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> Date: January 19, 2011 11:05:25 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, January 19, 2011
>
> January 19: Am I living the way of honesty, unselfishness, and
> faith? What about material achievement?
> 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
>
> On the foundation of sobriety, we can build a life of honesty,
> unselfishness, faith in God, and love of our fellow human beings.
> We'll never fully reach these goals, but the adventure of building
> that kind of a life is so much better than the merry-go-round of our
> old drinking life that there's no comparison. We come into A.A. to
> get sober, but if we stay long enough we learn a new way of living.
> We become honest with ourselves and with other people. We learn to
> think more about others and less about ourselves. And we learn to
> rely on the constant help of a Higher Power. Am I living the way of
> honesty, unselfishness, and faith?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I believe that God had already seen my heart's needs before I cried
> to Him, before I was conscious of those needs myself. I believe that
> God was already preparing the answer. God does not have to be
> petitioned with sighs and tears and much speaking before he
> reluctantly looses the desired help. He has already anticipated my
> every want and need. I will try to see this, as His plans unfold in
> my life.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may understand my real wants and needs. I pray that my
> understanding of those needs and wants may help to bring the answer
> to them.
>
>
> 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 read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
>
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 40 from As Bill Sees It : “Material Ac
> hievement”
>
> No member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement.
> Nor do we enter into debate with the many who cling to the belief
> that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of
> life. But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made
> a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholic.
>
> We demanded more than our share of security, prestige, &
> romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still
> greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for
> oblivion.
>
> In all these strivings, so many of them well intentioned,
> our crippling handicap was our lack of humility. We lacked the
> perspective to see that character building & spiritual values had to
> come first, & that material satisfactions were simply by products &
> not the chief aims of life.
> Twelve & Twelve p-71
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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