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> Date: June 22, 2011 2:10:35 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, June 22, 2011
> June 22: “ When you allow yourself to be upset over one thing, you succeed only in opening the door to the coming of hundreds of other upsetting things.”
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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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> If you have any doubt, just ask any of the older members of the A.A. group, and they will readily tell you that since they turned their lives over to the care of God as they understand Him, many of their problems have been banished into the forgotten yesterdays. When you allow yourself to be upset over one thing, you succeed only in opening the door to the coming of hundreds of other upsetting things. Am I allowing myself to be upset over little things?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I would do well not to think of the Red Sea of difficulties that lies ahead. I am sure that when I come to that Red Sea, the waters will part and I will be given all the power I need to face and overcome many difficulties and meet what is in store for me with courage. I believe that I will pass through that Red Sea to the promised land, the land of the spirit where many souls meet in perfect comradeship. I believe that when that time comes, I will be freed of all the dross of material things and find peace.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may face the future with courage. I pray that I may be given strength to face both life and death fearlessly.
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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. 44 from As Bill Sees It : “Daily Acceptance”
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> Too much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most subtle & perverse form of self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain comfortably unaware of our own defects. Too often we are heard to say, "if it weren't for him (or her), how happy I'd be."
> letter 1966
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> Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, & the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again & again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we can profitably practice every day of our lives.
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> Provided we strenuously avoid turning these realistic surveys of the facts of life into unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation upon which increased emotional health & therefore spiritual progress can be built.
> Grapevine March 1962
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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> What a concept! Have a dandy day Love from Pat
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> Fair play is primarily not blaming others
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> for anything that is wrong with us.
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> Eric Hoffer
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