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> October 6: Do I know that A.A. could carry on without me, if it had to?
> This is October, the 10th month of the year;
> • The 10th Tradition reads: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
> • The 10th Step: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
> • The 10th Promise: Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Is it my desire to be a big shot in A.A.? Do I always want to be up front in the limelight? Do I feel that nobody else can do as good a job as I can? Or am I willing to take a seat in the back row once in a while and let somebody else carry the ball? Part of the effectiveness of any A.A. group is the development of new members to carry on, to take over from the older members. Am I reluctant to give up authority? Do I try to carry the load for the whole group? If so, I am not being fair to the newer members. Do I realize that no one person is essential? Do I know that A.A. could carry on without me, if it had to?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> The Unseen God can help to make us truly grateful and humble. Since we cannot see God, we must believe in Him without seeing. What we can see clearly is the change in a human being, when he sincerely asks God for the strength to change. We should cling to faith in God and in His power to change our ways. Our faith in an Unseen God will be rewarded by a useful and serviceable life. God will not fail to show us the way we should live, when in real gratitude and true humility we turn to Him.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may believe that God can change me. I pray that I may be always willing to be changed for the better.
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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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> Attitudes
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> One way to keep the channel open and to improve my conscious contact with God is to maintain a grateful attitude.
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> On the days when I am grateful, good things seem to happen in my life.
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> The instant I start cursing things in my life, however, the flow of good stops.
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> God did not interrupt the flow; my own negativity did.
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> Thought to Ponder . . .
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> We are in charge of our attitudes.
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> AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
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> A A = Attitude Adjustment
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> Golden Chain Prayer
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> We are a link in Amidas [1] golden chain
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> of love that stretches around the world.
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> We will keep our link bright and strong.
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> We will be kind and gentle to every living thing and protect all who are weaker than ourselves.
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> We will think pure and beautiful thoughts,
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> say pure and beautiful words, and do pure
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> and beautiful deeds.
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> May every link in Amidas chain of love be bright and strong, and may we all attain perfect peace. Namo Amida Buddha.
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> Source: The above Buddhist prayer was adapted by G.R. Lewis, the Senior Facilitator and founder of the Buddhist Faith Fellowship of Connecticut. http://buddhistfaith.tripod.com/buddhistprayer/id3.html
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> [1] In part as a response to the esotericism of Heian Buddhism, and in part as a response to the collapse of the emperor's court at Kyoto [Japan] and the subsequent rise of individual, feudal powers in Japan, medieval Japanese Buddhism moved towards more democratic and inclusive forms, of which the most important was Pure Land Buddhism. Pure Land or Amida Buddhism was oriented around the figure of Amida Buddha. Amida, the Buddha of Everlasting Light, was a previous incarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. In the previous incarnation, as a bodhisattva, he refused to accept Buddhahood unless he could grant eternal happiness in the Pure Land to whoever called on him; this compassionate promise was called the "Original Vow." Anyone who calls his name, "Namu Amida Butsu,"with sincere faith, trust, and devotion, will be granted by Amida an eternal life of happiness in the Pure Land which has been set aside specifically for those who call on Amida. [source: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/AMIDA.HTML]
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> October 7: Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself.
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> This is October, the 10th month of the year;
>
> • The 10th Tradition reads: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
> • The 10th Step: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
> • The 10th Promise: Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
> _________
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> Thought for the Day
> Do I put too much reliance on any one member of the group? That is, do I make a tin god out of some one person? Do I set that person on a pedestal? If I do, I am building my house on sand. All A.A. members have “clay feet.” They are all only one drink away from a drunk, no matter how long they have been in A.A. This has been proved to be true more than once. It’s not fair to any member to be singled out as a leader in A.A. and to always quote that member on the A.A. program. If that person should fail, where would I be? Can I afford to be tipped over by the failure of my ideal?
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> Meditation for the Day
> You must always remember that you are weak but that God is strong. God knows all about your weakness. He hears every cry for mercy, every sign of weakness, every plea for help, every sorrow over failure, every weakness felt and expressed. We only fail when we trust too much to our own strength. Do not feel bad about your weakness. When you are weak, that is when God is strong to help you. Trust God enough, and your weakness will not matter. God is always strong to save.
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> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may learn to lean on God’s strength. I pray that I may know that My weakness is God’s opportunity.
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> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 1975, Hazelden 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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> Here is an interesting take on “moderation.” I think of moderation as the active avoidance of chaos and dysfunction. While we drunks need to take a break from self-destruction, “earth people” take a break from success.
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> Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony
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> John Tagliabue
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> Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself
> together
> for some clear “meaning”–some momentary summary?
> no one
> can have poetry or dances, prayers or climaxes all day;
> the ordinary
> blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the
> health sometimes,
> only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long
> long tumultuous stretches;
> look what that intensity did to poor great Van Gogh!;
> linger, lunge,
> scrounge and be stupid, that doesn’t take much centering
> of one’s forces;
> as wise Whitman said, “lounge and invite the soul.” Get
> enough sleep;
> and not only because (as Cocteau said) “poetry is the
> literature of sleep”;
> be a dumb bell for a few minutes at least; we don’t want
> Sunday church bells
> ringing constantly.
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>
> From Good Poems Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor As heard on The Writer's Almanac; Penguin Books, 2003. Page 229.=2