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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, January 31, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, January 31, 2011
>
> January 31: Do I have real fellowship with other people and with
> God? Do I think God will abandon me?
> 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
>
> Drinking cuts you off from God. No matter how you were brought up,
> no matter what your religion is, no matter if you say you believe in
> God, nevertheless you build up a wall between you and God by your
> drinking. You know you're not living the way God wants you to. As a
> result, you have that terrible remorse. When you come into A.A., you
> begin to get right with other people and with God. A sober life is a
> happy life, because by giving up drinking, we've gotten rid of our
> loneliness and remorse. Do I have real fellowship with other people
> and with God?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I believe that all sacrifice and all suffering are of value to me.
> When I am in pain, I am being tested. Can I trust God, no matter how
> low I feel? Can I say, "Thy will be done," no matter how much I am
> defeated? If I can, my faith is real and practical. it works in bad
> times as well as in good times. The Divine Will is working in a way
> that is beyond my finite mind to understand, but I can still trust
> in it.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may take my suffering in my stride. I pray that I may
> accept pain and defeat as part of God's plan for my spiritual growth.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 197
> 5, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This bo
> ok was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Dayto
> na Beach, Florida.
>
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 221 from As Bill Sees It : “God Will N
> ot Desert Us”
>
> Word comes to me that you are making a magnificent stand in
> adversity - this adversity being the state of your health. It gives
> me a chance to express my gratitude for your recovery in A.A. &
> especially for the demonstration of its principles you are now so
> inspiringly giving to us all.
> You will be glad to know that A.A.s have an almost unfailing
> record in this respect. This, I think, is because we are so aware
> that God will not desert us when the chips are down; indeed, He did
> not when we were drinking. & so it should be with the remainder of
> life.
> Certainly, He does not plan to save us from all troubles &
> adversity. Nor, in the end, does He save us from so called death
> since this but an opening of a door into a new life, where we shall
> dwell among His many mansions. Touching these things I know you have
> a most confident faith.
>
> letter 1966
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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