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> Date: January 30, 2012 10:02:31 AM EST
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> Subj: Today, Monday, January 30, 2012
> January 30: Newcomers: you cannot make a horse drink water if he still prefers beer or is too crazy to know what he does want. Set a pail of water beside him, tell him how good it is & why, & leave him alone.
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> This is January, the 1st month of the year;
> • The 1st Tradition: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
> • The 1st Step: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
> • The 1st Promise: If we are painstaking about this phase [Steps 8 & 9] of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> A drinking life isn't a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking is the loneliness. And one of the best things about A.A. is the fellowship. Drinking cuts you off from other people, at least from the people who really matter to you, your family, your coworkers, and your real friends. No matter how much you love them, you build up a wall between you and them by your drinking. You're cut off from any real companionship with them. As a result, you're terribly lonely. Have I gotten rid of my loneliness?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I will sometimes go aside into a quiet place of retreat with God. In that place, I will find restoration and healing and power. I will plan quiet times now and then, times when I will commune with God and arise rested and refreshed to carry on the work that God has given me to do. I know that God will never give me a load greater than I can bear. It is in serenity and peace that all true success lies.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may strengthen my inner life, so that I may find serenity. I pray that my soul may be restored in quietness and peace.
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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. 14 from As Bill Sees It : “Newcomer Problems”
>
> The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Perhaps we try to
> give them advice about their affairs which we are not really competent to give or ought
> not give at all. Then we are hurt & confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is
> accepted & brings still greater confusion.
> Twelve & Twelve p-111
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> You can not make a horse drink water if he still prefers beer or is too crazy to
> know what he does want. Set a pail of water beside him, tell him how good it is &
> why, & leave him alone.
>
> If people really want to get drunk, there is, so far as I know, no way of stopping
> this - so leave them alone & let them get drunk, but do not exclude them from the
> water pail, either.
> letter 1942
>
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