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> Date: January 10, 2011 1:10:17 PM EST
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> Subj: Today, Monday, January 10, 2011
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> January 10: Have I learned that there is power in humility?
> 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
>
> When we were drinking, most of us were full of pride and
> selfishness. We believed we could handle our own affairs, even
> though we were making a mess of our lives. We were very stubborn and
> didn't like to take advice. We resented being told what to do. To
> us, humility looked like weakness. But when we came into A.A., we
> began to be humble. And we found out that humility gave us the power
> we needed to overcome drinking. Have I learned that there is power
> in humility?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I will come to God in faith and He will give me a new way of life.
> This new way of life will alter my whole existence, the words I
> speak, the influence I have. They will spring from the life within
> me. I see how important is the work of a person who has this new way
> of life. The words and the example of such a person can have a wide
> influence for good in the world.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may learn the principles of the good life. I pray that
> I may meditate upon them and work at them, because they are eternal.
>
> 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. 62 from As Bill Sees It : A Different
> Swinging Door
>
> When a drunk shows up among us and says that he does not like
> the A.A. principles, people or service management, when he declares
> that he can do better elsewhere - we are not worried. We simply say,
> "Maybe your case really is different. Why don't you try something
> else?"
>
> If an A.A. member says he does not like his own group, we
> are not disturbed. We simply say, "Why don't you try another one? Or
> start one of your own?"
>
> To those who wish to secede from A.A. altogether, we extend
> a cheerful invitation to do just that. If they can do better by
> other means, we are glad. If after a trial they cannot do better, we
> know they face a choice: they can go mad or die or they can return
> to A.A. The decision is wholly theirs.( As a matter of fact, most of
> them do return to A.A.)
>
> Twelve Concepts p-71/73
>
> 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