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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, January 18, 2011
>
>
> January 18: Am I building a new life on the foundation of sobriety?
> 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
>
> The new life can't be built in a day. we have to take the program
> slowly, a little at a time. Our subconscious minds have to be
> reeducated. We have to learn to think differently. We have to get
> used to sober thinking instead of alcoholic thinking. Anyone who
> tries it knows that the old alcoholic thinking is apt to come back
> on us when we least expect it. Building a new life is a slow
> process, but it can be done if we really follow the A.A. program. Am
> I building a new life on the foundation of sobriety?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I will pray daily for faith, for it is God's gift. On faith alone
> depends the answer to my prayers. God gives it to me in response to
> my prayers, because it is a necessary weapon for me to possess for
> the overcoming of all adverse conditions and the accomplishment of
> all good in my life. Therefore, I will work at strengthening my faith.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may so think and live as to feed my faith in God. I
> pray that my faith may grow because with faith God's power becomes
> available to me.
>
> 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. 6 from As Bill Sees It : “All or Nothi
> ng?”
>
> Acceptance & faith are capable of producing 100 per cent
> sobriety. In fact, they usually do; & they must, else we could
> have no life at all. But the moment we carry these attitudes into
> our emotional problems, we find that only relative results are
> possible. Nobody can, for example, become completely free from fear,
> anger, & pride.
>
> Hence, in this life we shall attain nothing like perfect
> humility & love. So we shall have to settle, respecting most of our
> problems, for a very gradual progress, punctuated sometimes by heavy
> setbacks. Our old-time attitude of "all or nothing" will have to be
> abandoned.
>
> Grapevine, March 1962
>
> 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
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