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> Date: September 7, 2011 10:21:44 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, September 7, 2011
> September 7--Have I Learned to take it easy?
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> Jill–9-7-1989--Wow--22 years--what's the deal here Jill, were you 2 when you got sober?
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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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> A.A. Thought for the Day
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> Another of the mottoes of A.A. is "Easy Does It." This means that we just go along in A.A. doing the best we can and not getting steamed up over problems that arise in A.A. or outside of it. We alcoholics are emotional people and we have gone to excess in almost everything we have done. We have not been moderate in many things. We have not known how to relax. Faith in a Higher Power can help us to learn to take it easy. We are not running the world. I am only one among many. We are resolved to live normal, regular lives. From our A.A. experience we learn that "easy does it." Have I Learned to take it easy?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> "The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms." Sheltering arms express the loving protection of God's spirit. Human beings, in their troubles and difficulties, need nothing so much as a refuge, a place to relax where they can lay down their burdens and get relief from cares. Say to yourself- "God is my refuge." Say it until its truth sinks into your very soul. Say it until you know it and are sure of it. Nothing can seriously upset you or make you afraid, if God is truly your refuge.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may go each day to God as a refuge until fear goes and peace and security come. I pray that I may feel deeply secure in the Haven of His spirit.
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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.
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> The following is Excerpt No. 51 from As Bill Sees It : “The Coming of Faith”
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> In my own case, the foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith: a faith that, despite all worldly appearances to the contrary, causes me to believe that I live in a universe that makes sense.
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> To me, this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, & love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, & a destiny to grow, however little and haltingly, toward His own likeness & image. Before the coming of faith I had lived as an alien in a cosmos that too often seemed both hostile & cruel. In it there could be no inner security for me.
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> Grapevine January 1962
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 1011