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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: December 7, 2011 9:23:02 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday--PEARL HARBOR DAY--December 7, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday--PEARL HARBOR DAY--December 7, 2011
> from Eigil:
> December 7–Pearl Harbor Day–a significant day for drunks with their own personal “Pearl Harbor” day. Back in the day, some drunks referred to this day as “let’s get bombed day!”(thank you Jill!). DD says he was first introduced to “Kamikazes” on this day! This was followed by upgrading to the more expensive B-52s. Keep coming back! (Personal note–DD is one of the people I need to see coming thru the doors–very important person in my sobriety)
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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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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> When people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the temptation is strong to say nothing about it. No other A.A. member should force them to declare themselves. It is entirely up to them. If they are well grounded in A.A., they will realize that its up to them to speak up at the next meeting and tell about their slip. There is no possible evasion of this duty, if they are thoroughly honest and really desirous of living the A.A. way again. When they have done it, their old confidence returns. They are home again. Their slip should not be mentioned again by others. They are again a good member of A.A. Am I tolerant of other people's mistakes?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> It is in the union of a soul with God that strength, new life, and spiritual power come. Bread sustains the body but we cannot live by bread alone. To try to do the will of God is the meat and support of true living. We feed on that spiritual food. Soul starvation comes from failing to do so. The world talks about bodies that are undernourished. What of the souls that are undernourished? Strength and peace come from partaking of spiritual food.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may not try to live by bread alone. I pray that my spirit may live by trying to do the will of God as I understand it.
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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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> The following is Excerpt No. 71 from As Bill Sees It : “ ‘How Can You Roll With a Punch?’ ”
> On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our country, a great friend of A.A. was walking along a St. Louis street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic but he had been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in his city. Because many of his usually sober friends had already taken to their bottles that they might blot out the implications of the Pearl Harbor disaster, Father Ed was anguished by the thought that his cherished A.A. group would probably do the same.
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> Then a member, sober less than a year, stepped alongside & engaged Father Ed in a spirited conversation - mostly about A.A. Father Ed saw with relief, that his companion was perfectly sober.
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> How is it that you have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor? How can you roll with
> a punch like that?
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> "Well", replied the yearling, "each of us in A.A. has already had his own private Pearl Harbor. So why should we drunks crack up over this one?"
> Grapevine January 1962
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> 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 =2