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> Date: August 9, 2010 12:19:17 PM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Monday, August 9, 2010
>
> August 9: When you ask God to change you, you must at the same
> time fully trust Him.
> This is August, the 8th month of the year;
> • The 8th Tradition: Alcoholics Anonymous should remain fore
> ver nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special work
> ers.
> • The 8th Step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, an
> d became willing to make amends to them all.
> • The 8th Promise: Self-seeking will slip away.
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>
> Thought for the Day
> “We have an allergy to alcohol. The action of alcohol on chronic al
> coholics is a manifestation of an allergy. We allergic types can ne
> ver safely use alcohol in any form at all. We cannot be reconciled
> to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience an entire psychi
> c change. Once this psychic change has occurred, we who seemed doom
> ed, we who had so many problems that we despaired of ever solving th
> em, find ourselves able to control our desire for alcohol.” Have I
> had a psychic change?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> Ask God in daily prayer to give you the strength to change. When
> you ask God to change you, you must at the same time fully trust
> Him. If you do not fully trust Him, God may answer your prayer as a
> rescuer does that of a drowning person who is putting up too much of
> a struggle. The rescuer must firs render the person still more
> helpless, until he or she is wholly at the rescuer’s mercy. Just so
> must we be wholly at God’s mercy before we can be rescued.
>
> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may be daily willing to be changed. I pray that I may
> put myself wholly at the mercy of God.
>
> 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 read
> ing for December 21st, you would change the URL to http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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> A reading from The Eye Opener, another Hazeldon publication that
> contains meditations in pocket-book form for August 8th:
>
> Some of us wear our AA like we wear our clothes, entirely as
> external adornment and protection, and to hide what is underneath.
>
> There are many, however, who wear their AA in such a way that the AA
> way of living is so predominant in their appearance that all other
> apparel is unnoticed. To see such a person, the reaction is not to
> observe a gray suit or a blue dress, but a personality that radiates
> a character made beautiful by the simple code of living as found in
> Twelve Steps.
>
> For me personally, I need to think about whether I am at risk
> because I am not doing enough to make the twelve steps part of my
> being. At the same time--I need to remind myself: thought left
> hanging without action is a passive choice for inaction and for me
> inaction may not necessarily be a bad choice.
>
> I need to ask myself repeatedly throughout the day: Are the choices
> I am making working for me?
> ...................And then there’s Bobby Lyon’s advice:
> “Don’t think; Go to meetings; Pray; Call your sponsor; and
> Don’t drink.=9