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> Date: February 22, 2011 10:22:21 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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> February 22: Do I realize that my job, my family, and my real friends are dependent upon my sobriety?
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> February 22, 2006–David Moses–5 years today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> This is February, the 2nd month of the year;
> • The 2nd Tradition: For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
> • The 2nd Step: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
> • The 2nd Promise: We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
> __________________
> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Now we can take an inventory of the good things that have come to us through A.A. To begin with, we're sober today. That's the biggest asset on any alcoholic's books. Sobriety to us is like goodwill in business. Everything else depends on that. Most of us have jobs which we owe to our sobriety. We know we couldn't hold these jobs if we were drinking, so our jobs depend on our sobriety. Most of us have families, which we either had lost or might have lost, if we hadn't stopped drinking. We have friends in A.A., real friends who are always ready to help us. Do I realize that my job, my family, and my real friends are dependent upon my sobriety?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I must trust God to the best of my ability. This lesson has to be learned. My doubts and fears continually drive me back into the wilderness. Doubts lead me astray, because I am not trusting God. I must trust God's love. It will never fail me, but I must learn not to fail it by my doubts and fears. We all have much to learn in turning out fear by faith. All our doubts arrest God's work through us. I must not doubt. I must believe in God and continually work at strengthening my faith.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may live the way God wants me to live. I pray that I may get into that stream of goodness in the world.
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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. 35 from As Bill Sees It : “Suffering Transmuted”
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> A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
> letter 1959
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> For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenomenon which bedeviled several of his first years in A.A., a time when only days & nights of carrying the message to other alcoholics could cause him to forget about drinking. Although his craving was hard to withstand, it doubtless did account for some part of the intense incentive that went into forming Akron's Group Number One.
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> Bob's spiritual release did not come easily; it was to be painfully slow. It always entailed the hardest kind of work & the sharpest vigilance.
> A.A. Comes of Age p-69
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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