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> Date: January 7, 2011 8:53:36 AM EST
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> Subj: Today, Friday, January 7, 2011
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> January 7: What’s standing between you and your next drink?
>
> 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 temptation comes, as it does sometimes to all of us, I will
> say to myself.- "No, my whole life depends on not taking that drink
> and nothing in the world can make me do it." Besides, I have
> promised that Higher Power that I wouldn't do it. I know that God
> doesn't want me to drink and I won't break my promise to God. I've
> given up my right to drink and it's not my decision any longer. Have
> I made the choice once and for all, so that there's no going back on
> it?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> In silence comes God's meaning to the heart. I cannot judge when it
> enters the heart. I can only judge by results. God's word is spoken
> to the secret places of my heart and, in some hour of temptation, I
> find that word and realize its value for the first time. When I need
> it, I find it there. "Thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward
> thee openly."
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may see God's meaning in my life. I pray that I may
> gladly accept what God has to teach me.
>
> 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. 66 from As Bill Sees It : “For Emergen
> cies Only?”
>
> Whether we had been believers or unbelievers, we began to
> get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league
> pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
>
> The notion that we would still live our own lives, God
> helping a little now & then, began to evaporate. Many of us who had
> thought ourselves religious awoke to the limitations of this
> attitude. Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of
> His help.
>
> Twelve & Twelve p-75
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
>
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