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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: April 14, 2011 9:12:51 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, April 14, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, April 14, 2011
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> April 14: What is living a “balanced” life? “......keep material things in their proper place and keep spiritual things at the center of my life. “
> 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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> A police captain once told about certain cases he had come across in his police work. The cause of the tragedy in each case was drunkenness. He told his audience about a man who got into an argument with his wife while he was drunk and beat her to death. Then he went out and drank some more. The police captain also told about a woman who got too near the edge of an old quarry hole when she was drunk and fell one hundred and fifty feet to her death. When I read or hear these stories, do I think about our motto: "But for the grace of God"?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I must keep balance by keeping spiritual things at the center of my life. God will give me this poise and balance if I pray for it. This poise will give me power in dealing with the lives of others. This balance will manifest itself more and more in my own life. I should keep material things in their proper place and keep spiritual things at the center of my life. Then I will be at peace amid the distractions of everyday living.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may dwell with God at the center of my life. I pray that I may keep that inner peace at the center of my being.
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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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> April 14,
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> In Step Eight we “made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.”
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> It is a lot easier to list those persons whom we have harmed by some intentional and direct action than it is to list those whom we have hurt by acts of omission.
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> We have not only done those things which we ought not to have done, but we have left undone those things which we ought to have done.
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> Carelessness, neglect, lack of appreciation, and thoughtfulness can hurt as much as a kick in the teeth.
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> From: Eye Opener, Hazelden Foundation, Center City, MN 55012; printed in the USA. Publishers acknowledge generosity of T.W.R.
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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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> “God has no religion” -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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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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