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> Date: January 6, 2011 10:40:54 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, January 6, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, January 6, 2011
>
> January 6: “How wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be s
> pecially distinguished among our fellows in order to be useful & pro
> foundly happy,”–Bill W.
>
> 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
>
> Keeping sober is the most important thing in my life. The most
> important decision I ever made was my decision to give up drinking.
> I am convinced that my whole life depends on not taking that first
> drink. Nothing in the world is as important to me as my own
> sobriety. Everything I have, my whole life, depends on that one
> thing. Can I afford ever to forget this, even for one minute?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I will discipline myself. I will do this disciplining now. I will
> turn out all useless thoughts. I know that the goodness of my life
> is a necessary foundation for its usefulness. I will welcome this
> training, for without it God cannot give me His power. I believe
> that this power is a mighty power when it is used in the right way.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may face and accept whatever discipline is necessary.
> I pray that I may be fit to receive God's power in my life.
>
> 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. 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
>
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 254 from As Bill Sees It : “Satisfacti
> ons of Right Living”
>
> How wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be
> specially distinguished among our fellows in order to be useful &
> profoundly happy. Not many of us can be leaders of prominence, nor
> do we wish to be.
> Service gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles
> well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home
> or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the fact
> that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
> love freely given brings a full return, the certainty that we are no
> longer isolated & alone in self constructed prisons, the surety that
> we can fit & belong in God's scheme of things - these are the
> satisfactions of right living for which no pomp & circumstance, no
> heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
>
> Twelve & Twelve p-124
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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