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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: April 6, 2011 10:04:18 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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> April 6: Was my personality problem ever solved by going on the wagon or taking the pledge?
> This is April, the 4th month of the year;
> • The 4th Tradition: Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
> • The 4th Step: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
> • The 4th Promise: We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or inferiority, or because of some emotional conflict within them, so that they cannot adjust themselves to life. Alcoholics cannot stop drinking unless they find a way to solve their personality problems. That's why going on the wagon doesn't solve anything. That's why taking the pledge usually doesn't work. Was my personality problem ever solved by going on the wagon or taking the pledge?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> God irradiates your life with the warmth of His spirit. You must open up like a flower to this divine irradiation. Loosen your hold on earth, its cares, and its worries. Unclasp your hold on material things, relax your grip, and the tide of peace and serenity will flow in. Relinquish every material thing and receive it back again from God. Do not hold on to earth's treasures so firmly that your hands are too occupied to clasp God's hands as He holds them out to you in love.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may be open to receive God's blessing. I pray that I may be willing to relinquish my hold on material things and receive them back from God.
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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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> Prayer
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> Disturb us, Lord, when
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> We are too well pleased with ourselves,
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> When our dreams have come true,
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> Because we dreamed too little,
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> When we arrived safely,
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> Because we sailed too close to the shore.
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> Disturb us, Lord, when,
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> With the abundance of things we possess,
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> We have lost our thirst
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> For the waters of life;
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> Having fallen in love with life,
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> We have ceased to dream of eternity,
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> And, in our efforts to build a new earth,
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> We have allowed our vision
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> Of the new Heaven to dim.
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> Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
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> To venture on wider seas,
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> Where storms will show your mastery;
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> Where, losing sight of land,
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> We shall find the stars.
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> We ask you to push back
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> The horizons of our hopes,
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> And to push us in the future
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> In strength, courage, hope, and love.
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> This we ask in the name of our Captain,
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> Who is Jesus Christ.
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> Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, at the beginning of his voyage aboard the Golden Hind.
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> ____________________________
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> As Stan B. would often quote:
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> “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
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> 1 Thes 5:18
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> Prayer of St. Francis
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> Lord, make me an instrument of Your
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> peace.
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> Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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> Where there is injury, pardon;
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> Where there is doubt, faith;
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> Where there is despair, hope;
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> Where there is darkness, light;
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> and where there is sadness, joy.
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> O Divine Master, grant that I may not so
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> much seek to be consoled as to console;
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> To be understood, as to understand;
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> To be loved, as to love;
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> For it is in giving that we receive;
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> It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
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> And it is in dying that we are born to
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> eternal life.
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