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> Date: September 15, 2011 1:53:02 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Thursday, September 15, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Thursday, September 15, 2011
> September 15-"I became conscious of a very clear, simple idea: I was not in charge of my destiny," [Johnny] Cash wrote. "I was not in charge of my own death. I was going to die at God's time, not mine."
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> This is September, the 9th month of the year;
> • The 9th Tradition: A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
> • The 9th Step: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
> • The 9th Promise: Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
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> Thought for the Day
> “We all realize that we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to all of us. Ask Him in your morning meditations what you can do today for the person who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. See to it that your relationship with God is right and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. Give freely of what you find in A.A. But, obviously, you cannot transmit something which you haven’t got. So make a life-study of A.A.” Am I always looking for ways of presenting the A.A. program?
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> Meditation for the Day
> “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” Confidence means to have faith in something. We could not live without confidence in others. When you have confidence in God’s grace, you can face whatever comes. When you have confidence in God’s love, you can be serene and at peace. You can rest in the faith that God will take care of you. Try to rest in God’s presence until His life-power flows through you. Be still and in that stillness the still, small Voice will come. It speaks in quietness to the human mind that is attuned to its influence.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may find strength today in quietness. I pray that I may be content today that God will take care of me.
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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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> Johnny Cash was one of us. The excerpt below is taken from:
>
> 'Man in Black' Sang Ballads Of the Bereft
>
> By Louie Estrada
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, September 13, 2003; Page A01
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>
> “...........But for all his commercial success, Cash's personal life began to unravel from drug
> abuse and alcohol. He began taking amphetamines, sleeping pills and prescription
> painkillers. He often followed the pills with wine and beer. His erratic behavior led to
> violent outbursts, hangovers and problems in his marriages.
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> "Touring and drugs were what I did, with the effort involved in drugs mounting
> steadily as time went by," Cash said in his 1997 autobiography, "Cash."
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> Family members, friends and fellow performers warned him that he was on a road to
> self-destruction. But he brushed aside the warning, staying up for days at a time, then
> taking a handful of pills and crashing.
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> Hungover and strung out, he began canceling tour dates and failed to show up for
> recording appointments. Desperate, he drove himself to a secluded mountainous area
> on the Tennessee River outside Chattanooga and considered crawling into a cave to
> die.
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> Lying there in Nickajack Cave, alone in the dark, he discovered a sense of inner
> peace and attributed the feeling to God. "I became conscious of a very clear, simple
> idea: I was not in charge of my destiny," Cash wrote. "I was not in charge of my own
> death. I was going to die at God's time, not mine."
>
> He started to clean up his act in 1967 and slowly, after setbacks and relapses, he was
> healthy enough to appear on stage.....=9