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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: December 2, 2011 1:07:01 PM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Friday, December 2, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Friday, December 2, 2011
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> December 2–thinking that [may] lead to a slip; substituting sweets for alcohol
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> This is December, the 12th month of the year;
> • The 12th Tradition reads: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
> • The 12th Step: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
> • The 12th Promise: We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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> Thought for the Day
> The thoughts that come before having a slip seem to be partly subconscious. And yet it is likely that at least part of these thoughts get into our consciousness. An idle thought connected with drinking casually pops into our mind. That is the crucial moment. Will I harbor that thought even for one minute or will I banish it from my mind at once? If I let it stay, it may develop into a daydream. I may begin to see a cool glass of beer or a Manhattan cocktail in my mind’s eye. If I allow the daydream to stay in my mind, it may lead to a decision, however unconscious, to take a drink. Then I am headed for a slip. Do I let myself daydream?
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> Meditation for the Day
> Many of us have a sort of vision of the kind of person God wants us to be. We must be true to that vision, whatever it is, and we must try to live up to it, by living the way we believe we should live. We can all believe that God has a vision of what He wants us to be like. In all people there is a good person whom God sees in us, the person we could be and that God would like us to be. But many a person fails to fulfill that promise and God’s disappointments must be many.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may strive to be the kind of a person that God would have me be. I pray that I may try to fulfill God’s vision of what I could be.
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> 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.
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> MYTH: Craving for alcohol can be offset by eating high sugar foods.
> REALITY: Foods with a high sugar content will increase the alcoholic’s depression, irritability, and tension and intensify his desire for a drink to relieve these symptoms.
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> From: Under the Influence, A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism, Milam, Ph.D., James R. and Katherine Ketcham, Bantam Books, published by arrangement with Madrona Publishers, Inc., Seattle,1983; page 14