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> Date: September 19, 2011 1:57:06 PM EDT
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> Subj: Today, Monday, September 19, 2011
> September 19--Am I trusting God for the strength to stay sober?
> 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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> Let us continue with Steps Two, Three, and Eleven. We must turn to a Higher Power for help, because we are helpless ourselves. When we put our drink problem in God's hands and leave it there, we have made the most important decision of our lives. From then on, we trust God for the strength to keep sober. This takes us off the center of the universe and allows us to transfer our problems to a Power outside ourselves. By prayer and meditation, we seek to improve our conscious contact with God. We try to live each day the way we believe God wants us to live. Am I trusting God for the strength to stay sober?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> "These things have I spoken unto you, that your joy may be full." Even a partial realization of the spiritual life brings much joy. You feel at home in the world when you are in touch with the Divine Spirit of the universe. Spiritual experience brings a definite satisfaction. Search for the real meaning of life by following spiritual laws. God wants you to have spiritual success and He intends that you have it. If you live your life as much as possible according to spiritual laws, you can expect your share of joy and peace, satisfaction and success.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I will find happiness in doing the right thing. I pray that I will find satisfaction in obeying spiritual laws.
>
> 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. 47 from As Bill Sees It : “Seeing is Believing”
> The Wright brothers' almost childish faith that they could build a machine which
> would fly was the mainspring of their accomplishment. Without that, nothing could
> have happened.
>
> We agnostics & atheists were sticking to the idea that self sufficiency would
> solve our problems. When others showed us that God sufficiency worked with them,
> we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly. We were
> seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose
> above their problems.
> Alcoholics Anonymous p-52/53/55
>
> 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 10115 =2