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> Date: March 12, 2013 8:58:47 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: 2-DAY, Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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> Subj: 2-DAY, Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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> March 12: Your sane, sober, respectable self is your real self. That's why we alcoholics are so happy in A.A. Have I come to myself?
> 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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> The Prodigal Son "took his journey into a far country and wasted his substance with riotous living." That's what we alcoholics do. We waste our substance with riotous living. "When he came to himself, he said: 'I will arise and go to my father.'" That's what you do in A.A. You come to yourself. Your alcoholic self is not your real self. Your sane, sober, respectable self is your real self. That's why we alcoholics are so happy in A.A. Have I come to myself?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Simplicity is the keynote of a good life. Choose the simple things always. Life can become complicated if you let it be so. You can be swamped by difficulties if you let them take up too much of your time. Every difficulty can be either solved or ignored and something better substituted for it. Love the humble things of life. Reverence the simple things. Your standard must never be the world's standard of wealth and power.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may love the simple things of life. I pray that I may keep my life uncomplicated and free.
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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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> A DAY'S PLAN
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> On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity dishonest or self-seeking motives.
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> ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86
> Every day I ask God to kindle within me the fire of His love, so that love, burning bright and clear, will illuminate my thinking and permit me to better do His will. Throughout the day, as I allow outside circumstances to dampen my spirits, I ask God to sear my consciousness with the awareness that I can start my day over any time I choose; a hundred times if necessary.
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> Reprinted from Daily Reflections
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> The mind of man is unable to approximate the untold millions of dollars that have been spent by us alcoholics in the futile chase after happiness, only to find that what we purchased was not happiness but misery, want, illness and despair.
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> By calling off the hunt, by quitting our quest for fun that we had always believed hid in the bottom of a bottle, we found happiness. The price of this happiness was only that we give happiness to others and we learned that the more we gave the more we had. We could eat our cake and have it too.
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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