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> Date: March 21, 2011 9:54:57 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, March 21, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, March 21, 2011
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> March 21: Do I know that this day is all I have and that with God's help I can stay sober today?
> 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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> In A.A. we forget about the future. We know from experience that as time goes on, the future takes care of itself. Everything works out well, as long as we stay sober. All we need to think about is today. When we get up in the morning and see the sun shining in the window, we thank God that He has given us another day to enjoy because we're sober, a day in which we may have a chance to help somebody. Do I know that this day is all I have and that with God's help I can stay sober today?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> All is fundamentally well. That does not mean that all is well on the surface of things. But it does mean that God's in His heaven and that He has a purpose for the World, which will eventually work out when enough human beings are willing to follow His way. "Wearing the world as a loose garment" means not being upset by the surface wrongness of things, but feeling deeply secure in the fundamental goodness and purpose in the universe.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that God may be with me in my journey through the world. I pray that I may know that God is planning that journey.
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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. 25 from As Bill Sees It : “We Cannot Stand Still”
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> In the first days of A.A., I was not much bothered about the areas of life in which I was standing still. There was always the alibi: "after all," I said to myself, "I'm far too busy with much more important matters." That was my nearly perfect prescription for comfort & complacency.
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> Grapevine June 1961
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> How many of us would presume to declare, "Well, I am sober & I am happy. What more can I want, or do? I am fine the way I am." We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude
> awakening. We have to grow or else deteriorate. For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow. Change we must; we cannot stand still.
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> Grapevine February 1961
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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