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> Date: March 31, 2011 12:09:05 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, March 31, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, March 31, 2011
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> Please permit me to add: reading the As Bill Sees It entry about "Powerless Over Alcohol" reminds of Ron P's share about his experience as a Navy rescue helicopter pilot. He said that the standard operating procedure was to pluck those individuals first who were no longer fighting in the water and had visibly given up.
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> March 31: Am I trying not to be all "get" and no "give"?
> This is March, the 3rd month of the year;
> • The 3rd Tradition: The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
> • The 3rd Step: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
> • The 3rd Promise: We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward being more unselfish? Do I no longer want my own way in everything? When things go wrong and I can't have what I want, do I no longer sulk? Am I trying not to waste money on myself? And does it make me happy to see my family and my home have enough attention from me? Am I trying not to be all "get" and no "give"?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Each day is a day of progress, steady progress forward, if you make it so. You may not see it, but God does. God does not judge by outward appearance. He judges by the heart. Let Him see in your heart a simple desire always to do His will. Though you may feel that your work has been spoiled or tarnished, God sees it as an offering for Him. When climbing a steep hill, people are often more conscious of the weakness of their stumbling feet than of the view, the grandeur, or even of the upward progress.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may persevere in all good things. I pray that I may advance each day in spite of my stumbling feet.
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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. 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. 283 from As Bill Sees It : “Powerless over Alcohol”
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> I had gone steadily downhill, & on that day in 1934 I lay upstairs in the hospital, knowing for the first time that I was utterly hopeless.
> Lois was downstairs, & Dr. Silkworth was trying in his gentle way to tell her what was wrong with me & that I was hopeless. "But Bill has a tremendous amount of will power," she said. "He has tried desperately to get well. We have tried everything. Doctor, why can't he stop?"
> He explained that my drinking, once a habit, had become an obsession, a true insanity that condemned me to drink against my will.
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> A.A. Comes Of Age p-52
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> In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat & when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us & we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him.
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> letter 1966
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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