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Great to hear - I loved taking my kids abroad

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On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com>
wrote:

> Thanks . Arrived in Copenhagen. All is well- having a great time
> with girls.
>
> R. Hunter Biden
> 202-333-1880
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Paul <perowan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have a safe trip...
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
>>> Date: August 9, 2010 12:19:17 PM EDT
>>> To: perowan@gmail.com, skovaleski@hunton.com,
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>>> , gregtafe@yahoo.com, dshapiro@umw.edu
>>> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, August 9, 2010
>>>
>>
>>> 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
>>> forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ spec
>>> ial workers.
>>> • The 8th Step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed
>>> , and became willing to make amends to them all.
>>> • The 8th Promise: Self-seeking will slip away.
>>> __________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought for the Day
>>> “We have an allergy to alcohol. The action of alcohol on chroni
>>> c alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy. We allergic type
>>> s can never safely use alcohol in any form at all. We cannot be
>>> reconciled to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience
>>> an entire psychic change. Once this psychic change has occurred
>>> , we who seemed doomed, we who had so many problems that we desp
>>> aired of ever solving them, find ourselves able to control our d
>>> esire 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 resc
>>> ued.
>>>
>>> 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 © 19
>>> 75, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: Th
>>> is book was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group
>>> at Daytona Beach, Florida. I get the text from the following we
>>> bsite: http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/0403EN.htm Note 4 number
>>> s after “h24/”: the first two are the day of the month and the s
>>> econd two are the month. Example: To get daily reading for Dec
>>> ember 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