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> Date: June 20, 2011 4:08:01 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, June 20, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, June 20, 2011
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> June 20: I heard a “keeper” at the meeting last night, “We are spiritual beings struggling with human issues.”
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> This is June, the 6th month of the year;
> • The 6th Tradition: An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
> • The 6th Step: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
> • The 6th Promise: That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> You should be ready and willing to carry the A.A. message when called upon to do so. live for some purpose greater than yourself. Each day you will have something to work for. You have received so much from this program that you should have a vision that gives your life a direction and a purpose that gives meaning to each new day. Let us not slide along through life. Let us have a purpose for each day and let us make that purpose for something greater than just ourselves. What is my purpose for today?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> To see God with eyes of faith is to cause God's power to manifest itself in the material world. God cannot do His work because of unbelief. In response to your belief, God can work a miracle in your personality. All miracles happen in the realm of personality and all are caused by and based on belief in God's never - failing power. But God's power cannot manifest itself in personalities unless those personalities make His power available by their faith. We can only see God with the eyes of faith, but this kind of seeing produces a great change in our way of living.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may see God with the eyes of faith. I pray that this seeing will produce a change in my personality.
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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.
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> The following is Excerpt No. 51 from As Bill Sees It : “The Coming of Faith”
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> In my own case, the foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith: a faith that, despite all worldly appearances to the contrary, causes me to believe that I live in a universe that makes sense.
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> To me, this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, & love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, & a destiny to grow, however little an haltingly, toward His own likeness & image. Before the coming of faith I had lived as an alien in a cosmos that too often seemed both hostile & cruel. In it there could be no inner security for me.
> Grapevine January 1962 “The Coming of Faith”
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> When I was driven to my knees by alcohol, I was made ready to ask for the gift of faith. & all was changed. Never again, my pains & problems notwithstanding, would I experience my former desolation. I saw the universe lighted by God's love; I was alone no more.
> letter 1966–The Coming of Faith
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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