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> Date: January 14, 2011 3:38:25 PM EST
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> Subj: today, Friday, January 14, 2011
>
> January 14: We have been created to love and to be loved.
> 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 hal
> f way through.
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>
> Thought for the Day
> When we first came into A.A., a sober life seemed strange. We
> wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a
> drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we’
> re in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. And now we kno
> w that the life we’re living in A.A., the sobriety, the fellowship,
> the faith in God, and the trying to help each other, is the most nat
> ural way we could possibly live. Do I believe it’s the way God want
> s me to live?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> I will learn to overcome myself, because every blow to selfishness
> is used to shape the real, eternal, unperishable me. As I overcome
> myself, I gain that power which God releases in my soul. And I too
> will be victorious. It is the difficulties of life that I have to
> conquer, so much as my own selfishness.
>
> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may obey God and walk with Him and listen Him. I pray
> that I may strive to overcome my own selfishness.
> 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.
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> The Warmth of a Hand
>
>
> One day I was walking down the street in London, and I saw a tall,
> thin man sitting on the corner, all huddled up, looking most
> miserable.
>
> I went up to him, shook his hand, and asked him how he was. He
> looked up at me and said, “Oh! After such a long, long time I feel t
> he warmth of a human hand!” And he sat up.
>
> There was such a beautiful smile on his face because somebody was
> kind to him. Just shaking his hand had made him feel like somebody.
>
> For me, he was Jesus in a distressing disguise. I gave him the
> feeling of being loved by somebody, the joy of being loved.
>
> Somebody loves us, too–God Himself! We have been created to love an
> d to be loved.
>
> From: In The Heart of The World–Thoughts, Stories & Prayers, Mother
> Theresa, edited by Becky Benenate, Barnes & Noble Books, Published b
> y MJF Books, New York, 1997, page 67