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> From: Dave Mastran <davemastran@gmail.com>
> Date: June 4, 2014 at 10:37:28 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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> June 4: Most of us thought good character was desirable. Obviously, good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied. With a proper display of honesty & morality, we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted. But whenever we had to choose between character & comfort, character building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
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> This is June, the 6th month of the year;
> • The 6th Tradition: An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
> • The 6th Step: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
> • The 6th Promise: That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Some things I like since becoming dry: feeling good in the morning; full use of my intelligence; joy in my work; the love and trust of my children; lack of remorse; the confidence of my friends; the prospect of a happy future; the appreciation of the beauties of nature; knowing what it is all about. I'm sure that I like these things, am I not?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Molding your life means cutting and shaping your material into something good, something that can ex- press the spiritual. All material things are the clay out of which we mold something spiritual. You must first recognize the selfishness in your desires and motives, actions and words, and then mold that selfishness until it is sublimated into a spiritual weapon for good. As the work of molding proceeds, you see more and more clearly what must be done to mold your life into something better.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may mold my life into something useful and good. I pray that I may not be discouraged by the slow progress that I make.
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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. 103 from As Bill Sees It : “Principle Before Expediency ”
> Most of us thought good character was desirable. Obviously, good character was
> something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied. With a proper
> display of honesty & morality, we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really
> wanted. But whenever we had to choose between character & comfort, character
> building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
>
> Seldom did we look at character building as something desirable in itself. We
> never thought of making honesty, tolerance & true love of man & God the daily
> basis of living.
> Twelve & Twelve p-71/72
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> How to translate a right mental conviction into a right emotional result, & so into
> easy, happy, & good living, is the problem of life itself.
> Grapevine January 1958
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
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