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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: January 26, 2011 9:29:24 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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> January 26: Drop the Past
> 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.
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> Thought for the Day
> As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and
> more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is
> that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our
> jobs, our money, and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on
> it. Our dependence on drinking became an obsession. In A.A., we
> find a new outlook on life. We learn how to change from alcoholic
> thinking to sober thinking. And we find out that we can no longer
> depend on drinking for anything. We depend on a Higher Power
> instead. Have I entirely given up that dependence on drinking?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> I will try to keep my life calm and unruffled. This is my great
> task, to find peace and acquire serenity. I must not harbor
> disturbing thoughts. No matter what fears, worries, and resentments
> I may have, I must try to think of constructive things, until
> calmness comes. Only when I am calm can I act as a channel for God’
> s spirit.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may build up instead of tearing down. I pray that I
> may be constructive and not destructive.
>
> 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 read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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> Drop the Past
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> If a misfortune has already occurred, it is best not to worry about
> it, so we do not add fuel to the problem. Don’t ally yourself with
> past events lingering on them and exaggerating them. Let the past t
> ake care of itself, and transport yourself to the present while taki
> ng whatever measures are necessary to ensure that such a misfortune
> never occurs again, now or in the future.
> From: Little Book of Inner Peace, His Holiness the Dalai Lama with
> Frédérique Hatier, Translated from the French by Dominique Side,
> Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 2002, page 301.
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> As the late Stan B.(I miss you Stan, I love you Stan) 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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