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> Date: June 9, 2011 11:51:09 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, June 9, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, June 9, 2011
> June 9: “ We began to see each adversity as a God given opportunity to develop the kind of courage which is born of humility, rather than of bravado.”
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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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> We finally came to the bottom. We did not have to be financially broke, although many of us were. But we were spiritually bankrupt. We had a soul-sickness, a revulsion against ourselves and against our way of living. Life had become impossible for us. We had to end it all or do something about it. Am I glad I did something about it?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> Faith is not seeing, but believing. I am in a box of space and time and cannot see spacelessness or eternity. But God is not within the shell of time and space. He is timeless and spaceless. He cannot be fully comprehended by our finite minds. But we must try to make a union between our purposes and the purposes of God. By trying to merge our minds with the mind of God, a oneness of purpose results. This oneness of purpose puts us in harmony with God and others. Evil comes from being in disharmony with God and good comes from being in harmony with Him.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may be in harmony with God. I pray that I may get into the stream of goodness in the universe.
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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. 91 from As Bill Sees It : “Courage and Prudence”
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> When fear persisted, we knew it for what it was, & we became able to handle it. We began to see each adversity as a God given opportunity to develop the kind of courage which is born of humility, rather than of bravado.
> Grapevine 1962
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> Prudence is a workable middle ground, a channel of clear sailing between the obstacles of fear on the one side & of recklessness on the other. Prudence in practice creates a definite climate, the only climate in which harmony, effectiveness, & consistent spiritual progress can be achieved.
> Twelve Concepts p-63
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> Prudence is rational concern without worry.
> talk 1966
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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