neither Dependency Nor Self-Sufficiency”
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> When we insisted, like infants, that people protect & take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result was unfortunate. The people we most loved often pushed us aside or perhaps deserted us entirely. Our disillusionment was hard to bear.
> We failed to see that, though adult in years, we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody - friend, wives, husbands, even the world itself - into protective parents. We refused to learn that over dependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, & even the best of them will sometimes let us down. especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.
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> Twelve & Twelve p-115
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> We are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting & relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us do, & humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity
> with serenity.
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> Alcoholics Anonymous p-68
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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