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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: June 13, 2011 10:59:29 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, June 13, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Monday, June 13, 2011
> From Eigil:
> Please let’s celebrate Pat O’Dwyer sobriety date 6-13-1975 (36 years in 11). According to Marga, it was Friday the 13th, when she became sober. Speaking personally, Pat has had an impact on my life. She has been an example of how to be open-minded, loving, compassionate, forgiving, humble, and humorous–all the character traits that matter. I love her dearly.
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> June 13: “The attitude of "Thy will, not mine, be done” leads to clear guidance.”
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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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> In A.A. we have to reeducate our minds. We have to learn to think differently. We have to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. We have to look through the glass to what lies beyond it. We have to look through the night before to the morning after. No matter how good liquor looks from the short view, we must realize that in the long run it is poison to us. Have I learned to look through the bottle to the better life that lies ahead?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> If you are honestly trying to live the way you believe God wants you to live, you can get guidance from God in times of quiet communion with Him, provided your thoughts are directed toward God's will and all good things. The attitude of "Thy will, not mine, be done” leads to clear guidance. Act on this guidance and you will be led to better things. Your impulses seem to become less your own and more the leading of God's spirit acting through your thoughts. Obeyed, they will bring you the answers to your prayers.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may try to think God's thoughts after Him. I pray that my thoughts may be guided by His thoughts.
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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. 78 from As Bill Sees It : “Clearing a Channel”
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> During the day, we can pause where situations must be met & decisions made, & renew the simple request "thy will, not mine, be done".
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> If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance provided we remember, & repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation. Just saying it over & over will often enable us to return to the surest help of all - Our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
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> Twelve & Twelve p-102/103
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
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