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> Date: June 21, 2011 12:04:58 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, June 21, 2011
> June 21: You cannot obtain a serene mind by reasoning, because your reasoning powers are limited by space and time; you can only have [a serene] mind by an act of faith.
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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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> Intelligent faith in that Power greater than ourselves can be counted on to stabilize our emotions. It has an incomparable capacity to help us look at life in balanced perspective. We look up, around, and away from ourselves, and we see that nine out of ten things that at the moment upset us will shortly disappear. Problems solve themselves, criticism and unkindness vanish as though they had never been. Have I got the proper perspective toward life?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> A truly spiritual man or woman would like to have a serene mind. The only way to keep calm in this troubled world is to have a serene mind. The calm and sane mind sees spiritual things as the true realities and material things as only temporary and fleeting. That sort of mind you can never obtain by reasoning, because your reasoning powers are limited by space and time. That kind of a mind you can never obtain by reading, because other minds are also limited in the same way. You can only have that mind by an act of faith, by making the venture of belief.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may have a calm and sane mind. I pray that I may look up, around, and away from myself.
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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. 201 from As Bill Sees It : “Unlimited Choice”
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> Any number of alcoholics are bedeviled by the dire conviction that if ever they go near A.A. they will be pressured to conform to some particular brand of faith or theology.
> They just do not realize that faith is never an imperative for A.A. membership; that sobriety can be achieved with an easily acceptable minimum of it, & that our concepts of a Higher Power & God - as we understand Him - afford everyone a nearly unlimited choice of spiritual belief & action.
> Grapevine April 1961
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> In talking to a prospect, stress the spiritual feature freely. If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God. He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him.
> The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself & that he live by spiritual principles.
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-93
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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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