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> Date: February 18, 2011 8:44:19 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Friday, February 18, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Friday, February 18, 2011
>
> February 18: When we ask for help, we first have to trust the person
> who is helping us.
> Bill W. has some advice on how to place our trust.
> 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 gro
> up conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not gov
> ern.
> • The 2nd Step: Came to believe that a Power greater than ou
> rselves could restore us to sanity.
> • The 2nd Promise: We are going to know a new freedom and a n
> ew happiness.
> __________________
> A.A. Thought for the Day
>
> After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family
> and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self respect.
> it poisoned my whole life, until I met A.A. My life is happier now
> than it has been for a long time. I don't want to commit suicide. So
> with the help of God and A.A., I'm not going to take any more of
> that alcoholic poison into my system. And I'm going to keep training
> my mind never even to think of liquor again in any way except as a
> poison. Do I believe that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch
> it again?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> I will link up my frail nature with the limitless Divine Power. I
> will link my life with the Divine Force for Good in the world. It is
> not the passionate appeal that gains the Divine attention as much as
> the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands.
> So I will trust God like a child who places its tangled skein of
> wool in the hands of a loving parent to unravel. We please God more
> by our unquestioning confidence than by imploring Him for help.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may put all my difficulties in God's hands and leave
> them there. I pray that I may fully trust God to take care of them.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 197
> 5, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This bo
> ok was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Dayto
> na 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 read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
>
> The following is Excerpt No. 144 from As Bill Sees It : “Blind Trus
> t?”
>
> Most surely, there can be no trust where there is no love,
> nor can there be real love where distrust holds its malign sway.
> But does trust require that we be blind to other peoples
> motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly.
> Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as
> the capability for good in every person that we would trust. Such a
> private inventory can reveal the degree of confidence we should
> extend in any given situation.
> However, this inventory needs to be taken in a spirit of
> understanding & love. Nothing can so much bias our judgment as the
> negative emotions of suspicion, jealousy, or anger.
> Having vested our confidence in another person, we ought to
> let him know of our full support. Because of this, more often than
> not he will respond magnificently, & far beyond our first
> expectations.
>
> letter 1966
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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