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Hey. LTNS - how have you been? I play ice hockey on Thursday nights so
that's why you haven't seen me at Mens Wrap.

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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: January 24, 2011 9:08:43 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, January 24, 2011
>

> Subj: Today, Monday, January 24, 2011
>
> January 24: Have I changed my thinking?
> Intro comment: for this drunk--"Changing my thinking"--is all about
> the first step: 1--admitting that I am powerless over the MY
> addiction to alcohol; 2) recognizing that my life had become
> unmanageable. Once I took the First Step, AND CONTINUE TO TAKE THE
> FIRST STEP EVERY DAY, I became teachable and THEN I became aware of
> solutions and not just the daily problems coming my way (note: life
> still happens in sobriety; but only through working the Program do
> we have the tools to manage them).
>
> This is January, the 1st month of the year;
> • The 1st Tradition: Our common welfare should come first; p
> ersonal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
> • The 1st Step: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--
> that our lives had become unmanageable.
> • The 1st Promise: If we are painstaking about this phase [S
> teps 8 & 9] of our development, we will be amazed before we are half
> way through.
> __________________
> A.A. Thought for the Day
>
> Alcoholics who are living in a blind alley refuse to be really
> honest with themselves or with other people. They're running away
> from life and won't face things as they are. They won't give up
> their resentments. They're too sensitive and too easily hurt. They
> refuse to try to be unselfish. They still want everything for
> themselves. And no matter how many disastrous experiences they have
> had with drinking, they still do it over and over again. There's
> only one way to get out of that blind alley way of living and that's
> to change your thinking. Have I changed my thinking?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I know that the vision and power that I receive from God are
> limitless, as far as spiritual things are concerned. But in temporal
> and material things, I must submit to limitations. I know that I
> cannot see the road ahead. I must go just one step at a time,
> because God does not grant me a longer view. I am in uncharted
> waters, limited by my temporal and spatial life, but unlimited in my
> spiritual life.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that, in spite of my material limitations, I may follow God's
> way. I pray that I may learn that trying to do His will is perfect
> freedom.
> 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.
> _________________________________
>
>
> The following is Excerpt No. 83 from As Bill Sees It : “We Cannot L
> ive Alone”
>
> We cannot wholly rely on friends to solve all our
> difficulties. A good adviser will never do all our thinking for us.
> He knows that each final choice must be ours. He will therefore help
> to eliminate fear, expediency, & self-deception, so enabling us to
> make choices which are loving, wise, & honest.
> Grapevine August 1961
>
> 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
>
>
>
> On this date, January 24, in 1971, Bill W. died; it was the 53rd
> Anniversary of his marriage to Loi