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> Date: March 14, 2011 1:28:38 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, March 14, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, March 14, 2011
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> March 14: Am I faithfully following the AA program? The eleventh step can keep us growing.
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> 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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> Can I get well? If I mean, "Can I ever drink normally again?" the answer is no. But if I mean, "Can I stay sober?" the answer is definitely yes. I can get well by turning my drink problem over to a Power greater than myself, that Divine Principle in the universe which we call God, and by asking that Power each morning to give me the strength to stay sober for the next twenty-four hours. I know from the experience of thousands of people that if I honestly want to get well, I can get well. Am I faithfully following the AA program?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Persevere in all that God's guidance moves you to do. The persistent carrying out of what seems right and good will bring you to that place where you would be. If you look back over God's guidance, you will see that His leading has been very gradual and that only as you have carried out His wishes, as far as you can understand them, has God been able to give you more clear and definite leading. You are led by God's touch on a quickened, responsive mind.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may persevere in doing what seems right. I pray that I may carry out all of God's leading, as far as I can 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. 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. 264 from As Bill Sees It : “The Step that Keeps Us Growing”
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> Sometimes when friends tell us how well we are doing, we know better inside. We know we are not doing well enough. We still can not handle life, as life is. There must be a serious flaw somewhere in our spiritual practice & development.
> What, then is it?
> The chances are better than even that we shall locate our trouble in our misunderstanding or neglect of A.A.’s step eleven - prayer, meditation, & the guidance of God.
> The other steps can keep most of us sober & somehow functioning. But step eleven can keep us growing, if we try hard & work at it continually.
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> Grapevine June 1958
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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