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> Date: March 2, 2012 9:52:02 AM EST
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> Subj: Today, Friday, March 2, 2012
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> S T E P S = Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety
>
> 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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> Thought for the Day
> Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own willpower. We have been proved helpless before the power of alcohol. So the only way we could stop drinking was by turning to a Power greater than ourselves. We call that Power God. The time that you really get this program is when you get down on your knees and surrender yourself to God, as you understand Him. Surrender means putting your life into God's hands. Have I made a promise to God that I will try to live the way He wants me to live?
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> Meditation for the Day
> Spirit-power comes from communication with God in prayer and times of quiet meditation. I must constantly seek spirit-communication with God. This is a matter directly between me and God. Those who seek it through the medium of the church do not always get the joy and the wonder of spirit communication with God. From this communication comes life, joy, peace, and healing. Many people do not realize the power that can come to them from direct spirit-communication.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may feel that God's power is mine. I pray that I may be able to face anything through that power.
>
> 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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> Suggestions
>
> I remember my sponsor's answer when I told him that the Steps were "suggested."
> He replied that they are "suggested" in the same way that,
> if you were to jump out of an airplane with a parachute,
> it is "suggested" that you pull the ripcord to save your life.
> - Daily Reflections, p. 344
>
> Thought to Ponder . . .
> The hardest thing in life is letting go of what you thought was real.
>
> AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
>
> S T E P S = Solutions Through Each Positive Step
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>
>
> _______
> A cloistered nun describes her daily schedule–a spiritual schedule, Pittsford, New York:
> 5:30 to 6 a.m. Rise, wash, dress for the day.
> 6 to 7:20 a.m. Lauds (morning prayer) and meditation
> 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. Mass and Thanksgiving.
> 8:15 to 8:30 a.m. Terce (midmorning prayer)
> 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. Coffee and bread
> 8:45 to 9 a.m. Clean-up.
> 9 to 11 a.m. Work (sewing, cooking, cleaning)
> 11 to 11:15 a.m. Sext (midday prayer).
> 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. Self-examination or table setting.
> 11:30 a.m. to noon Dinner (all meals are eaten in silence; at midday, something, usually the Vatican newspaper, is read aloud).
> Noon to 12:30 p.m. Wash pots and dishes.
> 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Recreation.
> 1:30 to 2 p.m Work
> 2 to 2:30 p.m. None (pronounced “known”; midafternoon prayer) and litany.
> 2:30 to 3 p.m. Spiritual reading.
> 3 to 4:30 p.m. Work and gardening in warm weather, indoor house maintenance in the winter.
> 4:30 to 5 p.m. Vespers (evening prayer).
> 5 to 6 p.m. Quiet meditation
> 6 to 7 p.m. Supper and clean-up.
> 7 to 8 p.m. Recreation
> 8 to 8:30 p.m. Compline(night prayer)
> 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Work or reading
> 9:30 to 10 p.m. Matins (last prayers of the day)
> 10 to 10:15 p.m. Retire to cell, go to bed.
>
>
> From: Real Simple Magazine, some past issue, page 108
> _____________________________
> As Stan B. would often quote:
>
> “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
> 1 Thes 5:1