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> Date: August 21, 2012 9:05:42 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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> August 21: Have I found the great Reality?
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> This is August, the 8th month of the year;
> • The 8th Tradition: Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
> • The 8th Step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
> • The 8th Promise: Self-seeking will slip away.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> "Who are you to say there is no God? This challenge comes to all of us. Are we capable of denying that there is a design and purpose in all of life as we know it? Or are we willing to admit that faith in some kind of Divine Principle is a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend? We find a great Reality deep down within us, if we face ourselves as we really are. In the last analysis, it is only there that God may be found. When we find this Reality within us, we are restored to our right minds." Have I found the great Reality?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> "Behold, I make all things new." When you change to a new way of life, you leave many things behind you. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Loosen somewhat the strands that tie you to the earth. It is only the earthly desires that bind you. Your new freedom will depend on your ability to rise above earthly things. Clipped wings can grow again. Broken wings can regain a strength and beauty unknown before. if you will, you can be released and free.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may be freed from things that hold me down. I pray that my spirit may soar in freedom.
>
> 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 reading for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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> The following is Excerpt No. 47 from As Bill Sees It : “Seeing is Believing”
> The Wright brothers' almost childish faith that they could build a machine which
> would fly was the mainspring of their accomplishment. Without that, nothing could
> have happened.
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> We agnostics & atheists were sticking to the idea that self sufficiency would
> solve our problems. When others showed us that God sufficiency worked with them,
> we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly. We were
> seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose
> above their problems.
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-52/53/55
>
> Eigil here, please permit one comment: I ran across an ad for a lecture that read, “Godless Religion or Devout Atheism?”
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